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Beau shares the end of an era as the iconic Arecibo telescope collapses, leaving room for a new symbol to represent humanity's curiosity about space.
Space enthusiasts, astronomers.
The emotional impact and historical significance of losing the iconic Arecibo telescope.
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Well, howdy there, internet people.
It's Beau again.
So today, we have some space news.
We have some news about a telescope.
In 1963, in Puerto Rico, the Arecibo telescope
was constructed.
And even if you've never heard that name
and couldn't guess as to what this thing looks like,
you've probably seen it before.
This is the telescope that James Bond slid down in Golden Eye.
It was featured in Contact.
It became a symbol of humanity's interest in the stars.
And for decades, it provided invaluable information
and insight into, well, everything around us.
A new report using data from the telescope
identified 191 near-Earth asteroids, 70 of which
could at some point be potentially hazardous.
But chill out.
Potentially hazardous in this context
means more than 4 and 1 half million miles away,
but further away than the moon.
The report indicates that, just like NASA said,
it looks like Earth is clear for the next 100 years,
as far as asteroids are concerned, at least
the ones they know about.
This telescope also provided information
about asteroids that could have water on them.
The recent DART test, the thing where
they redirected the asteroid, the space battering ram
that we covered on the channel, that data, the data that
made that test possible, a lot of it
came from this telescope.
It is iconic.
It's part of that community.
And it will remain that, even though in December of 2020,
some tension cables snapped and the telescope collapsed.
And in October, the National Science Foundation,
who owns the site, announced that it will not
be repaired or replaced.
It's the end of an era.
For decades, this site was the symbol
of man looking towards the sky, wondering
what else was out there, and that curiosity
that drives us forward.
And now it's going to have to be, well, there's
going to have to be a new symbol.
Something else will have to be built and take
over the mantle of the icon of searching the sky.
We don't know what it will be yet,
but human curiosity is not something
that just stops because the site won't be reconstructed.
So there will be something new.
And when we find out what it is, I'll let you know.
Anyway, it's just a thought. Now have a good day.
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