725 Quotes About Kea

I am one of the most dangerous people to global astronomy.

I regard putting a sea level adapted human into a car and driving them to the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea on a daily basis to be a form of workplace abuse.

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.

For me, the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project became this experiment: Can a damaged Mauna Kea worker accumulate enough scientific knowledge to show that the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) need to be demolished by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)?

When I reflect on how astronomy management teams collectively damaged my health, I concluded that they were able to do so because the corporate government facilitated it.

When I saw how many people were objecting to the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope atop Mauna Kea, I realized that there needed to be an open and honest discussion about the toxicity of the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit and the health and safety issues of astronomical observatories.

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.

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.

If you are looking for a career that may induce a myriad of health conditions into you, I can recommend working at the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii, USA.