[ExI] Update on the Hawaiian observatory shutdown

[William Flynn Wallace]

Why rant and rave and call names anyway?  In the history of mankind it has
never helped anyone and stresses the author of it.   Has it ever helped
your mashed thumb?  There are better ways to express strong opinions. Find
who is responsible and hunt them down and kill them.  bill w

On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 8:31 PM SR Ballard via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> 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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