This Is What I Think.

Saturday, February 20, 2010

When the subtlety ends then you have no hope of redemption.




http://www.cswap.com/1982/Star_Trek:_The_Wrath_of_Khan/cap/en/25fps/a/00_50

Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan


:50:08
- Genesis? What's that?
- Don't insult my intelligence.

:50:12
Give me some time to recall
the data on our computers.

:50:15
I give you 60 seconds, Admiral.

:50:24
Clear the bridge.

:50:31
At least we know
he doesn't have Genesis.

:50:34
Keep nodding as though
I'm still giving orders.

:50:37
Mr Saavik, punch up the data charts
of Reliant's command console.

:50:42
- Hurry!
- 45 seconds.

:50:44
The prefix code?

:50:52
- The chart's up, sir.
- Admiral!

:50:54
We're finding it.

:50:57
- Admiral!
- Please.

:51:00
Please, give us time. The bridge is
smashed, the computers inoperative.

:51:04
Time is a luxury
you don't have, Admiral.

:51:14
Damn!

:51:16
- Admiral?
- It's coming through now, Khan.

:51:23
Reliant's prefix number is 16309.

:51:27
I don't understand.

:51:28
You have to learn
why things work on a Starship.










From 10/14/1972 ( United States Navy F-14 Tomcat fighter jet aircraft publicly displayed and I was first United States Navy F-14 Tomcat Commander Air Group and I am original primary Grumman F-14 Tomcat test pilot ) To 6/7/1976 ( my first landing Saturn moon Phoebe and the Saturn moon Phoebe territory belongs to me ) is 1332 days

1332 days = 95 weeks 1 day + 95 weeks 1 day

From 7/16/1963 ( my wife ) To 5/12/1965 ( I am active duty United States Navy aviator and United States Astronaut ) is 95 weeks 1 day


http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50916FC3F5A137A93C7A8178BD95F468785F9

Article Preview

Navy Unveils Its Tomcat Fighter, a $10.2-Million Carrier Plane

By EVERETT R. HOLLESSpecial to The New York Times

October 15, 1972, Sunday

Page 14, 732 words

SAN DIEGO, Oct. 14 -- The Navy substitute for the trouble-plagued F-111 war plane, the F-14 Tomcat fighter, was unveiled here today at the commissioning of the first two squadrons to which the new twin-jet aircraft will be assigned.










From 2/12/1973 ( Operation Homecoming begins and I was the lead C-141A pilot transporting home the American POWs ) to 9/17/1974 ( United States Navy F-14 Tomcat fighter jet aircraft enters active service in United States Navy fleet and I am first United States Navy F-14 Tomcat Commander Air Group and I am original primary Grumman F-14 Tomcat test pilot ) is: 582 days

From 7/16/1963 ( my wife ) to 2/17/1965 ( I am active duty United States Navy SEAL ) is: 582 days



From 5/14/1973 ( as the first civilian and privately funded astronaut and the first explorer of planet beyond Earth while maintaining status on planet Earth as US Naval Reserves military astronaut I planned and scheduled the launch of Skylab space station into Earth orbit - the first United States space station ) To 9/17/1974 ( United States Navy F-14 Tomcat fighter jet aircraft enters active duty and I was original primary Grumman F-14 Tomcat test pilot ) is 491 days

From 9/17/1974 ( United States Navy F-14 Tomcat fighter jet aircraft enters active service in United States Navy fleet and I am first United States Navy F-14 Tomcat Commander Air Group and I am original primary Grumman F-14 Tomcat test pilot ) To 1/21/1976 ( my first landing on planet Mars and my documented and lawful exclusive claim to the territory of planet Mars ) is 491 days


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974_in_aviation

1974 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1974:

Entered service

September 17 - F-14 Tomcat with VF-1 and VF-2 aboard USS Enterprise



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_F-14_Tomcat

History of the F-14 Tomcat


In U.S. Navy service

The 1970s

Operation Frequent Wind

The F-14 made its first combat debut flying cover during Operation Frequent Wind in April 1975. The fighter squadrons VF-1 and VF-2 were deployed on board USS Enterprise (CVN-65) with Carrier Air Wing 14. The cruise began on September 17, 1974 and ended May 20, 1975. The two squadrons flew combat air patrols over South Vietnam during the operation but did not encounter any North Vietnamese MiGs, though they were fired upon by enemy anti-aircraft guns.

Soviet intercepts and American hostages in Iran

During the rest of the 1970’s the F-14 did not see any combat, F-14s primarily intercepted Soviet aircraft coming too close to the carrier groups, and VF-142 was the first Atlantic Fleet F-14 squadron to intercept a Soviet Tu-95 Bear bomber on April 23, 1976. In 1979, VF-111 and VF-51 participated in efforts to free the American hostages in Iran. VF-41 and VF-84 were on station during the crisis in 1980 as well.



http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/e4/enterprise-viiic.htm

Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER

805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD

WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060

Enterprise

Boldness, energy, and invention in practical affairs.

VIII

(CVA(N)-65: displacement 85,600 tons (full load); length 1101'; beam 133'; extreme width 252'; draft 35'; speed 30+ knots; complement 4,600; class Enterprise)

History: 1971-1975


Enterprise sailed for workups and refresher training, 4–28 March 1974, the first portion of which was spent in the workups, with the weekends of 9–10, 16–17 and 23–24 March, being spent in San Diego. During this period the ship was also used by a number of different squadrons for carrier qualifications, as well as a test platform for both F-14As and S-3As. During that time, Lieutenant Commander Grover Giles, pilot, and Lieutenant Commander Roger McFillen, RIO, VF-1, made the maiden F-14A Tomcat landing on board Enterprise on 14 March 1974. Later that day, Giles and McFillen were joined by a pair of Tomcats from the Naval Air Test Center (NATC) Patuxent River, Maryland.

Enterprise spent the remainder of March through mid–April 1974 conducting a “Readiness Improvement Training Period,” followed by further carrier qualifications for both CVW-14 and other unattached squadrons.


Enterprise deployed to the western Pacific on 17 September 1974. Her transit was “literally quiet,” in that the ship made most of it under electronic emissions control (EmCon) restrictions, enabling her to avoid many Soviet forces attempting to intercept and track her.










From 7/16/1963 ( my wife ) to 6/19/1975 ( introduction of United States congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 General of the Armies of the United States applies to me personally and professionally as Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan United States Navy ) is: 4356 days

4356 = 2178 + 2178

From 3/3/1959 ( my birth date US ) to 2/17/1965 ( I am active duty United States Navy SEAL ) is: 2178 days



From 9/2/1965 ( my first day as university student and graduate student instructor at Princeton University where I earned Medical Doctor degree ) to 6/19/1975 ( introduction of United States congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 General of the Armies of the United States applies to me personally and professionally as Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan United States Navy ) is: 3577 days

From 7/16/1963 ( my wife ) to 5/1/1973 ( my graduation from University of Oxford at Lincoln College includes law degree ) is: 3577 days



From 11/16/1973 ( I was Skylab 4 space station astronaut entering orbit of planet Earth before leaving orbit for my 1/18/1974 first landing on planet Venus ) To 9/2/1974 ( I returned to planet Earth after my 18 January 1974 first landing planet Venus ) is 290 days

From 9/2/1974 ( I returned to planet Earth after my 18 January 1974 first landing planet Venus ) To 6/19/1975 ( introduction of United States congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 General of the Armies of the United States applies to me personally and professionally as Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan United States Navy ) is 290 days



From 7/16/1963 ( my wife ) to 6/19/1975 ( introduction of United States congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 General of the Armies of the United States applies to me personally and professionally as Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan United States Navy ) is: 4356 days

From 3/4/1959 ( my birth date UK ) to 2/5/1971 ( I was Apollo 14 Antares command astronaut walking on Earth's moon ) is: 4356 days



From 5/22/1969 ( I was Apollo 10 spacecraft astronaut in orbit of Earth's moon ) To 6/19/1975 ( introduction of United States congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 General of the Armies of the United States applies to me personally and professionally as Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan United States Navy ) is 2219 days

From 6/19/1975 ( introduction of United States congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 General of the Armies of the United States applies to me personally and professionally as Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan United States Navy ) To 7/16/1981 ( my wife ) is 2219 days


http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d094:HJ00519:@@@D%7CTOM:/bss/d094query.html%7C

H.J.RES.519

Title: Joint resolution to provide for the appointment of George Washington to the grade of General of the Armies of the United States.

Sponsor: Rep Biaggi, Mario [NY-10] (introduced 6/19/1975)

Cosponsors (None)

Latest Major Action: 10/11/1976 Public law 94-479.










http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Sat_Phoebe

Saturn: Moons: Phoebe

Phoebe (FEE-bee) is one of Saturn's most intriguing satellites, orbiting at a distance of 12,952,000 kilometers (8,049,668 miles) from the planet










http://www.cswap.com/1991/Terminator_2:_Judgment_Day/cap/en/2_Parts/a/00_45

Terminator 2: Judgment Day


:45:38
Why did you do that?

:45:40
Because you told me to.

:45:44
What?

:45:50
You have to do what I say?

:45:52
That's one of my mission parameters.

:45:56
Prove it.
Stand on one foot.

:46:01
Yes!

:46:05
Cool. My own Terminator. Wow.










2008 film "The Day the Earth Stood Still" DVD movie:

00:49:04


Jacob Benson: Why are people running? We should stay and fight.

Dr. Helen Benson: They didn't come here to hurt us.

Jacob Benson: Well, we should kill them anyway, just to make sure.

Dr. Helen Benson: Don't say that.

Jacob Benson: That's what Dad would've done.

Dr. Helen Benson: I think he would've looked for a different way.

Jacob Benson: He would've fought.

Dr. Helen Benson: I like to think I knew him pretty well.

Jacob Benson: I knew him too, longer than you. What do you think?

Klaatu: Of what?

Jacob Benson: Should people run, or should we stay and fight?

Klaatu: Neither.

Jacob Benson: What should we do then?

Klaatu: There's nothing you can do. This is it. Pull in here.

Dr. Helen Benson: McDonald's?










http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/port

port

a city, town, or other place where ships load or unload.

a place along a coast in which ships may take refuge from storms; harbor.

Also called port of entry. Law. any place where persons and merchandise are allowed to pass, by water or land, into and out of a country and where customs officers are stationed to inspect or appraise imported goods.

a geographical area that forms a harbor: the largest port on the eastern seaboard.

Informal. an airport.










2008 film "The Day the Earth Stood Still" DVD movie:

01:03:48


State Trooper: You, I'm not going to tell you again. Hands on the car.

Jacob Benson: Please don't hurt him.

State Trooper: I'm not going to hurt him, so long as he -

Jacob Benson: I wasn't talking to you.

Klaatu: The pain will only last a moment.

Jacob Benson:[furious] You killed him! You killed him!










http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0067525/quotes

Memorable quotes for

The Omega Man (1971)


[first lines]

[the last man on earth wrecks his car]

Robert Neville: There's never a cop around when you need one.










2008 film "The Day the Earth Stood Still" DVD movie:

01:24:14


Jacob Benson: This is it. This is where we're supposed to meet her. Come on! Hurry up. It's this way. You can do this just like with the Trooper.










http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/chevron

chevron


a pattern consisting of adjoining vertical rows of slanting lines, any two contiguous lines forming either a V or an inverted V










http://www.cswap.com/1979/Star_Trek:_The_Motion_Picture/cap/en/25fps/a/01_52


Star Trek: The Motion Picture


1:52:41
Spock.

1:52:46
Mr. Spock.

1:52:59
Not for us.

1:53:01
No, Captain, not for us.

1:53:04
For V'Ger.

1:53:08
I weep for V'Ger
as I would for a brother.

1:53:14
As I was when I came aboard...

1:53:18
so is V'Ger now...

1:53:20
empty, incomplete and searching.

1:53:24
Logic and knowledge are not enough.

1:53:29
Spock, are you saying
that you found what you needed...

1:53:32
but V'Ger hasn't?

1:53:34
What would V'Ger need
to fulfill itself?

1:53:37
Each of us...

1:53:39
at some time in our lives,
turns to someone...

1:53:43
a father, a brother, a god...

1:53:45
and asks...

1:53:48
"Why am I here?










http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/port

port

a city, town, or other place where ships load or unload.










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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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.










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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://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970416/quotes

Memorable quotes for

The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)


Polygraph Operator: I'm going to ask you a series of control questions. Are you currently in a seated position?

Klaatu: Yes.

Polygraph Operator: Are you human?

Klaatu: My body is.

Polygraph Operator: Do you feel pain?

Klaatu: My Body does.

Polygraph Operator: Are you aware of an impending attack on the planet earth?

Klaatu: You should let me go.










"Space: Above And Beyond"

"The Angriest Angel"

February 11, 1996

Episode 15 DVD:

00:09:47


Lt. Colonel T.C. McQueen: "Looking darkly upon Hektor swift-footed Achilleus answered 'I cannot forgive you. As there are no trustworthy oaths between men and lions there can be no love between you and me. One of the other must fall before then to glut with his blood, Ares, the god who fights under the shields guard. Remember every valor of yours for now the need comes hardest upon you to be a spearman and a bold warrior. There shall be no escape for you. You will pay in a lump for all those sorrows of my companions you killed in your spear's fury.'"










http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleet_Admiral_%28United_States%29

Fleet Admiral (United States)

Fleet Admiral of the United States Navy (FADM), or more commonly referred to as Fleet Admiral, is a five-star flag officer rank and is presently considered the highest possible rank in the United States Navy.


The insignia for Fleet Admiral comprises five stars in a pentagon design with a thick rank stripe, below four smaller stripes, on the service dress blue uniform.


The Fleet Admiral rank is reserved for war-time use only





From 6/19/1968 ( my 1st United States Navy Medal of Honor and I am US military fighter jet ace during the Vietnam War ) to 5/1/1973 ( my graduation from University of Oxford at Lincoln College includes law degree ) is: 1777 days

From 5/1/1973 ( my graduation from University of Oxford at Lincoln College includes law degree ) to 3/13/1978 ( United States Department of the Army Order 31-3 General Of The Armies applies to me personally and professionally as Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan US Navy ) is: 1777 days



From 9/2/1974 ( I returned to planet Earth after my 18 January 1974 first landing planet Venus ) To 6/7/1976 ( my first landing Saturn moon Phoebe and the Saturn moon Phoebe territory belongs to me and my wife ) is 644 days

From 6/7/1976 ( my first landing Saturn moon Phoebe and the Saturn moon Phoebe territory belongs to me and my wife ) To 3/13/1978 ( United States Department of the Army Order 31-3 General Of The Armies applies to me personally and professionally as Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan US Navy ) is 644 days


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_of_the_Armies

General of the Armies

General of the Armies and General of the Armies of the United States are the highest possible ranks in the United States Army.