Posted on 06/21/2019 7:41:17 AM PDT by Jagermonster
Most of the article is just PC babble about the environmental impact, and almost zero technical details about the actual telescope. Hooray for modern journalism!
An amazing piece of technology, beautiful.
IIRC, there is a local content agreement, most of the components will be manufactured in Hawaii.
The manufacturing facilities will need to be built...
Many, many jobs! And training.
From the comments:
***Nice pics of the white people that will be protesters. They read and talk about what to say when asked why they are there. Otherwise they will cover their face and grunt.
***Kanuha. Why are you an idiot? How you can open your mouth and whine about how the land is treated, when locals are pretty much the only ones living like pigs, trashing the land, littering, collecting junk cars. Your Native Hawaiians are the worst at treating the land with disrespect. How many times have I said this: When I worked the Kalapana Lava Fields, quite often I was the closing security. Every car that tried to enter after closing were argumentative locals......NO whites. All they did was go hide and go in after we left. Every following day the parking area and the road to the end was littered with dozens of broken beer bottles and empty beer wrappers and other trash. YOUR people did it.
Guy I used to work with moved to Maui and did service and such on the Keck scopes for years, he sent photos of first light on the first scope, I can only imagine what this hugh puppy will ‘see’.
Yeah there are three climates there. the tropical, the snowy alpine and then the middle dry areas whose climate is like that of coastal california.
btw did you drink any of the kona coffee while you were there. I was totally knocked down by how smooth kona coffee is. there is just no bitter after taste to it at all. apparently that has something to do with the volcanic soil.
For many years I had a picture on my desk of the stars over Haleakala on Maui in the the morning. I got that at a visitor center about half way up that mountain there. I stopped at the visitor center on mauna kea too but I don’t recall seeing pictures for tourists as dramatic.
After that trip I went to the planetarium in Honolulu. They showed space from the point of view of Hawaii and how the hawaiians navigated by the stars.
Then I went to the planetarium in washington dc and got a view of space from the point of view of the east coast of the USA. The two views gave me a third sense of the big curvature of the earth.
To this daym—that was a memorable summer vacation.
I am not a big coffee drinker.
The only Kona drink I had there were Kona Longboard Lagers and Big Wave beers.
I may have had an iced Kona coffee when we stopped for lunch one day in Hawi.
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