Arecibo Observatory Platform Tour

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Uploaded by on Mar 20, 2008

Ride the Cable Car and explore the focus platform of the largest radio telescope in the world!

¡Da un paseo a teleférico y explore la plataforma del foco del Observatorio de Arecibo, el telescopio más grande del mundo!

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  • Why does he ask if you have stood on your head?

  • @InstantMix One of my research interests is the Moon Illusion, where the moon looks bigger on the horizon than when it's high in the sky. If you stand on your head, the illusion disappears!

    In the dome, you get a sense of vertigo similar to the near-far feeling you get when you look at the moon on the horizon. I wondered what it would look like standing on my head. And indeed, the egg-shaped secondary reflector in the dome looks circular when you do that!

  • Is this a tour that is available to the general public?

  • Nope, sorry. :)

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  • @zikzak05 Damn , I wanted to pretend I was James Bond :'(

  • Looks like Alec Trevelyan hasnt died yet...

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  • I heard that this humungus-sized parabolic dish did send a signal in 1976 , am I right ? Till now have yet to receive any signal

  • 2:40

    Just looking at the view reminds me of the good 'ol days of Goldeneye N64 when you're running around the triangle scared shooting baddies knowing that the game is set to the point that they will kill you with one shot. XD

    Can you actually take tours as a civillian? Or is this just to see how it feels like? I want to take a friend or something and shoot each other with long range NERF guns or something random.  :)

  • I could skate in that.

  • @HenryJonesVictor YEH!!!

  • pssst... pulsars are where the supposedly complicated ET messages are hidden in the pulse drifting/quantization/phase memory, pulse nulling, mode switching/memory observed in their broadband synchrotron beams...

    Jump in now or watch from the sidelines...

    fallenalien(dot)com

  • For the England, James? No. For the Astronomy.

  • I always had good hearing, hear what I hear. open the bug the scarab bug

  • I'm back. I have a 2 year old comment on this. Gonna make this a bi-annual thing.

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