Facilities Quotes

“Do you have any idea how mad you sound?’
‘Indeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considered the question of my sanity.’ (...)
‘And?’
‘Then I consider what a piece of work is man. How defective in reason, how mean his facilities, how ugly in form and movement, in action how like a devil, in apprehension how like a cow. The beauty of the world? The paragon of animals? To me the quintessence of dust.”
― Paul Hoffman, The Last Four Things

“Astronomical facilities are generally located in or near to the tropics.”
― Steven Magee

“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.”
― Steven Magee, Health Forensics

“In high altitude astronomical facilities we routinely discharged large amounts of nitrogen gas into closed spaces. We were never informed by the astronomy management team about the abnormally low oxygen environments that the use of liquid nitrogen creates, how long term exposure to it manifests itself in human health and the resulting abnormal mental behaviors.”
― Steven Magee

“My memories of my time in high altitude astronomy indicate that there were no oxygen concentration monitors or alarms in the areas that liquid nitrogen was in use at the high altitude astronomical facilities where I had worked.”
― Steven Magee

“This fits in with what I saw in staff in astronomical facilities and was reporting to the management team: 10-14% Oxygen: Emotional upset, abnormal fatigue, disturbed respiration.”
― Steven Magee

“It is a really bad idea to harass a worker that can shut your toxic facilities down.”
― Steven Magee

“The astronomers at the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) have built some of the most biologically toxic facilities that a sea level adapted human can work in.”
― Steven Magee

“When sending your children to an Ivy League school, you must remember that some schools prevent Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) from visiting their training and research facilities.”
― Steven Magee

“Manua Kea's summit astronomical facilities were run by incompetents for the benefit of incompetents.”
― Steven Magee

“I have no recollection of seeing a mercury vapor detector at facilities where mercury was in use.”
― Steven Magee

“Prolonged exposure to high altitude facilities made me go increasingly insane.”
― Steven Magee

“The collapse of the Aricebo Observatory was a good example of what happens to poorly maintained industrial facilities.”
― Steven Magee

“Working at research facilities has cost many people their health and for some, it has led to premature death.”
― Steven Magee

“Research facilities can be very toxic workplaces.”
― Steven Magee

“I knew I had not worked at nuclear facilities, although I do have memories of visiting a nuclear research facility in the UK. Could I have been exposed to nuclear radiation? Perhaps. I was living in the southwest USA. The USA waged a nuclear war with nature in the southwest from July 16, 1945 onward.”
― Steven Magee

“The knowledge of the damaging effects from COVID-19 hypoxia will likely close down most very high altitude facilities around the world.”
― Steven Magee