When I saw how many people were objecting to the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope atop Mauna Kea, I realized that there needed to be an open and honest discussion about the toxicity of the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit and the health and safety issues of astronomical observatories.

Don’t you just hate it when you are about to start construction on the 1.3 billion dollar world’s largest telescope when a highly experienced scientist publicly states that the project is biologically toxic to the workers.

Over 275,000 people had signed to end the construction of the TMT telescope at the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) by week 20 of the protest.

The scandal with the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea is how it managed to obtain a construction permit to build a manned telescope in a known biologically toxic environment to workers. How many more people need to die, get injured or develop long term very high altitude sickness that will last a lifetime?

Building the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea confirms that astronomers have committed to willfully damaging their future workers health in order to obtain tainted astronomical data, which is illegal under USA law.

It is my expectation that a wide range of construction workers will lose their long term health to High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD) from working on the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project atop Mauna Kea.

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