52 Quotes by Steven Magee about astronomical
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It will be interesting to see how Steven Magee versus the international astronomical community works out.
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There is a lot of willful incompetence in high altitude astronomy that is in the process of coming to light.
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Light and the human is poorly understood by the astronomicalprofession, with many astronomers not understanding which light bulbs they should have in their ownhomes and offices! It is embarrassing that astronomers do not understand the many forms of artificiallighting that they are exposed to every day and how it affects them.
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I consider myself fortunate that I no longer live in the home where I broke a mercury filled astronomical spectral lamp.
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The entire astronomical observatory team were installing a mercury argon spectral lamp (HgAr) during a training session when one of the workers smashed the mercury filled spectral lamp. We continued the training session with a new mercury spectral lamp from stock. A week later I was at the doctors complaining of a variety of health conditions that were classic mercury poisoning.
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My interest in astronomy took me to the premier astronomical observatories in the world before I developed occupational diseases and became disabled at age 45 with mental and physical illnesses.
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The most extreme weather I have experienced was on top of high altitude mountain summits at astronomical observatories.
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Astronomy staff that routinely discharged industrial gas into the indoor environment at high altitudes did not wear oxygen deficiency monitors or protective breathing respirators.
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When discharging industrial gas into the indoor environment in high altitude astronomy, we never wore breathing respirators that fed us oxygenated air at above the legally required 19.5% oxygen levels.
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