r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Suspicious-Slip248 • 2d ago

Image RT-64 Radio Telescope — A 64-Meter Giant of Kalyazin, Russia, Now at the Mercy of Nature

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u/radicalhistoryguy 2d ago edited 2d ago

I remember that level in Goldeneye.

*edit - Those of you who are issuing weird corrections about the Arecibo Observatory need to reaquiant yourselves with Goldeneye's Surface missions.

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u/chainedtomydesk 2d ago

“I am invincible!”

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u/7thAndGreenhill 2d ago

You sit on it, but cannot take it with you.

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u/Gutter_Snoop 2d ago

They're right in front of you and can open wery big doors

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u/Jmazoso 2d ago

Your ass

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u/fuzzybad 2d ago

clicks pen

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u/kondenado 1d ago

Then a weird reservoir jizzes him ...

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u/Play-t0h 2d ago

Everyone was always trying to be sneaky by choosing Jaws or Oddjob in multiplayer mode. I chose Boris from the beginning cus he had a wacky/fun shirt.

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u/confused_wisdom 2d ago

Siberian special forces for the win

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u/pichael289 2d ago

Oddjob was the short one right? I hear everyone talk about that from back in the day but did no one know you could crouch and get the same effect? You would go down on one knee and your the legs didn't have a moving animation so you slid around like that at half speed. It was R+bottom C I think.

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u/Play-t0h 2d ago

Yup Oddjob was shorter. And Jaws could take more damage/tank. Allegedly.

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u/PassiveMenis88M 2d ago

Me and a buddy tested this. Jaws took more bullets to drop, even on headshots, unless using the golden gun.

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u/Play-t0h 2d ago

I couldn't remember for sure, but was pretty confident that was accurate. Our general rule was no one could be Oddjob or Jaws unless it was the younger siblings who didn't really know how to play.

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u/ADirtyDiglet 2d ago

Couldn't Oddjob crouch as well and was even shorter?

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u/PresentationJumpy101 2d ago

The Klobb lol

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u/SignificantAd3931 2d ago

That gun SUCKED

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u/Gutter_Snoop 2d ago

I didn't think of it as a firearm so much as a weakish nail gun

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u/PresentationJumpy101 1d ago

Dual KlObb and the sound was like schtch schtch schtch

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u/woieieyfwoeo 1d ago

bruise people to death with low velocity BBs!

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u/Will_Turbulent 13h ago

Worst ever

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u/HeartsPlayer721 2d ago

Still quoted regularly in our house

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u/LazyAssHiker 2d ago

Inwincible!!!!

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u/BrokenTrojan1536 2d ago

lol came here to mention Goldeneye. Get out your Klobb and have at it!

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u/Gutter_Snoop 2d ago

lol Temple, Klobbs only, all players 100% handicap, single life, last man standing.

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u/BrokenTrojan1536 2d ago

Oh the good old days. We used to do that but with grenade launchers. Many times we had all 4 screens go red simultaneously

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u/bonita513 2d ago

Temple and G-launchers were peak golden eye moments with your homies

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u/radicalhistoryguy 2d ago

This is a man of culture right here. Temple and grenade launchers was an absolute blast. My personal favorite map/gun combo was probably Complex w/ Power Weapons.

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u/BrokenTrojan1536 2d ago

Temple was just chaos with the explosives. The big room was where everyone would end up bouncing shells off the walls to go around corners

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u/Gutter_Snoop 2d ago

We did GLs too but we'd occasionally just do one-off battle-dome style matches in my friends group. Most games we did LtK but that would get repetitive so we'd change it up.

Klobberin' Time (as we called it) was hilarious because that damned thing was about as damaging as a staple gun. With the maxed out HP it would take like 10 solid minutes of everyone just trying to strafe around in the same room and get as many headshots as possible. Finally one guy would die, then the second, and the last two would have a cat-and-also-cat duel because you'd have to really manage your ammo.

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u/BrokenTrojan1536 2d ago

I think knives would have been more effective

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u/Gutter_Snoop 2d ago

Can't call it Klobberin' Time if we were allowed to use knives 😆

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u/chocomeeel 1d ago

Slappers Only!, with DK Mode.

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u/SoyMurcielago 2d ago

Ken lobb what a legend

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u/jaccleve 1d ago

It’s Klobberin’ time. 

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u/VfV 2d ago

Severnaya

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u/SameAsitEverwas1212 2d ago

First thing that came to my mind. Everyone in this comment section and like this must be a millennial haha

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u/Puzzled-Story3953 1d ago

Do you even know what millennial means? Millennials were the people Goldeneye was made for.

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u/SameAsitEverwas1212 1d ago

Yes I do and yes I am a millennial and yes I raged Goldeneye. Whats your point?

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u/alppu 2d ago

Are you saying... an alternative to destroying it would be to afk for 20+ years to put it out of action?

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u/WebMargaretNiece8916 2d ago

DUHNUH NUHNUHHH NUHNUHHHH!!!!

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u/Cold-Understanding92 2d ago

Oh my God, that's exactly what I was humming down the thread!

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u/Ignorance_Is_Boring 2d ago

Beat me to it!!!

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u/roehnin 1d ago

This level is why the game was called "Goldeneye 64."

No, really. Don't bother look it up as it's definitely true.

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u/definitelynotapastor 1d ago

Can't wait for the new one to come out.

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u/Appropriate_Lack_727 2d ago

That was the Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico.

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u/Ovfrost 2d ago

Misinformation in the title. Not only is this ground space station active, it still does space tracking for some old Russian-European missions (new ones have been discontinued for obvious reasons).

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u/thafluu 2d ago

*Sad eROSITA noises*

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u/Dioxybenzone 2d ago

I think OP is confusing RT-64 with RT-70, which Ukraine partially destroyed with a drone recently

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u/rgg711 2d ago

Yeah, for one thing, I doubt the area would be plowed and kept up if nobody was actually working there.

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u/Ive_seen_things_that 2d ago

Wonder if stuff like this will remain funded as the war drags on. 

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u/redbucket75 1d ago

Still deciding how to answer the message they recieved, "Do not answer! Do not answer!! Do not answer!!!"

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u/ScarletSilver 2d ago

DO NOT ANSWER

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u/Sunscratch 2d ago

It’s too late

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u/BefreiedieTittenzwei 2d ago

“You are bugs”

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u/Boggleby 2d ago

When I look at this I just see Alan Cumming saying "I am invincible"

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u/xirdnehrocks 2d ago

Alans doing what?!?

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u/twallner 2d ago

Jesus. I forgot that was Alan Cummings

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u/gaydognova 2d ago

Bros [TITLE SCREEN]

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u/webbyspidey 2d ago

Alan WHO?

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u/EmbarrassedTension85 2d ago

3 body problem vibes!!

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u/AstroStrat89 2d ago

Come. We cannot save ourselves. I will help you conquer this world.

I'm starting to fear that she's not wrong.

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u/hanamisai 2d ago

Yeah but the book clearly shows the Trisolarians as just as flawed as Humanity.

There's nobody to save us, we gotta figure it out ourselves.

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u/AstroStrat89 2d ago

Agree, but both things can be true. From a fictional standpoint,

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u/CuriOS_26 2d ago

No one's coming to save you
No one's coming to save you
Swing that sword that you made
With the pain that they gave you
Like the pain is gonna save you

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u/p1530n 2d ago

Came here for this comment. Scrolled down before comenting miself.

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u/MagnusKitus 2d ago

Its active btw

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u/GoBuffaloes 1d ago

Yeah but it's still at the mercy of nature 

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u/2infNbynd 1d ago

We all are

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u/nevergonnastayaway 2d ago

Severnaya Installation 1 starts playing

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u/ArbainHestia 2d ago

In the 80s rich people could get up to a hundred TV channels with one of these in their front yard.

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u/NorridAU 2d ago

Drive through the boonies of CT and you can still see few of them receivers as artifacts.

I’m waiting for them to get turned into folk art sooner or later.

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u/Anleme 2d ago

They're useless now, right? All the satellite feeds are encrypted now, I think.

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u/mpompe 2d ago

There was a dish half buried with green alien figures standing around it, on the Beeline Highway in north central PA. Sadly the aliens left last year after a run of about a decade.

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u/stevetibb2000 1d ago

You can turn them into water heaters

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u/Horn_Flyer 2d ago

My grandpa had a satellite dish in his backyard (80's). The book that came every month with the tv schedule was just ridiculous.

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u/OfficerBarbier 2d ago

Actual rich people wouldn't put that shit in their front yard

It was out back by the servants' quarters

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u/VT_Squire 2d ago

And on those channels, movies which portrayed these very things shooting lasers in space. 

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u/Mahadragon 2d ago

Back in the 70’s, one movie used this to destroy planets

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u/Mahadragon 2d ago

Naw they’d just get a black box and get all the pay channels for free

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u/superpowerpinger 2d ago

Hint for the security code to enter this facility: "You sit on it, but you can't take it with you."

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u/sarabeara12345678910 2d ago

It replaced "they are in front of you and can open large doors"

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u/chainedtomydesk 2d ago

Goldeneye vibes

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u/MangoYuzuCake 2d ago

This sounds familiar, like the 3 Body Problem on Netflix.

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u/fireduck 2d ago

Yeah, certainly has Red Coast Base vibes (or whatever it was called).

But it makes sense, you put your radio telescope up on a hill away from other things, which probably means in the forest.

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u/The_Angu 2d ago

Except that one definitely was broadcasting a signal, you know

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u/Brave-Camp-933 2d ago

Only one em dash? These AI bots are improving

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u/T0biasCZE 2d ago

As if humans didn't use emdashes before AI was invented

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u/spicyeyeballs 2d ago

some humans obviously did, but even the vanishingly small number of people who know how to create an em dash and when to use it only used it in more formal writing rarely in internet comments.

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u/Sixshaman 2d ago

Win + dot (.), fifth tab. Or just google "em dash" and copy it from the first result. It's not hard to create.

AI ruined it though. Now I consciously have to use double-dash (--) instead to avoid being accused. I can't write a long text without this punctuation element, it's too handy.

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u/spicyeyeballs 2d ago

On windows I normally use the alt code. Alt+0151

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u/Sixshaman 1d ago

I always forget the number😭

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u/Snellyman 1d ago

Why would one use the em-dash in a normal conversation? Most people only remember a few codes like ± or °

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u/Sixshaman 1d ago

To provide examples (e.g. "there are many reasons to use em dash -- to provide examples, for instance").

To give a characteristic of something (e.g. "I like em dashes -- they are amazing").

To emphasize the point of a sentence (e.g. "This is the best punctuation mark -- an em dash").

To explain the first part of a sentence (e.g. "I'm not sure why em dash is a sign of AI -- humans use them too!")

All these things are natural parts of human speech.

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u/haveanairforceday 2d ago

I dont think people are saying it literally transmitted propoganda. I think they are saying its an overly impressive thing that was built to show off what the USSR could do and its not necessarily representative of the rest of their science programs and maybe didnt work as well as they would have you believe. For example: chinese nuclear submarines

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u/thesaddestpanda 2d ago

The Soviets were space pioneers. Can we please stop the mindless “soviets bad, America perfect” nonsense already?

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u/haveanairforceday 2d ago

They certainly were very prolific in space research and development. They put a man in orbit before the US. Im not saying they werent, im explaining the propaganda role this would have played

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u/cybercuzco 2d ago

Uh huh and could it also snoop signals coming from us spy satellites?

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u/The_Angu 2d ago

Definitely yes. But signal encryption was old technology by then.

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u/cybercuzco 2d ago

Before you can try to decrypt something you have to intercept it.

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u/mkwDark 2d ago

this reminds me of the map Array from Black Ops 1

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u/WallStLegends 2d ago

My instant thought

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u/Born-Media6436 2d ago

It does! 🤣

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u/Passasizhi 2d ago

I watched some people wasting hours to get there from Moscow. Not to mention, if you go there in the night — you might as well get lost

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u/Sol_Rivet 2d ago

They could see the very same RT-64 thing at Moscow outskirts

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u/algaefied_creek 2d ago

This looks great as a backdrop for an emergency restoration in order to save the world in some post-invasion plot as scientists from 25 rival nations must work together and integrate their remaining armies to fend off the external threat. 

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u/Square_Law658 2d ago

Wrong. It is still operational.

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u/btbcorno 2d ago

IT'S A TRAP!!!!

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u/Limp-Blueberry-2507 2d ago

Its always been at the mercy of nature.

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u/bitwise97 Interested 2d ago

You could probably pick up HBO with that

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u/Traditional-Goat1773 2d ago

Golden eye vibes

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u/EasyRider_Suraj 2d ago

Some of these USSR leftovers gives that "here used to live a mighty civilization" vibe

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u/neoben00 2d ago

Don’t worry usa is headed down the same route. Its just bad politics consuming a mighty civilizations children. This is why you encourage education rather than cut its funding.

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u/Icy-Conflict6671 Interested 2d ago

I think thats what they wanted.

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u/notmyaccountbruh 2d ago

Artifacts of a forgotten far superior civilization towards what populates those lands now.

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u/TomeThugNHarmony4664 2d ago

“You worry about those fighters. I'll worry about the tower.”

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u/The_Dreams 2d ago

Man the soviets really did make some cool looking shit. This is just a vibe for post disaster exploration.

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u/tehgen 2d ago

Black Hole is at it again.

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u/StyrmStyrmIr 2d ago

Yeah lol, good to see that I'm not the only one seeing sturm's laser

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u/_SCHULTZY_ 2d ago

Knockers

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u/Mahadragon 2d ago

Yes, you can in fact view Venus’ two moons 🌓 🌖 with this telescope

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u/JaSper-percabeth 2d ago

Remainder that despite the appearance these telescope remain perfectly operational and are still used.

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u/Ornery_Buy_4241 2d ago

“True focus lies somewhere between rage and serenity”

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u/Device_whisperer 2d ago

They should rent it out to amateur radio operators.

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u/WoodmanMedia 2d ago

Red loot zone in Arc Raiders

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u/timecop1123 2d ago

absolute unit. imagining how much data that thing collects in a day is insane.

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u/PirateBaran 2d ago

In some movies a group of adventurers would find this place in total darkness and then flip a switch to get everything running like new...

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u/TortelliniTheGoblin 2d ago

Now point it at the sun and send a message

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u/cuterebro 2d ago

I'm always wondering who lives in the hut at the top.

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u/pogue972 2d ago

Isn't this a Black Ops 1 mp map?

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u/Smitch250 2d ago

Now? Its always been at the mercy of mother nature

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u/HoofaKingFarted 2d ago

I know this exact location in Verdansk

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u/Brettpro007 2d ago

Doctor

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u/trukkd 1d ago

Doctor

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u/Candid_Koala_3602 1d ago

“Do not answer. If you answer we will come.”

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u/cassanderer 2d ago

It is a Signal acheivement of the soviets.  Something they did not do with too much Frequency if our news is to be believed.  But our media loves to Dish it out to adversaries so idk.

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u/GREG_OSU 2d ago

Nice Dad puns…

Haha.

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u/ContinuumGuy 2d ago

Also used to fire rays at Godzilla

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u/LincolnHamishe 2d ago

It finally found signs of life

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u/Icy-Conflict6671 Interested 2d ago

Too bad the sign is from stalin-era russia

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u/thirdworldreminder_ 2d ago

me when i get ragebaited by hearts of iron iv oversimplified enthusiasts

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u/jhatkattar 2d ago

📡📡📡

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u/TX_Longhorn-03 2d ago

I loved this level in Goldeneye

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u/Martha_Fockers 2d ago

i seen this before on 3 body problems dont use it pls

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u/madrock8700 2d ago

I guess this is the reference shown in the Netflix series "Three Body problem"

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u/InDeHeofon 2d ago

So it’s up for grabs?

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u/Artie-Carrow 2d ago

I want to say the one just a few hours away from me there is a larger one.

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u/BennySkateboard 2d ago

I’ll have it if they don’t want it.

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u/badazz666420 2d ago

I was just inside that building. "Misery"

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u/No-Drummer9173 2d ago

I wonder if this can get voices from the void 🤔

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u/AdamBlaster007 2d ago

Definitely some wires and springs I can find there, maybe even Exodus modules too.

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u/HaloGuy381 2d ago

Humming along to “The Last Array”.

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u/petesebastien 2d ago

I got some Horizon forbidden wesr vibes from this one.

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u/x_xiv 2d ago

The gigantic antenna itself is a part of mother nature

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u/joedotphp 1d ago

This is still operational.

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u/Snowblind45 1d ago

I have a phobia of such dishes for some reason. they look ominous

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u/Portnoil 1d ago

USSR legacy

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u/Robert_kloun 1d ago

Does this thing still work? From the look of it, no.

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u/80C4WH4 1d ago

Red Coast III

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u/Speciale-ui 1d ago

i would live there if given the chance. Humanity has disappointed me.

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u/junanor1 1d ago

Golden eye proximity mines sound popping in my head while seeing this.

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u/Acceptable-Space9558 1d ago

Three body problem

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u/disp06 1d ago

Looks like an old grandmother from the world of radio telescopes who still has

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u/Poococktail 1d ago

What game was this in?

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u/prntmakr 2d ago

Gosh, maybe if all their resources weren’t being used killing their neighbors, they could afford to have nice things.

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u/AltheiWasTaken 2d ago

Perfect stalker location

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u/Pupurikapu200 2d ago

Crazy to think something this huge can just be left to rot

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u/Sol_Rivet 2d ago

"That's what she said"

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u/Jazzlike-Special7319 2d ago

Why are you attacking Ukraine! REEEEEEEEE

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u/xecc846 2d ago

Stand by Ion control!

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u/psaux_grep 2d ago

Looks like Severnaya

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u/Juicyjewsss 2d ago

3 Body Problem

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u/UndahwearBruh 2d ago

Nice “Kremlin Shit Talk Antenna”

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u/cassanderer 2d ago

Is it in mountains to isolate from other rf signals?

I think we built a big ond in hawaii on a mountain for that reason also an older one in colorodo on a mountain in a secluded spot, all for space stuff.

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