SciShow: TMT: The World’s Most Controversial Telescope

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Content of the Lesson: What exactly is the Thirty Meter Telescope, and why is the proposed location in Hawai'i such a conflict? Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Eric Jensen, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.astro-opticon.org/fp5/skelcase.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/science/thirty-meter-telescopes-costs.html https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/4004/1/Design-concepts-for-the-California-Extremely-Large-Telescope-CELT/10.1117/12.393933.short https://web.archive.org/web/20150925012656/http://www.tmt.org/about-tmt/history# https://www.tmt.org/page/about#our-story-so-far Extremely Large Telescopes http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/A/Aperture https://www.tmt.org/page/about#what-is-tmt https://www.tmt.org/page/science-themes https://www.gmto.org/overview/ https://www.gmto.org/Resources/GMT-ID-01446-GMT_Status_March07a.pdf https://www.eso.org/sci/facilities/eelt/telescope/index.html https://www.eso.org/public/usa/news/eso1018/ Telescopes and Maunakea https://phys.org/news/2009-07-world-largest-telescope-built-hawaii.html http://kahea.org/issues/sacred-summits/sacred-landscape https://dlnr.hawaii.gov/mk/files/2016/10/FEIS-Outrigger-Telescopes-VOL-1.pdf https://dlnr.hawaii.gov/mk/files/2016/10/B-17-d-Mauna-Kea-Anaina-Hou-v.-SOH-et.-al.-Third-Circuit-Court-Civil-No.-04-1-397.pdf https://dlnr.hawaii.gov/mk/files/2016/10/B.01z-Mauna_Kea_Huakahi-trails.pdf https://www.fws.gov/endangered/about/ep_23_2011.html http://www.malamamaunakea.org/management/master-plan https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-103sjres19enr/pdf/BILLS-103sjres19enr.pdf https://www.loc.gov/law/foreign-news/article/united-states-supreme-court-rules-that-u-s-apology-for-overthrowing-hawaiian-monarchy-does-not-affect-hawaii-public-lands/ https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/07/25/u-hawaii-pursues-controversial-thirty-meter-telescope-mauna-kea-and-leading http://files.hawaii.gov/auditor/Reports/1998/98-6.pdf http://kahea.org/issues/sacred-summits/legal-protections https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2009/testimony/HB1174_HD1_TESTIMONY_JUD_02-13-09_.pdf https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9702-judge-reverses-permit-for-new-hawaiian-telescopes/ http://www.maunakeaandtmt.org/get-the-facts/tmt-supporting-environment/environmental-impact-statement/ https://www.tmt.org/download/Document/46/original https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8e15/f97b311e2f83324955a1c9fd674e62002341.pdf http://www.iac.es/eno.php?op1=2&lang=en http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1993SPIE.1931...18A https://www.noao.edu/meetings/2020decadal/files/UpdateTMT-DUMAS-lowres.pdf https://gizmodo.com/a-fight-over-a-sacred-mountaintop-could-shape-the-futur-1789405229 https://apnews.com/363f20ee7712439ab73633df97a8edbd https://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2019/09/05/astronomers-refute-claim-that-canary-islands-comparable-to-mauna-kea-for-tmt/ http://tmtlapalma.org/en/la-palma-current-status-of-the-project/ https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/09/stalled-hawaii-giant-telescope-faces-roadblocks-its-backup-site-canary-islands https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2019/08/06/environmentalists-canary-islands-well-seek-legal-action-stop-tmt-coming-here/ https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2019/08/07/environmentalists-canary-islands-gear-up-fight-against-tmt/ IMAGE SOURCES: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hawaje.jpg https://www.eso.org/public/images/e-elt-night-v1-cc-mz-cc/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Top_view_of_tmt_complex.jpg https://www.nasa.gov/ames/kepler/nasas-kepler-discovers-first-earth-size-planet-in-the-habitable-zone-of-another-star https://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinmgill/14742910940 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13326 https://www.eso.org/public/images/ann18031a/ https://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/media/060915/index.html https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2c/Cassegrain.en.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Johnlstevens.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hawaii_statehood_commemorative_stamp_7c_1959_issue.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nysius_wekiuicola.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/occupyhilo/15489460936 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:David_Ige_2014_Inauguration.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exoplanet_Comparison_TrES-3_b.png


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