Professional Astronomy Quotes

“I am a walking chemistry experiment.”
― Steven Magee

“I never took supplements atop the high altitude mountains, as the professional astronomy management teams never advised us to do so.”
― Steven Magee

“It is time to end the willful incompetence regarding altitude sickness and shift work disorder in professional astronomy.”
― Steven Magee

“The reason why I was able to research and publish books on the sicknesses, diseases and deaths in professional astronomy summit workers is because I knew of no one that was doing it and I had seen and heard a lot of strange things about summit workers when I worked in the field.”
― Steven Magee

“Summit working in professional astronomy is a strange world of hypoxia, altitude sickness, shift work disorder and toxic workplace exposures.”
― Steven Magee

“There appears to be a higher death rate in the workplace and outside of the workplace in professional astronomy summit workers.”
― Steven Magee

“Ignoring current and past worker health issues and deaths is facilitating the biologically toxic field of professional astronomy for the foreseeable future.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“Working in high altitude professional astronomy appears to present increased lifetime dangers of dying through accidents.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“The illnesses in high altitude professional astronomy are generally a mixture of long term altitude sickness and workplace toxicity.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“The professional astronomy management team advised us to take drugs and oxygen to treat our acute mountain sickness, not supplements.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“There is a notable absence of published medical research on the long term health issues of current and past summit workers in professional astronomy.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“I was always eating the subsidized food from the high altitude cafeteria in professional astronomy. It was free, so I would eat it. The food was low quality at every astronomical observatory I worked at.”
― Steven Magee

“The oldest computer hardware I worked on was in professional astronomy.”
― Steven Magee

“They build it, get it working and keep band-aiding it until it completely fails, then it becomes a crisis and gets updated.”
― Steven Magee

“My ex would always watch ‘Queer Eye For The Straight Guy’ and dress me accordingly. After we broke up, it emerged she had changed gender to lesbian while working extreme night shifts in very high altitude professional astronomy.”
― Steven Magee

“I am a hormonally challenged kind of guy.”
― Steven Magee

“If you want to know what biological incompetence looks like, just take a look at high altitude professional astronomy.”
― Steven Magee

“When I worked in USA professional astronomy it was understaffed, we could not keep up with maintenance tasks, salaried employees were working extremely long unpaid hours, the telescopes were in extreme environments, and there were some shady health and safety issues.”
― Steven Magee

“UK professional astronomy worked differently from USA professional astronomy. When I told my UK employer I was going to work for another company, they did everything to help me transfer smoothly. When my USA employer found out I was leaving for another company, they took me into numerous surprise harassment meetings for my ‘voluntary’ resignation!”
― Steven Magee

“It was a mistake to follow my management training in high altitude professional astronomy. I never realized I was disciplining sickened staff that had become forgetful through altitude sickness that included oxygen starvation, adverse environmental exposures, central sleep apnea and mal-acclimatization!”
― Steven Magee

“There was no management training in high altitude professional astronomy that covered the long-term health effects that were appearing in their mal-acclimatized staff.”
― Steven Magee