Hawaii is irrelevant in space

[TomK]

And... "Hawaii is irrelevant in space".  Wasn't that already universally understood? I mean, we can't even allow telescopes to look at "space" without people protesting... because ancestors... that navigated by the stars.

I was thinking along the same lines; the MK ground-based observatories certainly make more contributions to ground-based astronomy than any other ground-based site. I guess it comes down to the definition of space. Maybe "aerospace" would be a better word but even then Hawaii is not irrelevant. However, the current problem of getting high-tech space-based companies and organizations to successfully invest in Hawaii is an issue.