Posted on 12/12/2015 10:05:44 AM PST by Olog-hai
Scientists involved in Hawaii astronomy are hopeful that builders of a giant telescope planned for a mountain held sacred by Native Hawaiians don't give up on the project.
A recent state Supreme Court decision invalidated the $1.4 billion project's permit to build on conservation land, which could delay construction by several years. The nonprofit company building the Thirty Meter Telescope hasn't yet indicated its next move. Protesters say they will continue to fight the telescope. ...
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Holy crap, that’s a big telescope.
“...giant telescope planned for a mountain held sacred by Native Hawaiians...”
If white Americans hold anything sacred, it is racism.
It’s just a shakedown. They expect to be paid off. This is a travesty of the legal system. They are just following Al Sharpton’s old script. Set up some kind of sinecures for a couple of the leaders and they’ll all go away.
Silly scientists. Everyone knows that natives don’t like telescopes on mountains. Neither do chipmunks. That is, they don’t like them until enough money is given to them. Then they like them.
Might have to relocate to Pikes Peak Forest outside of Colorado Springs!
Anybody know anything new on that massive distributed array that was going to be built in S. America?
There are a dozen telescopes already on the almost empty volcano.
Big photo here show how barren this place is.
https://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/images/d4/02837.jpg
Sacred my pineapple!
If it's the Giant Magellan Telescope in Chile, then the mirrors are underway being cast and polished right here in Tucson, under the U of A football stadium stands.
http://mirrorlab.as.arizona.edu/
It's an interesting tour.
A ton of spam should do the trick!
Which makes them even more irresistible bait for shakedown artists. Once you have a billion or so bucks sunk into a project, a hundred grand bribe seems like chickenfeed.
/bingo
Thanks Olog-hai, extra to APoD.
Before the decision was made John Batchelor who is an amature astronomer brought this up in one of his talkcasts
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