It is time. We need to speak up in support of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) now.
There are two easy ways to do this:
1) Please take this very quick, five-question OHA survey. It will literally only take you a minute or two.
2) In addition to the survey, we all need to speak up and tell OHA that we support the TMT. We cannot be afraid or intimidated to testify. There’s been too much of that, and there is too much at stake not to speak up.
Please email the OHA trustees before their meeting this Thursday, 4/30/15, and let them know, in your own words, that you support the TMT.
For your convenience, here are their email addresses:
robertl@oha.org, colettem@oha.org, petera@oha.org, reynoldf@oha.org, rowenaa@oha.org, crayna@oha.org, hulul@oha.org, dana@oha.org, leia@oha.org
For your own information, here is some good background about the TMT. The first offers clear, accurate, and easy-to-understand questions and answers about the TMT, and the second is a timeline showing the entire TMT process from 2008 to today:
I just read that OHA has very timidly pulled their support for the TMT. What this means to me is that all of the money the TMT has allocated for OHA AND the Hawaiian programs should be cancelled. The fact is, the issue isn’t with the telescopes, it has just become a proxy battle against the United States. Unfortunately in America we have a saying, money talks and bullshit walks. There are 1.4 billion reasons for the telescopes and very few reasons against.