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

[NuclearDem]

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How is what they are protesting impacting you personally and your survival in any way, regardless of how you label it? It seems any perceived "set back" in life if no telescope was built there, or if feedback be permitted by the people native to there, would somehow result in something devastating to your existence. And as such, this somehow justifies the use denigrating terms to express the disagreement.

Because nobody on earth has wanted answers to questions like "how did all of this begin" or "are we alone in the universe."

Imagine that. If you want "clear weather", I have personally (maybe not here on DU) promoted putting a telescope on the far side of the moon or in a geostationary orbit of the sun beyond the moon, and you eliminate the atmospheric distortions.

Maintenance.

It's either a short drive up a mountain or a multimillion dollar mission to the moon or orbit around the sun to repair and maintain the telescope.

As an example, Lake Nyos in Cameron, where local folklore had warned against going near the place,
yet not heeding it in later times, resulted in the deaths of over 1700 because of what was found as a natural phenomena that periodically released CO2 in the atmosphere, and in the lake (literally causing the lake to acidify as well).

I have no idea why you think this is relevant to Mauna Kea, but thanks for citing an example where local superstition was explained by evil Western knowledge about Vulcanism and tectonics.

Man, you sure showed us "Western science" types.

Fuck it, I'm done. This shit is why this country can't have nice things.