07-26-2016, 06:11 AM
PaulW, you make a good point if all costs and benefits came from only the almighty american dollar.
How much of our future generation's resources( electricity, water, infrastructure, and land ) were going to be needed or used to build, operate, and maintain the TMT telescope?
What kind of changes, sacrifice's, rules, and law's were going to be forced on many of our resident's and generation's to come by allowing the TMT to be built atop Mauna kea?
Would that money you speak of as benefits pay for the possible environmental impacts that may come with building a project as large as the TMT? Especially in such a sensitive, sacred, and rare environment as the summit of Mauna kea?
If the TMT project's building or operating equipment brought something like the "ROD" to the land, water, or people of Mauna Kea would those American dollars still be worth it to you?
How much of our future generation's resources( electricity, water, infrastructure, and land ) were going to be needed or used to build, operate, and maintain the TMT telescope?
What kind of changes, sacrifice's, rules, and law's were going to be forced on many of our resident's and generation's to come by allowing the TMT to be built atop Mauna kea?
Would that money you speak of as benefits pay for the possible environmental impacts that may come with building a project as large as the TMT? Especially in such a sensitive, sacred, and rare environment as the summit of Mauna kea?
If the TMT project's building or operating equipment brought something like the "ROD" to the land, water, or people of Mauna Kea would those American dollars still be worth it to you?