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tejtm | on: Zinc creep in cable spelter sockets brought down the Arecibo telescope in 2020
> I presume we aren't using most bridges as interstellar antennas.

any like area of metal will receive as much interstellar emissions but I guess they did run a MW transmitter sometimes.

thenthenthen | parent
MW as in Mega Watts? (I read it as Medium Wave the first time)
namibj | root | parent
Yeah it was a radar that could collect the echo on the next rotation of Earth.