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Q: What does "chained herself to a cattle guard across the road" (last line) mean?

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A colossal telescope with the potential to revolutionize astronomy and discover extraterrestrial life is set for construction atop a dormant volcano on Hawaii's Big Island.

But protesters have blocked the road to the summit since July, saying the planned telescope — called the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) for the diameter of its huge light-collecting mirror — would desecrate a place that Native Hawaiians deem sacred.

Scientists have been dreaming about such an instrument as far back as the 1990s, and a global consortium of scientists led by the U.S. and Canada completed the TMT design in 2009. But when the group began securing permission from state officials that same year to build the TMT on Mauna Kea's 13,800-foot summit, which is already home to 13 observatories, Native Hawaiians pushed back.

Nearly a decade of legal battles ensued, but Hawaii's Supreme Court ruled in August 2018 that work on the $1.4-billion telescope could proceed. With no other options for stopping construction, protesters formed a human blockade across the road to the summit on July 15 — the week construction was scheduled to begin.

“I was just incredibly grateful for the opportunity to really express how important the Mauna is, not just to me, but to our people, to my children, to the future generations,” says Noelani Goodyear-Kaʻōpua, a professor of political science at the University of Hawaii at Manoa who chained herself to a cattle guard across the road.

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