Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Collapse of the Arecibo Radio Telescope

Collapse of the Arecibo Radio Telescope

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Footage taken by a security camera at the Arecibo Radio Telescope on the day of the collapse. Completed in November 1963, the Arecibo Telescope was the world's largest single-aperture telescope for 53 years, and was a feature in numerous scientific explorations such as the

SETI program and the monitoring of near Earth objects. Its most famous transmission may be the Arecibo message, which is itself a featured picture. In addition to the scientific use, the facility was featured in several pop culture shows and movies, notably in the 007 film Goldeneye and the television series The X-Files. It was been listed on the US National Register of Historic Places since 2008 and was named an IEEE Milestone in 2001. The collapse of the observatory was major news in many parts of the world, and for all these reasons I'm nominating the footage here for Featured Picture consideration. (PS: I'm about 4 hours short of 7 days of waiting, but this is a big deal and I wanted to put it out there before I go to bed, hence the slightly early nomination.) TomStar81 (Talk) 20:00, 7 December 2020 (UTC)[reply

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Articles in which this image appears

Arecibo Telescope

FP category for this image

Most likely Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Understanding

Creator

U.S. National Science Foundation

• Support as nominator – TomStar81 (Talk) 20:00, 7 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Support - Not the best lighting or video quality, but hey - there's probably no other footage of this... --Janke | Talk 20:12, 7 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment – Although it certainly does illustrate the collapse, its EV for the telescope itself – which was being decommissioned due to storm damage – seems doubtful given the video quality. Note that the target article is the telescope itself. (The story of the collapse was somewhat hyped, IMO.) – Sca (talk) 14:59, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Support It serves its purpose in illustrating a notable (if overhyped) event in the history of the telescope, which would still be a notable part of its story - the end part - whether overhyped or not. That said, it's not really emphasised much in the article compared to other images and footage of the collapse therein, so... arguably could be underused? P'r'aps we need an article on the collapse itself.
  FPs 11:49, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply
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• Comment – This video doesn't show the 300 meter reflector that the telescope is known for. It only shows the collapse, and the collapse of the top piece, the beam-steering mechanism. I much rather see a nom of the whole standing telescope (in one image or a set of images). Bammesk (talk) 04:54, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Bammesk, for the sake of visual clarification, is this image more along the lines of what you are alluding to, or do you mean an image or images from before the colapse? TomStar81 (Talk) 09:24, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]