On Wednesday, March 16, 2016 at 4:59:29 PM UTC-7, Quadibloc wrote:
On Wednesday, March 16, 2016 at 3:45:59 PM UTC-6, RichA wrote:

Ask the natives exactly HOW a telescope is going to make their FICTIONAL gods
angry? Are they always against learning new things? Reminds me of the Star
Trek ep. where the albinos were kept in ignorant fear of "Val."

Not all the Hawai'ians are in agreement on this. Many welcome the telescope.

As it happens, they _own_ the mountain, so that changes the issue a bit.

But basically the idea is that the mountain is sacred, and thus building
permanent structures on it is inappropriate.

As if another telescope would make any difference. There are already (9) optical/infrared and (4) submillimeter/radio telescopes there. Perhaps it will come down, somehow, to money...