10-08-2014, 04:43 PM
robguz,
"I love the hypocrisy of these people driving on roads on Mauna Kea which have covered far more of Mauna Kea, thus "desecrating" it than all of the existing telescopes and TMT combined. Why didn't they hike up to this "sacred" place on foot, not on the road, like the ancient Hawaiians did? [...]"
Just to add to the irony, the road to the summit, the subsequent paving and continual maintenance was and is paid for by the observatories.
"I love the hypocrisy of these people driving on roads on Mauna Kea which have covered far more of Mauna Kea, thus "desecrating" it than all of the existing telescopes and TMT combined. Why didn't they hike up to this "sacred" place on foot, not on the road, like the ancient Hawaiians did? [...]"
Just to add to the irony, the road to the summit, the subsequent paving and continual maintenance was and is paid for by the observatories.