"Paraphrasing a Source"

 From source- Mauna Kea is an ideal location for astronomy period, not just the TMT.  Basically, almost any kind of astronomy where you’re looking at radiation that gets through our atmosphere, because Mauna Kea is this wonderful shield volcano. As you may remember from when you was a little kid, the shield volcano is this thing that looks like a shield, right? It allows air to flow very nicely and uniformly in what we call laminar flow over basically the peak of the volcano. You can contrast this with something like Mount St. Helens, which is one of these peak volcanoes, where air will flow up in it and create a very turbulent flow, and it won’t be a nice and smooth laminar flow of atmosphere. Now, that laminar flow of atmosphere means that we can look through the atmosphere without seeing any turbulent flows. You can imagine, painting a painting with a brush and, if it’s a turbulent atmosphere, you then have to use a really big brush to paint the picture. But if the atmosphere is laminar—a nice smooth, flow as it does over the shield volcano—then you can use brush tips that are very, very small to increase the details which you can see in the sky. So Mauna Kea, and likewise Haleakalā, they are both shield volcanoes and allow for this shield of air over the summit in a very nice manner that is best for astronomy. We're also sitting in the middle of this big thermal bath, the Pacific Ocean, which is sort of always the same temperature, which means temperature is also kind of controlled. It’s just the perfect location. Chile has the problem that it’s not a shield volcano configuration, it’s typically plates that are getting jagged and pushed up. Mauna Kea is really the best.

Paraphrasing- Paul Coleman overviews the advantages that Mauna Kea brings to the scientific community and how it is a perfect place for TMT to be built. Paul gets into detail explaining the geography of Mauna Kea and how it creates pristine air flow, making a smooth atmosphere that is very advantages for telescopes to look at radiation. He separates Mauna Kea from the other possible sites because it is in the middle of the ocean, creating a controlled temperature unlike Chile.