05-20-2015, 06:31 PM
HOTPE,
"How could hundreds of children on Mauna Kea, in retrofitted observatory classrooms, with an expanded septic field all across the mountain top to handle bathroom and lunchroom wastewater, lost homework papers and candy wrappers blown in the 50 mph breeze, scattered pens, pencils, and a 5 acre playground built at least a foot above the ground so the kids don't squash the endangered bugs while playing... how could that be an improvement over a handful of scientists and equipment engineers?"
Even despite your valid points, it's a non-starter. Medical advice to all the observatories, and I believe the tour companies as well, is that children under the age of 16 shouldn't be taken to 14,000 feet. Apparently, their lungs have not finished developing. It'd be fine if they lived up there but not short visits from sea level.
And just from my own experience, the brain doesn't work so well at that altitude. Students and teachers may not perform at their best. It's a preposterous idea from Gypsy and think you suspect what I do; no one is suggesting this idea and it's yet another load of nonsense that does nothing but add to the noise.
Still waiting to hear about the link between deflategate and the TMT.
"How could hundreds of children on Mauna Kea, in retrofitted observatory classrooms, with an expanded septic field all across the mountain top to handle bathroom and lunchroom wastewater, lost homework papers and candy wrappers blown in the 50 mph breeze, scattered pens, pencils, and a 5 acre playground built at least a foot above the ground so the kids don't squash the endangered bugs while playing... how could that be an improvement over a handful of scientists and equipment engineers?"
Even despite your valid points, it's a non-starter. Medical advice to all the observatories, and I believe the tour companies as well, is that children under the age of 16 shouldn't be taken to 14,000 feet. Apparently, their lungs have not finished developing. It'd be fine if they lived up there but not short visits from sea level.
And just from my own experience, the brain doesn't work so well at that altitude. Students and teachers may not perform at their best. It's a preposterous idea from Gypsy and think you suspect what I do; no one is suggesting this idea and it's yet another load of nonsense that does nothing but add to the noise.
Still waiting to hear about the link between deflategate and the TMT.