Tmt Quotes

“40% less oxygen and high radiation levels can do strange things to sea level adapted humans.”
― Steven Magee

“After a decade in high altitude astronomy, I concluded that astronomical observatories atop remote mountains are biologically harmful to sea level adapted humans.”
― Steven Magee

“The excellent book ‘Going Higher. Oxygen, Man, And Mountains.’ should be compulsory reading for all high altitude workers.”
― Steven Magee

“It is well known to altitude researchers that the sea level adapted human should avoid spending time above 4,900 feet and should never venture above 10,000 feet.”
― Steven Magee

“Bags of chips (crisps) when taken to the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea would commonly explode.”
― Steven Magee

“Empty plastic water bottles at near seal level would become pressurized by the time we reached the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea and empty plastic water bottles at the summit would become crushed by the time we were near sea level.”
― Steven Magee

“The longer I worked in high altitude astronomy, the sicker I became.”
― Steven Magee

“The engineering mountain managers went to the summit of Mauna Kea two to three days per week, whereas the technicians went there four days per week. It was apparent to me that the technicians were sicker than the engineers.”
― Steven Magee

“It was clear to me that upper management and astronomers were adverse to going to very high altitude observatories.”
― Steven Magee

“Astronomers rarely visit the summit of Mauna Kea. They sit in near sea level offices and obtain their astronomical data remotely using very high altitude workers on the summit of the mountain to control the telescope and computers.”
― Steven Magee

“The big difference that I see between mountain climbers and observatory workers is that mountain climbers may venture from sea level to very high altitude several times a year, whereas some observatory workers do it approximately two hundred times per year.”
― Steven Magee

“After a decade of working in high altitude astronomy the medical profession discovered that I had high cholesterol, a hole in my heart, heart arrhythmia's, erratic low blood oxygen levels, small airways disease of the lungs, asthma, allergies, and various brain issues including amnesia, absence seizures and sleep disorders. High cholesterol, sleep disorders, heart, lung and brain problems appear to be long term known adverse health aspects of high altitude work and unnatural electromagnetic radiation exposures.”
― Steven Magee

“I came to the belief that Mauna Kea was indeed sacred because all the visions that I had on the mountain were of Hawaiians.”
― Steven Magee

“I have great respect for Hawaiians and their unique culture.”
― Steven Magee

“Abnormal radiation exposure and oxygen starvation teaches you that reality is just a perception that is derived from your immediate environmental conditions in conjunction with your prior environmental exposures, your health problems, your age, and the area that you grew up in and adapted to.”
― Steven Magee

“Promoted to the public as the latest generation facility, the 1.4 billion dollar Thirty Meter Telescope project is a continuation of environmental human biological problems that I observed on the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii, USA.”
― Steven Magee

“I worked on Mauna Kea for over five years and saw my health severely degrade during that time. The two long term summit workers that I knew well died of disease conditions, another worker went on to commit suicide, and others were argumentative.”
― Steven Magee

“Astronomers know the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) are biologically toxic to their workers health, but do not inform the new hires of it, other than they may get altitude sickness and direct them to use the company supplied drugs to offset that sickness. They know that workers are inappropriately acclimatizing on a daily basis, which further aggravates the altitude sickness symptoms.”
― Steven Magee

“The insatiable quest for knowledge is far greater than the quest for worker health and safety.”
― Steven Magee

“If a company is advising workers to take drugs to perform their job, they probably should not be working there.”
― Steven Magee

“Am I mentally ill or am I just a mad scientist?”
― Steven Magee

“There was a serious shortage of oxygen administration equipment for treating ‘Summit Brain’ in the workers at the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) in Hawaii.”
― Steven Magee

“The greatest scientific achievement of the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) in Hawaii is the medical diagnosis and treatment of High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD) in their sickened summit workers.”
― Steven Magee

“It is through sickening experiences that I concluded that high altitude astronomy is hazardous to sea level adapted workers.”
― Steven Magee

“I have no recollection of seeing books on high altitude diseases at remote astronomical observatories atop mountain peaks.”
― Steven Magee

“My interest in astronomy has been replaced by my fascination with the biological damage that occurs in very high altitude workers.”
― Steven Magee

“Hallucinations are a known aspect of working at very high altitudes.”
― Steven Magee

“Progress in the science of High Altitude Diseases (HAD) has been lost due to the professional astronomy cover-up of their sickened observatory workers.”
― Steven Magee

“Seven weeks after the start of the We Are Mauna Kea protests in 2019, a quarter of a million people had objected to the development of the sacred Hawaiian mountain.”
― Steven Magee

“I am among the world’s leading experts on High Altitude Diseases (HAD) and my research clearly shows that the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) on the island of Hawaii need to be demolished to protect the health and safety of the summit workers.”
― Steven Magee