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Thirty Meter Telescope Likely Never Gets Built ... In Hawaii
An anonymous reader writes: After years of its backers of doing everything the state of Hawaii demanded in order to get permission to build the Thirty Meter Telescope, a state judge today ordered that the whole process should start over again. Since this order was instigated by the protesters, and that it appears the government favors those protesters, it appears that there is no chance TMT will ever get approval to build in Hawaii. We've been following the back and forth, back and forth story of this telescope for a while.
Yeah. Sucks when the chickens come home to roost. Totalitarian leftist shakedowns are only supposed to be used against them. Elite fellow travelers, party members, and people who parrot the slogans are supposed to be beyond the reach of the chaos.
Forget about Astronomy. It isn't being declared counter-revolutionary, yet. But the field doesn't have the diversity to continue much longer in the new order. Go with gender and ethnic studies. You don't need a telescope for that.