The Arecibo radio telescope collapsed completely.

China built a 500-meter fixed dish radio telescope in the past decade. Meanwhile, the US can't keep one operating. It makes a sad contrast. The causes are not practical. Rather, in the US all the money goes to the plutocrats and the military.

And it's not just radio telescopes that the US lacks the money to do. There are other things, even more important, which the US fails to do — for instance, giving poor people a decent life.

Well, at least the US has saved some of the cost of demolition :-{.