Leina-a-ka’uahane. The leaping place for ghosts. Every island has such a place where, legend holds, spirits leave this world to enter one or another of the realms beyond. On Kaua’i, the ghosts leaped from the scarps above the Mana Plain, … Continued
The safety of the STARS program is related in obvious fashion to its reliability. No one denies that if a STARS rocket fails, public health and the environment are far more likely to be harmed than if the rocket is … Continued
On March 23, 1983, President Ronald Reagan unveiled the Strategic Defense Initiative — his plan to make the United States invulnerable to the threat of incoming nuclear missiles. Ten years and $30 billion later, the Strategic Defense Initiative is still … Continued
Repeatedly, the Department of Land and Natural Resources has claimed that the litigation brought by the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund is not about environmental issues at all, but rather is an attempt to derail the STARS program. However, the … Continued
Ma’alaea Harbor Expansion Plans Under Fire From Surfers, USFWS Plans to expand the Ma’alaea Harbor on Maui have become the focus of a heated dispute involving surfers, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Army Corps of Engineers. More … Continued
The Federal Aviation Administration is planning to build four radars in Hawai’i whose installation elsewhere in the United States has been surrounded by controversy over their possible health effects. The radars are part of a new system of weather service … Continued
The radar signal from NEXRAD will be thousands of times greater than what current standards allow. However, by using an “averaged” value for the signal’s emissions, NEXRADs proponents claim that no harm will come from exposure to the beam. Peak … Continued
NEXRAD weather radars are expected to operate in a variety of patterns. Nearly all of them will involve bursts, or pulses, of high-energy, narrow-focus electrical beams rotating around a vertical axis. With the beam pointed just slightly above the horizon, … Continued