{"id":111401,"date":"2020-08-16T09:23:50","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T16:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/iconic-observatory-seen-in-james-bond-film-goes-dark-after-massive-telescope-found-mysteriously-broken"},"modified":"2020-08-16T09:23:50","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T16:23:50","slug":"iconic-observatory-seen-in-james-bond-film-goes-dark-after-massive-telescope-found-mysteriously-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/iconic-observatory-seen-in-james-bond-film-goes-dark-after-massive-telescope-found-mysteriously-broken","title":{"rendered":"Iconic observatory seen in James Bond film goes dark after massive telescope found mysteriously broken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/iconic-observatory-seen-in-james-bond-film-goes-dark-after-massive-telescope-found-mysteriously-broken2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aside from tracking asteroids that could endanger the planet, the telescope played a major role in the \u201cSETI\u201d program \u2014 the search for intelligent life. It was notably used by astronomer Carl Sagan to send an interstellar message.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, the facility was forced to close down after a cable supporting a metal platform above the telescope fell, tearing a 100-foot gash in its giant reflector dish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cable didn\u2019t really break in the sense of a cable kind of snapping, but it just sort of slipped from its socket, which is you know, an even weirder condition,\u201d Arecibo Observatory Director Francisco Cordova told CBS News\u2019 Jeff Glor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from tracking asteroids that could endanger the planet, the telescope played a major role in the \u201cSETI\u201d program \u2014 the search for intelligent life. It was notably used by astronomer Carl Sagan to send an interstellar message. Earlier this week, the facility was forced to close down after a cable supporting a metal platform [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}