Every time I see a photo like this, I think of how my crash landing into the emergency barricade in 1985 would have been recorded on video.
http://www.navy.mil/management/photodb/photos/070725-N-7981E-062.jpg
070725-N-7981E-062 PACIFIC OCEAN (July 25, 2007) - Electrician's Mate Fireman Preston Rucker, assigned to air department, operates the ship's Integrated Launch And Recovery Television Surveillance system during helicopter operations aboard Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). Lincoln is underway off the coast of Southern California conducting Tailored Ship's Training Availability. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communications Specialist 3rd Class James R. Evans (RELEASED)
http://www.navy.mil/management/photodb/photos/070725-N-4014G-023.jpg
070725-N-4014G-023 NORFOLK, Va. (July 25, 2007) - A young girl throws a paper airplane during a paper-airplane-throwing contest as part of Bring Your Child To Work Day aboard amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3). The day allowed parents who are deploying with the ship to bring their children aboard to see where their parents work and live while underway. Kearsarge is preparing for an upcoming deployment. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Patrick Gearhiser (RELEASED)
I assume that the date listed as Michelle Kwan's birthday is a date I created for her public identity. I further assume I created it to point the launch of Skylab 2, which I have been thinking was the process of getting my Project Orion space ship into orbit, or at least a test of certain components of that Project Orion ship in space. I have been thinking for a while that Michelle Kwan is one of my children.
From 3/3/1959 to 7/7/1980 is: 7797 days
From 5/25/1973 to 7/7/1980 is: 2600 days
2600 / 7797 = 0.3334
33-34
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005111/
Michelle Kwan
Date of Birth: 7 July 1980
Michelle Kwan: Princess on Ice (2001) (TV) .... Herself
... aka Disney and Hallmark Present Michelle Kwan: Princess on Ice
"The Simpsons" .... Herself (1 episode, 2005) - Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass (2005) TV Episode (voice) .... Herself
Ice Princess (2005) .... Herself
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab_2
Launch: May 25, 1973
Landing: June 22, 1973
Duration: 28 days 0 h 49 min 49 s
Skylab 2 (also SL-2 and SLM-1[1]) was the first manned mission to Skylab, the first U.S. orbital space station. The mission was launched on a Saturn IB rocket and carried a three-person crew to the station. The name Skylab 2 also refers to the vehicle used for that mission. The Skylab 2 mission established a record for human spaceflight duration.
From 11/2/1975 to 4/14/1977 is: 529 days
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Cruise
Tiger Cruise (August 6, 2004) is the 53rd Disney Channel Original Movie. It stars Hayden Panettiere (Remember the Titans) and Bill Pullman (Independence Day). The film's fictional events are intertwined with the real-life events of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Maddie Dolan is on a mission to convince her dad to give up his naval career and come home to his family where he belongs. To do this, Maddie accepts her dad's offer to participate in Operation Tiger, a week-long cruise for family and friends aboard his aircraft carrier.
Maddie thinks her plans might actually work until September 11, 2001, two days into the cruise. When the ship goes into high alert, Maddie gets to see her father's courage, honor and commitment to his family firsthand and discovers the importance of the sacrifice he makes to serve his country, and she now understands why her dad wants to (and has to) serve.
The actress who portrays the daughter of the US Navy officer in this movie was born 3332 days after the birthday listed for Michelle Kwan and I assume that was done to represent that Michelle is my daughter and the goal was to create a 33-34 artistic device.
From 7/7/1980 to 8/21/1989 is: 3332 days
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0659363/
Hayden Panettiere
Date of Birth: 21 August 1989
Tiger Cruise (2004) (TV) .... Maddie Dolan
From 3/16/1998 to 8/6/2004 is: 333 weeks, 4 days
33-34
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397113/
Tiger Cruise (2004) (TV)
Release Date: 6 August 2004 (USA)
Tagline: Maddie wanted a father. What she found was a hero.
Plot Outline: In the wake of the World Trade Center attacks, a naval carrier with civilians on board is ordered in combat mode.
Hayden Panettiere ... Maddie Dolan
Bill Pullman ... Cmdr. Gary Dolan
Barbara Niven ... Kate Dolan
I assume "Kate Dolan" is the mother of "Maddie Dolan" and the wife of "Cmdr. Gary Dolan" in this movie.
From 2/26/1953 to 7/16/1963 is: 3792 days
From 3/3/1959 to 7/20/1969 is: 3792 days
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0018271/
Barbara Niven
Date of Birth: 26 February 1953
Tiger Cruise (2004) (TV) .... Kate Dolan
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397113/quotes
Memorable quotes for
Tiger Cruise (2004) (TV)
Maddie Dolan: Dad, when are you coming home?
Cmdr. Dolan: What do you mean? We're gonna be docking on Friday.
Maddie Dolan: No, I mean when are you coming home. For good.
Cmdr. Dolan: [Cmdr. Dolan realizes why she came] Is that why you came on board... to ask me that? This is my job.
Maddie Dolan: So get a new one. You got the degress. You could do like anything you want.
Cmdr. Dolan: This is what I do.
From 7/16/1963 to 12/24/1968 is: 1988 days
From 3/3/1959 to 6/4/1975 is: 5937 days
1988 / 5937 = 0.334
3-3-4
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001401/
Angelina Jolie
Date of Birth: 4 June 1975
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) .... Jane Smith
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) .... Franky
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003) .... Lara Croft
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) .... Lara Croft
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087363/quotes
Memorable quotes for
Gremlins (1984)
Kate: Now I have another reason to hate Christmas.
Billy Peltzer: What are you talking about?
Kate: The worst thing that ever happened to me was on Christmas. Oh, God. It was so horrible. It was Christmas Eve. I was 9 years old. Me and Mom were decorating the tree, waiting for Dad to come home from work. A couple hours went by. Dad wasn't home. So Mom called the office. No answer. Christmas Day came and went, and still nothing. So the police began a search. Four or five days went by. Neither one of us could eat or sleep. Everything was falling apart. It was snowing outside. The house was freezing, so I went to try to light up the fire. That's when I noticed the smell. The firemen came and broke through the chimney top. And me and Mom were expecting them to pull out a dead cat or a bird. And instead they pulled out my father. He was dressed in a Santa Claus suit. He'd been climbing down the chimney... his arms loaded with presents. He was gonna surprise us. He slipped and broke his neck. He died instantly. And that's how I found out there was no Santa Claus.
From 3/3/1959 to 12/24/1968 is: 9 years, 9 months, 3 weeks
9-9-3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_8
Apollo 8 was the second manned mission of the Apollo space program, in which Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot James Lovell and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders became the first humans to orbit around the Moon. It was also the first manned launch of the Saturn V rocket.
NASA prepared for the mission in only four months. The hardware involved had only been used a few times—the Saturn V had launched only twice before, and the Apollo spacecraft had only just finished its first manned mission, Apollo 7. However, the success of the mission paved the way for the successful completion of U.S. President John F. Kennedy's goal of landing on the Moon before the end of the decade.
After launching on December 21, 1968, the crew took three days to travel to the Moon, which they orbited for 20 hours. While in lunar orbit the crew made a Christmas Eve television broadcast in which they read from the book of Genesis. It was the most watched broadcast to date.
From 7/2/1976 to 6/27/1981 is: 59 months, 3 weeks, 4 days
59-34
9-9-3
http://www.navysite.de/dd/ddg993.htm
USS Kidd (DDG 993)
USS KIDD was the lead ship of the KIDD - class of guided missile destroyers. These ships were a modified version of the SPRUANCE - class destroyers. Originally built for Iran, the ship was first named KOUROUSH, but after the destroyer's takeover by the U.S. Navy the ship was renamed KIDD, becoming the second ship in the Navy named after Rear Admiral Isaac Campbell Kidd.
Commissioned: June 27, 1981
I recognize the date 11/2/1975 as when I launched from Earth to begin my mission to divert the comet. I assume I created the date listed publicly as Danica Patricks birthday because she is my daughter.
From 11/2/1975 to 3/25/1982 is: 333 weeks, 4 days
33-34
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1701077/
Danica Patrick
Date of Birth: 25 March 1982
"Girl Racers" (2005) (mini) TV Series .... Herself
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421350/
"Girl Racers" (2005) (mini)
TV-Series
Tagline: Girl Racers follows North America's leading female race car drivers over the course of the 2004 racing season.
Of the Apollo space flights in the 1960's and 1970's, 6 of those flights landed on the surface of the Earth's moon. The Apollo 14 flight was 3rd of 6 landings on the Earth's moon. The birthday listed for actress Kristin Kreuk is at the mid-point of that Apollo flight that was the middle flight of the lunar landings, relative to my birthdate.
From 3/4/1959 to 1/31/1971 is: 4351 days
From 1/31/1971 to 12/30/1982 is: 4351 days
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0471036/
Kristin Kreuk
Date of Birth: 30 December 1982
"Smallville" .... Lana Lang (133 episodes, 2001-2007)
Superman: The Early Years (Behind the Scenes of Smallville) (2002) (TV) .... Herself
Snow White (2001) (TV) .... Snow White
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_14
Apollo 14 was the eighth manned mission in the Apollo program and the third mission to land on the Moon.
Launch: January 31, 1971
Lunar landing: February 5, 1971
Landing: February 9, 1971
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program
The Apollo program, specifically the human lunar landings, are often cited as one of the greatest events in human history.
Apollo 7 lunar landing: none. Earth orbit only
Apollo 8 lunar landing: none. Only orbited the Earth's moon beginning 12/24/1968 UTC.
Apollo 9 lunar landing: none. Earth orbit only.
Apollo 10 lunar landing: none. 2nd flight to orbit the Earth's moon.
Apollo 11 lunar landing: 7/20/1969. 1st landing.
Apollo 12 lunar landing: 11/19/1969. 2nd landing.
Apollo 13 lunar landing: none. Lunar landing aborted. Lunar flyby only.
Apollo 14 lunar landing: 2/5/1971. 3rd landing.
Apollo 15 lunar landing: 7/30/1971. 4th landing.
Apollo 16 lunar landing: 4/21/1972. 5th landing.
Apollo 17 lunar landing: 12/11/1972. 6th and final landing.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Sleep journal 3/19/06
Yesterday was some kind of foreign dream that was more of an emotion than a visualization. I couldn't remember any of the details although I felt like I had been seeing details. All I remembered was feeling like it was something intense, there was some intensity to the communication, almost overwhelming like a very strong and clear signal on a radio. After I woke up, I could only characterize the message as positive.
Today the first foreign dream wasn't too clear either. It had something to do with me, someother characters, and something about the stars. We were under the stars, or we were talking to the stars. I can visualize the sky with the stars but they may have also been a metaphor for people. Then I left somewhere and there was something about a goose, not sure what that meant, maybe something to do with staying meant something about a cooked goose.
The second foreign dream had a lot of detail. I was sitting on a bus with someone that I knew but I don't know who it was. It may have been Britney Spears but that makes no sense. I was sitting next to her and she was someone that I had lived with before, someone I had a relationship with, like a girlfriend. I was getting off the bus to a place I was staying that I don't recognize from anyplace I've been in real life. She asked me if I was really staying there, she may have commented that it was amazing I was staying there, or someone else said that. Apparently, it was the same place she and I had lived during our relationship. It was some kind of little travel trailer. A young woman was letting me stay there. I was taking up a little open seat or bench in a hallway of the trailer. I had a little storage bin to put my stuff in.
For a while I was thinking this was about Britney Spears mother, in that I was dreaming of a time before the first space shuttle launched and I was telling her mother that I was launching on that flight. But more likely, it is about my wife, Phoebe, who I guess is her step-mother. And I have no idea the context of this conversation that was occurring in my dream because I don't think Phoebe knew about my space shuttle flights. Or maybe I told her about it later and she told me it was amazing that I was an astronaut. Or maybe that it what I anticipated her to say when I told her about it in the future.
From 4/12/1981 to 12/2/1981 is: 33 weeks, 3 days
3-3-3
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005453/
Britney Spears
Date of Birth: 2 December 1981
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-1
The first Space Shuttle mission, STS-1, was launched April 12, 1981, and returned April 14. Space Shuttle Columbia orbited the earth 36 times in this 54.5-hour mission. It was the first US manned space flight since the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in July 15, 1975.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13228977/
Britney Spears’ ‘manny’ is Navy man
Perry Taylor is ‘more of a bodyguard,’ says his mother
Updated: 3:53 p.m. PT June 9, 2006
EASTON, Md. - At the U.S. Naval Academy, Perry Taylor was addressed as “midshipman.” Now, though, he’s known as Perry Poppins.
The 28-year-old Easton native has popped up in supermarket tabloids as the male nanny — or “manny” — for Britney Spears, who has a 9-month-old son, Sean Preston, and is pregnant.
“Actually, he’s more of a bodyguard,” says Taylor’s mother, Caroline Moncure-Taylor, a Washington real estate agent. Moncure-Taylor told The (Baltimore) Sun that Taylor has worked for the 24-year-old pop singer for less than a month.
From 4/14/1981 to 12/1/1984 is: 3 years, 33 weeks
3-3-3
http://www.navysite.de/ffg/FFG50.HTM
USS Taylor (FFG 50)
USS TAYLOR is one of the many OLIVER HAZARD PERRY class frigates.
Commissioned: December 1, 1984
The date 11/16/1965 was the middle day of the battle that "We Were Soldier Once...And Young" is based on.
From 11/14/1965 to 11/18/1965 is: 4 days
4 / 2 = 2
From 11/14/1965 to 11/16/1965 is: 2 days
I assume I created this birthdate that is listed publicly for Paris because she is my daughter. I haven't watched "The Simple Life" series but I am familiar with the concept and I find it entertaining.
From 11/16/1965 to 2/17/1981 is: 15 years, 93 days
1-593
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0385296/
Paris Hilton
Date of Birth: 17 February 1981
"The Simple Life" .... Herself (46 episodes, 2003-2007)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ia_Drang
The Battle of Ia Drang was the first major battle of the Vietnam War between the United States Army and the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN).
The two-part battle took place between November 14 and November 18, 1965, at two landing zones (LZ's) northwest of Plei Me in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam. The battle derives its name from the Drang River which runs through the valley northwest of Plei Me, in which the engagement took place. "Ia" means "river" in the local Montagnard language.
Representing the American forces were elements of the 1st Battalion 7th Cavalry, the 2nd Battalion 7th Cavalry, and the 1st Battalion 5th Cavalry of the United States Army. The communist forces included the 33rd, 66th, and 320th Regiments of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), as well National Liberation Front (NLF) of the H15 Battalion.
The battle is the subject of the critically acclaimed book We Were Soldiers Once ... And Young by Harold (Hal) Moore and Joseph L. Galloway. In 2002, screenwriter Randall Wallace depicted the first part of the battle in the film We Were Soldiers starring Mel Gibson.
I was 33 years, 33 weeks, old when this book released.
From 3/3/1959 to 10/20/1992 is: 33 years, 33 weeks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Were_Soldiers_Once_..._And_Young
Released October 20, 1992
We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young is a 1992 book by Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore (Ret.) and war journalist Joseph L. Galloway about the Vietnam War. It focuses on the role of the First and Second Battalions of the 7th Cavalry Regiment in the Battle of Ia Drang. This battle was the first large-unit battle of the Vietnam War; previous conflicts involved small units and patrols (squad, platoon, and company sized units).
Friday, 3/1/2002
Sunday, 3/3/2002
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0277434/
We Were Soldiers (2002)
Release Date: 1 March 2002 (USA)
Plot Outline: The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it.
I have been pondering Greg Kinnear's role as a helicopter pilot in that movie since I first watched the movie. That might have been my actual role in that battle. I might have been flying in the helicopter as co-pilot with Major Crandall.
From 3/3/1959 to 11/14/1965 is: 2448 days
From 6/17/1963 to 11/14/1965 is: 881 days
881 / 2448 = 0.359
3-59
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001427/
Greg Kinnear
Date of Birth: 17 June 1963
We Were Soldiers (2002) .... Maj. Bruce 'Snake' Crandall
From 3/3/1959 to 11/15/1966 is: 2814 days
From 3/3/1959 to 6/9/1981 is: 8134 days
2814 / 8134 = 0.3459
34-59
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000204/
Natalie Portman
Date of Birth: 9 June 1981
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_12
Launch: November 11, 1966
Landing: November 15, 1966
Gemini 12 (officially Gemini XII) was a 1966 manned spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program. It was the 10th manned Gemini flight, the 18th manned American flight and the 26th spaceflight of all time (includes X-15 flights over 100 km).
There are 7 named Apollo missions before Apollo 10 and 7 named Apollo missions after Apollo 10.
7 flights: Apollo 1, Apollo 4, Apollo 5, Apollo 6, Apollo 7, Apollo 8, Apollo 9
Middle of named Apollo missions: Apollo 10
7 flights: Apollo 11, Apollo 12, Apollo 13, Apollo 14, Apollo 15, Apollo 16, Apollo 17
From 3/3/1959 to 5/18/1969 is: 3729 days
From 5/18/1969 to 8/3/1979 is: 3729 days
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1431940/
Evangeline Lilly
Date of Birth: 3 August 1979
"Lost" .... Kate Austen (69 episodes, 2004-2007)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_10
Launch: May 18, 1969
Landing: May 26, 1969
Apollo 10 was the fourth manned mission in the Apollo program. The mission included the second crew to orbit the Moon, and the test of the lunar module in lunar orbit. The module came to within 8.4 nautical miles (15.6 km) of the lunar surface during practice maneuvers. According to the 2001 Guinness World Records Apollo 10 has the record for the highest speed attained by a manned vehicle: 39,897 km/h (11.08 km/s or 24,791 mph). The speed record was set during the return from the Moon on 26 May 1969.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program
Missions of the Apollo program
Assuming I created this date for her public birthdate because she is my daughter, I note that this is precisely 10 years after 7/2/1976. I recognize the date 7/2/1976 as when I arrived at the comet and set to work at diverting it.
From 7/2/1976 to 7/2/1986 is: 10 years
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0517820/
Lindsay Lohan
Date of Birth: 2 July 1986
I recognize the date 6/7/1976 as when I first landed on the Saturn moon Phoebe.
From 6/7/1976 to 10/11/1989 is: 4 days, 4 months, 13 years
4-4-1-3
From 3/3/1959 to 7/16/1963 is: 4 years, 4 months, 13 days
4-4-1-3
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1984988/
Michelle Wie
Date of Birth: 11 October 1989, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
From 7/16/1963 to 10/15/1997 is: 13 weeks, 34 years
1-334
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adora_Svitak
Adora Lily Svitak (born October 15, 1997) Usually known simply as Adora Svitak. Svitak is an American child prodigy and internationally published author, known for her essays, stories, poems, blogs, and full-length books. Adora first became known to the public when, at the age of 6, she was recognized on local news in Seattle for her writing abilities.[1] Adora became an object of national interest at the age of 7 when she appeared with Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America.[2] Her book, Flying Fingers describes Adora's abiding love of language and writing and contains tips and hints for other aspiring writers. [3] In 2005, at the age of 7, Adora began writing blogs and keeping an online journal, where she comments on matters of both international significance and subjects of personal interest.[4][5] Since Nov, 2005 Adora has been leveraging her talent and fame to promote literacy and interest in reading and writing. She has lectured before large audiences of both students and adults across the United States, and recently in Great Britain.[6]
As of January 2007, Adora is completing her first full-length novel "Yang in Disguise," serving as a spokesperson for Verizon Reads campaign for literacy, and working on an animated computer program to help develop children's reading and speaking skills.