Hawaii Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Building Thirty Meter Telescope

Re:Hawaii Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Building Thirty Me... by VikingCoder on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @04:25PM (#18348992)

I'm sad that some native people are upset.

I wish it was easier to build things like this off of the Earth, in space or on the Moon or Mars, etc.

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Re:Hawaii Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Building Thirty Me... by myself248 on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @07:35PM (#18350139)

But space is sacred!

To the group of native-space-beings I just made up and claim to be a member of.

Launching things into space violates our sovereignty. It tramples our sacred orbits, and makes a mockery of our proud heritage.

We shall protest all launches, all progress, all research, and especially anything that might make money or improve anyone's life in even the tiniest way. We'll feed off the publicity, and the habit of some in the media to represent even our whack-ass views as being co-equal and legitimate right alongside everyone else.

And when people claim we made it all up, we'll only gather the sympathy of other whackaloons who've been accused of the same. It will only make us stronger.

We shall call ourselves the Righteous Indig Nation.

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Re:Hawaii Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Building Thirty Me... by 8bitsrule on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @07:46PM (#18350209)

In recent decades, many large and important observatories have been constructed in the desert of northern Chile ... pretty much uncontested.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Astronomical_observat...

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Re:Hawaii Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Building Thirty Me... by PopePompous on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @07:59PM (#18350278)

There is something to be said for having at least one 30 meter class telescope in the Northern hemisphere. There are parts of the sky which are never visible from Chile.

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