Letter: TMT can be site for profound discoveries

I came across a well-written article in the Hawaii Tribune-Herald back in July 2015 by Steve Massey of Paauilo.

According to Massey, there have been a lot of good things that have come out of the work by astronomers working in the observatories on top of Mauna Kea. I was surprised to learn that the old Hawaiians used to go up there to study the stars in a special place called Pu‘u Poliahu. Perhaps those Thirty Meter Telescope protesters are ignorant of what their ancestors used to do up on Mauna Kea. And, I’m sure that those protesters all have cell phones with cameras and internet connections.

My 5-year-old grandson is very interested in astronomy and who knows? He may just be one of those keiki who becomes an astronomer and, as Massey said, makes that “most profound discovery ever made for humankind with the TMT” on top of Mauna Kea.

Al Oshiro

Makiki

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