stock here: It seems like the people in comments are much better than the actual reporters, who fail to report the real story. However, the motivations of the so called reporter seems to be simply to “resist” Governmental Reforms.
This article seems intentionally inflammatory, literally.
Another follow up could be why/what were the delays in building the new Observatory? Could that have something to do with the proposed lease termination?
Per CB article: US Geological Survey To Get New Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
Congress appropriated nearly $60 million in 2019 to replace the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. Work on the new observatory and the Ecosystems Research Center is scheduled to be completed in late 2025.
Nicely researched. It seemed odd to me that the facilities were damaged in the 2018 volcanic event. But this article implies that the new facility wont be ready until 2028. 10 years!!! Even if it was 7 years, it would still be a joke. This is exactly what we need to not rail against, but push for, is Government being good stewards of OUR money, and being timely and efficient, Added points: Google the address 1280 Kamehameha and go to street view, USGS shares the 30,000 building with at least 3 other businesses. Commercial space in Hilo goes for about 13 to 20 bucks per SF per year, or roughly $400,000 per year for the USGS.
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See my comment below, estimated at $400,000 annually. With an annual surplus of around $1B per year, this would be a pittance for the HI gov to cover, whilst they push to find out why the new building (funded $60M in 2019 by the US Citizens at large) is taking so long. And if they can get by on 20,000 SF, but a $60M budget to build new, that is $3,000 per SF.
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I’m the weirdest weeping prophet
type. We gotta face da kine Akamai
wisdom which is so painful. Velikovsky
wrote from his worldwide studies that
the Polynesian culture has oral history
and coded pictorial writings saying that
the ocean and sky upheaval happened
several times, with a new night and day
direction-orientation of the starfield after the catastrophe and tsunamis.
I think the long-view money is wary of
how soon Hawai’i will be clobbered in
the Pole Shift. And just how much more
great knowledge is coming from the
volcano observation club?
Like Mt. Saint Helens, wow we got all
these monitors and cameras and sensors and we can analyze the magma
flow by seismic frequencies indicating
viscosity and temperature and pressure
and etc. and So What? When the SHTF
No more daily shipping is coming or going to or from Hawai’i.
They are amazingly inept, in 2018 they had some chick in Hilo a USGS stating, we know so so little, we aren’t even sure the earthquakes and volcanos are related….like an effen 5 year old could figure that out. In 2018 I mapped the combined magma chamber of Kilauea and Mauna Loa, and in 2025 they are publishing articles using chemical compositions to show that “there could be a combined magma chamber”. Sheesh.
I also made calls to USGS and Mayor office of “big one coming, maybe even tonight”, asked them to call me for details. Not a single call, that was the night that 600 houses were evacuated and hundreds destroyed. They have disdain for non-Affiliated Academics