Posted on 11/01/2016 9:01:05 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
The team behind a project to build one of the world's largest telescopes said on Monday it has chosen Spain's Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean as a possible alternative to Hawaii.
The decision follows opposition from Native Hawaiians and environmentalists to plans for constructing the so-called Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), which would cost $1.4 billion, at the Mauna Kea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island...
The designation of the Canary Islands as an alternative comes nearly a year after the Hawaii Supreme Court blocked construction of the telescope on the Big Island.
Native Hawaiians who oppose the project have said the proposed site for the new telescope on the Big Island is considered a spiritual temple and also is a burial ground, adding the project could harm those sacred lands.
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Only the welfare state keeps this bunch from starvation.
Gee. I hope the La Palma mega-tsunami doesn’t wipe them out.
Ok, i’ll just ask. Why do native people display such astonishing ignorance even though they live in todays world? Their ignorant superstitions shouldn’t be allowed to stand in the way of modern science and human endeavor.
Mt. Teide is more than 12,000 feet high...
That’s ok. Canary Islands is a better location for the TMT anyway
And they say Republicans are the people that reject science.
They would say that your modern world sucks
Fer Sher. In the early '90s the last remaining big sugar operation in the big island was under intense competitive pressure. Management told everyone that they would have to take a pay cut (with management taking the largest cuts) to stay open. The opened their books to the workers to show that they really were in desperate straights. The workers voted almost unanimously NOT to take a pay cut. the sugar plant closed, and the workers were out of work - not to worry. They all went on welfare.
About 12 years ago a consortium of Japanese businesses bought a significant stretch of shoreline at the south end of the big island with the intent of making a resort area like on Maui. This would have brought a number of jobs and considerable prosperity to the area. These same jackasses went to court and blocked the construction. Meanwhile still sucking welfare from the taxes of those of us who actually work for a living. Hawaiians appear to be the laziest people in the USA, and naturally vote overwhelmingly Democrat.
I don’t know for sure, but I’m pretty sure no one wants it installed at Arlington. Which many of us consider a sacred burial site.
Ok, i’ll just ask. Why do native people display such astonishing ignorance even though they live in todays world?
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I think what they want is some type of valuable compensation. Ignorance is just a tool.
“Gee. I hope the La Palma mega-tsunami doesn’t wipe them out”.
Is that the same one that’s gonna wipe out our East Coast when that mountain falls into the Atlantic ??
Same reason some dogs lick themself.
Because they can.
That and some luddites finance them.
Mauna Kea already has an observatory, so this would merely be an expansion project on top of an isolated, desolate volcanic peak. This isn’t about spiritual burial grounds, it’s an extortion attempt by the locals.
30 meter?
Gezzz, how stupid is Hawaii?
Environmental determinism.
Tropical lethargy.
The Equator effect.
They don’t deserve the telescope there anyway. It’d just finance more welfare for them.
Arlington National Cemetery is well established in a small, well defined area of ~600 acres.
Hawaii (the big island) a large island of ~4,000 sq miles.
Yes!
Also see #8 and 17.
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