The Arecibo Telescope: Puerto Rico's Iconic Instrument (That Didn't Survive 2020)
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U know Battlefield 4 have it destroyed...
Too bad the theoretically to be released new James Bond flick didn't sponsor this vid. How cool would THAT have been? Not that there's anything wrong to your actual, magnificent sponsor whom I am indeed thinking about trying out. Bud GOLDEN EYE, man! 😉
I love your content, but I dislike the way you talk about things like the search for aliens. The kind of haughty way you say "needless to say, there hasn't been a response" especially irked me since you had JUST mentioned that it was sent to a location 25k light-years away. That info is traveling at roughly the speed of light, and any response would be be doing the same. And since a lightyear is literally the distance light travels in a year, the round trip of information would take AT LEAST 50k years. Sorry for the mini rant, it just bothers me how dismissive of aliens you are, even though I typically agree with the sentiment that even if they're real, they're not here.
Say my name Simon.... check your Twitter @s to see what I mean lol.
Please make a video about Bar Lev Line, costing around $300 million in 1973.
as an engineer, the fact that there was a drone looking right at it during the final collapse is a remarkable silver lining to this tragedy. I was genuinely devastated when I heard it collapsed, but watching such a dramatic failure up close is pretty fascinating.
According to info from the site, there were drone flights on a regular basis to monitor the status of the cables.
@@abpsd73 Yes, but even so, it could have snapped at any other time. It just happened to snap when we could learn something form it.
Like the opposite of the guy waiting for his drop of pitch to fall
"Yes! I am invincible!" - Boris Grishenko (GoldenEye)
Remember when you would shoot him in the game and it pissed Natalia off and she'd go running back the caves
@@darrelvincent970 that game and Perfect Dark were my introduction to FPS's. Yeah, I think I'm gonna get another 64 😏
Narrator: He was not invincible
Slugheads!
BISSSHHHHHHHHH
The cryogenic coolant bursts behind him
As someone that lives in Puerto Rico and saw this marvelous Telescope, this video is special. Thank you Simon.
The Krabs Nebula with the Krusty Krab😁
Seeing same sort of thing on Just Cause I thought it was like a radar or thing that talk to satilites
Let's hope they rebuild it (and give you guys statehood too)
@@bimblinghill I wish was closer to me, love to just stand near or in middle just to see the scale of it, all games I played with it in made it seem smaller than think it is
Same here
Arecibo Telescope: "Was I a good location?"
Battlefield Gamers and scientists: "No, you were(and are still) the best"
Great sniper map on BF4.
Fucking fun map in BF4
Just Cause :3
I loved standing at side with my semi auto sniper with iron sights
Goldeneye
This was one of my fav maps in battlefield 4. Rogue transmission kicks ass
Based
My uncle worked 30 years there. I lost count on how many times i've been there. It was a sad day for me when this happened😓🇵🇷🇵🇷
Simon, i truly thank you for this video🙏🏾.
Simon, the Arecibo telescope was not only was one of the most important telescopes in the world. It was a symbol of what Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans contributed to the scientific world and to radio astronomy. The moment it collapsed a lot of Puerto Ricans felted like a loved one had died.
I live in Canada, and I feel the same. One day, Hubble will either die, or be de-orbited, and we'll feel the same loss. We all felt the heartbreak at Oppritunity's dying breath, as she froze in the Martian winter sandstorm. The Voyagers are still sending back telemetry and scientific data, but like the Pioneers, their RTGs have a limited lifespan. They will continue to shut off instruments to conserve what little power remains, but one day will fall silent, unable to provide enough power to send a signal to Earth.
The good thing is that Governor Wanda Garced has committed $8M to rebuilding the Arecibo telescope, and the observatory's data centre is going to be churning through that data for years, even as the telescope is being rebuilt.
@@BlackEpyon Thank god that hey are doing something to rebuild it.
@@tommyadkins844 It will probably take more than $8M, that's just from Puerto-Rico. But they sent a petition with 100,000 signatures to Congress, and there's a hell of a lot of interest, both in the scientific community, and due to it's status as a pop-culture icon in it's own right. So, fingers crossed.
lol, Puerto Rico could not even be bothered to build a decent road to the site. It was managed by a mainland American University. How many Puerto Ricans even bothered to go there?
@@DeputyNordburg Puerto Rico is American.
2020: The year that even kills giant telescopes.
glad they didnt try to launch the jwst last year!
I got to visit Arecibo as a child when we lived in Puerto Rico back in 1997 and 1998. It was wonderous and awe inspiring as a child and one of my fondest memories from living on the island. Thank you for this video!
Was looking forward to this one!
Also another idea, the Soviet Venera Venus program was a pretty mega project. Humanities first landing on another planet, and having to design vehicles that could survive on the surface of Venus. It's also depressingly under appreciated as most people focus on the US space program.
@Maximillian Wylde yes, enough to fulfill their full mission plan
@Maximillian Wylde Venus just isn't one of those places where NASA expects to have a decade of mission extensions. It's the sort of place that will turn your lander into a bubbling pool of liquid metal in under a day. If you can get even an *hour* of science out of a lander on Venus before it catches fire, you've done an *extremely* good job.
"Venus is made of lens caps!"
The entire Russian space program is under rated. They basically beat America at everything... except landing humans on the moon. From my understanding, they didn't even have that goal.
Basically America "won the space race" by moving the goal posts until they finally won. Reminds me of Bill and Ted...
You're wrong.
The Russian space program is an antiquated joke that barely functions.
The USSR space program was groundbreaking.
Back in the late 70's, as a small chld, I would go swimming at the pool and exploring in the jungle around the observatory with other kids who's parents worked there. So many fond memories.
There was one thing that Arecibo did that no other telescope can yet do: radar astronomy. Plenty can do radio astronomy, where they just listen for radio waves and collect the data from that. Arecibo could actually transmit radio waves and then listen for the echo, radar.
That god damn Cradle level... it’s good to know plans have been put in place to redesign and rebuild an updated version !
The name's Whistler. Simon Whistler. I like my channels numerous, not few.
Underrated comment
15:57 You might wanna edit this bit. It was a main cable that collapsed not a tower. All three towers were still standing when the second main cable broke and the telescope and towers collapsed. The first cable that broke was one of the secondary support cables.
I am wondering if anchor point failed on last cable and not the cable
You are correct in thinking it was the anchor point which failed first. I would recommend everyone watch Scott Manley’s video on it.
If you watch the drone footage, you will see strands of the cable stressing and snapping, as seen by the white paint stripping away. As more and more strands break, remaining strands are further loaded, either breaking them or pulling them out of the cable end. The remaining two cables likely exceeded the design limits of the anchor point at the top of the tower, and catastrophic failure was in full swing, either snapping the cables or destroying the anchor system. Once all the support cables failed or tore out, the tower was no longer balanced and was toppled by the tension of the guy cables that were used to counteract the force of the support cables.
@@mlee6050 as far as I remember, 2 cables went before the whole thing went down, I believe the first came out of the socket while the second fully snapped, one or both were secondary support
Arecibo was unique as the largest dish with radar capability, apparently.
The Chinese built a radio telescope larger than Arecibo
@@YarMahNarNar Yes but the chinese F.A.S.T is not a Radar telescope like Arecibo was. This is often overlooked
The radar capability made it uniquely qualified for the task of analyzing the shape and size of potential earth crossing asteroids. Apparently it's unclear how this will now be done. So I guess we just get to unexpectedly all die from an extinction level impact because we have better ways to spend our science dollars. Like finding life on far away planets that have no effect on us whatsoever. That sort of thing.
@@mntbighker Too think that Arecibo was the only radar tracking NEO's is wrong. There's a larger part of the viewing community that are looking out for these asteroids. Even though I say a large part of the community, it's not enough. More and more NEO's are being found everyday
@@licencetoswill Did not know that, gunna read a paper on the differences between the two now
I work for Los Alamos Lab and my family comes from Puerto Rico. I feel like every video is tailored to me. :)
As someone who lives in PR it makes me so happy to see a video made on this!
I was there in June of 2019. It was spectacular. What a horrible loss.
There are so many areas where it just becomes impractical to maintain an aging system. Sometimes it's best to just do some occasional work to milk a little more out of it before scrapping and starting over. This thing's foundation was SOOO antiquated that it had become impossible to modernize it any further. Other sites around the world had passed it by, and there was just no way to keep it in the race. It had a great history and did many great things, but like a stallion that had won many derbies, it was old and way past its prime and was time for retirement. Looking on the bright side, the reduced budget that it was still getting can now be redirected into more modern telescopes, or toward building a new one that will reclaim the title of Best Telescope on the Planet.
If only Simon had been around back when I was a young 6th grader, being forced to watch incredibly boring documentaries in school... I'd have probably actually paid attention! I find myself clicking on so many things that I would have never watched back then. Thank you Simon for making learning new things interesting. I'm 55 & have been watching you for a few years now. Better late than never, I guess. All your channels are quite enjoyable.
I agree. I also enjoy all 12
Arecibo also was responsible for producing the very dopest scientific paper i have ever read.
Greetings from Puerto Rico, RIP Arecibo Telescope. In 2019 I got to visit the Telescope for the first and last time. I wish I could have gone many more times
Thank you Simon for making this awesome episode of the Arecibo Telescope. Very tragic loss.
Cheers from Puerto Rico 🇵🇷!!
Arecibo was the only Radar Radio Telescope, there are other Radio Telescopes around the world but none has the Radar capability that make Arecibo unique. Its saddens me greatly it's needless loss Been born and living in Puerto Rico I was born the year Arecibo was build. I hope that the money could be found to rebuild it bigger and better that it was As humans we have the instinct to rebuild what we feel is important time, and time again until it stays. thanks for this video Simon
As for the names: When you have TRILLIONS of objects to name, giving them catchy names gets TERRIBLY difficult after the first billion! ;)
but you think the spiffy ones could be called cool frank spinwhoop or something
Governor of Island has announced money has been found to clear the site and seed fund planning for its replacement.
Good news.
They should cut it up into little chunks and sell them. I'd pay $10 for a piece.
Money has been found aka some money funneled from elsewhere since no one is gonna give up their embezzled government funds.
F
RIP Arecibo. Here's hoping they move forward with rebuilding (and upgrading) the telescope
I didn’t know I could be a bigger fan of Simon but here I am! Just bought a little model of Bond’s car from Goldeneye. I’m sure I watched the VHS within an inch of its life, I know I did with the game!
Paintball mode was the shit!!!
Last news story that I heard, they’re going to rebuild it. Better than ever, more badass.
I live in Puerto Rico and the collapse of the Arecibo Observatory was just emblematic of everything that has gone on in the island for the past two decades.
"Governor Wanda Vázquez Garced signed an executive order Dec. 28 stating it was the formal policy of the commonwealth to rebuild the 305-meter radio telescope at Arecibo Observatory. Allocating $8 million to start reconstruction."
I was genuinely gutted when I watched that video but at the same time glad that the drone was there to capture the event
*i'm not saying the collapse was caused by aliens...but...*
2:35 - Chapter 1 - Early days
6:30 - Mid roll ads
7:55 - Chapter 2 - Construction
11:05 - Chapter 3 - Discoveries
13:45 - Chapter 4 - The arecibo messge
15:15 - Chapter 5 - Downfall
16:20 - Chapter 6 - Arecibo
I remember someone asking for this because I liked the comment. Thanks for doing it Simon. Who knows you might even be used to teach local history in the schools over there. Good on ya.
This needs so much more attention, I've never loved a manmade structure so much.
I have... the beautiful Palais Garnier (Paris Opera House)
The last message received by the giant dish was, "We've been trying to reach you about your vehicles's extended warranty." Sometimes it helps to read your email.
The towers didn’t cause the failure. The cables snapped and the towers collapsed as a result.
Yup. Snapped because the whole thing was neglected and didn't get the money it needed to be kept up. Damn shame.
They obviously snapped because of rpgs and c4 detonating on them
@@Real28 Also turns out the cables werent as strong as they thought either. Combined with a couple of bad storms and it was toast unfortunatly
@@nicosmind3 The cables weren't as strong because they hadn't been taken care of and had pretty significant rust on them. The final cable survived more than it's design weight for a surprisingly long amount of time. Granted, in this scenario a surprisingly long amount of time is a second or two, but given it was holding several times it's design weight, I'd call that pretty impressive
Details, outside the 5% of the population that thinks like engineers doesn’t need such details
I remember visiting the Arecibo Telescope when I was a child. I remember being amazed of the size and the fact that humans had built it. Very similar feeling than seeing The Golden Gate! Helped me a lot deciding that i wanted to be a mechanical engineer!
Do you think we should have a megaprojects on Sean Bean? I mean the guy gets killed off in most things he's in!
*he apparently has a lot of expendable clones to work with*
Equilibrium
That's biographics
@@mrh1663 true!
Every year 1.4 Sean Beans die, only you can stop the killings
Wow, I've actually been to the telescope back in the 90s. My dad lived in Acrecibo when he was a kid, and we would drive by it almost everyday. Shame that Puerto Rico has been hit so hard in the past 10 years or so 😭
I gained even more respect for you when you said Goldeneye was the best James Bond movie. I've always thought so too!
Battlefield 4 players: No it hasn't went. When i play it simply respawns!
Just Cause Rico: “I fly over with my wingsuit”
I made it collapse dozens of times xD
I was actually sad to see this happen. From a astronomical view, and pop culture in movies.
"Nothings worse than having your content interrupted by an ad!" he says as he interrupts content with an ad.
Notice that, did you.
/r/whooosh
Megaproject idea: The Soviet evacuation of it's industry during the opening stages of WWII to the Urals, one of the largest megaprojects in history.
Or Chinese moving industry West
Simon... I send a legitimate THANK YOU to you and your team, I was greatly anticipating this video. Cheers Sir!!!
"You found the primer!"
- "Clever girl!"
One of the best movies ever
R.I.P. Arecibo. We're going to miss you.
Me: Just forgot about it collapsing :)
Simon:
Me: :(
It’s unfortunate but nothing to emotional about
I grew up 10 minutes from it so yeah a bit sad
It was breath taking & important, only war lords, & warmongeries wont see an issue with this, as they see to keep developing lasers, & more advanced KKV's (Kinetic Kill Vehicles).
Been watching your videos for months and as a puerto rican, reading this title made me tear up! Thank you so much for doing this!
Hehehe. I was waiting for this one. I was a SETI person back in the early 2Ks.
Yeah I let them have a lot of my idle computer time as well.
This telescope has been around longer than Simon has. I read about some of the discoveries made with the Arecibo telescope back in the late 1960s.
I feel like it should be noted that it was Arecibo that collected the data for the iconic image that is at the cover of Joys Divisions Unknown Pleasures, aka the most t-shirted album cover in the history of album cover t-shirt(or at least it is up there in the top).
Just a damn shame that the thing was not kept up at all. I was in PR in Feb of 2020...I'm kicking myself for not going to see it.
So now the Aliens show up at the telescope and sigh "Awe, we're too late - looks like this civilization died off a long time ago".... I guess we're alone again. Well, it was a nice Sunday drive. Let's go back home....
3:15 I love how you snuck in a picture of General Daniel "Chappie" James Jr. Not only is he a Tuskegee Airman, but he was also the first Black four star General in the history of the US Military.
Hat's off to whomever picked that picture.
Looks like BF4 was a few years to early. Either that or there was some huge lag and the Levolution only just caught up.
the BF4 campaign is set in the year 2020 so uh yeah....
Greek guy here and also a Cretan! It was Helias Doundoulakis who worked as an OSS agent in WW2. He has also written a book in English titled "I was Trained to be a Spy"
"A disruption in communication can mean only one thing, invasion"
Thank you Simon and team. It's wonderful knowing you listen to our suggestions
Puerto Rico en la casa puñeta!!
Hands down, the best presenter on TH-cam, a big thanks too all who keep the show going...
Typo, 'to all'
It must be a British thing: Simon keeps saying "dome" when I (an American) would call it a "dish". :-)
Dish seems more intuitive but in architectural terms it was an inverted dome, English weird. :D
I'm British & it's a dish.
I'm American and dishes are flat. That thing looks like a bowl. Or maybe a wok pot.
Your 006 joke at the start made me laugh out loud. Laughed so hard and your grin after you say it. I love you Simon you legend.
If I won the lottery, I would love to see this rebuilt.
Arecibo was one of the coolest places i have ever been, thank you for the Video Simon
There's apparently hopes to demolish what's left of the dish and rebuild another observatory in the same location, so ya know, that's cool
Of all the megaprojects you've covered so far, this gave the greatest return for the money, (with the possible exception of the ISS.)
The X-Files episode: Little Green Men is centered on Arecibo. That is what I think of on the entertainment side.
*let's not forget the Nisei (The X-Files) episode that opened up in Knoxville TN...good episode...even better since it took place in my region of the south*
@@scottmantooth8785 I had not thought of that one. I myself live in Murfreesboro (for those outside the US that's just SE of Nashville) and should have remembered that episode. Thanks for the reminder.
@@jeffashley5512 *actually here in Knoxville so seeing the location mentioned during the episode was pretty cool...even if the series is filmed in Vancouver (mostly)*
The movie Contact is also a good movie where the Arecibo Observatory is showcased
That X-Files episode really pissed me off. They depicted Arecibo as having been shut down because NASA had stopped funding the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. That reflects profound ignorance on the writers' part, because SETI was never more than a small part of Arecibo's mission.
Thank you so much for this Simon. I really appreciate it!
Yea but you didn't explain how they hid it under the lake...
Thank you Simon,it is good to be heard.
"Needless to say, there hasn't been a response."
**that we have been made aware of**
The radio message won’t even arrive in M13 for 250 thousands of years. It’ll be about half a million years before we receive one.
@@FaZeDuSk You're assuming there are no alien spacecraft between here and there.
If aliens existed, Trump would have leaked it.
@@carschmn Or one of his disloyal subordinates.
Well, there was a plan to say there were a response... back in The X-Files - please don't ask for the season and episode, too long ago I've seen it. Although the aliens replied to the Golden Records on Voyager 1 and 2.
@Simon Whistler: Just having that in mind, this telescope featured in quite a few movies and series, a quick dive into its influence on the culture would have been nice as well.
i visited Arecibo when i went on vacation to Puerto Rico in 2014. i've wanted to do so ever since i saw Arecibo on Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" TV show. and now i am glad that i got to do so before Arecibo collapsed.
5:46 "a force of 7000 gorilla fighters".
That is what I heard and I refuse to acknowledge Simon may have said something else.
*that's a lot of gorillas and even more bananas to contend with*
*actually i think you meant to say guerrilla fighters as in para-military fighters and not actual forest dwelling gorillas that are known to sling their poo as intruders when distressed or agitated...not that i want to encounter either*
"Theres nothing worse than being interupted by ads, riiiiight?"
You are correct, Simon, thats why when all the adblockers stopped working for my youtube I got a subscription.
"Closing time James!"
Finally! Can’t wait to watch it!
My uncle lives about 45 min away he said he thought there was another earthquake when it fell.
I like how he has opened up more and cracks jokes and such more then his old videos. Keep up the great work
Nobody:
Not a single alien race:
Humans: Here's how to kill us!
"To Serve Man".
@@harrietharlow9929 "It's a cookbook!!! It's a cookbook!!!"
@@cripplegunsmith1 LOL
Thanks for this video! Really wanted to see this one. You're the best!
Alien: what the hell are these strange symbols?
Alien: maybe they sent us their porn?
Alien: "You think so? So what's this then?" *points to image representation of Solar System*
Great ad break! 🤣
That smile when Simon said, "There is nothing worse than when your content is interrupted by ads."
Goldeneye the best Bond movie?
No
Goldeneye the best Bond videogame?
YES
Excuse me i need to go hook my n64 up for a trip back in time
Both are.
I don’t know why but this video just makes me feel incredibly incredibly old...
Suggestion: Australia's Snowy Mountains Hydro Scheme
The reason that this is particularly sad, despite the contributions it has given us, is that this was our only radar telescope with this capability. We have plenty of radio telescopes that can listen, but we no longer have a radar telescope capable of sending out powerful signals to observe the solar system's celestial objects. In fact, the Arecibo telescope was the most important tool in observing near earth asteroids. We are not blind without it, but it does make a difficult object to observe all that much harder.
Simon's next channel should be, Allegedly... a bio/info graphics type show in the buisness blaze satire on current people and events in society
I second this. I’d take it a few steps further tho, let’s keep at it until anytime anyone, anywhere turns on a screen they seem Mr. Whistler. In all seriousness I like your idea, I’d watch that.
Even if the message that was sent reaches its intended target, that wouldn't get for millions of years
"There's nothing worse than when your content is interrupted by ads!" he says, interrupting the content with an ad...
Thank you for that information. I'm Dominican and I'm praticing my English with your videos. Good luck brother.
Pretty good english, but keep practicing my friend. I'm Mexican
@@MrTruehoustonian thank you my friend Mexican, I'm praticing every days and I Hope to go to Summer Work in USA next year.
God bless you, man.
@@rafaelleonidastrujillo6354 Hope you get to work the summer in america, and just to help you you forget the other c in practicing later Rafael god bless to you too.
My school the University of Central Florida was helping managing the site.
So you’re saying it’s your fault?
@@counterfit5 The UCF wasn't providing the inadequate funding, they were doing their best to wisely spend the piddling amount they received.
Thanks for making this video it means alot to me.
Paused to upvote and comment after the "best bond film" comment, and nodding in approval.
Simon. About freaking time you did Arecibo!
I beg to differ: “ Goldfinger” is the best Bond movie -ever.
I love gold!
"My name is Pussy Galore."
"I must be dreaming."
Yes, best Bond movie ever. Goldeneye was predictable. Cast Sean Bean, Sean Bean gets killed.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the best all around for character development. 007 does his mission, retired, fell in love, got married, wife from a respectful family...then BOOM! His entire world is forever changed. His dark persona was forever defined by that tragedy.
George Lansbury's only Bond film, but he pulled it off rather well.
@@cripplegunsmith1 They did cram a lot in that on film.
Very sad. I saw it when i was little. I hope they do rebuilt it and i can see the new version someday soon ❤️
Yes!!! I requested this!!!