The biggest casualty of 2020 yet...
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The NSF has called it quits. The damage to Arecibo is too great to repair safely and the science value too low for the cost.
Sadly, they're not going to drop the receiver on Alec.
So we're never going to see prime Jodie Foster* in a tight jump-suit try to visit the alien version of her father again? Shame.
* I rewatched that movie a couple months ago. They really laid the whole "Religious Right are the bad guys" sub-plot on thick, even if you exclude the cult leader blowing the thing up. I definitely find myself far more sympathetic to Matthew McConaughey's character with the benefit of 25 years of hindsight.
Meanwhile, humans wouldn't recognize non-human intelligence that couldn't talk human unless it nuked them in their ugly monkey faces.
Omg they made bf4 rogue transmission into a real thing!!1!!!!1
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