[BlazingArizona]

But hold: here come the science-haters to vent their spleens.

I've toured the Mirror Lab at UA/Tucson, where these 8.4m mirrors are made. When a new mirror leaves the facility, it has to be taken out at after hours, under guard, at a random unpblicized time of day. The precautions are taken to avoid attack by Green terrorists, who have taken to hating astronomy as much as nuclear power or genetic engineering.

[RightWhale]

to avoid attack by Green terrorists

The Greens or somebody are acting like Luddites. We had a man who did nothing but grind secondary mirrors for big scopes. Seems, like welding, either you can do it or you can't, and he could, one of a small group of one in the country who could do a particular operation. He said, "You can't push glass." That's all he ever said, didn't talk at all. If a Green terrorist had tried something with one of this man's mirrors, . . . (shudder to think.)

[Publius6961]

The precautions are taken to avoid attack by Green terrorists, who have taken to hating astronomy as much as nuclear power or genetic engineering.

It's only a matter of time before we are convinced of the necessity to start shooting these subhumans.

[Brett66]

Why would greenies care about astronomy, it's totally passive, doesn't even create noise pollution. Oh yeah..... they're insane.

[RightWingAtheist]

Here in Minnesota, we have a big controversy going on over plans to build a telescope on Mt.Graham, which is considered sacred ground to the Native American population, and the media and local leftist "social action" groups line themselves up 100% with them. Apparently, some forms of superstition and fundamentalism are more equal than others.