“When discharging industrial gas into the indoor environment in high altitude astronomy, we never wore breathing respirators that fed us oxygenated air… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was never good… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
“When you're an astronomer, you always have stars in your eyes.” — Anthony T. Hincks Copy Share Image
“The future of the next generation relies on astronomers obtaining a full understanding of the rapidly changing human environmental conditions and the… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“I often asked Laplace what he thought of God. He owned that he was an atheist.” — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“One of the biggest lies that is currently being told in the USA workplace is on the legally required OSHA poster: All… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Oxygen deprivation and supplemental oxygen are both bio-hazards for Mauna Kea workers” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“During my time in high altitude astronomy, I routinely witnessed workers breathing medical oxygen, industrial carbon dioxide, nitrogen and helium gas as… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“When I worked in high altitude astronomy, the worst sickness that I experienced was not at the 13,796 feet very high altitude… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
If you take 10,000 people at random, 9,999 have something in common: their interests in business lie on or near the Earth's… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“What caused me to undertake the catalog was the nebula I discovered above the southern horn of Taurus on September 12, 1758,… — Charles Messier Copy Share Image
“This fits in with what I saw in staff in astronomical facilities and was reporting to the management team: 10-14% Oxygen: Emotional… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Abnormal radiation exposure and oxygen starvation teaches you that reality is just a perception that is derived from your immediate environmental conditions.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“She knew why she had Gerry on her mind, why she was spotting his likeness in the faces of strange little boys.… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“There is a lot of willful incompetence in high altitude astronomy that is in the process of coming to light.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Snow cleaning of the world's largest telescope mirrors was an impressive sight. The optics technicians would climb into a huge telescopic boom… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I read not so long ago about the construction of a large telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert, where rainfall can average a… — Brad Leithauser Copy Share Image
“She watched Malachy curl his long fingers around a lock of Layla's straight hair, gently caressing it as he mused on the… — Marsha Mehran Copy Share Image