Stop The Construction the TMT Telescope on Mauna Kea and the Arrest of Mauna Kea Protectors

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98. Hmm! No ecological pleas there. Only cultural ones.

Sorry. I reject these cultural pleas. They are mere pleas to appease magic gods, which nobody can demonstrate exist.

Furthermore, who is to say that these volcano gods would not want Hawaiian residents to know about life's origins in the cosmos.

Since you continued to mix arguments on both environment and culture I suspected it was really solely about culture. About volcano deities. This especially since at over 4,000 meters altitude there is not much environment there. But maybe the lichens need saving. At that altitude not even astronomy grad students work there very long, and there is always bottled oxygen available lest they pass out.

So I knew that it couldn't be about the environment, which as I stated is a barren wasteland, and which makes it a perfect place for world class telescopes.

But there are these people who think the mountain harbors a volcano god. So much for plate tectonics. It was a volcano god all this time.

Or maybe we ought to dedicate the most exquisite place in the northern hemisphere for astronomy to cutting edge science.

On the other hand, maybe we ought to tear down the telescopes and erect an edifice to the almighty volcano gods. (Virgin sacrifices apparently optional?) That way we can preserve ancient myths into the 21st century. It sounds like Ken Ham's Creation Museum in Kentucky. An edifice to ignorance.

And you are correct. I have absolutely no respect for your argument.

I am very sorry.