725 Quotes About Kea

After a decade in high altitude astronomy, I concluded that astronomical observatories atop remote mountains are biologically harmful to sea level adapted humans.

Am I insane or am I just in outer Space?

It is totally nuts to take healthy sixteen year old sea level adapted children to the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea and put them on “Rx Only” prescription medical oxygen for two hours! I really hope that they acclimatize correctly, that they have pulse oximeters and doctors prescriptions to ensure that the medical prescription oxygen is administered correctly and legally.

The summit of Mauna Kea should never have been developed as it is not safe for humans up there. I am now locked into an endless loop of doctors visits for what appears to be classic very high altitude heart, lung & brain damage because I was unfortunate enough to have worked there.

I am the insanity guru.

Future generations are going to look back on this society and correctly assume that insanity was the norm.

It is time to end the insanity that calls itself very high altitude astronomy.

In the area of worker health and safety, the USA is like a third world country.

To build the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea requires a willful ignorance to Mauna Kea Sickness (MKS) by the many people involved with the project.