732 Quotes About Tmt

High altitude workers are typically recruited from all over the world and relocated to the remote astronomical observatory area. The downside to this is that it isolates them from their existing friends and family.

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.

I started showing depression symptoms shortly after my very high altitude coworker stated that they were experiencing gender issues.

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.

There was no history of mental illness in my family for people in their thirties, so it was very surprising when I developed it.

The closer you get to the Sun, the higher the levels of radiation become.

The closer you get to the Sun, the lower your blood oxygen levels go.

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.

When I was hired from Europe to work atop Mauna Kea, I had no idea how sacred the mountain was to the Hawaiians. Today, I am ashamed that I worked at the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO).