732 Quotes About Tmt

Empty plastic water bottles at near seal level would become pressurized by the time we reached the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea and empty plastic water bottles at the summit would become crushed by the time we were near sea level.

The science clearly states that it is impossible not to damage the long term health of a sea level adapted human that spends its life going from near sea level up to very high altitude on a daily basis.

The era of professional astronomers keeping their workers in the dark about the toxicity of their high altitude observatories is over.

We did not receive any industry recognized training in extreme night shift work and correct sleep recovery when working nights atop the 13,797’ Mauna Kea mountain. My personal observations showed that sufficient daytime sleep recovery could not be achieved during the extremely long winter night shifts.

If you really want to mess someone up, you sleep deprive them.

If you want to make a healthy person become sickly, you sleep deprive them.

The most stimulants I have taken in life were during my extreme night shifts to keep me awake.

I moved from the day shift to the extreme night shift because I knew that they had a better acclimatization of a few hours at 9,200 feet, as opposed to the ridiculous half hour at 9,200 feet for the day shift. There was only one acclimatization from near sea level to 9,200 feet per week for the night shift workers, as they lived on the mountain for the duration of their shifts.

I would run down like a battery during several extreme night shifts atop the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii.