TMT - Contested Case Hearing Status - Hilo

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

I just want to clarify this. Astronomers are by far and away the minority amongst observatory staff.

Thanks TomK, I always forget about the support staff required. My experience with observatories is quite limited, two on Haleakala back in the '90's. The workers there were by and large scientists, who seemed to speak mainly in mathematical and physics equations, except in the lunchroom. At least whenever I would catch a conversation between them. Otherwise there were only two guards in the entryway in the building at the summit.

The ancillary facility outside of Kahului, however was where most of the support staff worked, in a building probably ten times the size of the observatory itself. That tends to slip my mind as I never needed to go into that part of the operation.

Thanks for the reminder, and pointing out the importance of non-astronomers and non-scientists who work in many fields other than the scientific at the observatories here in Hawaii.

(It's) what the existentialists called "awful freedom" the reinvention of irrationality by marginalized people, just in order to spite science. -Elif Batuman