but God forbid they should go up and cut the trees around it down for a fire break...Now that it’s made headlines, arsonists will make sure it does burn. Sometimes it is better to keep your mouth shut.
What idiot failed to keep the brush trimmed back from the mountain????
Largely unused.
Was there in about 95. At that time driving up I commented to the wife..”if they ever have a fire”...
but God forbid they should go up and cut the trees around it down for a fire break...Wasn’t that the observatory that discovered the Martian invasion? Or was that Mt. Palomar?
At one time, the 200-inch reflector at Mt. Wilson was the largest optical telescope in the world, I believe. Is it still there?
It’s a paper weight... Too much light pollution so the loss is negligible.
Not even the Dumbocrats running California would let a historic site like this burn, would they?
There are fire trails throughout those mountains I rode dirt bikes on in my youth. single lane dirt roads carved so as to allow firefighters to get where they might need get to.
Loads of fun.
They worry about this, but don’t give a crap that if the left takes over we lose our republic.
While it’s been several years since I’ve been to Mt. Wilson, I’ve been to the observatory and it’s difficult to see how it could burn. It’s inside a building and there is plenty of room to surround it with fire equipment, not to mention cutting back the vegetation leaving nothing to burn.
I was there sometime in the 90s and watched Lasarium featuring Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. Mind Blower.
Can’t they do the same thing that saved the Reagan library. That place was a goner but they somehow protected it.