To go to a specific reading, select the "show document outline" tab on the left hand side of the document. READING 1: THIRTY-METER TELESCOPE ON MAUNA KEA Beginning in 2019, construction began on what will be the largest telescope in the world. The telescope, the Thirty-Meter Telescope, is almost 3 times larger than the largest telescope today. The telescope's construction is a joint project of astronomers from the US, Canada, China, India and Japan. Scientists will use the telescope to answer the key questions about the structure and evolution of the universe and to explore the enigmatic processes, environments and bodies that encompass the universe. The telescope is located on Mauna Kea in Hawai'i, a tall mountain. From astronomers' points of view, it is an ideal location. It has a climate that is particularly stable, dry, and cold; all of which are important characteristics for capturing the sharpest images and producing the best science. They have arranged to pay a $1 million a year lease of the land to the University of Hawai'i and to give another $1 million per year to STEM education programs. The location, however, is controversial among Native Hawai'ians, pho say that sacred lands there are not being protected. Its summit is considered to be one of the most sacred places in the Hawaiian islands. Its peak is the home to a handful of Hawaiian gods. More than that, however, are community members' concerns about the legacy of colonialism in the Hawaiian islands. Since White settlers arrived on the island in 1858, countless Hawaiian sacred sites have been bulldozed, dismantled, or even used for military target practice by White settlers. Many Native Hawai'ians see the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope as another example of a sacred place being destroyed by White settlers. Adapted from these sources: Our Story in Hawall (TMT Observatory from: betosow.trnt.orginagear staryin bawail Herman, D. (2015, April 23) The heart of the hawalan PEOPLES' arguments against the telescope on Mauna Kea. Retrieved April 08, 2021, from https://wwwsmithsonianmag.com/smithsorian.instrutioniheart.hswalan-people arguments-arguments-aeainst.telesccoe-mauna-kea-180953057no-ist READING 2: THE EXPLOITATIVE LANGUAGE OF SPACE EXPLORATION Colonies have a bad reputation as a source of mass murder, stealing of land, and enslavement. Even when people aren't explicitly referring to settlements in space as "colonies," they still use the rhetoric of colonizing the New World and the American frontier, which erases the stories of and violence against the people of color who lived and ranched in the region. But how did this language start being used in the first place? US Presidents have used colonialist language to get White citizens behind their agenda. When President John F. Kennedy announced his intention to bring Americans to the Moon in 1962, he compared space colonization to colonization in the Americas. He celebrated a colonist who had massacred hundreds of Native Americans. "The Moon is the next version of the New World, the next frontier for American