{"quotes":[{"text":"When I saw how many people were objecting to the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope atop Mauna Kea, I realized that there needed to be an open and honest discussion about the toxicity of the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit and the health and safety issues of astronomical observatories.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["altitude","astronomy","construction","health","kea","mauna","osha","safety","telescope","toxic"],"id":1326,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"During my five years on Mauna Kea, workers routinely displayed the symptoms of Cerebral Hypoxia.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["cerebral","dol","hypoxia","kea","mauna","osha","safe","safety","sick","sickness","sickness-and-diseases","sickness-and-health","sickness-of-the-mind","symptom","symptomatic","symptomological","symptoms","symptoms-of-anger","worker","worker-rights","workers"],"id":15060,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"When I worked at the W. M. Keck Observatory on the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, we would routinely be engulfed in cold clouds of helium and nitrogen gas as we discharged it into the video camera systems daily. The management team never warned us that we were in a hazardous oxygen deprived environment during this activity that was known for its ability to adversely affect physical and mental health, and possibly bring on death by asphyxiation.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["activity","adversely","affect","altitude","asphyxiation","camera","clouds","cold","daily","death","deprived","discharged","engulfed","environment","gas","hawaii","hazardous","health","helium","high","kea","keck","liquid","management","mauna","mental","nitrogen","observatory","oxygen","physical","summit","systems","team","very","video","warned"],"id":50117,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Working on the summit of Mauna Kea was comparable to working on the hospital pulmonary ward with sick people sucking on oxygen cylinders.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["astronomy","astrophysics","comparable","cylinders","hospital","kea","lung","mauna","mountain","mountaineering","observatory","oxygen","people","pulmonary","sick","sucking","ward","working"],"id":60770,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"At the W.M. Keck Observatory on the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, there was no routine monitoring of mental functioning, blood oxygen levels, blood pressure or heart rate of workers.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["altitude","astrobiology","astronomer","astronomical","astronomy","astrophysics","astrosociobiology","blood","functioning","hawaii","heart","high","kea","keck","mauna","mental","monitoring","observatory","osha","oxygen","pressure","routine","summit","very","workers"],"id":96278,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"One of the biggest lies that is currently being told in the USA workplace is on the legally required OSHA poster: All workers have the right to a safe workplace.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["altitude","astrobiology","astronomer","astronomical","astronomy","astrophysics","health","kea","legal","legally","lie","lies","mauna","mountain","observatory","osha","poster","right","rights","safe","safety","solar","solar-energy","solar-power","solar-pv","solar-system","solar-systems","telescope","usa","work","workers","workplace"],"id":104774,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"The summit of Mauna Kea was definitely a place where it was better to be a hard to replace skilled engineer than an easy to replace technician. It was my experience that once you had developed Mauna Kea Sickness that the management team would blatantly harass you out of your job using nasty inhumane human resources techniques.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["better","blatantly","definitely","developed","engineer","experience","harass","human","job","kea","management","mauna","nasty","place","replace","resources","sickness","skilled","summit","team","technician","techniques"],"id":120320,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Based on the medical evidence that clearly states that being above 10,000 feet is hazardous to the health of sea level adapted humans, it is clear that all of the manned facilities on top of the 13,796 feet Mauna Kea summit in Hawaii should be removed and the summit restored back to its native environment.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["adapted","environment","evidence","facilities","feet","hawaii","hazardous","health","humans","kea","level","manned","mauna","medical","native","removed","restored","sea","summit","top"],"id":152114,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"The scandal with the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea is how it managed to obtain a construction permit to build a manned telescope in a known biologically toxic environment to workers. How many more people need to die, get injured or develop long term very high altitude sickness that will last a lifetime?","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["altitude","atop","biologically","build","construction","develop","die","environment","high","injured","kea","known","last","lifetime","long","managed","manned","mauna","meter","obtain","people","permit","scandal","sickness","telescope","term","thirty","tmt","toxic","very","workers"],"id":166978,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"When I was instructed to use medical oxygen to do my job at the W. M. Keck Observatory from 2001 to 2006, I was never told about the legal health information that is now posted on oxygen cylinders. My memories of the green medical oxygen cylinders that we would use daily is that they had no information on them and we were never given a recognised legal oxygen administration training course for routine daily use or a medical prescription from a doctor. We were shown the three oxygen cylinders at the facility and told to use them whenever we developed headaches, which was multiple times daily. It was common to find all three oxygen cylinders in use by other very high altitude workers and to have to line up to get a turn on the magical medical gas.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["administration","altitude","cdc","course","cylinders","daily","developed","facility","fda","gas","green","headaches","health","high","information","instructed","job","kea","keck","legal","line","magical","mauna","medical","memories","multiple","observatory","osha","oxygen","posted","prescription","recognized","routine","training","turn","up","use","very","workers"],"id":214823,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}