(sippin_bourbon- yes, no cooking with diesel residue. tangentially, what sorta taste does lava impart to meat?)

It is because Americans know who is in the right. If the Space Force has an accident and spills some chemicals, it should be punished by banishment. It is only fair.

Of course, when the ugly racist thugs intentionally and illegally blockaded the road for the astronomers, they were not punished but rewarded, which is only fair, so I change my answer:

It is because Americans know who is in the right. It is always the ugly racist thugs. The white man is always in the wrong. Obama suggested that it was in the genes. Didn’t you see the movie Little Big Man? It explained it all. Skip the book, because it has a different, less racist message.

john hare wrote: “One day for a loader and two trucks if hauling within 25 miles or so.”

Except that those Hawaiian mountains take a while to go up and down, so it may take more trucks and personnel. Depending upon the width of the trucks, they may have to have one-way traffic on the road while the trucks are traveling.

pzatchok: This facility has zero to do with NASA, or astronomy. It is a Space Force base (formerly Air Force) specifically doing tracking of orbiting space objects, for defense reasons. It has never been NASA’s job to do this, and never should be.

You might want to click on the links sometimes and read the stories before commenting.

Why even ask? I realized that the US government slush funds everything when I found out the US forestry service in some way handled refueling the Shuttle Carrier craft.

Robert,

I tend to want to de-fund ingrates and let them live with the full consequences of their mal-actions. I speak rhetorically as much as literally in this case. I guarantee you that given a choice between getting their way and losing Uncle Sugar and his golden checkbook, Kākoʻo Haleakalā would fold like a cheap lawnchair. I always see screeds like this as a tantrum by some group looking for a payout. “Please pay me so I will stop calling you the white devil for a while…”

Sometimes, I just want the dog to catch the car and be the example, even when I really don’t want the dog to get smushed. A Schrodignernarian conundrum.

Or just use it in the parking lot where vegetation isn’t supposed to grow anyway. You know, the area that normally has oil based asphalt by the truckload.

Some don’t see it that way, and I suggest they come in two camps:
1) not a grounded perspective on what 700 gallons is, and what diesel fuel is, and
2) extortionists looking for the next chance to make a buck provided (1) above is sufficiently prevalent.

Almost as much incompetence and lack of human decency as serving chicken and waffles on first day of Black History Month.

“New York school, food vendor apologize for serving chicken and waffles on first day of Black History Month”
https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1622165671856455686

Mmmmmmm… chicken and waffles…. ~(_8^(I)

M Puckett: Why is it now always the first reaction of Americans to run away? It infuriates me.

For astronomers, going to Chile is an utter defeat, because it then blinds them from doing any observations in the northern hemisphere.

We must always stay and fight these ugly racist thugs. There is no other option, because they will only follow us if we run from them, and they will do it having been empowered by us by our fear of them.