Native Hawaiians in support of TMT

[Eric1600]

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Originally posted by dakine
What's so wrong in insisting that we clean up our mess before we start playing more games? Really man, enough is enough. The heavens can wait, they aren't going anywhere, whatever we see there today we'll see tomorrow and there are plenty of technological wonders to awe us all.

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First off, what specific "mess" are you cleaning up by stopping the TMT?

Secondly, had we chose to "just wait" for astronomy we would not have discovered many of the planet wide processes that we understand today that impact our lives, like global warming. Or that wiped out the dinosaurs. There's no game to play here. Nothing has helped raise global awareness more than humans who see how vast the universe is and how precious and unique our planet is. Were you not around when Hubble's first clear images were made public? The TMT is 13x more powerful. Nothing we can invent here on Earth comes close to rivaling the massive and awesome things that await us to see out there.

If you're going to be against a telescope, please don't bother with the Earth First argument because it's easy to demonstrate how our new knowledge of the universe has shaped our lives and will continue to do so.