{"quotes":[{"text":"At the age of 46 I was starting to see the appearance of rainbow halos and starbursts around bright nighttime lights, problems reading small print, focusing issues with my eyes, and image recognition issues. I had been exposed to bright high powered 20 watt scattered sodium LASER light a decade earlier in very high altitude astronomy.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["age","altitude","appearance","astronomy","bright","decade","earlier","exposed","eyes","focusing","halos","high","image","issues","laser","light","lights","night","nightime","observatory","powered","print","problems","rainbow","reading","recognition","scattered","see","small","sodium","starbursts","starting","time","very"],"id":43230,"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":"When the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) found out that Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) were going to visit the site to assist in bringing it into legal compliance, they freaked out! They insisted that the visit had to be canceled and the result was that I eventually became so sick from the toxic workplace environment that I had no option but to leave.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["administration","assist","astrobiology","astronomer","astronomical","astronomy","astrophysics","astrosociobiology","canceled","compliance","environment","eventually","freaked","health","insisted","leave","legal","national","noao","observatory","occupational","optical","option","osha","out","result","safety","sick","site","toxic","visit","workplace"],"id":122479,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"There is a lot of willful incompetence in high altitude astronomy that is in the process of coming to light.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["altitude","astrobiology","astronomer","astronomical","astronomy","astronomy-nerd","astrosociobiology","coming","high","incompetence","light","light","lot","observatory","process","very","willful"],"id":151372,"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"},{"text":"When I worked in astronomy, I routinely observed young college and university students working with liquid nitrogen and breathing nitrogen gas as they discharged it into the indoor environment at high altitude.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["altitude","astrobiology","astronomer","astronomical","astronomy","astrophysics","astrosociobiology","breathing","college","discharged","environment","gas","high","indoor","liquid","nitrogen","observatory","observed","students","university","working","young"],"id":259564,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Astronomy staff that routinely discharged industrial gas into the indoor environment at high altitudes did not wear oxygen deficiency monitors or protective breathing respirators.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["altitude","astrobiology","astronomer","astronomical","astronomy","astrophysics","breathing","deficiency","discharged","environment","gas","high","indoor","industrial","monitors","observatory","oxygen","protective","respirators","routinely","staff","very","wear"],"id":273293,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}