01-23-2017, 07:16 AM
The biggest question in my mind is why this revelation has taken five years to be revealed.
My guess (based on nothing) is that the entire mountaintop is home to the mosses, lichens, and other plants described. Is a single one uniquely suited to survival only in the micro-climate at the site of the TMT? Or can they successfully live and grow on the thousands of acres elsewhere around the summit? If they can grow elsewhere, their presence on the north slope was not an issue 5 years ago, and as with so many other points of contention, it's probably not really an issue now.
"Only fear real things, such as minds full of delusions." -Last Aphorisms
My guess (based on nothing) is that the entire mountaintop is home to the mosses, lichens, and other plants described. Is a single one uniquely suited to survival only in the micro-climate at the site of the TMT? Or can they successfully live and grow on the thousands of acres elsewhere around the summit? If they can grow elsewhere, their presence on the north slope was not an issue 5 years ago, and as with so many other points of contention, it's probably not really an issue now.
"Only fear real things, such as minds full of delusions." -Last Aphorisms
“We do this thing not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy.”