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by bee_rider 1337 days ago
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.
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> cables under tension fail catastrophically.

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