It is not your aptitude, but your attitude, that determines your altitude. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
“I will use science to shut down the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Attitude determines Altitude. Winners never quit. No venture, No gain.” — Stella Oladiran Copy Share Image
“A man so far out of his league he suffered from altitude sickness.” — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Developing the diagnosis and treatment of High Altitude Observatory Disease became my priority in my late forties as my health was drastically… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“I made the mistake of working at the world's largest telescopes and now show classic health degradation that is associated with that… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Pilots have an established history of committing mass murder during their suicides.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
The quality of food is in inverse proportion to a dining room's altitude, especially atop bank and hotel buildings (airplanes are an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your attitude determines your altitude. Your ambitions are bigger than life Of course. They must be. They encompass it. — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
“I was always mystified why I never saw any cases of HAPE and HACE in very high altitude workers.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“It is not surprising that two of the most notorious modern mass murderers in the USA and Europe were both high altitude… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“I was never aware of any professional astronomy summit worker that had received formal industry recognized training in the safe handling of… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Very high altitude extreme night shift work is a class 2A carcinogen that may result in lifelong disabling sleep disorders, high cholesterol,… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
We didn't slow down, unlike the others, when we got to the moon because we needed its gravity to get back, so… — Jim Lovell Copy Share Image
“The only difference between a very high altitude worker and a radiation worker is that there is a government compensation program in… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“At the age of 45, most days in Tucson were spent feeling like I was on the summit of Mauna Kea, as… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Though my stabilization chute opens at 96,000 feet, I accelerate for 6,000 feet more before hitting a peak of 614 miles an… — Joseph Kittinger Copy Share Image
“I have memories from my time in high altitude astronomy of being euphoric and giddy after discharging large amounts of industrial gas… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“From the sky, everything looked fake. The buildings were doll houses. The cars were Matchbox racers. People scuttled about, but they weren’t… — P.S. Baber Copy Share Image
“The following information really should be placed on all very high altitude job adverts and company contracts: WARNING – Very high altitude… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“In high altitude astronomical facilities we routinely discharged large amounts of nitrogen gas into closed spaces. We were never informed by the… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Anticipate leveling off to end up at the desired altitude without busting through it. Use the 10 percent rule of thumb. If… — R. Padfield Copy Share Image
“I saw a guy faint at the W. M. Keck Observatory, he stepped out from the tour group and said to me… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills. The Equator runs across these highlands, a hundred miles… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
“When the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) found out that Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) were going to visit the site… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“I started to see a serious decline in health in high altitude professional astronomy. Most noticeable was the onset of constant fatigue,… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Magee’s Disease is a chronic lifelong condition that may lead to permanent disability. It presents as permanent altitude sickness, regardless of the… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
