Native Hawaiians in support of TMT

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Decommissioning some of the many outdated telescopes atop Maunakea should be a state priority before allowing any others including the TMT's to be built.

Hawaii may have the best place on this planet to study the stars, so why doesn't the Hawaiian people build their own observatories?

If only 13 telescopes can be allowed to operate atop maunakea then why help make a foreign TMT project the last possible telescope?
Large Telescopes may truly be able to provide hundreds of well paying jobs for the Hawaiian communities today and for the hawaiian generations to come. IF they were allowed to manage their own resources, infrastructure, and Mountains summits, jmo

Once again, hawaiians and protectors are not against science or astronomy like some here suggest. So why not allow them the future opportunities to build their own telescope projects atop their mountain, if they so choose? Maybe the hawaiian communties would also be willing to give a million or two a year to the Canadian, or Chinese keiki for educational purposes, jmo.