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John Byrne
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Posted: 20 November 2020 at 6:57pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

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Peter Martin
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Started the article and read the Bond reference but it was Contact that my brain jumped to. Hell of a job to decommission something like that.
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Andrew Bitner
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Really sad. It was an amazing technological achievement and it will be a loss to the world of science when it's gone.
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Eric Ladd
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I too thought about Contact. The movie is good, but the book was fantastic. It is sad to see this telescope go because I seriously wonder if we live in a world that would care to build a better replacement.
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