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Posted this in another thread, but there’s some neat photos from the 60s of the telescope under construction here: https://www.naic.edu/history_gal/historicgal.html

Beyond the scientific value, it is (was) just a neat feat of engineering getting this built in the middle of the jungle.



Adding some other materials:

SETI@home Arecibo Observatory documentary, 2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX4PZ-fW2YA

An Insider's Tour of the Arecibo Observatory, July 2011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQJawfbjpxw

_Stare-Way to Heaven_, 73 Magazine article, August 1984 (page 34)

https://archive.org/details/73-magazine-1984-08/

Arecibo story from NASA Special Report 223 Cassette, June 1983 (Starts at 14:48)

https://archive.org/details/NASA223/NASA+223+cleaned-levelat...


wow those pics are incredible; must have been a hell of a sight to put up. although, i guess that's true of a lot of the public works-y sorts of things we did in the 40s-70s (not that this really technically counts, probably, but whatever).




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