This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 81%. (I'm a bot)The National Science Foundation will decommission Arecibo Observatory's massive radio dish after damage has made the facility too dangerous to repair, the agency announced today.During the news conference, officials emphasized that the decision was based on prioritizing safety, not a reflection of the scientific work that Arecibo has done over the past decades or could continue to do in the future, and that some hoped-for science will be lost with the facility.Guame added that the agency will work with scientists who had been planning to use the Arecibo telescope and its other facilities in order to relocate those planned research projects wherever possible.The officials also emphasized that if they can manage to decommission the telescope in a controlled manner, the other assets at Arecibo Observatory - primarily, the visitor center, an atmospheric science instrument on site and a second atmospheric tool on the neighboring island of Culebra - should survive.Gaume and Ashley Zauderer, the program director for Arecibo Observatory at the NSF, said that the agency has hired engineers to develop a plan for a controlled decommissioning.In conjunction with the news conference, the NSF provided an engineering report from the firm leading the analysis of Arecibo Telescope after the second failure, which offers little more detail about the facility's fate.Summary Source | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: engineers#1 Arecibo#2 facility#3 cable#4 observatory#5Post found in /r/news, /r/space and /r/tomorrowsworld.NOTICE: This thread is for discussing the submission topic. Please do not discuss the concept of the autotldr bot here. via /r/autotldr https://ift.tt/35MBVWH
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