Arecibo Observatory - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • The Arecibo Observatory was featured on Cosmos: A Personal Voyage in Part 12 "Encyclopaedia Galactica."
  • The Arecibo Observatory is featured at the end of James Burke's TV series Connections in Part 3 "Distant Voices."
  • Arecibo Observatory was used as a filming location in the climax of the James Bond movie GoldenEye and as a level in the accompanying Nintendo 64 videogame GoldenEye 007.
  • The film Contact features Arecibo, where the main character uses the facility as part of a SETI project.
  • Fox Mulder was sent to the Arecibo Observatory in The X-Files episode "Little Green Men".
  • Songwriter and author Jimmy Buffett mentions the "giant telescope" in his book Where Is Joe Merchant?, and in the lyrics to the song "Desdemona's Building A Rocket Ship".
  • The musicians Boxcutter, Lustmord, and Little Boots have all released albums named Arecibo.
  • The observatory is featured in the film Species, the James Gunn novel The Listeners (1972), the Robert J. Sawyer novel Rollback, and the Mary Doria Russell novel The Sparrow.
  • Arecibo Observatory also featured in the action movie The Losers (2010).
  • In the video game Just Cause 2 there is a large radio observatory called PAN MILSAT that is very similar in appearance to Arecibo Observatory.
  • Internet radio station Arecibo Radio is named after the observatory.
  • The Arecibo Observatory was featured in an episode Covert Affairs called "Loving the Alien" as a stand-in for the Lourdes SIGINT Station.

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