Scientists want to build a new, very different Arecibo Telescope to replace fallen icon

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Arecibo Observatory's massive radio dish was many things to many people until seven months ago, when gravity got the best of an engineering marvel that had endured everything thrown its way for decades.

Scientists want to build a new, very different Arecibo Telescope to replace fallen icon : Read more

 

[sam85geo]

Yes, re-build; ask the public to contribute; create interest and wonder in both the general public, and school age children. A "Phoenix" Arecibo can be humanity's window into the infinite and the unknown....... i.e. Into our future? Our escape from Evolutionary "apedom"? Our venture into a new species?