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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 4, 2015, at 12:52 PM, William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" class="">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 2:16 PM, John Clark <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><font size="4" class="">The Thirty Meter Telescope on top of Mauna Kea would have been by far the largest telescope in the world<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline" class="">,</div> but<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline" class=""> now it looks like it will never be built because</div> today the Hawaiian Supreme Court rescinded <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline" class="">its</div> construction permit<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline" class="">; </div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline" class="">they think </div>it would offend the religious sensibilities of the native Hawaiians who believe<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline" class=""> the place</div> <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline" class="">is not really a</div> mountain <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline" class="">but </div>is "Wao Akua," the realm of the <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline" class="">G</div>ods where the Earth Mother met the Sky Father<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline" class="">,</div> <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline" class="">or some such crapola. The court decreed that building an instrument that would teach us more about the universe would somehow defile the sacredness of the place. </div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline" class="">So in the fight between cosmology and </div>Wao Akua<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline" class=""> the law decreed that </div>Wao Akua<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline" class=""> and ignorance is more important than Science and knowledge. The Republican presidential candidates should be pleased. </div></font><div class=""><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline" class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div></div><div class=""><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline" class=""><font size="4" class=""> John K Clark </font></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; font-size: small; display: inline;">Are you surprised? Nah. Supersensitivity seems catching now, doesn't it? <br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; font-size: small; display: inline;">But it's not just the religious people. It started with horses, then boats, then planes - the world moved in on nearly everyone on earth and disrupted their lives in many 'good' ways (our music, soft drinks, meds, etc.) but also threatened cultures thousands of years old with change. This is part of the Islam problem.<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; font-size: small; display: inline;">When threat appears, fear rules first and logic and morality disappear like a knee jerk response. Yeah, this is just good common sense and not esoteric psychology, and but every time it happens people seem surprised that conservatives don't give it up and join the modern world (never mind learning probability and diagnosing the real threat from terrorists!).<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; font-size: small; display: inline;">bill w</div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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