Jack Boyles:
CLASS OF 1975
Ruskin High SchoolClass of 1975
Kansas city, MO
Jack's Story
Jack is from Kansas City, Missouri. Jack's schools include Ruskin High School. Jack works(ed) at Black & Veatch, Black & Veatch.
Music Jack likes includes Probus Strings, The 5 Browns, André Rieu. Books Jack likes include Tom Clancy, Bible, Book of Daniel. Movies Jack likes include Captain America, The Hobbit, Bourne Identity. TV shows Jack likes include Fox News, Burn Notice, NCIS.
One of Jack's favorite quotes is:"From Mark Twain’s ‘Life on the Mississippi’:
“Now, if I wanted to be one of those ponderous scientific people, and 'let on' to prove what had occurred in the remote past by what had occurred in a given time in the recent past, or what will occur in the far future by what has occurred in late years, what an opportunity is here!
Geology never had such a chance, nor such exact data to argue from! Nor 'development of species,' either! Glacial epochs are great things, but they are vague--vague. Please observe:--“
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In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year.
Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old Oolitic Silurian Period,' just a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upwards of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-rod. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long, and Cairo[, Ill.] and New Orleans will have joined their streets together, and be plodding comfortably along under a single mayor and a mutual board of aldermen.
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.”".
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