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Official Footage of the Arecibo Telescope Collapse Has Been Released – HYPEBEAST
Witness the violent snapping of the cables.
The saddening news of the collapse of the Arecibo Telescope is still being felt by many astronomers around the globe. To give an insight as to how the whole 820-tonne receiver came crashing down, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has just released official footage of the disaster.
The video (complete with sound) gives two angles: one from the base of the support tower, and the other via a drone that just so happened to be focused on the critical anchor bolt that gave way from the increased…
