128 Quotes About Observatory

There is a lot of willful incompetence in high altitude astronomy that is in the process of coming to light.

Despite being required to work on mercury systems, the management team never sent me on an industry recognized mercury training course and I ended up with nasty mercury poisoning.

I was mercury poisoned at the Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO).

The entire astronomical observatory team were installing a mercury argon spectral lamp (HgAr) during a training session when one of the workers smashed the mercury filled spectral lamp. We continued the training session with a new mercury spectral lamp from stock. A week later I was at the doctors complaining of a variety of health conditions that were classic mercury poisoning.

I suspect that if the long term summit workers of the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) were studied, they would find elevated levels of mental and physical illness, disease and premature death that comes from keeping them in an abnormal state of mal-acclimatization.

The thing that most shocked me about astronomy in the Ivy League was how run down and poorly functioning their telescopes were.

I am the test pilot of High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD).

Since 1996 the W. M. Keck Observatory has been observing what happens to workers that spend their time in and around two massive Faraday cages.

While altitude sickness was disclosed to the astronomy workers, high altitude observatory disease (HAOD) was not disclosed.