Giant telescope hits a raw nerve for Hawaiians

• Autores: Michael D. Lemonick
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3017, 2015, pág. 10
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Kea talks about the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project. With a light-collecting mirror nine times the area of the ones on the nearby twin telescopes--currently the world's most powerful--the TMT will revolutionize the search for Earth-like worlds around other stars and peer to the very edge of the visible universe. The TMT may feel like the final straw for a people who have been treated shabbily in the past. Their resources were exploited by Westerners, and then a US-backed coup in 1893 overthrew the Hawaiians' last queen, Lili'uokalani, leading to US annexation of the islands. Given that history, it's perhaps not so surprising that native Hawaiians are rallying against the mountain's largest construction project to date. They also insist that the TMT does not comply with environmental regulations, a charge that forms the basis for the legal challenge to the project.