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The construction of the 18-story, $1.4 billion Thirty-Meter Telescope atop the Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii has been temporarily halted due to protests.
The campaign has garnered celebrity support and participants across the world:
Supporters of the project point out that there are already 13 telescopes built within that conservation zone. But none are as large as the latest planned structure, dubbed the Thirty-Meter Telescope, which would require the destruction of five acres of land.
The Honolulu-born Game of Thrones star Jason Momoa posted pictures on Instagram and Twitter using the hashtag #WeAreMaunaKea, That and the hashtag #ProtectMaunaKea have seen big jumps in use this week. San Francisco Giants' pitcher Madison Bumgarner, Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger and Momoa's on-screen spouse, Emilia Clarke, and real-life partner, Lisa Bonet, also got involved.
Momoa's Instagram account is currently dedicated to the issue with a link to an online petition pasted as his status. The Instagram account @ProtectMaunakea also hosts pictures of hundreds of people who have posted signs in support of the conservation efforts. Organisers protested off social media as well by holding a worldwide sign waving with participants from Hawaii, Alaska, New York City, Las Vegas, Kentucky, Arizona, Tahiti and Tonga.
The Thirty-Meter Telecope's web site also has coverage.
(Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 12 2015, @09:08PM
> I suspect this place never did have any significance to Hawaiian natives. Nor was it sacred in any way.
Of course you would suspect that.
Here's something you can learn to better understand the world. Any gut-level ideas you have about how human culture works, flip them 180 degrees in order to come to the correct conclusion.
That's not a joke and while your callous dismissiveness of any human endeavour that you don't have direct personal experience of is profoundly irritating, my irritation does not cloud my analysis. I was the same way as you when I was a teenager, it took me a decade of questioning why I was so frequently wrong to figure out that my aspie tendencies made my social intuition not just useless, but actively misleading.
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by frojack on Sunday April 12 2015, @09:29PM
my irritation does not cloud my analysis.
Then I can only assign your total self loathing and continual deference to imaginary ancient sacred sites to innate gullibility.
A million dollars to the lead protester's favorite (and captured) "charity" makes this whole thing go away. Then what of your racist pandering?
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 12 2015, @09:47PM
> A million dollars to the lead protester's favorite (and captured) "charity" makes this whole thing go away. Then what of your racist pandering?
See, that's exactly what I mean about trusting your gut. All your hypothetical scenario proves is that you pick stories that rationalize your own social incompetence.
I tried to give you insight into yourself. You won't have it. Maybe I should just stick to insulting you because at least you understand that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 12 2015, @10:36PM
It is odd that the fact you were wrong, as proven by c0lo's post upthread, hasn't given you any pause for self-reflection at all. If calling them liars fabricating outrage for money isn't racist pandering then I don't know what is.
Are you doing that thing where you've been accused of something so often that you think its a generic and meaningless insult so you use it on anyone who criticizes you?