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Culture embraces the occult instead of science with TMT

I don’t understand the anti-science attitude pervading society. Sure, science makes you think of geeks, but think about it. Many people in the future will be working for those whom we now call geeks. And you say most hard science involves some math knowledge (and everyone knows math is hard). But then, if you pay attention in school, then math and science ain’t that hard.

In Maui, where I live, rather than science, the culture embraces the occult: magic crystals, horoscopes, astral aura massages, sacred volcanoes, etc. But science seems to be a no-no. Take for example the TMT, the Thirty Meter Telescope.

More and more college-age people from the various islands (and many from that land of nuts and berries, California) are showing up to protest the building of the TMT on Mauna Kea mountain where there are already a couple of observatories.

They should be rejoicing how the TMT will bring some bucks into the economy and give the school (University of Hawaii) running the telescope some prestige around the world. A billion and a half dollars to spend on construction. The island can use the money.

Besides which, the First Amendment is supposed to protect the rest of us from the religious views of a few protesters who say the mountain is “sacred.”

Lee Orsbun

Kihei

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