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To command their professors of astronomy to refute their own observations is to command them not to see what they do see and not to understand what they do understand.

The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible.

Until 1930 or thereabout biologists [using microscopes], in the situation of Astronomers and Astrophysicists, were permitted to see the objects of their interest, but not to touch them; the cell was as distant from us, as the stars and galaxies were from them.

We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy.

This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords.

The scorn which I had reason to fear on account of the novelty and unconventionality of my opinion almost induced me to abandon completely the work which I had undertaken. . . . Astronomy is written for astronomers. To them my work too will seem, unless I am mistaken, to make some contribution.

8,000 Feet: Various people will be showing signs and symptoms of Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS).

223692 people had objected to the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea after five weeks of the 2019 #WeAreMaunaKea protests.

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.

Abnormal radiation exposure and oxygen starvation teaches you that reality is just a perception that is derived from your immediate environmental conditions.

Above them, stars shine in constellations that Jenny recognizes from the ceiling of her father's house, the ones Mom and Dad helped her put up when she was in third grade. Constellations with names like Fire Truck and Ladybug Come Home, constellations that you won't find in any astronomer's catalogue.

Acceptance is always progression.

Accepting mistakes is the best way of not making them.

Accepting and understanding difference is the key to progression.

Accept what be is what be for that’s just the way of this world.

A child be one’s greatest test of all.

6,000 Feet: A few people will start showing signs and symptoms of Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS).

40% less oxygen and high radiation levels can do strange things to sea level adapted humans.

Above and behind them the Dipper turned on its great handle as if to pour night itself out onto the dreaming continent and each of its seven stars gleamed from between the fitful clouds.

A circle has no end.

A day without The Philosophy is a day without myself.

A fool is he who begs of thee the answers to all creation.

After 6 weeks of the 2019 #WeAreMaunaKea protests, 245595 supported the cause.

After a decade of working in high altitude astronomy, I was surprised at how many biological systems were damaged in my mind and body.

After a decade in high altitude astronomy, I had come to the conclusion that the primary purpose of the human resources department was to facilitate the company objectives at the expense of the employees.

After a decade of largely useless doctors visits, I had come to the conclusion that there was a complete absence of specialists in High Altitude Disease (HAD).

After a decade of working in high altitude astronomy the medical profession discovered that I had a hole in my heart, erratic low blood oxygen levels and brain issues. Heart, lung and brain problems appear to be long term known adverse health aspects of high altitude work and unnatural electromagnetic radiation exposures.

After developing serious mental and physical health issues during and after a decade in high altitude astronomy, I decided to dedicate my mind and body to medical research for the biological science of High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD).

After almost a decade in high altitude astronomy, I went on to develop Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity.

After handling the observatory mercury systems, I had to start taking daily baths to calm down my hot skin pains. The baths were the only refuge from the terrible pains.

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

After a decade of mal-acclimatization, Steven Magee’s body will no longer acclimatize to any altitude.

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.

After a duration of a thousand years, the power of astrology broke down when, with Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, the progress of astronomy overthrew the false hypothesis upon which the entire structure rested, namely the geocentric system of the universe. The fact that the earth revolves in space intervened to upset the complicated play of planetary influences, and the silent stars, related to the unfathomable depths of the sky, no longer made their prophetic voices audible to mankind. Celestial mechanics and spectrum analysis finally robbed them of their mysterious prestige.

After telling many doctors that I have mercury poisoning from working with mercury systems, I have never been referred to a specialist in the toxicology of mercury.

After telling many doctors that I have radiation sickness, I have never been referred to a specialist in radiation sickness.

After telling many doctors that I have high altitude disease, I have never been referred to a specialist in high altitude disease.

After working in high altitude astronomy, I was diagnosed with asthma and allergies.

A gift from the Divine is a gift to be cherished forever.

A good deed does not erase a bad in my mind, yet neither does a bad dead erase a good.

A healthy person that uses medical oxygen to perform their job on a daily basis should expect to eventually become a sick person.

Napoleon, when hearing about Laplace's latest book, said, 'M. Laplace, they tell me you have written this large book on the system of the universe, and have never even mentioned its creator.' Laplace responds, 'Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là. (I had no need of that hypothesis.)

Kepler's laws, although not rigidly true, are sufficiently near to the truth to have led to the discovery of the law of attraction of the bodies of the solar system. The deviation from complete accuracy is due to the facts, that the planets are not of inappreciable mass, that, in consequence, they disturb each other's orbits about the Sun, and, by their action on the Sun itself, cause the periodic time of each to be shorter than if the Sun were a fixed body, in the subduplicate ratio of the mass of the Sun to the sum of the masses of the Sun and Planet; these errors are appreciable although very small, since the mass of the largest of the planets, Jupiter, is less than 1/1000th of the Sun's mass.

After several extreme very high altitude night shifts, returning to sea level and exposure to increased oxygen and bright sunlight would bring on intestinal pains and diarrhea after eating the first large meal.

After I started working extreme night shifts, I began to think that someone was in the telescope control room with me. I would look for the person many times and would never find them. I eventually stopped looking for the person and accepted that it was my oxygen starved mind playing tricks on me in a very abnormal environment.

After refusing numerous hostile demands for my resignation, the toxic management team changed my job description multiple times to be distinctly different from the rest of the team. I regarded it as a form of harassment and discrimination.

Algol is the name of the winking demon star, Medusa of the skies; fair but deadly to look on, even for one who is already dying. Ah, the bright stars of the night. Almost they obliterate the clear white pain. A thousand stars shining in the ether; but no dazzling newcomer. And so little time left, so little time... Yet still two-faced Medusa laughs from behind the clouds, demanding homage. Homage, Medusa, or a sword, a blade sharper than death itself. The wind stirs. Night clouds obscure the universe. A lower music now, a different kind of death. No stars tonight, my love. No Selene.

A little patience always goes a long way.

All but divine is finite.

Ah, the beautiful echoing of a newborn baby’s cry.