I’ve included this article because it is short and direct, so this could be a good place to start researching this topic. The two authors of this article are “a Kānaka ʻŌiwi geneticist and black Caribbean and American astrophysicist,” who explain colonization’s role in the TMT proposal and subsequent discussions. “ Fight Against Colonial Science.” The Nation (July 24, 2019). This is not an exhaustive list of resources and I prioritized perspectives I do not normally see represented in most media coverage.įox, Keolu and Chanda Prescod-Weinstein.
Below, you will find a list of some of the resources that I found most helpful in understanding and contextualizing the discussions surrounding the Thirty Meter Telescope.
For this reason, I decided to make this blog post about the resources that informed the episode. The topic of the Thirty Meter Telescope is a complicated one that is rooted in the history of Hawai’i, colonization, and astronomy. But should finding answers in the stars take priority over learning and respecting people and the Earth? The TMT is an exciting prospect for astronomy a telescope of that size could reveal so much about the universe that existing telescopes would never be able to detect. Maunakea is a sacred mountain for many Native Hawaiians and home to endangered species. Protectors of Maunakea halted construction both in physical demonstrations and through the US court system. Over two decades after the US National Academy of Science recommended the construction of an Extremely Large Telescope (TMT's subgenre of ground-based telescopes), the TMT still has not been built. You can find this episode on our website. Together, they are working on an oral history project for the National Air and Space Museum to collect the stories of Native Hawaiian and their perspectives on Maunakea, the proposed site for the TMT.
In this episode, we interview Kalewa Correa, a historian of Hawai’i, and Samantha Thompson, a historian of science and astronomy. This week’s episode, “Hawai’i and the Thirty Meter Telescope," is about the history of Hawai’i and how that sets the stage for the controversy surrounding the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT).
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