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posted by martyb on Thursday August 13 2020, @10:16AM   Printer-friendly
from the silence-is-not-so-golden dept.

Arecibo Observatory featured in James Bond film "Goldeneye" shut down:

The famous observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, featured in the James Bond movie "GoldenEye," has been forced to temporarily close after a broken cable smashed through the side of its massive dish.

Around 2:45 a.m. Monday, a three-inch auxiliary cable that helped support a metal platform broke, according to a news release from the University of Central Florida. UCF manages the facility alongside Universidad Ana G. Méndez and Yang Enterprises, Inc.

When the cable broke, it created a 100-foot gash in the telescope's 1,000-foot-long reflector dish, according to UCF. It also damaged about six to eight panels along the observatory's Gregorian Dome, which is suspended over the reflector dish.

Also at WIRED and Science Mag

[Ed Note - Arecibo was also a filming location for the movies Contact and Species.]


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  • (Score: 1) by PaperNoodle on Thursday August 13 2020, @08:08PM

    by PaperNoodle (10908) on Thursday August 13 2020, @08:08PM (#1036284)

    Glad you didn't reference the movie Contact. That would have made things weird and awkward.

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