It’s a storyline that seems to come straight out of “The Descendants,” the Alexander Payne film whose plot revolved in part around a decision faced by descendants of Hawaiian royalty about whether or not to sell prime real estate to developers.
It’s not every day a billion-dollar project comes to Hawaii. After all, whatever you produce there has to be transported everywhere else. But the 50th state is part of a very select global club of locations whose conditions produce a rare commodity: transporting views of our planet and of the known universe it occupies.