02-26-2011, 10:17 AM
Tom, that was such a moving post. Thank you for sharing and my empathy to you in your difficult situation, with best wishes.
I am very much pro-astronomy. I would like to see the Native Hawaiian point of view accommodated too, if there is a middle ground. There could be more respect for the mountain, for example the traffic up the summit road could stand to be more regulated.
When visitors go to Puuhonua 'O Honaunau, they typically walk the grounds in reverence because they are told it is a sacred site, and the same could be done as part of a visit to Mauna Kea -- a little education on what is up there could be provided/mandatory, along with a fee to proceed past the VIS. Just a thought.
If Pele (or Gaia) doesn't like the observatories ... Mauna Kea is not extinct, and self-remedy is available.
The debate on whether or not technology of all kinds is good for mankind isn't a local specific issue, so no comment on that.
"Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean." — Bob Dylan
I am very much pro-astronomy. I would like to see the Native Hawaiian point of view accommodated too, if there is a middle ground. There could be more respect for the mountain, for example the traffic up the summit road could stand to be more regulated.
When visitors go to Puuhonua 'O Honaunau, they typically walk the grounds in reverence because they are told it is a sacred site, and the same could be done as part of a visit to Mauna Kea -- a little education on what is up there could be provided/mandatory, along with a fee to proceed past the VIS. Just a thought.
If Pele (or Gaia) doesn't like the observatories ... Mauna Kea is not extinct, and self-remedy is available.
The debate on whether or not technology of all kinds is good for mankind isn't a local specific issue, so no comment on that.
"Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean." — Bob Dylan