04-23-2015, 07:10 PM
dakine,
""It seems to me that it's an argument about returning to the stone age versus understanding our universe and it'll be interesting to see who wins in the end."
Oddly enough if this is a reference to the Hawaiians verse western civilization, my bet is on the westerners to throw us back to the stone age with their greedy abuse of the environment over anything the Hawaiians might or might not do. As far as I can tell western civilized first world man is the most creative destroyer of everything they touch as has ever been visited upon the Earth.""
As I hope you see now, my comment had nothing to do with Hawaiians or east, west, black, white or whatever you might come up with. It was about arguments against the TMT back in 2011 which claimed that the observatories had some military or industrial takeover connection, and Jim Albertini's letter was a typical example of what was happening at the time.
Incidentally, it's interesting the Smithsonian article is on a website littered with adverts. I'll let others draw their own conclusions about that.
""It seems to me that it's an argument about returning to the stone age versus understanding our universe and it'll be interesting to see who wins in the end."
Oddly enough if this is a reference to the Hawaiians verse western civilization, my bet is on the westerners to throw us back to the stone age with their greedy abuse of the environment over anything the Hawaiians might or might not do. As far as I can tell western civilized first world man is the most creative destroyer of everything they touch as has ever been visited upon the Earth.""
As I hope you see now, my comment had nothing to do with Hawaiians or east, west, black, white or whatever you might come up with. It was about arguments against the TMT back in 2011 which claimed that the observatories had some military or industrial takeover connection, and Jim Albertini's letter was a typical example of what was happening at the time.
Incidentally, it's interesting the Smithsonian article is on a website littered with adverts. I'll let others draw their own conclusions about that.