387 Quotes About Telescope

High altitude observatories are commonly constructed with few to no windows, meaning that their staff are typically natural light deprived during their work day.

It was normal to drink two pots of coffee during an extreme night shift.

The biggest discoveries of the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) are not going to come from astronomy, they are going to come from understanding Mauna Kea Sickness (MKS) in the sea level adapted workers.

Shine your light so bright, and no one will need a telescope to see you.

Mauna Kea Sickness (MKS) left me appearing alive on the outside and feeling dead on the inside.

When one of the workers suggested they could automate some of the manager’s job with software they could easily develop, they were instructed not to do so.

I had worked at Mauna Kea from the age of 31 to 36. By the time I left, I had developed a wide range of health issues. At the age of 45 my biological systems had collapsed so much that I became disabled by mental and physical illness.

It is important that police officers assigned to Mauna Kea realize that professional astronomers are completely okay with willfully damaging their health to get a known biologically toxic telescope built.

I can prove that the summit of Mauna Kea is unsafe for workers. I have yet to see the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) prove that the very high altitude mountain is safe for workers.