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End of an era.
The 57-year-old Arecibo radio telescope, damaged by storms and snapped cables, and already set to be decommissioned, has collapsed before it could be dismantled.
Fortunately, no one seems to have been injured.
Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico collapses as engineers feared
The telescope’s 900-ton platform came crashing down overnight
On the anniversary of the Northridge earthquake, looking at this and his recent threat to withhold FEMA wildfire recovery funds from California make me really hope the next big quake to hit CA waits until after he’s out of office.
BREAKING: Trump administration officially opposes $600m in post-hurricane Nutritional Assistance Program (NAP/#PAN) funds for #PuertoRico in house-passed disaster supplemental bill.
— Federico A. de Jesús (@fdejesusfebles) January 17, 2019
TBH I’ve been concerned about that since he was elected. But since then he’s shown that his willingness to use federal funds for disaster relief/recovery actually does line up suspiciously with whether your state/territory voted for him or not. (Compare FL & TX.)
I didn’t want to be right about this.