Science advances one funeral at a time -Max Plank

What he was saying is that we can discover all the new things we want, but the people who have respected and established careers who don’t believe the new science tend to block/slow down it’s acceptance and further application until they die, then science advances…

I think that’s all of society, not just science though…

This is a pretty gatekeepy take.

Generations are about your social cohort and shared experiences, not a calendar.

I think late X folks who got the internet in their teen years mostly fit in better with millennials than X. Being able to anonymously talk about anything with people from all over the world while still in your adolescence is something that most Gen X didn’t get, and I think that particular experience is critical for understanding the differences between X and millenial.

The boundary is nebulous enough that social scientists even came up with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials

I was born in 78, and I definitely have a lot of X characteristics, but when I talk to other people my own age about things like the futility of working hard for recognition from society/employers it becomes really clear that I understand millenials a hell of a lot better than most gen X do…

I think the reddit user base is shifting too. It’s less “just the nerds” than it used to be. The same thing happened to Facebook. It fundamentally changed when everyone’s mom joined…

@[email protected] is right. I hunt and track asteroids. If I’m offending on behalf of an empire with this work, the empire is humanity and the offense is against chunks of rocks in space

I worked in the analysis tool division of a company that built civilian and military jets when I was fresh out of engineering school.

I didn’t feel too bad about it because I was making commercial aircraft quieter and more efficient with my work. Then, the Iraq war started up and they told me I had to work on the engine for the F22. I started looking for a new job that day.

Now I work in planetary defense and don’t feel guilty about it…

Most people are not sharp enough to see that.

We are doomed by the cuts to education they made 40 years ago

Nothing in the built environment is, city or country… That’s the nature is being an outlier