TMT Work to Resume Says Ige!

[knieft]

HotPE:

"Also, I believe some of the secret observatories were not counted due to the simple fact that they are not observatories."

I've heard something similar. Because of the melting Arctic ice the original entry to the inside of the planet--which is hollow btw--had to be moved to Mauna Kea. They had to exterminate the last surviving herd of Easter Bunnies to do so, but they did all the deconstruction on cloudy nights and no one was the wiser. Word is that the protestors shutting down the mountain was part of the whole plan. Apparently the TMT would have just plopped into the entrance and would have ended up kind of floating back and forth at the center of the earth with no stars available. And as everyone knows, a telescope without a star is like a bullet without a gun.

I am of mixed emotions on the whole thing. On one hand, it's pretty cool to have the entrance so close to Puna, kind of a sister project to the Kalapana UFO landing area. If things get bad natural disaster-wise, being able to duck inside the earth via Mauna Kea could be invaluable. On the other hand, I always hate to see another species go extinct. This time it means parents all over the world will be responsible for preparing those Easter baskets. As if the assassinations of Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy by Monsanto weren't enough of a burden.

Oh well, life marches on, and my ambivalence likely tells more about me than the reality of Mauna Kea...

Cheers,
Kirt