2008 film "The Day the Earth Stood Still" DVD movie:
00:50:09
Klaatu: Where is the boy's father?
Dr. Helen Benson: He's dead.
Klaatu: How did he die?
Dr. Helen Benson: He was in the Army.
Klaatu: So the boy wishes his soldier father were here to rescue the world from the aliens?
Dr. Helen Benson: The boy wishes his father were here for a lot of reasons - aliens being the least of them. He wasn't even that kind of soldier. He was an engineer. He went over there to build - not to fight.
Klaatu: And his mother?
Dr. Helen Benson: She died when he was a baby. I married his father, and... a year ago, he was killed.
00:51:07
Klaatu: He's here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_George_Washington_(CVN-73)
USS George Washington (CVN-73)
Commissioned: July 4, 1992
USS George Washington (CVN 73) is the sixth ship in the Nimitz class of nuclear-powered supercarriers, and the fourth United States Navy ship to be named after George Washington, first President of the United States.
2008 film "The Day the Earth Stood Still" DVD movie:
00:13:04
Michael Grainer: Object 07/493 was first spotted just beyond Jupiter's orbit by the Spaceguard program.
2008 film "The Day the Earth Stood Still" DVD movie:
00:14:25
Michael Grainer: The best we can do is plan for the aftermath.
Yusef: How long do we have?
Michael Grainer: Seventy-eight minutes.
}}}}} JOURNAL ARCHIVE: July 27, 2006
In a way, you could think of the Columbia as "Enterprise-B." According to this list of shuttle flights, the Enterprise conducted 5 atmospheric flights prior to STS-1, which used Columbia as the vehicle. In a sense, Columbia was the second shuttle. It is also interesting to note that Columbia returned on April 14, 1981, which was a Tuesday.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Generations
Release date November 18, 1994
Not long after the USS Enterprise-A completed its final mission ... Captain James T. Kirk, Captain Montgomery Scott and Commander Pavel Chekov attend the christening of its successor, the USS Enterprise-B ... On its maiden voyage, the Enterprise receives a distress call from two ships transporting El-Aurian refugees from their homeworld after it was destroyed by the Borg. Captain Harriman debates for a moment, considering the new vessel's diminished capabilities (few vital systems, such as tractor beams, had been installed, as this was something of a test run -- something of a running joke holds that everything will be installed on Tuesday), but decides to respond to the call and help the ships. Upon arrival, the crew find that the two ships are slowly being destroyed by a mysterious orange ribbon of energy: intense gravometric forces in the vicinity of the energy are rapidly compromising the ships' hull integrities, which will eventually lead to complete hull collapse, an explosion, and the death of everyone on board.
78 years later
[There is something about this too that I can't quite explain, perhaps I crashed landed once in a fighter in a similar fashion:]
A harrowing three minutes later, in which the saucer soars to the surface of Veridian III and slides along the ground for quite some time, removing all vegetation and a significant amount of soil from a long swath, the section shudders to a halt. It is quite obvious that the Enterprise will never fly again.
Picard "awakes" to find himself celebrating Christmas with the family he never had -- a wife, children
In the photo of this Pegasus rocket, there is a guy in a blue flight suit near the port wing of the rocket. He kind of looks like me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_rocket
The Pegasus rocket is a winged space booster
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Pegasus_rocket.jpg
Pegasus rocket on the ground
This seems important:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_rocket
"OCA", Orbital Carrier Aircraft
Launch History
June 1994- STEP-1: Failure (destroyed during first-stage flight)
http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/mwade/lvs/pegsusxl.htm
1994 Jun 27 - - 21:15 GMT.
LV Configuration: Pegasus XL
s/n F6
Launch Site: Vandenberg
Launch Complex: RW30/12
FAILURE: Destroyed on launch
STEP 1 Spacecraft: Eagle
Payload: STEP M1 / P90-1
Destroyed on launch
That is almost 8 miles:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_rocket
The vehicle is launched from another aircraft at approximately 40,000 feet (12,000 m)
http://www.planet4589.org/space/jsr/back/news.206
In June, the first launch of an advanced Pegasus XL from the L-1011 Stargazer carrier plane ended in failure; the cause has been identified as aerodynamic problems due to faulty hydro simulations (no wind tunnel testing was done).
http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Jun-1996/0230.html
"*Stargazer* is a specially modified Lockheed Martin L-1011 TriStar jumbo jet
that's based at Meadows Field in Bakersfield," stated Jim Spellman, executive
director for the National Space Society's Western Spaceport Chapter in Kern,
Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo county.
"It was named by OSC team members in honor of the first 'starship' commanded
by fictional character Captain Jean-Luc Picard from the *Star Trek: The Next
Generation* television series," Spellman added. The aircraft serves as the
"first stage" by carrying the Pegasus XL rocket up to its 40,000 foot release
point over the Pacific Ocean near Vandenberg AFB in Santa Barbara county.
"Upon release from *Stargazer* and a five-second freefall, the Pegasus XL's
solid propellant rocket ignites
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http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0970416/locations
Filming locations for
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
Simon Fraser University
}}}}} JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Friday, April 06, 2007
SEATTLE (F-U Wire) - Microsoft Corporation announces plans to expand its historic outpost of insurrection in Bellevue, Washington. The City Of Bellevue welcomes the insurgency despite that Microsoft Corporation is actively working to overthrow the constitutional form of government in America.
City of Bellevue Mayor Grant Degginger admits that hundreds more Americans will be killed by Microsoft Corporation-sponsored terrorism, but “Hey, Microsoft is giving me a free Lexus to look the other way. Who can argue with that? The covert federal agent we tried to murder only wanted to give us a prison term for providing material support to terrorists.”
When informed that over 99% of the employees of Microsoft Corporation were going to be charged - at a minimum - with providing material support to terrorists, they exclaimed a collective “Wow.”
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[ Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization as convicted that is US DOD & Microsoft-Corbis the International Terrorist Organization against the United States federal government actively instigate insurrection and subversive activity against the United States federal government with all Microsoft-Corbis partners contributors staff employees contractors lawyers managers of any capacity as severely treasonous criminal accomplices and that are active unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States that actively make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in the United States and in the Severely Treasonous and Criminally Rebellious State of Washington by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings ]
http://www.navy.mil/management/photodb/photos/080603-N-5758H-153.jpg
080603-N-5758H-153 ATLANTIC OCEAN (June 3, 2008) Damage Controlman 2nd Class Stephanie A. Cockrell, left, and Damage Controlman 3rd Class April M. Smith, assist a "Tiger Cub" in donning a fire fighting ensemble during Tiger Cruise 2008 aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kenneth R. Hendrix (Released)
http://www.navy.mil/management/photodb/photos/080603-N-5758H-153.jpg
080603-N-5758H-153
[ Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization as convicted that is US DOD & Microsoft-Corbis the International Terrorist Organization against the United States federal government actively instigate insurrection and subversive activity against the United States federal government with all Microsoft-Corbis partners contributors staff employees contractors lawyers managers of any capacity as severely treasonous criminal accomplices and that are active unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States that actively make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in the United States and in the Severely Treasonous and Criminally Rebellious State of Washington by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings ]
}}}}} JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Re: Sleep journal 3/24/06
A few nights ago, I dreamed of being out on a two-lane highway. The pavement was nice and smooth and new-looking, perfect for long-distance bicycling. But in this dream, I was jogging, or maybe walking fast, I'm not sure. It was some kind of competition perhaps. I think the central element of the story was that I was ahead of something or somebody. The only other person I saw was my deceased step-brother. I was moving along the highway and had just climbed up a steep portion of the road that was a switchback section going up a hill. I was at some kind of plateau that then went along under the ridge of the hill. It looked sort of familar, with the uniform tree height telling me that it had probably been logged at one time. My step-brother was acting normal in this dream, as if he was still alive. But he was trying to catch up with me, I guess. I didn't feel like he was chasing me, but yet that seems to be an element of the story. At one point, he was talking to himself and I could hear him and he mentioned a name but I can't remember now what he said. In the last part, he was approaching a fire on the shoulder of the road that apparently I had started, some kind of camp fire. I recall that there was another person there, but I can't visualize that person, it is more of a presence. Not so much an apparition or anything like that, just an unidentified person. I remember thinking during the last part of the dream as I looked at the fire, which was still in sight, that I could use it to stay warm because I was feeling cold.
Last night or maybe the night before, I had another dream about running. I was on a paved path, but the scenery isn't familar. After awaking, I remember thinking that it felt familar, similar to a section of path outside this homeless shelter, but the scenery isn't the same. There was again a presence in this dream, a presence that represents an unidentified person. In this case, the person was forcing or maybe motivating me to run as hard as I could along the path. I don't know why. Thinking back to that one scene in my mind now, it seems like this was all happening, there was some dialogue occurring, but I couldn't hear any of it. Also, it seemed that there was still more path to travel, but this unknown person decided to let me stop running and I started walking. A convience store was up ahead and I got the suggestion to get some Gatoraide, which I was looking forward to.
Today I have been thinking again about that dream I had right before I left Microsoft. It was the dream about seeing two cloud towers from what seemed to be nuclear explosions. I think about this in terms of a foreign dream. Someone may have suggested something to my sleeping mind about "truman." I may have interpreted it as Harry Truman, who authorized the release of the two atomic bombs in WW2. It was later, when I was in the VA I think, when I started thinking about that movie "Truman." I had never seen it before. I wonder if that was the purpose of the suggestion, to make me think of that movie.
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http://www.cswap.com/1980/The_Final_Countdown/cap/en/2_Parts/a/00_36
The Final Countdown
:36:55
Tanker, this is Alert 1. You got
two thirsty Tomcats. Whaddya got?
:37:00
I've got the hard stuff.
Pull right in.
:37:13
Contact.
:37:14
We've got a green light.
:37:16
Fill 'er up, check the oil
and clean the windshield. Over.
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/8F07.html
Saturdays of Thunder
Judge: Hey, you're not supposed to smoke in the pit area.
Nelson: Fine! [extinguishes his cigarette on his tongue]
-- At the soap box derby race, ``Saturdays of Thunder''
Nelson: Hey, [Bart] Simpson, where's your loser-mobile?
Homer: Loser-mobile, heh heh heh... wait a minute!
-- At the soap box derby race, ``Saturdays of Thunder''
% Nelson scoffs at Bart's feeble go-cart. Martin confides in Bart that he
% doesn't care who wins, as long as it isn't Nelson. Bart agrees. Nelson's
% goons wheel in his Roadkill 2000. (``It took me months to steal that
% bumper.'') Apparently, there is somebody trapped in the trunk.
% The cars are poised at the top of the hill, and before Martin can express
% second thoughts, the cars are sent down the hill. Nelson uses a whip
% to attack Bart, leaving Martin to zoom past both of them in his space
% shuttle car. Martin wins easily (all the while screaming for his life).
% Nelson comes in second. Bart's car clunks to a stop a few feet short of
% the finish line. Martin frantically presses the `Parachute' button, but
% the parachute doesn't deploy. It finally does... after he crashes into a
% wall. The car bursts into flames, and Martin rushes out, his clothes on
% fire.
It hurts! It hurts! Owie owie owie ow!
-- Martin is wheeled into the hospital, ``Saturdays of Thunder''
% Dr. Hibbert tells him his arm will be in a cast for six weeks.
% Bart pays Martin a visit...
Hey man, cool crash! Way to cheat death.
