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[MarkP]

Gypsy69 does make some wild allegations but there is a statement about Maunakea, the atmosphere, and 40% that could be made that is relatively accurate. Maunakea is not 40% above the atmosphere, the peak of Maunakea is above 40% of the atmosphere (by mass). At 17,000' msl, half of the atmosphere's molecules are below you. Another 17,000' takes you up through half of what's left, and so on. Of course you never get to the "edge" of the atmosphere. There is no edge or boundary in reality, only by some arbitrary definition of where space begins. The atmosphere does get reeeely thin though to the point that the average layman would think there is none and therefor that there must be some convenient dividing line.

"Maunakea gave life and reasons to live, now man is making her a silent killer"? Let's just say you were carried away by emotion and leave it at that. Otherwise I'd be tempted to say it is the distillation of everything idiotic about this protest movement.