Mauna Kea, the Sacred

[MarkP]

We are stuck with technology. None of us softies would want to live without it. Strip mining, the industry of war, and the like should be minimized whenever and wherever possible, but the TMT is on the opposite end of the spectrum. We would be foolish to turn up our noses at it. I am for the TMT. The ancient Hawaiians had an industrial use for Mauna Kea, an adze quarry at 12,000 feet elevation large enough to supply all of the Big Island and trade with other islands.