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		51Cards on Dec 3, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Drone Footage of Arecibo Observatory Collapse So they had a drone focused right on the cable that snapped? I got the impression from the early articles that it collapsed during the night and wasn't witnessed.

teraflop on Dec 3, 2020 | [–]

The collapse happened around 7:55AM local time, about an hour after sunrise. It happened "overnight" (before dawn) as far as most people in the continental US were concerned.

ocdtrekkie on Dec 3, 2020 | [–]

I mean, if I was in charge of monitoring the thing, I feel like I'd have a cheap webcam pointed at it at minimum.

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