<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 1:59 PM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"></blockquote><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>Is this the design for the telescope a  hideous eyesore?</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">No.</font></div></div><div> </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>Does it spew toxic waste?</blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">No</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span><i>This I don't understand.</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I think maybe I do. Wielding power can be fun and the Hawaiian protesters proved that a very small handful of average people who have no special skills or insights can totally derail a mighty 1.5 billion dollar telescope and plunge a lot of non-average people with fancy booklearing degrees into despair. That's a lot of power and some people in the Canary Islands were playing close attention to how it all unfolded, and after that ... well... monkey see monkey do.</font></font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">  </font></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"><font size="4">John K Clark</font></div></div></div>