Well, howdy there internet people, let's Bowe again.

So today we have some space news.

We have some news about a telescope.

In 1963 in Puerto Rico, the Arisebo telescope was constructed.

And even if you've never heard that name

and couldn't guess as to what this thing looks like,

you've probably seen it before.

This is the telescope that James Bond slid down in Golden Eye. It was

featured in contact. It became a symbol of humanity's interest in the stars.

And for decades it provided invaluable information and insight into, well, everything around us.

A new report using data from the telescope identified 191 near-Earth asteroids,

70 of which could at some point be potentially hazardous.

But chill out, potentially hazardous in this context means more than 4.5 million miles away, further away than the moon.

The report indicates that just like NASA said, it looks like Earth is clear for the next 100 years as far as asteroids are concerned,

at least the ones they know about.

This telescope also provided information about asteroids that could have water on them.

The recent dark test, the thing where they redirected the asteroid the space battering ram that we covered

on the channel. That data, the data that made that test possible, a lot of it came

from this telescope.

It is iconic.

It's part of that community and it will remain them,

even though in December of 2020 some tension cables snapped and the

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