Kea Quotes

“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

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“My interest in astronomy has been replaced by my fascination with the biological damage that occurs in very high altitude workers.”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

“Light and the human is poorly understood by the astronomical profession, with many astronomers not understanding which light bulbs they should have in their own homes and offices!”
― Steven Magee

“It is embarrassing that astronomers do not understand the many forms of artificial lighting that they are exposed to every day and how it affects them.”
― Steven Magee

“It is a sad state of affairs that I do not know of any astronomer that fully understands the energy in their own daily environment. Until this changes, Dark Energy will always be a mystery to the astronomical community.”
― Steven Magee

“Astronomers must return to studying environmental radiation for associations to human problems and incorrect environmental conditions. The future of the next generation relies on astronomers obtaining a full understanding of the rapidly changing human environmental conditions and the halting of biologically toxic corporate government policies. The overloading of the electromagnetic environment is one of these disastrous policies that must stop.”
― Steven Magee

“Witnessing the incompetence that was in the utility solar industry and is still present within the industry led me to the belief that the astronomy community must turn its views toward the environment that we are living in.”
― Steven Magee

“I would feel lousy at the Roque De Los Muchachos Observatory in La Palma which was at 7,861 feet, and I would have to take company supplied drugs and oxygen to work at the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) in Hawaii at 13,796 feet. In both cases we would rapidly ascend to the summit in two hours or less from near sea level.”
― Steven Magee

“I developed a panic disorder at the Roque De Los Muchachos Observatory after two years of working there and routinely sleeping atop the high altitude summit.”
― Steven Magee

“When I took a job at the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO), I never knew that I would end up researching its toxicity to the sea level adapted human.”
― Steven Magee

“When I managed the world’s largest telescopes atop Mauna Kea, I never knew that I would end up campaigning for their closure.”
― Steven Magee

“It is truly an honor to be associated with #WeAreMaunaKea.”
― Steven Magee

“High altitude astronomy is a biologically toxic job for sea level adapted humans that has a myriad of long term health issues associated with it.”
― Steven Magee

“When we get down to basics, we find that the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea is nothing more than a corrupt group of scientists trying to build a known biologically toxic project atop a sacred Hawaiian mountain.”
― Steven Magee

“I am coming after you with something that is far more potent than a gun: Scientific Discovery.”
― Steven Magee