From 7/16/1963 to 12/10/1997 is: 3 days, 3 weeks, 4 months, 34 years
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Dec. 10, 1997
NEW JUPITER FINDINGS: OXYGEN AT CALLISTO'S SURFACE, SULFUR DIOXIDE SOURCES AT IO
New data from a University of Colorado at Boulder instrument on board the Galileo spacecraft now at Jupiter indicates one of its four large moons, Callisto, has oxygen on its surface and another, Io, continues to emit hot volcanic gases.
Charles Barth, a senior researcher at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics and a member of the CU science team that designed and built the ultraviolet spectrometer flying on Galileo, said hydrogen atoms escaping from Callisto implies the Mercury-sized moon has oxygen locked up in its ice and rocks. In 1996 the CU Galileo team detected evidence of oxygen on the surface of Callisto's neighboring moon, Ganymede.
These artificial and symbolic memories about me being drunk when I hit the ground have something to do with what I heard about how drunk drivers usually survive automobile accidents while the people that are sober do not survive. I need to research that more for details, but I believe that is the source of that symbolism. I might have quipped something about that one time after someone was astonished that I had survived a crash of whatever I was in and I was joking that I had been drunk or something like that, probably based on an earlier conversation about how drunk drivers survive wrecks. That part about the luggage reminds me of the old Samsonite luggage commercials.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsonite
At mid-century and earlier, Samsonite promoted its hard-shell luggage by emphasizing its durability with taglines such as "Strong Enough to Stand On." Even into the twenty-first century, Samsonite continues to be heavily identified with a 1970's ad campaign that actually was for American Tourister, a brand which Samsonite did not acquire until many years later, in 1993. A more current campaign which re-uses the gorilla motif and ties in the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park is "American Tourister: Tough luggage for a tough world."[2]
The original American Tourister television advertisement featured a gorilla and a bright red American Tourister case which the ape pounded on, threw around the cage, jumped on, and finally dragged out the back door. The campaign, which was produced in 1969 and began its fifteen-year run in 1970,[3] is still cited as an example of successful "branding," that is, making a brand name memorable to the general public in a positive association with a particular product -- even though the branding in question has elided in the public mind from American Tourister to that brand's current corporate parent, Samsonite. The 1969 ad was created by advertising genius Roy Grace, who was also responsible for the memorable Alka-Seltzer "Mama Mia! That's a spicy meatball!" campaign.[4] The marketing industry's flagship magazine, Ad Age, has named the gorilla ad to its list of the top one hundred ad campaigns of the twentieth century.[5] The gorilla campaign was reprised with three new ads between 1980-1983[3] and again with a gorilla-dinosaur-suitcase vignette capitalizing on the popularity and technical advances of the 1993 film Jurassic Park, which combined costumes, CGI and animatronics.
