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From: Robert Tucker <castleb@aloha.net>
Sent: Tuesday,July 23, 2019 7:45 PM
To: Council Testimony
Subject: Re: Resolution regarding the TMT
I support the construction of the TMT.
I find the Maunakea observatories, TMT included, to be spectacularly beautiful
and high art. I mean this both in their individual form and design and in the
context of their location on the mountain top and in their intention.
For my purposes in life I have long considered a simple definition of art itself
as anything executed to an advanced degree. Art can be found in painting,
dance, architecture, music, language, performance, science and any human
endeavor.
I suggest that an inked pattern on taps, the shape of a Corvette, the lines of a
canoe, the moai of Rapa Nui and the magnificent observatories all share
something in common which should be appreciated and encouraged. They are
all the manifestations of the creative spirit of man.
The observatories remind me of Rapa Nui. Someone there got an idea and
enlisted the whole island for generations. At huge expense and labor they
constructed the moai and lined them up looking at the horizon.... looking for
what we can't be sure. Now our horizon is deep space... and in scientific
inquiry we can't be sure what we are looking for either.
Do not make a resolution which does not support the TMT.
Rob Tucker
Pahoa
808-987-5987
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