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the NSF confirmed the cables failed sometime over night, this wasn't the planned decommissioning. They noticed with drone flights the cable exteriors which remained on tower 4 were showing pre-failure conditions over the past few days.

The message says that it is a message that's announced with great sadness, as one says when someone passes away. I do not think that language would be used if the structure was being decommissioned in a controlled way (Note: Spanish is my first language).

I don't think it would be any less sad if it was a deliberate decommissioning.

I think it was unplanned, but not unexpected.

In any case, what's done, is done.

As Clay would say "Ain't no puttin' the candy back in that piñata."