12-26-2016, 03:09 PM
desecrate the planet or its inhabitants with weapons...Telescopes are the worst possible outcome
Yes, I can certainly understand how protesting a telescope rises to top priority in a world safely protected by $40 billion of ADDITIONAL arms sales in the world by the USA, guns, bombs, missiles, grenades, ammunition, all the things that help me sleep better at night, some sold to countries that instead of fighting, are now cooperating together on building the TMT. We wouldn't want those people to work together, as a way toward understanding each other, then finding out they might have a common interest to explore together. Instead of blowing each other up. It might be too much like spreading the spirit of Aloha around the planet.
"One may pretend knowledge of philosophy more successfully than that of arithmetic." -Last Aphorisms (or how about, one may pretend knowledge with an opinion more successfully than with facts)
Yes, I can certainly understand how protesting a telescope rises to top priority in a world safely protected by $40 billion of ADDITIONAL arms sales in the world by the USA, guns, bombs, missiles, grenades, ammunition, all the things that help me sleep better at night, some sold to countries that instead of fighting, are now cooperating together on building the TMT. We wouldn't want those people to work together, as a way toward understanding each other, then finding out they might have a common interest to explore together. Instead of blowing each other up. It might be too much like spreading the spirit of Aloha around the planet.
"One may pretend knowledge of philosophy more successfully than that of arithmetic." -Last Aphorisms (or how about, one may pretend knowledge with an opinion more successfully than with facts)
"I'm at that stage in life where I stay out of discussions. Even if you say 1+1=5, you're right - have fun." - Keanu Reeves