732 Quotes About Tmt

Lung testing has shown that I have an above average lung volume which is consistent with a decade of high altitude work.

High altitude astronomy is a very unprofessional profession.

Given that workers compensation is denying high altitude worker claims for occupational disease, it is common sense to never work in the biologically toxic field of astronomical observatories atop remote mountain summits.

Mauna Kea summit workers are kept in a state of mal-acclimatization, as they are never fully acclimatized to near sea level or to the very high altitude mountain summit.

Bags of chips (crisps) when taken to the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea would commonly explode.

The longer I worked in high altitude astronomy, the sicker I became.

The engineering mountain managers went to the summit of Mauna Kea two to three days per week, whereas the technicians went there four days per week. It was apparent to me that the technicians were sicker than the engineers.

Astronomers rarely visit the summit of Mauna Kea. They sit in near sea level offices and obtain their astronomical data remotely using very high altitude workers on the summit of the mountain to control the telescope and computers.

The big difference that I see between mountain climbers and observatory workers is that mountain climbers may venture from sea level to very high altitude several times a year, whereas some observatory workers do it approximately two hundred times per year.