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The famous Are Resibo Observatory Telescope in Puerto Rico, which was once starring in the James Bond film, crashed on Tuesday when its 900-ton receiver sank 450 feet (140 meters) on a radio dish below the platform. Engineers recently warned of the dire state of the giant constitution, and the …

One of the world’s most respected radio telescopes, on the verge of destruction, has begun a race to uncover it by engineers at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico after two complex cables supporting a 900-ton instrument platform broke. The platform, in which a large dish was made by cables …