04-27-2015, 10:33 PM
I wrote back on 17th April:
"If anyone knows how to contact Mailani, let me know. I'll be happy to provide a tour of the the summit area, let her take part in our operations and even control the telescope for a while. Someone this bright and initiative deserves a reward."
Mailani Neal has been on a tour of the Kecks, will get a tour of the CFHT and once I can organise stuff will get another tour of UKIRT and hopefully one or two other telescopes.
This would not have happened even if she started a pro-TMT petition just saying support the TMT. Her petition was more than that. It was a well-worded and argued essay about the TMT and why it should be built.
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/wesupporttmt.html
When you read that and then read some of the completely bizarre ramblings and gibberish some have posted here, I hope you agree she has deserved these trips. An 18-year-old student who understands what astronomy is all about and doesn't go on about a silent killer, spying on Iranian rockets, draining Lake Waiau, deflecting hurricanes or whatever completely made up balderdash some might post here. She has an ambition in life and is smart enough to do whatever she chooses. If it's astronomy or science, I know she'll make a success of it, but whatever she chooses she has made quite an impression on the astrophysicists on MK.
"If anyone knows how to contact Mailani, let me know. I'll be happy to provide a tour of the the summit area, let her take part in our operations and even control the telescope for a while. Someone this bright and initiative deserves a reward."
Mailani Neal has been on a tour of the Kecks, will get a tour of the CFHT and once I can organise stuff will get another tour of UKIRT and hopefully one or two other telescopes.
This would not have happened even if she started a pro-TMT petition just saying support the TMT. Her petition was more than that. It was a well-worded and argued essay about the TMT and why it should be built.
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/wesupporttmt.html
When you read that and then read some of the completely bizarre ramblings and gibberish some have posted here, I hope you agree she has deserved these trips. An 18-year-old student who understands what astronomy is all about and doesn't go on about a silent killer, spying on Iranian rockets, draining Lake Waiau, deflecting hurricanes or whatever completely made up balderdash some might post here. She has an ambition in life and is smart enough to do whatever she chooses. If it's astronomy or science, I know she'll make a success of it, but whatever she chooses she has made quite an impression on the astrophysicists on MK.