<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 Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 1:04 PM SR Ballard via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span></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"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>> </span>From the law you quote it seems to me that 'access to the site' does not include sole possession of it or ability to determine the use of it.  Just access.  bill w</div></div></div><div><br></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Are they allowed unfettered access to the insides of the observatories, and the surrounding land?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Not only do the native Hawaiians have <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">unfettered access everybody does, they give public tours of the observatory, or rather they did before the barbarian attack. The astronomers need courage to visit their observatory now and I doubt their insurance would allow public tours anymore because of potential liability claims.</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"><br></span></font></div><font size="4">By the way, protesting telescopes has <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">n</span>ow become <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span>fashionable<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> and apparently looks like fun to a lot of people</span>. In La Palma on the Canary Islands (the distant second best observing site in the northern hemisphere) for the first time protesters <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">have appeared and they </span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">are </span>determined to stop any telescope being built <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">on their mountain too</span>. And so the ignorance plague spreads. </font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">John K Clark</font></span></div>
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