Drone footage shows the shocking collapse of the Arecibo Observatory

[PhantomFandom]

Wow the actual collapse captured by a drone right on the spot...

Drone footage shows the shocking collapse of the Arecibo Observatory​

 

[Deleted member 93449]

Wow!

 

[dronerdave]

A friend of mine had walked the cat walk of that thing. I'll bet he's feeling a bit sick. Tragic loss for the astronomy world.

 

[rtr32]

Ok, that was amazing footage. Did they just happen to be inspecting it when it broke loose.

Sorry for the loss. Glad no one was hurt.

 

[Deleted member 103366]

It was scheduled for demolition apparently. That's sad.
Dr. Eleanor "Ellie" Arroway will not be happy.
But any one else think it's a bit odd for the cameras to be positioned perfectly to capture the collapse? Ground cameras I can maybe understand but a drone???

 

[dronerdave]

I read they knew it was gonna come down back in November. Not sure if this was a scheduled event though.

 

[icecoldgin]

What can I say? Right time and place for the drone.

One in a million footage.

 

[passedpawn]

woah

 

[Corsair415]

Considering they were doing hourly observations with drones, it’s fairly likely they’d catch the collapse.

 

[Duckhunter50]

In the article it say they were conducting hourly inspections by drone, but to catch that is still pretty neat. I hate to see it go.

 

[Jay241]

Wow, talk about timing. I was lucky to visit this facility in person, What a shame. ?

 

[KurtpH]

It was scheduled for demolition apparently. That's sad.
Dr. Eleanor "Ellie" Arroway will not be happy.
But any one else think it's a bit odd for the cameras to be positioned perfectly to capture the collapse? Ground cameras I can maybe understand but a drone???

That was my first thought.

 

[Barbara]

The first cable snapped back in August and the telescope had been closed then. They were trying to figure out what to do with it when the second cable snapped a couple weeks ago. That spelled the end for the telescope as they knew it was going to fail completely. Only a matter of time, hence all the cameras set up and the regular drone inspections. Still good timing to be on the spot when it actually happened.

Big loss, particularly for "Near Earth Object" research.

 

[mcoulter]

That was drone footage? No that it really matters, but it seems more like security cam footage. It's interesting (and cool) that it had audio with it.

 

[Blume TMS]

Sure looked like a set charge to me from the drone video and then who ever was controlling it actually turned the drone to see the other controlled charges go off.

 

[KB4MTO]

So sad, what an amazing place. I always wanted to go visit Arecibo.

 

[Barbara]

That was drone footage? No that it really matters, but it seems more like security cam footage. It's interesting (and cool) that it had audio with it.

The drone footage starts at 57 seconds

 

[hiflyer201]

I would think slow motion video of that quality would have to be of fairly short duration. Was the sound added later? Spectacular to watch none the less.

 

[unionglzr]

Ok, that was amazing footage. Did they just happen to be inspecting it when it broke loose.

Sorry for the loss. Glad no one was hurt.

Read the article

 

[MA2 317]

Here's a video where Scott Manley explains the destruction with still frames at key moments.