[jobim]

Thirty year resident of the Big Island.

It's a conflation of paganism, anti-colonialism, environmentalism, and Leftist Marxist
Alinsky community activism that now deprives the citizens of
Hawaii of this investment.

After the excessively extravagant Hawaiian language & culture building was built
at UH Hilo, bringing in one of its only PhD programs (Hawaiian Studies) to the exclusion of a PhD program that would truly benefit our state, this mindset was assured.

Just as the Black Studies programs at mainland universities assured
an emerging Black radicalism, and ditto for women & homosexuals
etal, Hawaiian radicalism means we now pay the price for the loss
of two huge potential benefits to our islands: this magnificent telescope,
and the super ferries that would have transported people, vehicles, and goods inexpensively that was tragically removed a few years ago after just getting launched.

[DUMBGRUNT]

A very sad outcome.

The Thirty Meter Telescope is an object of beauty and extreme technology.
500 mirrors, 1,500 tons mobile and a massive structure to support it.

$1.4 billion dollars!
Karl Marx was correct when he said, ‘value is determined by the labor input’. Jobs, jobs, jobs!

Local labor/supplies could equal one third of cost.

You need to pick a lot of Macadamia nuts for that kind of cash.