Collapsed before he could find alien life: the ‘wok pan’ …

For decades it was used in the search for extraterrestrial life, won a Nobel Prize and served as the setting in many Hollywood films. But that is a thing of the past. The iconic Arecibo radio telescope in the jungle of Puerto Rico has collapsed. That is disastrous news for the scientific world. “You can’t just replace a telescope like that.”

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In the middle of the jungle in Puerto Rico is a gigantic ‘wok pan’ that we used to search for extraterrestrial life for almost sixty years. But that search has now come to an end. Tuesday morning …

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