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> in developing country

Arecibo is located in the United States. Unless Puerto Rico declared independence recently, that is.

Snide remarks about Texas aside, would you say SpaceX is located in a developing country? Because you'd be hard-pressed to argue that Arecibo was located in a less developed place than SpaceX's South Texas facility.

This is Arecibo: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Dd6pCS1IBN4/hq720.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEhCK4...

This is the nearest town to SpaceX's facility: https://archleague.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/AMRT_TX00_...

It was a bad application of country.

How do you feel about "An economically challenging location with weaker supply chain, infrastructure and potentially lower compliance to standards in engineering."

The GDP of Puerto Rico overall in 1960 was $1.6b. You would expect about 20x growth over the time window, and its more like 100x.

No disrespect to Puerto Ricans intended.

> Snide remarks about Texas aside,

which is funny as taking Texas alone, it would have a top 10 economy in the world. so to the people running it making decisions that those snide remarks are pointed, it looks to them like they are doing just fine thank you very much.

and this is why my vote today goes to nothing.

Lol, no... as someone who has actually been to Aricebo, that is nowhere near where the telescope is in Puerto Rico. You showed a postcard from the coastal area of Aricebo in your link. The telescope is a very long and winding road away from there, it's very remote, there's nothing really near there at all.

Your links are disingenuous at best, you show possibly the best part of Puerto Rico against the worst part of TX.

On the other hand, the location is part of what made the telescope good. You'd have too much interference in a city.

Starlink has since expanded interference globally.

No longer can remote areas feel left out from urban radio spectrum interference.

Isn't that what the GP said?

By some metrics, the US is considered a developing country. For example the U.N. places it at rank 46, below such countries as Romania, Cuba, Bulgaria, Albania:

https://dashboards.sdgindex.org/rankings

Edit: you US people can downvote me as much as you want, that won't change the facts :-D

I can find some ranking metric that your country will be low on the list, I guarantee it. On the other hand, what metric can I find that puts it at #1? There are a few of those that work for the US.

sure, if you're looking for "any" ranking... but this is not some random dude's "top 100 countries to visit" or something. It's the U.N.'s official list of developed countries. That puts some credibility to it, and it is definitely relevant in this topic since people were discussing whether the US counted as developed country or not. That is certainly more credible than finding "some list where [my] country is low on". I'm sure they are out there but I don't think you can find any list by the UN or any other credible world-wide organization.

Please, feel free to prove me wrong!

Oh, and what list(s) did you have in mind where the US is #1? I can't think of many (at least not positive ones)

It's in Puerto Rico, a US territory that has toyed with formally joining the union as a proper state. This is NOT a developing country.

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