When I look up at the astronomical observatories atop Mauna Kea, I am reminded of the astronomy scoundrels that gave me High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD).

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

It is important that the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) workers realize that if they develop High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD) that it is highly unlikely that they will get disability or workers compensation payments for occupational disease.

The full effects of High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD) take decades to show up.

High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD) is like a ticking time bomb that explodes many years later.

As an employee, you should realize that having the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) on your resume may alert future employers that you may have High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD) and they may not hire you.

The inconvenient truth of Mauna Kea astronomy is High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD).

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.

During my time in high altitude astronomy, I routinely witnessed workers breathing medical oxygen, industrial carbon dioxide, nitrogen and helium gas as part of their daily work routine.