Potential restrictions to Mauna Kea access

[Newgirl]

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If there was a business opportunity available where you could make $1 per second, don't you think there would be privately funded telescopes being built to rake in the profits?

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Umm, didn't that happen? What I read is that the University was approved for one telescope, and yet built quite a few more without much consultation with locals, which was the reason why there is distrust in the first place?