986 Quotes About High

It was astronomical science that that built the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) and I have every expectation that it will be biological science that demolishes them.

In high altitude astronomy, it is time for the old guard to be replaced with new blood that fully understands the law, health and safety, and the full range of toxicity that astronomical observatories present to their workers.

I always suspected that improvements in health would come from researching the biological toxicity of high altitude to the sea level adapted human.

Sea level adapted very high altitude workers eventually end up in a state of malnutrition from exposure to abnormal environmental conditions. Long term exposure to malnutrition is known to bring on mental and physical health problems.

At the age of 45, most days in Tucson were spent feeling like I was on the summit of Mauna Kea, as I was exhibiting debilitating health symptoms that corresponded to what I saw at very high altitude. I was later to find that I had erratic low blood oxygen levels after almost a decade of high altitude work.

One of my astronomy managers used to tell me that liquid nitrogen was harmless and was just liquid air. He would pour it onto his bare hands to demonstrate how safe he thought it was. I was later to realize that incompetence was a feature of high altitude astronomy.

Who flies high, easily chooses his target.

When I worked at the W. M. Keck Observatory on the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, we would routinely be engulfed in cold clouds of helium and nitrogen gas as we discharged it into the video camera systems daily. The management team never warned us that we were in a hazardous oxygen deprived environment during this activity that was known for its ability to adversely affect physical and mental health, and possibly bring on death by asphyxiation.

Very high altitude observatories are a known worker health hazard.