[jeffheard]

Feels like a prime opportunity for a National Park. Restore it to the point where it won’t degrade further, add a museum, plantetarium, library, and preserve the land around the telescope. It’d be really neat! I’d take my kids to be sure.

[bee_rider]

I think (at least last time I looked into it, it may have changed since then) the problem was that some of the scientific equipment is heavy and suspended by cables which are degrading over time. I don't think it is like a battleship for example, which degrades into a battleship shaped hunk of steel which can be easily restored into a museum ship -- cables under tension fail catastrophically.

[nomel]

> cables under tension fail catastrophically.

I'm not sure there's much left, with the last failure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PZsblS1BUc