“Moral bankruptcy occurs when development supersedes the cultural practices of a great nation of people.” MoralDevelopmentAstronomyOshaAltitudeMaunaKeaTmtTelescopeBankruptcy Author:Steven Magee
“I was saddened at the loss of my invisible friend, as I had spent so much time with them.” AstronomyInvisibleOshaAltitudeMaunaKeaTmtFriendTelescopeSaddened Author:Steven Magee
“I hope that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) have communicated to Hawaii law enforcement the wide range of health and safety issues that will arise by stationing sea level adapted law enforcement officers at the 13,796 feet high biologically toxic summit of Mauna Kea.” LawAstronomyOshaAltitudeMaunaKeaTmtEnforcementTelescopeCommunicated Author:Steven Magee
“I have been impressed at how well the Hawaiians have mastered the art of civil disobedience.” AstronomyOshaAltitudeMaunaKeaTmtTelescopeDisobedienceCivilMastered Author:Steven Magee
“It was with the benefit of hindsight that I realized high altitude astronomy was the most toxic employer I ever worked for.” AstronomyOshaAltitudeMaunaKeaToxicTmtTelescopeHindsightBenefit Author:Steven Magee
“When I worked at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, the management team were always saying that everyone was part of the ohana (family). When I got sick and needed essential surgery, they outcast me from the ohana. I concluded that the company ohana was a sham.” FamilyAstronomyOshaAltitudeMaunaKeaTmtTelescopeKeckOhana Author:Steven Magee
“Think of a globe, a revolving globe on a stand. Think of a contour globe, whose mountain ranges cast shadows, whose continents rise in bas-relief above the oceans. But then: think of how it really is. These heights are just suggested; they’re there….when I think of walking across a continent I think of all the neighborhood hills, the tiny grades up which children drag their sleds. It is all so sculptured, three-dimensional, casting a shadow. What if you had an enormous globe that was so huge it showed roads and houses- a geological survey globe, a quarter of a mile to an inch- of the whole world, and the ocean floor! Looking at it, you would know what had to be left out: the free-standing sculptural arrangement of furniture in rooms, the jumble of broken rocks in the creek bed, tools in a box, labyrinthine ocean liners, the shape of snapdragons, walrus. Where is the one thing you care about in earth, the molding of one face? The relief globe couldn’t begin to show trees, between whose overlapping boughs birds raise broods, or the furrows in bark, where whole creatures, creatures easily visible, live our their lives and call it world enough. What do I make of all this texture? What does it mean about the kind of world in which I have been set down? The texture of the world, its filigree and scrollwork, means that there is a possibility for beauty here, a beauty inexhaustible in its complexity, which opens to my knock, which answers in me a call I do not remember calling, and which trains me to the wild and extravagant nature of the spirit I seek.” SpiritualityNatureLandscapeBeauty In NatureGlobe Book:PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK
“Never abuse a scientist.” ScientistAbuseAstronomyOshaAltitudeMaunaKeaTmtTelescopeNever Author:Steven Magee
“Now that the biologically toxic Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) have shut down, the law states they should stay closed to prevent astronomers from willfully damaging their summit workers health.” AstronomyOshaAltitudeMaunaKeaToxicTmtTelescopeDownShut Author:Steven Magee
“There needs to be a comprehensive study into high altitude astronomy workers to understand why some of them are developing gender issues.” IssuesGenderAstronomyOshaAltitudeMaunaKeaTmtTelescopeComprehensive Author:Steven Magee