Genetic adaptation processes may be triggered in sea level adapted humans that spend prolonged time at high altitudes.

It was well known to high altitude workers that the high ultraviolet (UV) radiation levels would damage rubber, plastics and paints outdoors at the observatory.

After 6 weeks of the 2019 #WeAreMaunaKea protests, 245595 supported the cause.

It was with the benefit of hindsight that I realized the extensive behavioral issues that I had been documenting in high altitude workers was a known aspect of the biological toxicity of astronomical observatories.

I was trained by senior managers to instruct high altitude workers to discharge large amounts of industrial gas into the indoor environment without respiratory protection and without oxygen deficiency monitors.

La Palma or Hawaii for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT)? Hawaii is far more hazardous for the health and safety of sea level adapted summit workers.

If I were asked ‘Is it safe?’ by a person considering working atop the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, my response would be ‘It is a biologically unsafe workplace for sea level adapted humans.

At the age of 48, my body had become a chemistry experiment that I was constantly changing the composition of the chemicals in it to find beneficial reactions.

Very high altitude workers that have sea level adapted genetics are radiation workers.