<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 11:38 AM Dan TheBookMan <<a href="mailto:danust2012@gmail.com">danust2012@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:large"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>></span>They have already delayed by 4 years what would have been the largest optical telescope in the world, and now after they lost in court and astronomers tried to resume construction they acted illegally and not only stopped all new construction they shut down 13 of the most important telescopes in the world that were telling us fascinating things about the universe.</span></blockquote><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div></div></div></div><div><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>The analogy is a little stretched here since the protestors are not, say, seeking to wipe out knowledge or scholarship.</i></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">They are not just seeking they have already successfully delayed our finding out new things about the universe, thanks to them the Thirty Meter Telescope has already been delayed by 4 years and now, despite a recent favorable court ruling, it will almost certainly be canceled entirely. I just hope the mob someday allows the 13 existing telescopes at the most important observatory in the world to resume operation, but even that is far from certain. </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4">Where is the anger (and yes righteous anger) that any civilized person should feel at these horrible developments? I don't see it. And that's not good, </font><span style="font-size:large">I find it downright frightening that even on the Extropian List for reasons I can't even pretend to understand most feel a moral obligation to make excuses for obvious barbaric behavior. It just doesn't bode well for the future of Civilization.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><span style="font-size:large"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><span style="font-size:large"> John K Clark</span></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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