04-13-2015, 07:33 AM
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Originally posted by gypsy69
JMO here. This TMT project really should not be happening on our island at all, or in this state period. This is the aloha state of Hawaii, we have tourists by the millions who spend millions to walk on our prestigious beaches and breath our fresh warm tropical air. Our wonderful people of this aina work very hard catering to this tourism industry. They sacrifice much of everything that is important to them to share this beautiful place with these visitors. Why should this thirty meter telescope be built near the summit of maunakea? How does this help tourism, or our keiki of tomorrow? Why do the Canadians, japanese, and many of the worlds others want to build this godzilla here? This would and could alter or change much of maunakea protectors past, present, and future.
Nature, Culture, and our islands aloha spirit VS big business, space, war, money, and D.C.
Why here? Because it is the best place in the world for it. We should be so lucky that Hawaii should be associated with world class astronomy. It boggles the mind that anyone would strive to limit Hawaii only to tourism.
"This Godzilla"? Don't know what to say to that. I bet there were people who felt the same about the Pantheon.
It would help tourism and our keiki by being what it is: the greatest telescope in the world, and proof that Hawaii is about more than tourism and dancers doing fake hula in plastic grass skirts and coconut shell bras.
The world will judge us if we flub this. If we squander this golden opportunity we will be an object of ridicule among the progressive and forward thinking part of the world's population. Why would we want that for our keiki?