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Star-Crossed on a Hawaiian Mountaintop
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 2nd, 2015
New York Times: Sometime in the 2020s, when an international consortium completes the Thirty Meter Telescope, the most powerful telescope on the planet, astronomers will gaze from the 14,000-foot summit of Mauna Kea volcano, on the Big Island of Hawaii, out to the edge of the observable universe. Or maybe they won’t. With a militant advocacy not often seen in the Aloha State, a small group of Native Hawaiians and their sympathizers have managed to stall the $1.4 billion project, which was to begin construction...
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Anonymous: Still Trolling After All These Years
Posted by Gizmodo: Adam Clark Estes on May 2nd, 2015
Gizmodo: Yesterday, an environmentalist faction of Anonymous took down a Hawaiian state government website and a site for the Thirty Meter Telescope project, a controversial effort to build the world’s second largest telescope atop Mauna Kea. You’ve probably never heard of Operation Green Rights. But that’s the point. Believe it or not, Anonymous still exists. Through focused groups like Operation Green Rights, the quasi-infamous and purportedly leaderless band of hacktivists is still stirring up shit. They’re...