MAUNAKEA, Hawaiʻi - The University of Hawaiʻi is working on the termination of the CSO sublease, and is preparing for the removal of the Hōkū Keʻa teaching telescope. A synthesized voice was utilized in the narration for this story.
it does provide a great eye to the stars however there are cultural problems as well as legal problems. legal problems that have been situated for over 40 years by the way.
removal of a few isnt s etting us back to anything we are looking at setting more deep space satelites anyway , and there will be less and less Need for land based telescopes = You REALLY Need to Learn What Change is Before you speak
Stupid move all the way around on both sides. I lived i Hilo and I know it always comes down to the money. The only thing more asinine is the California high speed rail, and yes, I live in Cali and it to just a giant waste of taxpayer money.
It's ridiculous Hawaiians can't see these telescopes as sacred as well but instead of one of the best locations for knowledge and astronomy on earth we are going to have a bare mountain. Religion has no place dictating where science can be done.
how are the telescopes sacred but our cultural aspects are not? ironic isn't it? it isn't religion that is dictating the aspects of the mountain. it's the legal situations, the pollution and the fact of the burials as well as cultural rights which isn't soley on religion so stop the science vs religion/ science vs culture nonsense. it's the people of hawai'i against desecration against our archaeological locations and land.
Unfortunately most of the people commenting on this video don't have a clue or care about what is sacred to the native Hawaiians. And yes Mauna Kea is sacred to Hawaiians as well other Polynesian islanders. Aloha A'ina💚
Back in the 1990s there wasn't a word about it being too sacred for building telescopes. Go look it up, never became sacred until paid outside agitators came here and stirred people up that they weren't getting any jobs from the deal. Which was bogus, many of the operators offered scholarships to locals to earn degrees in needed fields of expertise. It's about money.
@MountainFisher YOU look it up! There has been and will always be activists protesting foreign involvement in and on Hawaiian SINCE DAY ONE! Just because the media chooses not to broadcast it doesn't mean their voices weren't heard. They protested Kaneohe Bay with the same fervor, but that didn't make the news.
