<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">I think that you’re making this unnecessarily rude. Having strong religious opinions doesn’t make someone a drooling idiot.<br><br><div>SR Ballard</div><div><br>On Aug 24, 2019, at 4:44 PM, John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><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 Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 4:51 PM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i>
<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>If they able to shut down the mountain whenever they want, they effectively own it</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Yep, the mob is running the show.</font></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"><i>
<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Bringing the right invisible man to indigenous populations was one of <br>
the favorite excuses for colonizing them in the first place.</i><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="4">The European </font></font><font size="4">invisible man is a different invisible man than the invisible man that lives on the mountain, that's a Hawaiian invisible man.</font></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"><i> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>I too want the 30-meter telescope to be built.</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">But it will never be built because Aquaman and Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson are just too strong. The astronomers should cut their losses and stop wasting their time on a hopeless cause. </font></div></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"> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span><i>I just think this doesn't have to be a zero-sum game.</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">But t</font></font><font size="4">he ignorant dimwits blocking the road would say it is a zero-sum game and they've won and science lost, or at least they would say that if they knew what the term "zero-sum game" meant, which of course they don't.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">John K Clark</span></font></div><br>
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