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posted by martyb on Sunday April 12 2015, @05:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the looking-for-answers dept.

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.

 
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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by c0lo on Sunday April 12 2015, @09:46PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Sunday April 12 2015, @09:46PM (#169432) Journal

    I suspect this place never did have any significance to Hawaiian natives. Nor was it sacred in any way.

    Isn't Wikipedia a nice and quick place to reach for the basic info? One click away: [wikipedia.org]

    The summits of the five volcanoes of Hawaii are revered as sacred mountains; and Mauna Kea's summit, being the highest, is one of the most sacred. For this reason, a kapu (ancient Hawaiian law) restricted visitor rights to high-ranking tribal chiefs. Hawaiians associated elements of their natural environment with particular deities. In Hawaiian mythology, the sky father Wākea marries the earth mother Papa, giving birth to the Hawaiian Islands. In many of these genealogical myths, Mauna Kea is portrayed as the pair's first-born son. The summit of Mauna Kea was seen as the "region of the gods", a place where benevolent spirits reside. Poliʻahu, deity of snow, also resides there.[40] In Hawaiian, Mauna Kea means "white mountain",[13] a reference to its summit, which is usually snow-capped in winter.[43] The mountain is also known as Mauna o Wākea ("Mountain of [the deity] Wākea").

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  • (Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 12 2015, @10:22PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 12 2015, @10:22PM (#169446)

    > Isn't Wikipedia a nice and quick place to reach for the basic info? One click away:

    Reality doesn't matter to frojack.
    Reality has a well-known liberal bias and he can't have the correctness of his thoughts polluted with liberal bias.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 12 2015, @10:57PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 12 2015, @10:57PM (#169455)

      Reality has a well-known liberal bias and he can't have the correctness of his thoughts polluted with liberal bias.

      I really fail to get the difference between "well-known liberal bias" and the plain just-"liberal bias" (perhaps because I ceased paying attention to what exactly the "liberal" term means).

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 12 2015, @11:24PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 12 2015, @11:24PM (#169460)

        Google the phrase.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 13 2015, @03:26AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 13 2015, @03:26AM (#169530)

        Reality has a "liberal bias" because nothing in reality goes along with any viewpoint or policy put forth by conservatives; nothing, literally nothing they do, think, or push for is supported by anything in reality, but rather than accept the facts, they claim its a giant conspiracy working against them.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 13 2015, @09:09AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 13 2015, @09:09AM (#169601)

          nothing, literally nothing they do, think, or push for is supported by anything in reality

          Given that Republicans support what they do, think or push for, I therefore conclude that Republicans are not anything in reality. While it is nice to know that Republicans don't actually exist, I wonder then who currently holds the congress that allegedly is held by Republicans.