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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: 3, Funny) by wonkey_monkey on Monday April 13 2015, @08:06AM
No, you don't get to write it without a hint of irony
Really? The bit where I said "That's the good thing about land. Under it, there's quite a bit more land." didn't strike you as being the least bit non-serious?
and then disclaim it with "just joking."
I didn't say I was joking, per se. I said it doesn't address the issue.
Meaningless pedantry pollutes the discussion.
I'd agree with you if this was a formal meeting of the Imperial Senate, but it's not. It's just a website. Calm down.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 13 2015, @04:39PM
> The bit where I said "That's the good thing about land. Under it, there's quite a bit more land." didn't strike you as being the least bit non-serious?
No it did not. It struck me as entirely serious snark coming from ignorance. The fact that it got +2 insightful and +1 informative suggests that I am not alone, just that 3 moderators didn't get the ignorance part.
> I didn't say I was joking, per se
The pedant's defense, "I didn't literally say what I meant so you can't blame me for what I meant"
I should have guessed that would be the goto response for a pedant-savant.
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Monday April 13 2015, @06:01PM
No it did not. It struck me as entirely serious snark coming from ignorance.
I can't help how it strikes you, unless you want me to start signposting my every use of irony, sarcasm, or just plain silliness.
The pedant's defense, "I didn't literally say what I meant so you can't blame me for what I meant"
I didn't mean anything by anything. There was quite deliberately nothing of meaning or merit in my post.
The summary could have been begun thus:
Unspecified project requires the destruction of five acres of land.
and I could have stopped reading right there and still made the same remarks - without ever having discovered what or where the project was or what impact it was having on those in proximity, for the simple fact that my remarks do not have anything to do with anything in the summary except for six words in isolation (not even that, really - just two, perhaps joined by a proposition. I only quoted more than the final six just to stop it looking so much like a sentence fragment).
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 13 2015, @09:13PM
> my remarks do not have anything to do with anything
That's the best possible interpretation and while you apparently think that's just dandy, it really is nothing more than public masturbation. It makes you feel good and that's all that matters.
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Monday April 13 2015, @10:02PM
That's the best possible interpretation and while you apparently think that's just dandy
It also happens to be the truth. See, I know that because it was my brain that was thinking the thoughts that I was thinking at the time.
it really is nothing more than public masturbation. It makes you feel good and that's all that matters.
I think that applies far more to your posts than mine.
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