[ExI] Update on the Hawaiian observatory shutdown

[SR Ballard]

I think that you’re making this unnecessarily rude. Having strong religious opinions doesn’t make someone a drooling idiot.

SR Ballard

> On Aug 24, 2019, at 4:44 PM, John Clark via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 4:51 PM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>> 
>> > If they able to shut down the mountain whenever they want, they effectively own it
> 
> Yep, the mob is running the show.
> 
>> > Bringing the right invisible man to indigenous populations was one of  
>> the favorite excuses for colonizing them in the first place.
> 
> The European invisible man is a different invisible man than the invisible man that lives on the mountain, that's a Hawaiian invisible man.
> 
>> > I too want the 30-meter telescope to be built.
> 
> But it will never be built because Aquaman and Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson are just too strong. The astronomers should cut their losses and stop wasting their time on a hopeless cause. 
>  
>>  > I just think this doesn't have to be a zero-sum game.
> 
> But the ignorant dimwits blocking the road would say it is a zero-sum game and they've won and science lost, or at least they would say that if they knew what the term "zero-sum game" meant, which of course they don't.
> 
> John K Clark
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