11-29-2017, 06:22 AM
A TMT hearing was held in Hilo last year so everyone could voice their concerns, opposition, objections, or support for the planned observatory. Any issue that pertained to Mauna Kea was stated, and restated, and re-restated for months. All of the testimony was recorded, compiled and investigated. A report was issued which addressed every claim, and that report was also published so anyone who wished to, could read the findings.
Here it is:
https://dlnr.hawaii.gov/mk/files/2017/09...FCOLDO.pdf
Should someone wish to find out for instance whether the TMT will interfer with Hawaiian religious practices, it's in there. If anybody would like to check whether the summit of Mauna Kea was a center for ancient Hawaiian religious practices, it's in there.
Now, one thing I learned from the hearings and its subsequent report, is that no matter how many times a misconception was repeated, it didn't make it any more true. If for example ten people alleged a zero emissions observatory would pollute the water table, the claim was looked into by researchers. Investigators studied whether zero emissions could result in the pollution of the Mauna Kea water table, and found it wasn't possible. So now, anyone can read about that in the report and discover what's really true. If they want.
If they don't wish to find out whether old information linked around the internet is incorrect, but would rather keep repeating and rehashing and reposting false claims and other miscellaneous lies, they end up looking a lot like that kid you knew in 4th grade, the one nobody would play with during recess because when you tried to show him how to swing the bat so he might actually hit the ball once in awhile, he just plugged both index fingers deep into his ears, while humming and emitting feral guttural sounds as he stomped his feet.
Yeah, you remember, that kid.
He's middle age now, and still can't hit the ball.
“Facts fall from the poetic observer as ripe seeds.” -Henry Thoreau
Here it is:
https://dlnr.hawaii.gov/mk/files/2017/09...FCOLDO.pdf
Should someone wish to find out for instance whether the TMT will interfer with Hawaiian religious practices, it's in there. If anybody would like to check whether the summit of Mauna Kea was a center for ancient Hawaiian religious practices, it's in there.
Now, one thing I learned from the hearings and its subsequent report, is that no matter how many times a misconception was repeated, it didn't make it any more true. If for example ten people alleged a zero emissions observatory would pollute the water table, the claim was looked into by researchers. Investigators studied whether zero emissions could result in the pollution of the Mauna Kea water table, and found it wasn't possible. So now, anyone can read about that in the report and discover what's really true. If they want.
If they don't wish to find out whether old information linked around the internet is incorrect, but would rather keep repeating and rehashing and reposting false claims and other miscellaneous lies, they end up looking a lot like that kid you knew in 4th grade, the one nobody would play with during recess because when you tried to show him how to swing the bat so he might actually hit the ball once in awhile, he just plugged both index fingers deep into his ears, while humming and emitting feral guttural sounds as he stomped his feet.
Yeah, you remember, that kid.
He's middle age now, and still can't hit the ball.
“Facts fall from the poetic observer as ripe seeds.” -Henry Thoreau
“We do this thing not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy.”