{"id":115838,"date":"2020-11-13T20:25:24","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T04:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/giant-arecibo-seti-telescope-could-collapse-after-mysterious-damage"},"modified":"2020-11-13T20:25:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T04:25:24","slug":"giant-arecibo-seti-telescope-could-collapse-after-mysterious-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/giant-arecibo-seti-telescope-could-collapse-after-mysterious-damage","title":{"rendered":"Giant Arecibo SETI Telescope Could Collapse After Mysterious Damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/giant-arecibo-seti-telescope-could-collapse-after-mysterious-damage.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cause of the crashes remain unclear. The Arecibo Observatory was built in the 1960s and has been in used for decades to search for extraterrestrial civilizations. Experts are worried cables could corrode further as they age.<\/p>\n<p>The radio telescope, among the world\u2019s largest single-dish radio telescopes, is now in a sorry state \u2014 and at risk of total collapse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, it\u2019s probably fifty-fifty,\u201d former observatory director Michael Nolan from the University of Arizona told <em><i>National Geographic<\/i><\/em>. \u201cThey are doing what can be done. I\u2019m still really worried that they can\u2019t do enough.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cause of the crashes remain unclear. The Arecibo Observatory was built in the 1960s and has been in used for decades to search for extraterrestrial civilizations. Experts are worried cables could corrode further as they age. The radio telescope, among the world\u2019s largest single-dish radio telescopes, is now in a sorry state \u2014 and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115838","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}