RIP big, giant telescope

[TheSportsPredictor]

I'm sure we've all seen pictures of it many times. And pictures from it many times.

No longer.

Famed Arecibo telescope, on the brink of collapse, will be dismantled

 

[DanOregon]

Featured heavily in the Bond movie Goldeneye.

 

[jackfinarelli]

This instrument was heavily involved in the "Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence" and it was also an important source of data for radio astronomers searching the universe for basic research purposes. This is not good news for astrophysics researchers.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

No longer on the brink of collapse.

Broken Arecibo telescope collapses, ending an era of alien-hunting | Live Science

 

[Vombatus]

It was pre-disastered.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

And there's video of the collapse.

 

[UPChip]

Needs Pierce Brosnan riding through it on a motorbike and the James Bond theme.