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With access to summit blocked, telescope operators abandon Mauna Kea summit
The directors of existing telescopes at the summit of Mauna Kea evacuated their employees Tuesday as a growing protest against the construction of TMT blocked access to the mountain.
Jessica Dempsey, the deputy director for the East Asian Observatory, said the organizations that run the observatories made a "joint decision" to withdraw all employees as a safety precaution. [...] The telescopes, Dempsey said, have millions of dollars of instrumentation that need constant maintenance. "This is a risk for us to have to step away at this point," she said. "This is not a decision we came to lightly, but want to emphasize the importance of safety for our staffs and the facilities."
Protesters at Mauna Kea welcomed the news Tuesday, with an eruption of cheers and hugs.
'Stolen lands': dozens arrested as Hawaiians protest $1.4bn telescope
Dozens of people have been arrested on Hawaii's Big Island this week after hundreds of protesters stood, lay and even chained themselves to structures in an effort to stop the construction of a billion-dollar space observatory at the summit of Hawaii's tallest mountain.
[...] [Organizer Kahoʻokahi] Kanuha and fellow protesters have vowed to continue fighting the telescope until construction is halted, and plan to continue peaceful protests. On Wednesday an estimated 1,000 demonstrators turned up at the site, with police issuing citations to 33 people.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 19 2019, @04:06PM
Funny how creationists like you (and let's make one thing clear: you ARE a creationist; you're not fooling anyone) always try to instill uncertainty and doubt about the scientific method by trying to sound all rational and sciency themselves, making ample use of false dichotomies and logical falacies to try to drive their point. It cracks me up even more when they try to picture science in a bad light by liking it to religious absolutism (false equivalence) when we all know full well that what's making them push their own agenda is precisely the same religious (christian, to be more precise) absolutism.
But what sadens me is that they're doing all of this knowingly and on purpose, demonstrating the fact that they have no morals whatsoever. People with ethics don't need to be told that the delibarate use of misinformation, doubt, uncertainty, and fear to push a goal is inherently unethical, regardless of how "noble" said goal is percieved to be. After all, Al-Qaeda terrorists are also absolutely convinced that their goal is noble, and also believe that the end justifies the means, any means.
See ? I can make use of false equivalence too. :) But is it really ? ...
It is ironic that some christians, who claim to be the champions of morality, demonstrate by their actions that they have in fact no morals whatsoever.