Ugly Shocks

[omorka]

Holy crap.

Someone posted a secret on fandomsecrets that used, as the background picture, the smoke trail from the Challenger disaster.

1) I haven't seen that set of plumes in, gods, over a decade, probably, and I still recognized it instantly. I've maintained for a while that that's how you know if you're a GenXer or not - if you remember Challenger but not JFK's assassination, you're GenX. But I hadn't realized how deep it was hardwired, at least for me.

2) About the same time the cortex was going "oh, my gods, that's . . . ," my heart rate doubled and my face went completely red. I don't get triggered hard by images in general, but that one's still got power. And that was before I started to get angry at them for picking that image.

In conclusion, some people are dicks. (And it wasn't even an interesting secret.)

Comments

[kamiki-seto.livejournal.com]

There are multiple different groups/experts who define 'baby boomer' differently, either from a sociological or from a population-based standpoint. The US Census Bureau, for the latter, defines 'the boom' as ending in 1964, as did Landon Jones. Strauss and Howe put the break point a few years earlier. It's pretty clear that there's a shift going on between 61-64. One researcher's 'late boomer' is another's 'early Xer'. I guess it all depends upon one's point of view...(I sound so Obi-Wan Kenobish....)

As an analytical/INTJ type I tend to drift with the definition that involves numbers - it's my nature. But there is more to it than that, certainly. And now you've got me going I'm going to go even more INTJ and start reading everything I can find on the subject, because that's what I do. (You should see my collections of books on both Tudor history and the U.S. Atomic Program. It's scary.)

It's fascinating stuff, definitely!