Protesters Block Construction of Giant Hawaii Telescope

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1. Anti-science kooks!

There are two places on Earth which are uniquely suited for world-class visual astronomy, one in the northern hemisphere, Mauna Kea, and one in the southern hemisphere, the Atacama desert in the high Andes in Chile. That is why all the world's largest telescopes reside at those two locations. There just are not any other locations like these. There is no other place that the Thirty Meter Telescope could be built. It belongs on Mauna Kea and should be built there.

The observatory on Mauna Kea has been there for many decades, as have the largest optical telescopes in the world.

The protesters should get their wishes and be arrested.

on edit: and this isn't a large group of protesters. It is a fringe group of ignorant kooks.