08-18-2015, 05:19 AM
If Maunakea is going to be open to a million visitors a year, 20 telescopes, Yale and Caltech universities, special groups only?
If there are a million plus visitors a year driving to the top of Mauna Kea, it doesn't sound elitist (white foreign promise making scientists) or that access is limited to special groups. Perhaps an extremely large special group consisting ONLY of those people who want to see the top of Mauna Kea?
what I read in Ms Trasks article. It "looks like, to me" that many laws were already violated or broken
Read the article carefully. The first "fact" Mililani Trask lists is based on this statement, "Lease rental cannot be waived for any commercial venture for longer than one year." That would be true for a Target store, not a telescope. All of her "facts" that follow are based on that initial misleading and inapplicable statement. If you believe her first statement, she sells you more "facts" unrelated to the TMT or Mauna Kea later. She is using 9th grade debate tactics to prove her position, but so poorly that they certainly never prove her point. She is at best either disingenuous, or else intentionally lying. I doubt she's confused.
If there are a million plus visitors a year driving to the top of Mauna Kea, it doesn't sound elitist (white foreign promise making scientists) or that access is limited to special groups. Perhaps an extremely large special group consisting ONLY of those people who want to see the top of Mauna Kea?
what I read in Ms Trasks article. It "looks like, to me" that many laws were already violated or broken
Read the article carefully. The first "fact" Mililani Trask lists is based on this statement, "Lease rental cannot be waived for any commercial venture for longer than one year." That would be true for a Target store, not a telescope. All of her "facts" that follow are based on that initial misleading and inapplicable statement. If you believe her first statement, she sells you more "facts" unrelated to the TMT or Mauna Kea later. She is using 9th grade debate tactics to prove her position, but so poorly that they certainly never prove her point. She is at best either disingenuous, or else intentionally lying. I doubt she's confused.
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