Arecibo telecope beyond repair

[The Chronicler]

Some of you might be familiar with Arecibo, the giant radio telescope in Puerto Rico. You might have also heard in the news that it was damaged by a snapped cable a few months ago. But now that the damages have been assessed, engineers have concluded that the entire structure is currently at serious risk of catastrophic collapse, and the only thing they can do now is simply tear down the entire structure as carefully as possible to avoid any further risk of damages. This tragically means that after 57 years of service, the Arecibo telescope, which has been vital to detecting things like exoplanets and near-Earth asteroids, has officially been shut down and will soon be demolished. To say this is a huge impact on astronomy would be an understatement.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/iconic-arecibo-telescope-faces-imminent-203500667.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/huge-puerto-rico-radio-telescope-163540284.html

[The Chronicler]

I've been a little too busy this past week to have mentioned this earlier, but it seems that on the morning of December 1, some more damaged cables eventually caused the entire suspended structure to collapse down onto the reflector dish, causing extensive damage to the giant radio telescope. Thankfully, no one was hurt due to the warning by engineers that it was at serious risk of collapse keeping everyone away from the area, but it's a shame that it occurred before they had a chance to safely tear it down.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/huge-puerto-rico-radio-telescope-123335082.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/arecibo-observatory-collapse-173522919.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/arecibo-telescopes-900-ton-platform-154919473.html
The moment of the structure's collapse had even been captured on video (probably because the engineers knew its collapse was imminent and thus I believe they might've set up some surveillance cameras to keep watch on it at all times):
https://www.yahoo.com/news/arecibo-radio-telescope-collapse-caught-172402060.html