5/4/2004: Sinkhole eats car

[chrisinhouston]

If you remember the movie "Contact" with Jodi Foster, their were several scenes in the first half filmed at the huge radio telescope in Puerto Rico, Observatorio de Arecibo. A quote from their website says:

"Hidden among fields and hills is the world's largest radar-radio telescope, operated by the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center of Cornell University. A 20-acre dish, with a 600-ton suspended platform hovering eerily over it, lies in a 563-ft-deep sinkhole in the karst landscape. The observatory has been used to look for extraterrestrial life. Hidden among fields and hills is the world's largest radar-radio telescope, operated by the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center of Cornell University. A 20-acre dish, with a 600-ton suspended platform hovering eerily over it, lies in a 563-ft-deep sinkhole in the karst landscape. The observatory has been used to look for extraterrestrial life."