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The structure features prominently in the James Bond film GoldenEye: the 300-meter Arecibo radio telescope. This telescope does exist, and it's in Puerto Rico, but it's in such poor condition that it needs to be removed.
Located deep in the jungle of Puerto Rico, an island in the Caribbean, the telescope has been used for the past 57 years to track potentially hazardous asteroids and search the universe for extraterrestrial life.
The US National Science Foundation (NSF) announced the decommissioning after two incidents in recent months. One of the support cables came loose and blew a 30-meter-long hole. Earlier this month, something similar happened again. If it happens again, a “catastrophic collapse” would follow, according to a hired engineering firm.
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golden eye
Many people know the telescope from the James Bond movie GoldenEye, but it could also have been seen in the movie Contact, starring Jodie Foster.
Quoted from Golden Eye
Scientists say the telescope played a key role in analyzing the asteroid Bennu in 1999. It's considered a dangerous object to Earth because there's a very small chance the asteroid will hit our planet between 2175 and 2199. NASA sent a robotic probe here and collected samples this year. The monsters will come to Earth in 2023.
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