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mike_c

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5. I've yet to hear any compelling argument against building the TMT except...
Thu Jun 25, 2015, 04:55 PM
Jun 2015

...superstitious gobbledegook about angering the mountain. The environmental protection arguments are mostly specious and pasted on afterwards to justify knee jerk opposition-- the site is already developed and the impact of one more observatory is minimal, while the scientific gain is potentially enormous (and the engineering advances will be epic).

It's the twenty first century. Rational people understand that topography doesn't experience emotion. Mountains don't get angry or sad.

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