[ExI] Update on the Hawaiian observatory shutdown

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 2:58 PM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:


>  The astronomers most certainly need to leverage the
> support of the 44% of native Hawaiians who are in favor of the TMT
> against the 48% that oppose it. That's just a 4% margin and easily
> within the sway of clever PR and marketing.


### I am not sure about the "easily" part.

Going against passionate and hateful ethnics is not easy, unless you can
nuke them from orbit. But, short of that, we good people should organize
into a political pressure group, The Friends of Science, with a direct
action arm called The Friends of Scientists. Hulking grad students,
casually swinging their baseball bats, should accompany scientists as they
walk through enemy lines to man (or woman) the telescopes. Make it into a
show of force, don't pick fights but finish them.

Political success relies on PR and heavy boots, stomping on faces.

Rafal
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