387 Quotes About Telescope

Unlike what you may be told in other sectors of life, when observing the universe, size does matter, which often leads to polite ‘telescope envy’ at gatherings of amateur astronomers.

It always bothered me that one of my friends at the summit of Mauna Kea committed suicide. Many years later I discovered that the very high altitude summit is biologically toxic to sea level adapted humans.

When dealing with mysterious sickness, I advise people to look at what their coworkers were dying from for clues. My coworkers were were dying from suicide, gastrointestinal disease, heart disease and brain disease.

Out of a group of eight extreme night shift workers, I was aware of four workers who appeared to be displaying symptoms of depression. That is fifty percent of the team. That number may be higher if you include those that were already on successful depression treatment and were not publicly showing the symptoms.

When I worked at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, the management team were always saying that everyone was part of the ohana (family). When I got sick and needed essential surgery, they outcast me from the ohana. I concluded that the company ohana was a sham.

1.4 billion dollars can buy 1.4 million teachers $1,000 of classroom supplies, 14 million free computers for students, or 1 biologically toxic telescope atop the sacred mountain of Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

Deciding to spit in the eye of every homely matron who ever warned her children not to stare into the sun directly, you crank the titanic telescope around to look directly towards the sun, the center of our solar system.

Researching the toxicity of high altitude astronomy led me to the conclude that it is primarily driven by astronomical greed.

Every time I look up at the huge telescopes atop the sacred mountain of Mauna Kea, I am reminded of what astronomical greed looks like.