Hawaiian leader seeks telescope construction pause at sacred summit

ap ^ | CALEB JONES,AUDREY McAVOY,

[Maine Mariner]

Billion, did you say Billion? The Reverends Jackson and Sharpton will be there soon!

[jobim]

This is happening in my backyard - the Big Island's handsupdon'tshoot. This miniscule group of Alinski activists gets its inspiration from the same script that directs the activities of lawless progressives everywhere. One of them is veteran street-theater-rabble-rouser Jim Albertini, who found his fame 30 years ago jumping in the harbor to prevent a nuclear sub from docking in Hilo.

But I can inform you all that people here want this telescope and all that comes with it. It's the media, our local reporters, who themselves are like "journalists" everywhere, liberal mouthpieces, who pump up this controversy.

[rockrr]

Can’t they just think of it as a nose ring or something?

[smokingfrog]

The university makes a lot of money from renting telescope time.

http://www.civilbeat.com/2015/04/peter-apo-mauna-kea-under-siege/

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

The return to the stone age is what these people want. Some groups are UNABLE to advance technologically; and now that they have a hearing they flex their ignorant muscles.

[RedStateRocker]

As with ANYONE who stands in the way of science: FOAD.

[Pikachu_Dad]

Then you would be guessing wrong. 30 meters !

[elcid1970]

So-called native Hawaiians are an officially recognized superior racial minority with special privileges that would have made the Nazis blush.

As early as the 1920’s “pure Hawaiians” were said to be less than 25% of the population.

There are now no-go areas on Oahu where “haoles” are in constant danger of being beaten up by locals who proudly claim racial privilege while drawing welfare checks. Think Ferguson on a large scale with a liberal state government well to the left of Massachusetts.

[minnesota_bound]

#9 There are many telescopes already there. I say throw the protesters into the volcano as a sacrifice.

[minnesota_bound]

I guess all of these other telescopes did not upset the god...

[MikeD]

It is truly a 30-meter aperture, but the primary mirror is made up of many smaller mirror segments for ease of manufacture and stability.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

That’s truly a large scope.

I remember when 200-inches was the largest.

Seems like just yesterday. What is the largest scope on the planet right now?

Anyone know?

[Tea Party Terrorist]

There’s already a dozen or so on the Mauna Kea summit. The Keck 10 meter telescopes are beyond huge...the new one will be 30 meters.

Go up to the summit if you can...a surreal experience.

[MikeD]

The GTC on the Canary Islands is 10.4 meters. The twin Keck telescopes are 10 meters. The largest telescope with a single mirror is the 8-meter Subaru Telescope.

[onedoug]

Seems like the same primitive mentality that murdered Captain James Cook.