08-01-2015, 07:17 PM
TomK, good evening to ya sir.
You may have misunderstood my statement or just enjoy picking them apart before you reconstruct them in order to fit your liking? The road to the summit of maunakea was rarely traveled for decades, especially by tourists as the few car rental agencies would not allow it. Hotels on the Kona side were not exploiting the summit like they do today, also Only a couple of small telescopes were present.
Maunakea use to be a peaceful and somewhat uncongested place some COULD go to find or experience things like( prayers, star gazing, snow, tranquility, peace and quiet, ect). Now folks visiting the summit for prayers will have to explain and include hundreds if not thousands of strangers (tourists) in their prayers after this TMT project is complete. Don't get me wrong I love all people like you all do, just not in my face as I am asking for guidance and forgiveness.
Some knew the few telescope leases would have an impact to the summit of maunakea, or bring added traffic from the employees working in or on them. Now an additional 300,000 tourist a year visit the summit and its 13 observatories. Soon to be over 1,000,000 a year if this TMT is built atop maunakea as planned. Many believe The environment atop maunakea has changed drastically over the years and enough is enough already.
The TMT designer's and planner's should pay close attention to the weather atop maunakea this week. Hurricane's that approach our islands from so far south can pack quite a punch at times (kauai remembers). Its our wonderful summits of Maunakea, Maunaloa, and Haleakala that can hold the greatest Mana (power), to how and what affects the storms have on the great aloha state of Hawaii. Besides the mountains needing to replace their vital Waters of life, They are in need of a good cleansing or washing as well (lack of restrooms).
Always unpredictable what the mountains affects will have on the largest ocean storms and hurricanes that can bring 200+ mh winds to these summit tops. Concerns here, The TMT will need to protect its very sensitive lenses from these types of winds in the future(if built). Will the well planned 180 foot steel Dome be enough to hide the lenses from these powerful winds? How or what Will the current observatories have to do to plan for this type of storm? Will protectors be safe or allowed (blankets) to help ride this storm out on our Mountains?
You may have misunderstood my statement or just enjoy picking them apart before you reconstruct them in order to fit your liking? The road to the summit of maunakea was rarely traveled for decades, especially by tourists as the few car rental agencies would not allow it. Hotels on the Kona side were not exploiting the summit like they do today, also Only a couple of small telescopes were present.
Maunakea use to be a peaceful and somewhat uncongested place some COULD go to find or experience things like( prayers, star gazing, snow, tranquility, peace and quiet, ect). Now folks visiting the summit for prayers will have to explain and include hundreds if not thousands of strangers (tourists) in their prayers after this TMT project is complete. Don't get me wrong I love all people like you all do, just not in my face as I am asking for guidance and forgiveness.
Some knew the few telescope leases would have an impact to the summit of maunakea, or bring added traffic from the employees working in or on them. Now an additional 300,000 tourist a year visit the summit and its 13 observatories. Soon to be over 1,000,000 a year if this TMT is built atop maunakea as planned. Many believe The environment atop maunakea has changed drastically over the years and enough is enough already.
The TMT designer's and planner's should pay close attention to the weather atop maunakea this week. Hurricane's that approach our islands from so far south can pack quite a punch at times (kauai remembers). Its our wonderful summits of Maunakea, Maunaloa, and Haleakala that can hold the greatest Mana (power), to how and what affects the storms have on the great aloha state of Hawaii. Besides the mountains needing to replace their vital Waters of life, They are in need of a good cleansing or washing as well (lack of restrooms).
Always unpredictable what the mountains affects will have on the largest ocean storms and hurricanes that can bring 200+ mh winds to these summit tops. Concerns here, The TMT will need to protect its very sensitive lenses from these types of winds in the future(if built). Will the well planned 180 foot steel Dome be enough to hide the lenses from these powerful winds? How or what Will the current observatories have to do to plan for this type of storm? Will protectors be safe or allowed (blankets) to help ride this storm out on our Mountains?