Pointless thread

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After much soul searching I have decided that my remarks in support of TMT crossed the line and I apologize.

I rode my motorcycle almost to the top of Maunakea today to think this over. The bike is old and quit running below the summit due to the altitude, but I got high enough to get a feel for the place. The word sacred was invented for places like that. It was also invented to describe the night sky. People of different traditions build things in sacred places for different reasons.

My feelings are very strong in support of TMT because interstellar travel is pointless if it is not directed to habitable planets. TMT is the only instrument capable of the detailed studies required to accurately characterize the habitability of extrasolar planets. Without TMT, we will be blind to half the universe at this level of investigation. Interstellar travel is closer than people think. A breakthrough is imminent.

But I was wrong to let emotional feelings cross the line into hostility. That was wrong and bad and we humans have a lot of work to do there. I am the chimpanzee, except now I have offended chimps. You can't win.

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