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by shkkmo 1340 days ago
Puerto Rico is a fairly large (top 100 largest) island with international airports. It is larger than many other islands that have observatories.

Areceibo already WAS a world class telescope and was closer to an international airport than many other observatories.

The only valid point you've made is about hurricanes and earthquakes. However I haven't seen any discussion as to how those effect contruction costs at that site vs others.