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Arecibo Observatory brings forward 'controlled demolition' plans by collapsing all by itself

Xalran

Re: FAKE NOOS!!!

From the way the debris are spread all over the place you can imagine the chain of event.

The cantilevered structure is spread over the face on the side of the antenna so the cables between the two top pillars probably held while the structure was going down.

Zooming on the picture you can see that all the towers lost some bit.

The top left missing bit is almost at the bottom of the tower along with a tangle of cables that can be followed to the antenna.

the top right one doesn't seem to be missing much, but the cables seems to have damaged a building behind the tower when they were ripped from it's top.

The bottom tower seems to be the most damaged one, with fallen bits apparently behind it.

At a guess ( and according to the way the debris are spread ) that's on this one that the cables snapped.

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