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Lalas spent a formulative part of his childhood in Greece, where his father, Demetrius, a professor of mechanical engineering and meteorology, was director of the national observatory in Athens.

Central Park: This is what you’d get if you flattened Griffith Park, razed its observatory, shrunk its zoo, obliterated its golf courses and let the drum circle pound away all weekend.

"It is the largest, most sensitive space observatory ever built, and because of that, it has required new technologies that never existed before."

Wade Rand said: "We are leaving for Scotland momentarily to get water and for the night. We are having a sailing party in the eighth deck observatory."

Protests erupted at the base of the mountain in 2019, when Caletch and the University of California proposed construction of another observatory called the Thirty Meter Telescope.