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A comment on Hawaii Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Building Thirty Meter Telescope. Parent comment

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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