Steel Wire Rope Failure...

[sandall]

He'd probably find it extremely frustrating working with the old fashioned television industry.

Even more so with the modern tv industry, where "scientific" topics are often presented like a tik-tok video on repeat.

[Jivemaster]

Having to produce "the sky at night 2" on a regular basis may not suit his "it's happened, it's exciting, lets do a show about" attitude. The need to do a live show weekly when nothing has happened is taxing.

[dbuckley]

Arecibo was one of very few Radar Astronomy sites - with a 1MW radio transmit power

 

As far as I know, one of only two, and it had several transmit capabilities, including 2MW CW 100% duty cycle at (and now I'm going from rusty memory) 2148MHz, with a 34dB of gain from the antenna, if someone wants to work out what the EIRP of that is heading out to the sky, which is why it could bounce off Saturn :)

[richard_cooper]

Arecibo was one of very few Radar Astronomy sites - with a 1MW radio transmit power

 

As far as I know, one of only two, and it had several transmit capabilities, including 2MW CW 100% duty cycle at (and now I'm going from rusty memory) 2148MHz, with a 34dB of gain from the antenna, if someone wants to work out what the EIRP of that is heading out to the sky, which is why it could bounce off Saturn :)

 

According to

at around 12:10 it's 20 Terawatts, if I'm understanding correctly. Even on video, this tour can mess with a fear of hieghts.

[Andrew C]

I'd not really appreciate, until watching that, the size of the suspended bit.