05-26-2024, 07:38 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-26-2024, 08:28 PM by HereOnThePrimalEdge.)
There's no reason to attack a bunch of telescopes.
There are facilities that specifically track missiles. Early warning sites in Alaska and Canada. NORAD, Cheyenne Mountain. There are missile silos that contain nukes. Military bases with offensive and defensive weapons. These are all more likely targets than observatories.
Kahului Airport is probably a more likely target than Haleakala, as a means to isolate the island if nothing else. But I don’t see Protectors lining up to shut down the terminal and runways because it might be a target if a foreign military attacks. How else would Protectors get to Hilo to protest the TMT, and claim that because it uses adaptive optics and lasers it’s somehow a military base? So hundreds of people can camp on Mauna Kea and point fingers at a handful of observatory technicians for polluting the water table.
There are facilities that specifically track missiles. Early warning sites in Alaska and Canada. NORAD, Cheyenne Mountain. There are missile silos that contain nukes. Military bases with offensive and defensive weapons. These are all more likely targets than observatories.
Kahului Airport is probably a more likely target than Haleakala, as a means to isolate the island if nothing else. But I don’t see Protectors lining up to shut down the terminal and runways because it might be a target if a foreign military attacks. How else would Protectors get to Hilo to protest the TMT, and claim that because it uses adaptive optics and lasers it’s somehow a military base? So hundreds of people can camp on Mauna Kea and point fingers at a handful of observatory technicians for polluting the water table.