The insatiable quest for knowledge is far greater than the quest for worker health and safety.

I got far more than I expected when I worked in high altitude astronomy.

I consider myself fortunate that I spent three years working at 7,775 feet before spending five years working at 13,796 feet on the summit of Mauna Kea. I can only wonder how much more severe my long term very high altitude sickness could have been without the initial adaptation to the lower altitude.

The summit of Mauna Kea was definitely a place where it was better to be a hard to replace skilled engineer than an easy to replace technician. It was my experience that once you had developed Mauna Kea Sickness that the management team would blatantly harass you out of your job using nasty inhumane human resources techniques.

Smart people do not damage the health of law enforcement officers.

If your priority is to work with world leading professional astronomers, Mauna Kea Observatories is a great place to work. If health is your priority, you should avoid Mauna Kea Observatories like the plague!

It is important that the masses understand the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea is a known biologically toxic project that can only function by willfully damaging its workers health.

Professional astronomy wrecked my career and health.

You are playing Russian roulette with your health by working at the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) in Hawaii.