L.A. Times> TMT breaks ground

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This is great good news. We are living in an unprecedented Golden Age of Astronomy and Cosmology. Despite all the sadness and trouble in the world, anyone with a computer can share in the greatest flood of knowledge regarding our place in the universe that has ever occurred in human history. I am utterly mystified that people here, many of them not even Hawaiian, are protesting the construction of what will be one of the most technologically advanced research facilities on the planet. I think those attempting to block this project do not really understand the depth of the Hawaiian traditions they claim to be protecting. The ancient Polynesians who colonized Hawaii were, first and foremost, stargazers. That is what enabled them to embark on blue water, trans-oceanic expeditions of exploration and colonization while Europeans were still hugging the coastlines of a flat earth. How stargazing suddenly became kapu is a total mystery to me. I hope I live to see this project completed and stare in awe at the images it will reveal.

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