<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><span class="gmail-im"><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><font size="4">Good news, it looks like the Thirty Meter Telescope is going to be built after all!!</font><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:1.5"> </span><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-04444-2" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-04444-2</a></blockquote><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></span><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;line-height:1.5;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I noticed that one of the nitwit opponent of the telescope said</span><span style="font-size:large;line-height:1.5"> </span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;line-height:1.5;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">"</span><span style="font-size:large;line-height:1.5">thousands</span><span style="font-size:large;line-height:1.5"> of Hawaiian cultural practitioners have affirmed the sacredness of the entirety of Mauna Kea</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;line-height:1.5;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">" and that conforms with a observation I've made before, although possible in principle in practice I have never seen the word "sacred" or "sanctity" used in support of anything I've agreed with. </span><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="line-height:1.5;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="line-height:1.5;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">John K Clark</span></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="line-height:1.5;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div></div></div></div></div>