http://www.courts.state.hi.us/docs/opin_ord/… I just wanted to provide this link to the Supreme Court of Hawaii’s ‘concurring opinion’ (if not already done so in this discussion.) It accompanied but goes much deeper into the issues than the ‘majority opinion’ which basically just dealt with the technical issue of…

Some suggest the TMT be considered a temple of ‘noble spiritual pursuits.’ Too bad a ‘noble’ project of such size and scope inevitably does no small damage to the environment, something actually quite averse to spiritual basics. Anyway, what the TMT seeks to find will be what the Chilean telescopes will have already…