Many of us boomers grew up in the 1960s and can remember to our astonishment that the reason we could pick up our phone and call someone in Paris was the transAtlantic cable. Speaking for myself, it blew my mind that the technology of the day enabled us to navigate a boat across an ocean and spool out 4000 miles of thick wire (with even thicker insulation around it) from the East Coast of the United States to the shores of Europe.
As if that weren’t enough, there are similar cables that went back to the age of telegraphy in the mid-19th Century. On July 13, 1866 the cable laying ship Great Eastern sailed out of Valentia Island, Ireland and on July 27 landed at Heart’s Content in Newfoundland, completing the first lasting connection across the Atlantic. It was active until 1965.
I considered myself cool when I strung two cans connected by a string from my bedroom to my best friend’s in our neighbor’s house in 1961 or ’62. See photo below. My room: house on the left, second floor.
This may be a long way of saying that the graphic at left is total bulls***. The distance is 2700 miles, and the idea of transmitting energy for no reason is stupid beyond words.
Regarding the question at left, I’m not sure. Maybe “Stupidity?”
If humankind is forced to migrate to Mars because it’s too stupid to fix the catastrophes it’s created here on Earth, and also stupid enough to believe that taking our criminal insanity to another planet will effectively address our problems, I can’t think of a better name.
An essential part of being a Republican congressperson is being able to convince your constituents of things that are obviously untrue.
It is true that the United States experiences voter fraud, though studies assess it at a miniscule percentage of 1%. But it’s virtually never committed by illegal aliens, since they don’t have the credentials to register to vote in any of our 50 states.
The defining characteristic of a successful GOP representative is his capacity to lie to morons.
What 19th Century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer said at left was, I’m sure, correct in its time, though I seriously doubt that too many people believe this today.
When it was proven scientifically in the 1960s that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer, both my parents quit immediately.
When it was proven scientifically that the consumption of fossil fuels is causing lung disease, and global warming, and loss of biodiversity, and ocean acidification, this generation doubled down on supporting Big Oil while destroying the renewable energy industry.
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