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LAUPAHOEHOE, Hawaii – The first of four highly anticipated TMT & Maunakea: Common Ground talks was held Tuesday night in Lauphaoehoe. The meetings are being organized by the Hilo-Hamakua Community Development Corporation. The organization is hoping to bring the community together on the highly divisive issue. Both sides of the argument – for and against building the $1.4 billion project on Mauna Kea – were represented.
Paul Coleman was the second speaker Tuesday night. Coleman is an astrophysicist for the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. He now finds himself at the forefront of the current debate over astronomy on Mauna Kea, as a Native Hawaiian voice in support of the science at the summit. He recently appeared on the PBS Island Insights program, defending the project before a state-wide audience. His talk focused on how TMT will advance his field beyond our imaginations.
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…finally an intelligent and sane voice on this matter….
I thought they were suppose to find common ground. So far this is only two parties trying to emphasize their own beliefs.
Yeah you know he intelligent when you sleeping half way through the video. I guess he’s really intelligent for warning viewers they will end up sleeping.
My ohana and I attended this meeting. At the end of Mr. Coleman’s presentation, he was given 5 questions to answer. 3 of the questions we sent went unanswered. Although, they read my question, his answer was off the topic. We did approach him after the meeting and asked to speak with him,still no answer. My grand daughter who’s in the10th grade was told that she should attend the next meeting, to get her answer. smh
What was the question?
Pose the questions here.
You can’t assume or expect people to answer a question if they don’t know enough about the question to provide a sensible response.
Not exactly.
One side is based in belief, the other in science, which is not a system of belief.
Beliefs are, by their very natures, highly subjective. Beliefs are based on expectations and any “experiment” conducted intends to GET a fairly particular result, not to allow the result to simply reveal what is, regardless of expectations.
Science, for all its own shortcomings, seeks to let results speak for themselves whereas beliefs try to speak for the results.
They need to get Neil DeGrasse Tyson to do a preso on this subject.