04-23-2015, 04:55 PM
It's funny that the Smithsonian article, at least right now, has a "We recommend" video right below it entitled "How a Single Asteroid Wiped Dinosaurs Off This Planet". Finding Earth-threatening asteroids and understanding their composition in order to prevent the same thing happening to us is something the observatories do on Mauna Kea.
The article is a little disingenuous as it doesn't provide context to my comment. It was about a letter written by Jim Albertini on the BIC trying to link the observatories to the military and industry. This was a typical argument against the TMT made back in 2011 on sites such as the BIC.
Unfortunately, since the BIC is currently down, I can't provide a direct link to the letter, but Google cached it here:
http://tinyurl.com/paoopke
Hope that link works.
The article is a little disingenuous as it doesn't provide context to my comment. It was about a letter written by Jim Albertini on the BIC trying to link the observatories to the military and industry. This was a typical argument against the TMT made back in 2011 on sites such as the BIC.
Unfortunately, since the BIC is currently down, I can't provide a direct link to the letter, but Google cached it here:
http://tinyurl.com/paoopke
Hope that link works.