08-07-2023, 06:26 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-07-2023, 06:43 PM by Olohana 1790.)
common sense 101
the higher you are the clearer/cleaner the air is between the telescope and the stars... the light pollution is only a part of it...
fyi the lame spot they picked in the Canary Island is actually lower than saddle road is....
TMT on Maunakeah will be 600' feet below the summit on the backside when looking from Hilo, iow you won't be able to see it formany home on the island..
most protests protest with hands outstretched. they always have here.... always looking for FREE kine compensation.
ie if you give ea one of these Tahiti-2nd kine-pseudoHawaiians a $1K..... they would look the other way and do the daily ie go hunting/fishing or roaching solar panels/batteries and generators
fwiw why didn't these same clowns PROTEST haole mainlander Larry Ellison buying Lanai a few yrs back???
and asking/forcing Kamehameha Schools to use only 4% of their $13,000,000,000.00+ holdings to buy the island outright.
King Dave (Kalakaua) loved telescopes,
the yr he was elected, he had 5 of them set up in Honolulu in late 1874 for the Transit of Venus.... and after visiting SF Bay Area saw the Lick Observatory near San Jose... which is the world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory............... nearly 150 yrs old now...
and he was going to build and even larger one on a mountain here in Hawaii, but died soon after...
***if you want to see the 5 Kalakaua telescopes..
here is a Jan 1875 engraving of the event, with an early' KAPU' sign, and a few early kine TMT protesters and cops too, hanging out at the gate of the fort
https://www.ebay.com/itm/295694153120
the higher you are the clearer/cleaner the air is between the telescope and the stars... the light pollution is only a part of it...
fyi the lame spot they picked in the Canary Island is actually lower than saddle road is....
TMT on Maunakeah will be 600' feet below the summit on the backside when looking from Hilo, iow you won't be able to see it formany home on the island..
most protests protest with hands outstretched. they always have here.... always looking for FREE kine compensation.
ie if you give ea one of these Tahiti-2nd kine-pseudoHawaiians a $1K..... they would look the other way and do the daily ie go hunting/fishing or roaching solar panels/batteries and generators
fwiw why didn't these same clowns PROTEST haole mainlander Larry Ellison buying Lanai a few yrs back???
and asking/forcing Kamehameha Schools to use only 4% of their $13,000,000,000.00+ holdings to buy the island outright.
King Dave (Kalakaua) loved telescopes,
the yr he was elected, he had 5 of them set up in Honolulu in late 1874 for the Transit of Venus.... and after visiting SF Bay Area saw the Lick Observatory near San Jose... which is the world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory............... nearly 150 yrs old now...
and he was going to build and even larger one on a mountain here in Hawaii, but died soon after...
***if you want to see the 5 Kalakaua telescopes..
here is a Jan 1875 engraving of the event, with an early' KAPU' sign, and a few early kine TMT protesters and cops too, hanging out at the gate of the fort
https://www.ebay.com/itm/295694153120