TMT permitting process about to begin anew
The retired Hawaiian judge who will supervise the new permitting process for the Thirty Meter Telescope held a prelminary meeting on Monday to discuss scheduling and procedual matters.
The Hawaiian authorities have been slow-walking this new permiting process, which the telescope already completed according to law years ago. I say TMT should just leave Hawaii so its citizens can enjoy their barren mountain and the lack of jobs and wealth it will bring them.
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The retired Hawaiian judge who will supervise the new permitting process for the Thirty Meter Telescope held a prelminary meeting on Monday to discuss scheduling and procedual matters.
The Hawaiian authorities have been slow-walking this new permiting process, which the telescope already completed according to law years ago. I say TMT should just leave Hawaii so its citizens can enjoy their barren mountain and the lack of jobs and wealth it will bring them.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
I think the TMT people should continue with the Hawaiian charade while working to strike a better deal elsewhere. If, say, India comes through with a rational arrangement to host TMT in the foothills of the Hindu Kush, then that’s where TMT should go – after all suitable dry-eyed apologies are made to the Hawaiians about being unable to come to a suitable and/or timely agreement to build TMT there.
As Groucho Marx once sang:
I’ll do anything you say!
I’ll even stay!
But I must be going.
Dick Eagleson;
Most appropriate cultural reference!
“Hello, I Must Be Going”
https://youtu.be/_YrNQaXdOxU
Wayne,
We aims to please.
Never pass up a golden opportunity to quote the immortal Groucho.
Change the name to the “Trump Massive Telescope,” and then make the Albanian’s pay for it.
(“The telescope just got 1 meter bigger….”)
In all seriousness however–totally agree with Dick.
–Go through the motions in Hawaii while they cement the deal with India, then completely vanish in the middle of the night. Leave the hipsters to occupy an access road to nowhere.