It always bothered me that one of my friends at the summit of Mauna Kea committed suicide. Many years later I discovered that the very high altitude summit is biologically toxic to sea level adapted humans.

I have every expectation that the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea will be remembered by historians as the biggest disaster to ever hit astronomy.

I had worked at Mauna Kea from the age of 31 to 36. By the time I left, I had developed a wide range of health issues. At the age of 45 my biological systems had collapsed so much that I became disabled by mental and physical illness.

The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea is turning into a fascinating study on how international government corruption willfully damages the health of unsuspecting workers.

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?

The 1.4 billion dollar Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii, must ignore the current and emerging science on High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD) to build to biologically toxic project.

When it come to the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), the workers are far better informed than I was and know the many illness, disease and premature death risks of working at very high altitude that collectively are called High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD).

Any employer that is informing their workers that they may develop ‘Summit Brain’ and directs their employees to use drugs to do their job needs to be shut down.

To build the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea requires a willful ignorance to High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD).