Mauna Kea Telescope Construction Slated To Resume

After an earlier halt to the work of constructing the "world's most advanced and powerful telescope" (and subsequent loss of support from an organization acting on behalf of native Hawaiians,) the Thirty Meter Telescope is again in "on again" mode. From the Associated Press article as carried by U.S. News & World Report: The Mauna Kea site provides a clear view of the sky for 300 days a year, with little air and light pollution. The telescope project was developed as a collaboration between U.S. and Canada universities and the national institutes of Japan, China and India. Gov. David Ige in April said the Thirty Meter Telescope board is legally entitled to "use its discretion to proceed with construction." He said he respected the rights of protesters to appeal in court.

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Re: Nothing that money can't buy

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They don't even represent the majority of natives, since they are not organized in a simple hierarchical way (unlike continental Native American tribes).

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

In just one of the local Pomo rancherias, there are three families continually vying for control of the band — see, the local "tribe" was actually made up of multiple "bands" (these are white people words, of course) which inhabit various reasons around the lake. One of the bands recently attained power and proceeded to remove a bunch of people from the rolls of who is a member of the tribe, basically declaring they're not Pomos any more. Now they're just people with no people. Naturally, they did it because the band only gets so much money from the feds, and a portion of that money is split however many ways.

If you think that native americans have/had simple hierarchies, you are way beyond deluded. Almost as deluded as the dumbfuck who decided we should have to wait five minutes between comments again, because they think it will improve comment quality. But it won't; the comments we care most about are those in which we're most emotionally invested, so the comment quality will always decrease when you do this. What a bunch of fucking idiots.