<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Giovanni Santostasi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gsantostasi@gmail.com" target="_blank">gsantostasi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">John, <div>Can I post your comment on Scientific Transhumanism FB group (of course with due credit). </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Certainly.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">John K Clark </div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/scientific.transhumanism/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/scientific.transhumanism/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Giovanni </div><img src="http://t.sidekickopen30.com/e1t/o/5/f18dQhb0S7ks8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9gXrN7sKj6v4LR3dW8qSMPY7dKPKPW7fRYjz2zlZNzW5CvrmQ1k1H6H0?si=6537132302139392&pi=a80238fc-917b-4cbc-8922-b1724f341601" style="display:none!important" height="1" width="1"></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 3:16 PM, John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><font size="4">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">,</div> but<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> 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 today the Hawaiian Supreme Court rescinded 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">its</div> construction permit<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">; </div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">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"> the place</div> <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">is not really a</div> mountain <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">but </div>is "Wao Akua," the realm of the <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">G</div>ods where the Earth Mother met the Sky Father<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">,</div> <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">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">So in the fight between cosmology and </div>Wao Akua<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> the law decreed that </div>Wao Akua<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> and ignorance is more important than Science and knowledge. The Republican presidential candidates should be pleased. </div></font><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"><br></font></div></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"> John K Clark </font></div></div></div>
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