Watch the Arecibo Observatory's catastrophic collapse!
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- Опубликовано: 2 дек 2020
- The National Science Foundation has released remarkable footage of the Arecibo Observatory's 900-ton platform falling into the 1,000-foot wide (305 meters) dish below. A drone happened to be performing an up-close investigation of the cables that hold the platform above the dish as they snapped.
Videos released Thursday by NSF show both the drone footage and the view from a camera in the visitor center that shows the platform falling into the dish just above the jungle floor in Puerto Rico. Two massive chunks of the cement towers that the cables were attached to can also be seen falling.
Two of the cables had previously broken, one in August and another in November, destabilizing the dish. 
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Up next: *How the Arecibo Telescope could help save the world* - 3 years ago
This was the universe telling us "There is no saving you"
2020 mood
It would be funny if Tom updated the video title with “out of date”
How to get McFly's car and fix that?! XD
@@girottos excuse me what the f
1:04 that last cable fought till the death. What a hero 👏
I’ve never got to visit the Observatory but this genuinely made me feel something, it’s like this truly is the end of an era.
imagine how the people of atlantis felt
It's the end of American Excellence, what little there was. And the decay and dysfunction was led by the Welfare State, which is what Puerto Rico is.
@@dcgeeked8917probably the same as the people in wonderland.
dont be so dramatic, john. also theres only 2 gender to remind you
- "For England, James?"
- "No, for me."
I appreciate you
YES! I am invincible! ~ Boris Grishenko
Came here to quote this.
Slug head
Awesome n beat me to the punch.
another day in BF4. In all seriousness, kinda sucks to see this collapse, though it will forever live on in Battlefield and in James bond.
Arecibo outlived its usefulness. Seeing a 900 ton structure suspended 500 feet off the ground crash is not something you're ever going to see again in your lifetime. Each of those little pieces you see flying off the structure as it fell probably weigh as much as a truck. Arecibo was absolutely gigantic and I'm glad I got to witness the crash.
Exactly; horrifying.
I recently got back into BF4 couple weeks ago. Still a good game.
@@Angel-wi5pu Maan, I'm going to do that this weekend.
Maybe.
Alot of snipers favorite camping spot just went down lol
Aricebo's collapse stands as a symbol for 2020 in general.
LOL exactly
Contact is one of my favourite childhood movies... Bye old friend
Mine too.
we made contact decades ago. They come regularly... The world is asleep and is ran by tyrants who suppres the truth. We have never been alone!
I honestly think about Golden Eye. “For England James?!” “No, for me”
Was thinking the same thing. A sad end.
Failure to maintain this beautiful thing was an unpardonable crime.
Maintaining it is also a waste.
How was it that someone was able to have a drone capture that footage? Coordinated perhaps?
@@abundantwrage7029 read the desc, it was inspecting the cables
@@koalabanana1998 Yep! Perfect timing. Just a coincide-nce ;)
@@abundantwrage7029 I do realize that the cables were slipping so they send a drone to check on the cables
Got to visit it about 8 years ago....glad I did. Thank you Arecibo
It feels wrong giving thumbs up.
The footage is crazy, i just didnt give a thumbs up because they completely reuploaded it from the nsf channel. As in no change whatsoever
Agreed ! But it’s truly epic and a rare sight to behold
Watching those heavy duty preforms unwind like that is wild. I've cut down several towers in my day, but never anything on that scale. Crazy.
And up close and personal too. So much tension in those cables could split a person in half near those breaking points. crazy indeed
Reminds me of Life After Humans, things falling apart and then silence like it never happened
In the time of humans these cables where well maintained.... never mind.
@MARCOS R. CASES NEGRON where is it being censored and why?
@MARCOS R. CASES NEGRON thanks for the info!
Thats sad.
@@xt_raven8842 wdym
@@nickryan6787 the comment appearently is deleted, there was a guy saying that these news were censored in the country/place it happened and I asked why and he explained it, the comment is no longer here....
oof, that hurts to watch.
ME too.. I CRINGED involuntary..
I am a Puerto Rican and this makes me sad
Plz sign the petition to rebuild it
@Alpha Centauri That was a historic landmark in Puerto Rico,I think they should rebuild it
the end of an era. tragic.
This is the tool of elites to control us.
@@cristinad4835 how exactly?
@@Valet2 but probably won't because theses no money to build another one. They could barely keep this one up
@@cristinad4835 I wish! This would add a braincell or two to your brain for it to be a part of the hivemind.
@@Chujoi0 you must resurch eho was having the telescope and for what they was using... Read more.. be informed.. Use all your brain.
I was in Puerto Rico in 1997 and visited Arecibo, but I didn't get a chance to visit the observatory. It is painful to see it gone. :(
Man this is what tried to talk to aliens a few years back...
Yes..
They’re looking for a man called Fox Mulder in connection to the demolition.
@@MillywiggZ why?
KC Gaming :
Season 2, Episode 1
@@MillywiggZ wdym?
Meanwhile on some Alien planet: "We finally decrypted that message - time to call those humans back!"
And the Chinese receive the message on their giant radio observatory....
Look up 2001 chilbolton, UK crop circle, they replied 19 years ago 😂
From SETI to James Bond, Arecibo has a long and very proud history. This is a very sad moment in the quest for a greater understanding of our place in the universe. Farewell old friend. 🪐✨☄️💔
I lost count of how many times my family visited PR in my youth & am bummed they never thought to take us to Arecibo. Seeing this in person as a kid would have fueled my love of science so much sooner. I hear they are trying to build a new flat dish in place that is obviously more advanced than what was there. I hope it happens! I will visit it if it does!
I hear it will be built on the moon
I'm so glad I got to see this when I was younger!! It was incredible.
Up next : "How the Arecibo telescope could help save the world"
Yeah ... bad timing RUclips
Good ol’ Tom scott 😃 i got the same
2020 was like: DENIED!
same
Damn, Battlefield 4's graphics look a LOT better than I remember.
Rogue Transmission
Sad to see it go, Rest in Pieces Arecibo
Arecibo is a town of 78 in Puerto Rico.
@@angeldendariarena2287 i just call the observatory Arecibo for short
*ONLY IN BATTLEFIELD*
But first in Goldeneye....
@@ITFNBiteBayKon "For England, James?"
"No - For Me."
Edit:
I know Golden-Eye very well, I just wanted to comment something I didn't see as everyone else already said this quote lol
LEVOLUTION
I learned about this place by playing Goldeneye on N64 in the 90’s. Good times.
I remember this for goldeneye N64. I remember it being an amazing technology. Thank you for all the years of faithful service and science
Somebody must have really thought Dr. Evil was really in there for this to happen
Preparations for the December 31st alien invasion are going well, I see.
Yes, yes, we've softened them up with with the virus provided by the high command, we've sow confusion in their most powerful nation through widespread election fraud as you've directed and have permanently disabled their deep space radar capabilities as scheduled.
All preparations are complete.
We await the arrival of the feline armies of his Supreme Viciousness Fuzzy Face Fluffy Bottoms.
Lol.
Man, there’s an alien invasion on 31 December? A Thursday? A work day? New Years Eve? Darn. Now I’ll have to get the Tux dry cleaned. (And a custom made mask, of course). Thanks for the heads-up....Mac
@@macmac8249 Lololololololololllololollolololl.
you mean the fake invasion?
Imagine the sound it must've made. R.I.P. Arecibo.
Arecibo is a town of 78 in Puerto Rico.
@@angeldendariarena2287 OK now stop spamming no one cares
Registered on the richter scale...
Wasn't your sound turned on?
Are you deef?
This is still super heartbreaking to this day.
Battlefield players saw this coming from a mile away
Was just thinking that 😂
If u a OG you’d be thinking of Goldeneye
Rogue transmission was one of my favs from bf4
So we just aren’t gonna talk about the fact that bf4 takes place in 2021?
I thought this collapsed in 1995, back when it fell onto Alec Trevelyan
"CQ. CQ. This is W9-GF0 here. Come back!"
"Small moves Ellie. Small moves."
It was Contact and the X-Files which introduced me to this installation....😔
So sad to see the deterioration and destruction of this historic and iconic telescope. I hope that the NSF, or some other entity with Congressional support, can rebuild something even better. Long live the Arecibo Observatory!
From what I understand, deferred maintenance has been a problem there for decades. I see it as part of a lifecycle, something will fill its void.
Maybe something with a reinforced concrete support under it so they can lower the platform to the ground for regular maintenance and upgrades next time.
@@cruggiere Add to that the past hurricanes that have passed through the island, specially Maria at CAT5 that snapped some of the cables and made some tiles fly off. Then multiply by the many Scale 5+ earthquakes at the beginning of this year and I'm still impressed those cables didn't snap until now. With some good maintenance it would have probably survived longer as it could withstand many things that nature threw at it.
@@Zengo38 the observatory wasn't being used, and was of no use. I believe other radio telescopes elsewhere are far superior.
@@someotherdude it wasn't being used due to the damage of one of the cables snapping, when its in use it moves about which is very dangerous
This footage made me teary... such a imponent symbol of science. At least the final moment was quick. This also made me remember Carl Sagan.
Que partido politicos es responsable. Muchos dicen los pnp.otros los independentistas.porque los populates solo quieren E.L.A los tres partidos son sovialistas
I agree. This was as impotent as any other mass waste of taxpayer dollars.
I was there in 2000. I know some of the people that work there in the 90's. This breaks my heart.
Thank you arecobo for bringing us good memories in goldeneye, contact and battlefield 4 and we will forever miss you
I remember when me and the boys would snipe up there on bf4... good times :,(
Goldeneye was where me and my boys were at
I am gutted we lost Arecibo! So sad watching it come down. Amazing footage, but damn that telescope is a scientific icon! A piece of history. Sad times for sure
This is actually really sad and heartbreaking....
That was such a cool place to visit. Extremely sad.
It really was
Eddie im boricua from florida .was that like a science museum place to visit in arecibo pr ✌
I went there when I was a kid and saw it didn't know what It was for tho.
Visited this place many times. One of my favorite places on the island. Hopefully it will make a comeback someday
Nope
@@DemnRaig80 Saw the news the other day. Can't say I didn't expect it.
What a shame! That was a good Battlefield 4 map! :(
AND GoldenEye
I've once seen a smaller steel cable getting lose when someone tried to tow something with a car. That whipping noise was scary enough...
Boris Grishenko: YES! I am invincible!
I know for a fact Neil degrasse Tyson had a Jedi moment, where he could feel the pain in the force as this happened.
😂😂😂
Your comment made me vomit
Having visited, it was heart-rending to see it collapse
Caramba! Impressionante como foi bem documentado isso!
For many of us that dish has been part of our lives. for years. in my case over 45 yrs, I listened to it many times and worked thru it few years back on 432 mhz. I hope they can rebuild it. far cheaper than trying to replace. it . but I fear it won't happen. The Armature fraternity and the world of Physics and science has suffered a great loss and devastation. ..
Damn they used future practical effects in Goldeneye?
Remake confirmed
Can we start a push for Arecibo 2.0?
They chose not to repair Arecibo 1.0, what does that tell you about the prospect of a 2.0, which would cost more than repairing?
@@user-dc1ud6px3s schläääm
@@user-dc1ud6px3s The engineering inspection after the first cable snapped determined that it was unsafe.
Yes, building a new dish and sensor will be expensive, but that is an investment in science.
@@walkergarya I attribute the collapse to lack of maintenance, which is in turn a result of lack of funds. 2.0 would have to deal with this exact same problem.
@@user-dc1ud6px3s Sadly that is true.
Hi, fella from Puerto Rico here. Been to the Observatory multiple times in my life. First time, my mother and aunt took us. I must;ve been like eight or nine. My brother must've been thirteen or fourteen. As a boy the radiotelescope was truly aweinspiring to see. Other visits were mostly school field trips. Always looked forward to those. God, it so gutwrenching to see this, years later.
As much as this was a devastating loss
This was absolutely sick and should be put in a video game
Battlefield 4
GoldenEye 007
you can even make it collapse in the exact same way in Battelfield 4, look up: "Levolution Rogue Transmission "
Goldeneye and BF4.
I guess ET wasn’t home, giant mic drop
So I guess repair work is out of the question. When do we start talking about a rebuild ?
Ouch. That hurts me to watch it. Rest in peace Arecibo
Goldeneye: Blows it Up
Real Life: Pulls It Down
GoldenEye is based on a true event now!! 25 years after the film's release; this would only happen in 2020
[Insert Alec Trevelyan scream here]
You're next Boris, aka I-am-invincible
little known fact. doctor who brought the bond filmakers that footage from the future...
Thank you Arecibo!
I remember 1st seeing this place on Reading Rainbow back when i was in early elementary school and then of course in Goldeneye eventually
And that's how the Ents misplaced Isengard with Arecibo.
Now don’t be hasty master merrieadoc. It takes a very very long time to say anything in old entish
Nice video shots but so sad to see. Rip Arecibo you served humanity well and we thank you. You won’t be forgotten 😥🚀🛸
Really sad to see it gone after being there many years ago, will never forget this historical beauty
We can rebuild it.. We have the technology... We just don’t have the money :(
We have both the technology and the money, it's just going somewhere else like the military or corrupt government officials.
Sadly it got stripped of funding under Obama i think it was around 2014 so they couldn't even afford to do repairs on it
@@samgray49 Try again. And not Obama's fault, idiots.
@@Undy1 If we had the money the country wouldn't be $20 Trillion in debt.
Go learn how to balance a check book.
We just need to build back better
Sad end to an iconic structure
wow In the Age of surveillance we can now capture catastrophes as it happens!
And to think that visiting this place and maybe get a chance of going up there was on my bucket list. That dream's gone now...
Same. This, and Notre Dame.
I went up there in the early 90s. I am not good with heights, and it was way up there. It's sad to see it crashing down.
It brings me to tears.
what a catastrophically sad end to an era
This was completely preventable as well. What a sad time it was hearing about this.
This hurts my heart WAY more than I would have ever imagined.
I was a senior in high school in Puerto Rico in 1961 and our physics class made a field trip to the Arecibo scope.
This video should be called “Rouge Transmission”
IYKYK
Thank you o wanted to see e this, quite sad really
Very good definition of entropy :)
that was cold man
Imagine if there had been crews present trying to repair the two previously damaged cables....
Wait, was this drone waiting all that time up in the air watching cables to burst?
It was inspecting cables that were damaged back in August and November, it just happened to catch the collapse :c
Rip all those snipers camping on these towers.
RIP Alec Trevelyan 006
Truly heartbreaking to watch.
That's the sight of a crumbling empire ...
Empire?
@@bkaley8974 Did not you know that the United States had taken over the British Empire after the second world war?
Me too had the same feeling. A sign of decadence.📡
Same thought here.
@@rodfel2001 I think you are off on a tangent sir.
Imagine being one of the engineers who put this thing together.
All that hard work and effort, wasted.
A few years ago this same telescope beamed a message to a nearby exoplanet. It’s now looking extremely unlikely that we would ever be able to receive a response from that message, even from another telescope.
Oh that is so sad. I hope the repairs won't take too long or stop the project!
No repairs. It's gone, forever.
"A drone happened to be performing an up-close investigation of the cables that hold the platform above the dish as they snapped." Nobody else find it ironic that a drone was flying over the cables the exact moment the platform decides to fall to the jungle floor? Just saying.
Even if the drone did cause the collapse, it was bound to happen anyway. One of the four main cables literally ripped itself out of its socket a while ago.
@@SpinDip42069 Maybe the guy above was suggesting some conspiracy theory, you know how it is at the moment.
No, it's been a subject of investigation after the previous cable failures
@@Alessandro-B Quite likely. Correlation does not imply causation - a fact that conspiracy theorists are ignorant of.
@@21stcenturyozman20
"Correlation does not imply causation."
This is the exasperating half-truth refrain of people whose narrow vision of the world never dares venture outside of what the elite owned establishment allows us to see.
Why is it that people like you always conveniently omit the rest of the equation?
That is: Whenever causation is found, there is ALWAYS correlation.
This is to say that correlation is ALWAYS a clue which not only warrants, but necessitates investigation. Certainly not ALL correlations will lead to the discovery of the cause. HOWEVER, investigation of correlation in general IS a standard of diagnosis, and WILL quite often lead to the discovery of causation.
If science were to act upon your statement, investigation would cease. In turn, SCIENCE would cease to exist.
Therefore, to say flatly: "Correlation does not imply causation", is UNSCIENTIFIC.
If you were being scientifically honest, you would say “Correlation does not NECESSARILY imply causation, BUT IT CAN, AND OFTEN DOES.”
Ironically, we can use scientific method here in this conversation. There is a CONSISTENT CORRELATION with people like you in that the term “conspiracy theorist” is always part of of your seemingly “scientific” comments. “Conspiracy theorist” is a term which was specifically crafted to be pejorative and therefore an attack on someone's character (ad-hominem attack). The subject of someone's character has NO RELATION to science, and therefore has no place in scientific conversation.
So why would UNSCIENTIFIC data such as ad-hominem attacks CONSISTENTLY be associated (correlated) with the comments of a certain group of people who present themselves as being the voice of science?
The answer is clear. They motivated by interests which are NOT scientific, or at bare minimum, NOT PURELY scientific.
Therefore, you either have a political agenda, or are unwittingly playing a part in that political agenda (ignorance).
For England, James?
No, for me.
@@AngrySilence ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
My heart snapped like those cables... 😢
Arecibo was on my bucket list.
So was travelling on Concorde, come to think of it.
It's like the LHC being left to fill up with groundwater.
Girls: I can’t believe he didn’t cry at the Titanic. Do men even have feelings??
Boys:
I'll bet you that those girls didn't cry at Titanic either. Probably just used pepper spray on their eyes. That's what I do when watching Titanic.
@@golucid745 Like that airman did in Pearl Harbor?
@@agentorange153 Care to clarify?
@@golucid745 That airman in Pearl Harbor, he wanted the nurses at the party to think he was crying at the thought of having to go away to war, so he put pepper spray in his eyes to make them tear up (but it didn't work like he planned!)
@@agentorange153 Ha!
Im sure this is a consequence of the previous earthquakes happening for months in my beautiful island. Im from Arecibo and hurts my heart seeing this images. I use to see it every day and took it for granted 😢😢😢
OMG, the sound of it....
*sigh* That’s another bad thing for 2020 off my list.. RIP Arecibo Observatory.
How did they have a drone flying there and it's camera pointed at it right when it collapsed?
They knew that the wires were getting weak and had been worried it would collapse for the past few weeks so they were probably using drones to access what could be done and just happened to catch what that had feared on camera.
As in the description, some wires had already gone by then. The drone was inspecting, and happened to be there at the right time.
There had been an Earthquake earlier that morning, so a cable failure team did a survey via drone to see how the dynamic loads had affected the remaining cables at the time.
Jeez... good luck with that cleanup...
Ouch! That was expensive!
So sad! 😢
But what a coincidence that the drone was filming that one cable where it slipped out.
edit: just to make that clear, I did mean a real coincidence and not insinuate a "coincidence", see answers below (including my own addendum).
I would think they probably checked all towers after the cables and saw that these cables were the ones with the most damage so it's not really a coincidence as the drone probably was up for a good while and not just then
Rule 39, They just so happen to have a drone in the exact spot it fails and the right time. hmmm.
Not only was it filming where it slipped out, It panned into the correct direction to film as it collapsed. Now what's the chances of that happening.
Engineering studies had already determined where it was most likely to fail, several days ago. It was no mystery. They were monitoring that spot at the time that the cable broke. It's documented on their website.
If you look "CLOSELY", you can see 007 and 006 fighting each other
GOLDENEYE!!!!
"for England James"....
Where is the chopper?
@@abuuwais508
You need to PURCHASE the BONUS DIRECTOR's CUT.....it might be SOLD SEPARATELY????
the guys at dice really did a great job modelling this
Almost makes you wanna cry 😢
YES!! I AM INVINCIBLE!!!
lololol.