Kevin Tennant KL1PJ

Owner of Glass Doctor of Fairbanks, Thermalite Glass Manufacturing, Glass Doctor of the Mat-Su Valley and Mat-Su Insulated Glass. Retired Air Force E-8 SMSgt.

[Kevin Tennant KL1PJ @kc10it]

I don't have knowledge of that incident report but I did read about the structural failure of the towers. I'm very much a rocket guy with some admittedly old knowledge of explosives. My reply was more about the BO RUD than the towers but I'm aware there are many unanswered questions about 911.

Repeal RCV. On that we agree!

[John Winkopp SpaceCoastPictures @John_Winkopp]

Video of Starlink 10-53 solar transit. WAI media.

[Kevin Tennant KL1PJ @kc10it]

@John_Winkopp That is beautiful

[Kevin Tennant KL1PJ @kc10it]

@OldeWorldOrder @EndWokeness Janeway doesn't count but yes.

[Kevin Tennant KL1PJ @kc10it]

@907Honest Under any reasonable interpretation, it won.

[Kevin Tennant KL1PJ @kc10it]

@paul_a_tennant @JenniferSey @xx_xyathletics You're the 1st fellow Tennant I've run across on X. Live in Alaska but from West Virginia. Also 100% agree with your post

[Kevin Tennant KL1PJ @kc10it]

@AKNewsNow You do not speak for the majority of Alaskans.

[Kevin Tennant KL1PJ @kc10it]

What's in a name? Pioneer Park honors the one's who broke trail. Carved Fairbanks out of wilderness. A waste of $50k considering some of the older population still called it Alaska Land out of habit anyway.

[TheAlaskaStory.com @Downing907]

Fairbanks Parks & Rec Commission had already decided before testimony was given. https://t.co/JCuUrElAc5

[Kevin Tennant KL1PJ @kc10it]

@GregJRoth1 @Downing907 Are you referring to the future/present the Pioneers made possible? Most of us old timers still called it Alaska Land anyway. Waste of $50k in my opinion.

[Kevin Tennant KL1PJ @kc10it]

In other news, .07% of parliament mysteriously has not been seen again.

[The Alaska Landmine @alaskalandmine]

Dude is putting up Mike Cronk numbers! #akleg

[Kevin Tennant KL1PJ @kc10it]

This from our founder at dx/dt,Dan Keck. The North Star Grand Lodge project here in Fairbanks addresses this and more in a meaningful way:

Nearly one in four workers in Alaska is a nonresident. They fly in, earn a paycheck, and take the money with them. Last year, nonresidents earned roughly $3.8 billion from Alaska jobs.

The money leaves because the quality of life doesn't give people a reason to stay. Alcohol and drug misuse costs Alaska an estimated $3.45 billion per year. Suicide-related costs per capita are the highest in the country. These show up as overtime, vacancy rates, safety incidents, and shortened careers in the roles Alaska can least afford to lose: military personnel, tradespeople, healthcare workers, researchers, teachers.

Subarctic climate compounds the problem. Darkness, cold, isolation, and not much to do between October and April. People endure it for a while, and then they leave. The employers who depend on them absorb the cost of constant turnover.

The countries at the same latitude as Fairbanks faced the same problem. Tax incentives and subsidies came first. Thirty years of data from Northern Norway showed those had limited lasting effect on their own. What worked was investing in the built environment. Finland's student health service started offering light therapy on campus. Oulu laid down 930 kilometers of cycling infrastructure and became the fastest-growing region in Finland. Reykjavik runs geothermal-heated sidewalks through its downtown. Finnish sauna culture runs deep enough that UNESCO recognized it as social infrastructure for surviving winter.

The people who live and work in Interior Alaska deserve an environment designed for them. The employers and institutions that depend on those people need that environment to exist if they want to stop losing talent. This is the problem North Star Grand Lodge is designed around.

Read the full piece here: https://t.co/7pnZ8jZpmW

Join the conversation on Facebook: https://t.co/4VYtejz9AD

What do you think matters most for retaining people in Fairbanks? What's missing? Reply to this email or weigh in on Facebook. We read every response.

P.S. We've been getting a lot of questions about how this project will impact traffic on Henderson. We wrote a full analysis here: https://t.co/01772nCaIc

Daniel Keck
North Star Grand Lodge
Fairbanks, Alaska

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

A guy with a YouTube channel just accidentally redesigned the most complex machine in human history.

Not an aerospace engineer. Not a SpaceX executive.

A guy with a camera who asked one obvious question.

Tim Dodd was walking around Starbase when Musk proudly explained how the Super Heavy booster eliminated its entire cold gas thruster system. Instead of a separate, heavy, complex mechanism, it just vents hot gas directly from the propellant tanks.

Elegant. Zero added mass. Zero extra failure points.

Dodd asked one question.

“But this is only for the booster, right?”

Musk stopped.

Not to defend. Not to explain. Not to reframe the question so it didn’t threaten what he had just said.

He stopped because something clicked.

Musk: “Yes. Although arguably, now you mention it… we might be wise to do this for the ship, too. Now that… we’re going to fix that.”

Mid-sentence. In real time. On camera.

No pause to protect his pride. No deflection. No “good point, let me circle back on that.” Just the immediate, unfiltered acknowledgment that a better path existed and they were going to take it.

Seven months later, Musk confirmed it was one of the biggest improvements ever made to the vehicle.

Think about what just happened.

To change a fundamental flight system at a legacy aerospace company requires years of environmental reviews, safety committees, and budget approvals.

Musk deprecated an entire subsystem in 15 seconds because a podcaster asked the obvious question that nobody inside had dared to ask.

In a traditional corporation, that cold gas system gets built anyway.

Because admitting the architecture is flawed is politically expensive.

The VP doesn’t want to lose the headcount.

The engineers don’t want to scrap the work.

The manager doesn’t want to explain the pivot to their director.

And so the mistake gets a budget. Gets a timeline. Gets a team assigned to it.

The machine gets heavier. The flaw becomes load-bearing. And eventually the flaw becomes so embedded in the structure that fixing it would require tearing down everything built around it.

So nobody fixes it.

Now think about the last time someone pointed out a flaw in something you built. Something you were proud of. Something you had already explained to twelve people without anyone questioning it.

Did you stop the way Musk stopped?

Or did you feel that heat in your chest. That reflexive need to explain why they were missing the point. Why the context was more complicated than they understood. Why the question, though interesting, didn’t really apply here.

That heat is the most expensive thing most organizations will ever pay for.

A failed launch at least tells you the truth.

A defended mistake just compounds.

This is the organizational architecture required to win the AI arms race.

The ultimate moat isn’t compute. It isn’t capital.

It is the velocity of error correction.

The geopolitical AI race will not be won by whoever starts with the best blueprint.

It will be won by whoever can feel that heat in their chest and choose the truth anyway.

A journalist asked a question. The best answer won.

The rocket got lighter.

Most egos don’t.

[Kevin Tennant KL1PJ @kc10it]

Avalanche In North Pole, Alaska last night.

[Kevin Tennant KL1PJ @kc10it]

My expert feline Lego supervisor, Majhi said we're on schedule with our build of USS Enterprise NCC-1701D.

[Kevin Tennant KL1PJ @kc10it]

I saw Dark Crystal. I know what happens next.

[A Man Of Memes @RickyDoggin]

Mark Your Calendars !

FEBRUARY 28, 2026
Don't forget to look up the planets will drift quietly across the sky, reminding us how beautifully the universe can align.

[Kevin Tennant KL1PJ @kc10it]

Just trying to knock the 7 feet of heavy snow off my roof here in North Pole, Alaska. This was the 4th section I'd done with no issues on the 1st three then... Floof!

[Kevin Tennant KL1PJ @kc10it]

It was a blustery day in North Pole yesterday. Made several trips from my office to check on my Mosley antenna.

[Kevin Tennant KL1PJ @kc10it]

@N3QEH @Vincent_Ledvina Shoot me a text or drop in and say hi if you have time. I'm at my shop most days. Just look for the Glass shop with the big antenna in North Pole.

[Kevin Tennant KL1PJ @kc10it]

The flight of the Phoenix. 1970s era technology using bits and pieces from the Apollo and shuttle programs to build a disposable rocket. If finally able to hold fuel is a major milestone, then I'm not impressed.

[NASA @NASA]

NASA teams successfully fueled the Artemis II rocket during tonight’s prelaunch test for the lunar mission.

Our Artemis experts will answer questions about the important milestone and next steps during a briefing tomorrow at 11am ET (1600 UTC). https://t.co/fVjFOmK5dy