Slashdot Mirror
Hawaii Approves Telescope On Volcano Sacred To Indigenous People (reuters.com)
A new $1.4 billion telescope will be built atop a Hawaiian volcano indigenous people consider sacred. The team of scientists fighting for the telescope won approval from Hawaiian officials on Thursday after selecting the site and applying to build there in 2009. Reuters reports: The Hawaii Board of Land and Natural Resources voted 5-2 to allow construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on the summit of Mauna Kea on Hawaii's Big Island, state officials said in a statement. Astronomers consider the summit one of the world's best places to view the cosmos, while Native Hawaiians say the project would disturb holy ground crucial to their connection with ancestors and the heavens. A consortium of scientists initially received construction permits from state officials in 2011. In 2015, the Hawaii Supreme Court voided that decision, saying officials did not follow the proper procedures for a "contested case hearing." That forced the state board to re-evaluate the proposal with more input from opponents. The project calls for building one of the world's largest telescopes atop the dormant volcano.
Ancient corpses are only used in building the support arms for the secondary mirror; the primary mirror is entirely corpse free.
All we want to do is eat your brains.
All religions are bullshit and no rational person should put up with any of them!
And yet after hundreds of years, scientists have been unable to prove religion is bullshit. Science is based on facts, and not the opinions of scientists.
Did somebody make a Hoffa they can't refuse?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Pastafarians are at the other end of the alimentary canal from bullshit.
Have you been touched by his noodly appendage?
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Their so-called 'native religion' is nothing but a pathetic hoax
I wholeheartedly agree! A hoax like all religions!
The tricky part is that there really isn't a good way to differentiate. A Pastafarian is every bit as legitimate as a traditional Christian or a fundamentalist one, or Muslim or Hindu, or Jain and so on Nowhere is it written that a god cannot have a sense of humor.
In the Name of the Pasta, and of the Sauce, and of the Holy Meatballs, R'Amen.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.