07-26-2025, 10:14 PM
Interesting article..
A Cosmic Mystery: Is China Building the World’s Biggest Telescope?
Not all that (directly) Hawaii related.. but towards the end it states..
Kirshner (head of TMT) got a reprieve in mid-July. A Senate spending committee recommended minimal cuts to the NSF, and said it supported both the Magellan project and Kirshner’s Thirty Meter Telescope.
So.. one wonders.. is the Mauna/TMT project as dead as earlier statements from the NSF suggested?
A Cosmic Mystery: Is China Building the World’s Biggest Telescope?
Not all that (directly) Hawaii related.. but towards the end it states..
Kirshner (head of TMT) got a reprieve in mid-July. A Senate spending committee recommended minimal cuts to the NSF, and said it supported both the Magellan project and Kirshner’s Thirty Meter Telescope.
So.. one wonders.. is the Mauna/TMT project as dead as earlier statements from the NSF suggested?