Comments on: Hawaii governor extends halt to construction of telescope

By: PeterF

PeterF — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 13:41:17 +0000

If I had a say in the development, I would cut my losses and lay off all the workers. So sad Governor but that “jobs” program was obviously not as important as political correctness. 1.2 Billion would go a long way to converting the current land based telescope design into a space based instrument. or maybe even a lunar instrument if they can wait?

By: Edward

Edward — Sun, 12 Apr 2015 22:57:17 +0000

In reply to Cotour. If the site were so sacred or if their religious rights were being trampled upon, the site would have been rejected in the first place. The religion would have won the fight during the site location phase. Robert is almost certainly correct. In the real world, it is when the funds start flowing, when workers are sitting around getting paid to do nothing, that extortion tactics work best. Extortionists posing as environmentalists may have invented the tactic about four decades ago.

By: Cotour

Cotour — Sun, 12 Apr 2015 17:14:49 +0000

Are the Hawaiians religious freedoms and beliefs being trampled upon? Are they being forced by the state and the moneyed powers that be to tolerate a giant crown of technology to be built on top of their sacred religious site?

This will be interesting to see if even more money or favor on another area of concern can “adjust” the religious beliefs of the Hawaiians. And if that does not happen where will this end up, in a dead end for one of the prime research sites on the planet?

And if their beliefs can be adjusted what will that say about such things and how government deals with it in the future?