KenCripton

UEL, Butlers Rangers, descendent of pioneers, fascinated by Canadians struggle with their own identity

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

Voyager 1 is 24 billion kilometers from Earth.

It communicates with us using a 23-watt transmitter.
Less than a refrigerator light bulb.

The signal takes 22 hours to reach us, traveling at the speed of light.

By the time it arrives, it's 20 billion times weaker than the power of a digital watch battery.

NASA's Deep Space Network picks it up using 70-meter dish antennas cooled to near absolute zero to reduce electronic noise.

The engineering required to hear a 23-watt signal from 24 billion km away is arguably more impressive than the spacecraft itself.

Launched 1977.
Still transmitting.
Still being heard.

We built something that works perfectly, 47 years later, in conditions no one has ever tested in.

That's what engineering for the long term looks like.

[KenCripton @KenCripton]

@Bloke_Baz Gen X management are not digital natives

[BLACK DUMPLING™ @BlackDumpling]

More and more I'm learning that the nihilistic claptrap we were all told was genius was just Leftist demoralization propaganda.

Situations like this have occurred, and the children didn't turn into little monsters. In fact they survived quite well.

In June 1965, six boys named, aged 13 to 16 "borrowed" a fisherman’s boat hoping to reach Fiji or New Zealand. After a storm damaged the sail and rudder, they drifted for eight days surviving on fish and rainwater collected in coconut shells, before washing up on the rocky uninhabited island of ‘Ata.

Rather than descending into chaos during their months there the boys created a mini society. They planted vegetables, collected and stored rainwater, and maintained a permanent fire. They even built a gymnasium with homemade weights, a badminton court, and chicken pens.

They divided daily chores using rosters, resolved conflicts with time-outs instead of fighting, began and ended each day with songs and prayers. One boy, Gilligan's Isle style, constructed a guitar from driftwood and coconut shell to boost morale. When one of the children broke his leg falling off a cliff the others set it with sticks and leaves and took over his work. They ate fish, coconuts, eggs, wild taro, bananas, and later chickens they had discovered in an ancient volcanic crater.

They endured this for for fifteen months, and never once turned into murderous thugs. A far cry from what we were told would happen.

[KenCripton @KenCripton]

@Eggplant_Elon When Fight Club is on TV today, all the commercials are for women.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The Swedish torch was invented by Finns and it became known in Europe during the 1600s. Compared to a campfire, it is more compact, and therefore several small heat sources can be distributed over an area

[📹 marusya.shiklina]

[Supersonic Redhead🛫 @Supersonic_Red]

There’s a generation a lot of people forget exists. We were born at the tail end of the Boomers, but we are not culturally the same as people born in the 40s and early 50s. We are Generation Jones.

And honestly, it explains a lot.

We grew up in a world that still felt fundamentally analog, but we were young enough to be dragged headfirst into the digital revolution. We are the bridge generation between rotary phones and smartphones, between slide rules and AI, between Walter Cronkite and algorithm driven media.

We remember when there were only a few television channels and the entire country watched the same thing at the same time. We also adapted to the internet, email, forums, social media, streaming and now artificial intelligence. We lived before and after the technological singularity hit everyday life.

That is not a small thing.

People born in the 40s came of age in a post World War II America that was still industrial, deeply hierarchical and institutionally stable. Their formative years were shaped by the Cold War, Vietnam, the civil rights era and a society where information moved slowly.

Generation Jones came later. We inherited the aftermath of all of that.

We were the kids who watched Watergate destroy blind trust in government. We watched manufacturing begin to collapse. We saw divorce rates explode. We were the first truly latchkey generation in massive numbers. We learned independence early because many of us had to.

We grew up with one foot in old America and one foot in whatever this new thing was becoming.

We played outside until the streetlights came on but we also learned DOS commands. We learned cursive and keyboarding. We had card catalogs and Google searches. We went from vinyl records to cassette tapes to CDs to MP3s to streaming in one lifetime.

We remember maps. We remember memorizing phone numbers. We remember life before GPS and before every human interaction became filtered through a screen.

And because of that, I think Generation Jones developed a very unique perspective. We are adaptable because we had no choice but to adapt. We learned technology as adults instead of being born into it. We remember a slower world but were forced to survive in a rapidly accelerating one.

That creates a very different mindset than either older Boomers or younger Gen X and Millennials.

A lot of us also reject the caricature people now associate with “Boomers.” We were not buying houses for the cost of a sandwich in 1965. The interest rate on my first house was over 14% and that was after buying down a point. Many of us got hit by recessions, outsourcing, pension collapses and economic instability just like younger generations did. We watched promises evaporate in real time.

We understand older generations because we were raised by them. We understand younger generations because we had to evolve alongside them.

That’s why the Jones generation often feels culturally homeless. We are rarely discussed, rarely defined and usually lumped into categories that don’t actually fit us.

But we exist.

We are the human transition point between the industrial age and the digital age.

And frankly, there will probably never be another generation quite like us again.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Electric surfboards are about to make jet skis look ancient.

Silent, fast, and way too fun.

[René Remsik @aitrendz_xyz]

This is honestly the best prompt I have ever seen

[Martin Pelletier @MPelletierCIO]

Someone please make him Prime Minister.

[Genesis @genesis_band]

Genesis played at The Lyceum Theatre in London on the "Duke" Tour, this month in 1980. Watch as the band perform "Squonk" in this clip.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Nobody saw this punk rock band with a spin master coming, no body was ready for what was going to happen. Nothing was like this before and nothing was like this since.

If there were smart phones then, they would be fully charged after this energy burst…

It was a bit like this:

[KenCripton @KenCripton]

1759 -> Quiet Revolution -> Rene Levesque
If you know Quebec history, having an Immigration Governor General from La Belle Province is truly remarkable.
Is she 'pur lain?'

[Andy Lee @RealAndyLeeShow]

Canada’s new Governor General:

“I am aware of the fear that an influx of foreigners will transform our social fabric in an undesirable way, but the reality is that our social fabric is changing anyways.”

[KenCripton @KenCripton]

@RealAndyLeeShow 1759 -> Quiet Revolution -> Rene Levesque
If you know Quebec history, having an Immigration Governor General from La Belle Province is truly remarkable.
Is she 'pur lain?'

[KenCripton @KenCripton]

Cold War Canadians had to live through decades of Quebec separation drama.
You also have to appreciate the effect retirement has on Boomers after a lifetime of being workaholics

[Tristin Hopper @TristinHopper]

I suspect this is part of why so many Canadian Boomers just refuse to acknowledge basic indicators of decline. Nuclear war, the "Population Bomb," the Satanic Panic; the last 40 years have been a golden era for "it's probably fine."

[KenCripton @KenCripton]

@TristinHopper Cold War Canadians had to live through decades of Quebec separation drama.
You also have to appreciate the effect retirement has on Boomers after a lifetime of being workaholics

[Burton Cummings @burtoncummings]

When your biggest song is an accident that a broken guitar string set in motion.

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

Python’s “Marching Up and Down the Square” is pure genius. Michael Palin (83 today) hits notes that only dog whistles and Mariah Carey can match. The “extras” were real Colchester Garrison soldiers, who later said they were “fighting for their lives” not to break. 😂🤣

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

“The world is cluttered with dead institutions.”—Susan Sontag

[Russell Brunson @russellbrunson]

A guy in Alberta is selling tractors with zero computers. No software. No sensors. Just a diesel engine you can fix with a wrench.

400 American farmers tried to buy one after a single interview.

Sometimes the moat isn't more features.

It's less.

[Musical Freedom @Marcello1967IT]

Genesis - Seconds Out - 1977

It was released as a double album on Charisma Records, and was their first with touring drummer Chester Thompson and their last with guitarist Steve Hackett. Is the second live album by Genesis.