Hundreds form chain at University of Hawaii to protest Thirty Meter Telescope

[NuclearDem]

19. It's a telescope, not a pipeline.

Unless it's going to somehow completely destroy Mauna Kea, I don't buy the "destroying native culture" argument one bit.

ISIS razing ancient Assyrian cities is destroying native culture. Walmart plowing over ancient burial mounds is destroying native culture.

Building a largely remote-controlled telescope in one of the few ideal places for it in the world in the interest of answering questions about the origins of the universe is not destroying native culture.

I still have yet to hear coherent arguments against the telescope not centered around Hawaiian nationalism or primitivist "Mother Earth always good, technology always bad" nonsense.