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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

The Final Irony




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Memorable quotes for

Rocky V (1990)


George W. Duke: [to Rocky] C'mon, pug. Touch me, I'll sue.

Rocky Balboa: Sue me for what?










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March 1960


March 1, 1960 (Tuesday)

NASA established an Office of Life Sciences to work on exobiology, based on Dr. Joshua Lederberg's ideas that space vehicles should be sterilized before and after their missions in order to prevent the possibility of contamination of outer space or of the Earth by microbes.





http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4902/contents.htm

SP-4902 The Planetary Quarantine Program


3. NASA and Its Planetary Quarantine Responsibilities.


http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4902/ch3.htm

SP-4902 The Planetary Quarantine Program

NASA and Its Planetary Quarantine Responsibilities

THE AUTHORITY FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION of the national and international recommendations concerning the prevention of contamination, and later concerning planetary quarantine, resides in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA, subject always to the final authority of the Congress, which established that agency and which appropriates the funds to carry out approved programs, and to the Federal Executive office, which approves the budgets NASA presents to the Congress.


This Office of Life Sciences was formed after NASA, in August 1959, set up another biological group, the ad hoc Bioscience Advisory Committee, better known as the Kety Committee after Dr. Seymour S. Kety, its Chairman. Other members were Drs. Wallace O. Fenn, David R. Goddard, Donald G. Marquis, Robert S. Morison, and Cornelius A. Tobias. Advisors included Stephen Dole, Dr. Joshua Lederberg, Dr. Melvin Calvin, and Dr. W. Randolph Lovelace, II. Dr. Randt served as executive secretary. The Kety Committee had met on October 15-16, 1959, and on January 25, 1960, and had recommended that an Office of Life Sciences be established as a major division of NASA.

Dr. Glennan accepted the recommendation and established the office on March 1, 1960, naming Dr. Randt as Director. This office was responsible for all biological and medical programs within NASA. The mandate included aerospace medicine, biological satellite experiments, exobiology, and the accompanying spacecraft sterilization program.










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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home


:23:24
Ambassador Sarek, I'm afraid
you're trapped here with us.

:23:28
There's no way
we can answer this probe.

:23:32
It's difficult to answer when one
does not understand the question.

:23:39
Perhaps you should transmit
a planetary distress signal...

:23:45
..while we still have time.










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Memorable quotes for

Battlestar Galactica (2003) (TV)


Number Six: What are you doing?

Baltar: Phoning my attorney.

Number Six: That won't be necessary.

Baltar: Nah, he'll know what to do. He'll sort this out. He's the best in the business.

Number Six: It won't be necessary because in a few hours no one will be left to charge you with anything.

Baltar: What exactly are you saying?

Number Six: Humanity's children are returning home. Today.










}}}}} JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess

To: Kerry Burgess

Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 11:04:15 AM

Subject: Re: Journal May 21, 2006


Kerry Burgess wrote:

I also have these unexplained thoughts that I was a fighter pilot in the U.S. military, although I'm not sure which service, but I may have been in two different branches over time. I am also confused about thoughts that I may have been a helicopter pilot. What's next? A space shuttle pilot? Seems like a lot for someone that is only 40. And, while I am not sure when this divergence happened, I am reasonably certain it was before I turned 33. So I must have been a pretty busy guy. Especially because I have thoughts that I was some kind of mathmetician too. I have these thoughts too that I was captured by enemy forces at some point and tortured while in captivity.


I've been thinking today, in terms of that movie Impostor, that a war would be pretty brutal with an alien race, especially for the POWs if there wasn't a lot of knowledge about the other race.

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From 2/22/1976 ( The Point Of No Return - my Orion space ship and I survived a catastrophic collision with a meteor and I decide to continue my mission as planned to divert Comet Lucifer in the outer solar system ) to 9/24/1995 ( premiere US TV series "Space: Above and Beyond" ) is: 7154 days

7154 = 3577 + 3577

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 3/13/1978 ( U.S. Department of the Army Order 31-3 General Of The Armies of the United States applies to me personally and professionally as Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan U.S. Navy ) to 9/24/1995 ( premiere US TV series "Space: Above and Beyond" ) is: 6404 days

6404 = 3202 + 3202

From 7/16/1963 ( my wife ) to 4/21/1972 ( I was Apollo 16 Orion astronaut walking on Earth's moon ) is: 3202 days


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112173/

"Space: Above and Beyond" (1995)

TV series 1995-1996

Release Date: 24 September 1995 (USA)

Plot: Earth is embroiled in a desperate war against invaders and this series focuses on one squad of marines involved in it.

James Morrison ... Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius "T.C." McQueen










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Memorable quotes for

"Space: Above and Beyond" (1995)


[first lines]

Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius "TC" McQueen: [narration] We thought we were alone. We believed the universe was ours. Until one night in 2063, on a Earth colony 16 light-years away, they struck. Now we're at war. We fight when called, in space, on land, and at sea. To lose this war means more than defeat; to surrender is to never go home. All of us must rise to the call... above and beyond.










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Star Trek: The Motion Picture


1:04:07
Opinion, Mr. Spock.

1:04:09
Recommend we proceed, Captain.

1:04:11
- Mr. Decker?
- I advise caution, Captain.

1:04:15
We can't withstand another attack.

1:04:17
That thing is 20 hours
away from Earth.

1:04:19
- We know nothing about it as yet.
- Precisely the point, Captain.

1:04:22
We don't know what it'll do.

1:04:24
Moving into that cloud
at this time...

1:04:27
is an unwarranted gamble.

1:04:30
How do you define "unwarranted"?

1:04:36
You asked my opinion, sir.

1:04:45
Viewer. Standard ahead.

1:04:57
Navigator, maintain course.

1:04:58
Helmsman...

1:05:01
steady as she goes.










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Memorable quotes for

Dawn of the Dead (2004)


CJ: Not to shit on anyone's riff here, but let me just see if I grasp this concept, ok? You're suggesting that we take some fucking parking shuttles, and reinforce them with some aluminum siding, and then just head on over to the gun store and watch our good friend Andy play some cowboy movie jump-on-the-covered-wagon bullshit. Then, we're gonna drive across a ruined city, through a welcome committee of a few hundred thousand dead cannibals, all so that we can sail off into the sunset on this fucking asshole's boat?

[Points to Steve]

CJ: And head for some island that for all we know doesn't even exist?

Kenneth: Yeah.

Tucker: Pretty much, yeah.

Ana: [nods her head]

Michael: Yeah.

Steve: [gives a sarcastically enthusiastic "thumb up"]

CJ: Okay... I'm in.










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Memorable quotes for

"Battlestar Galactica"

Fire in Space (1978)


Sheba: Just don't get careless. You lose your grip just once and you'll be floating in space forever.

Lt. Starbuck: Thanks for reminding us, Sheba.










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Memorable quotes for

Dawn of the Dead (2004)


CJ: Fucking figures!










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Space Cowboys


1:49:16
Stop laughing.
You used up all your oxygen, dummy.










From 11/26/1976 ( my first landing Jupiter moon Callisto ) to 10/18/2004 ( premiere UK TV series "Battlestar Galactica"::series premiere episode "33" ) is: 10188 days

10188 = 5094 + 5094

From 3/4/1959 ( my birth date UK ) to 2/12/1973 ( Operation Homecoming begins and I was the lead C-141A pilot transporting home the American POWs ) is: 5094 days



From 12/24/1968 ( I was Apollo 8 astronaut in orbit of Earth's moon ) To 10/18/2004 ( premiere UK TV series "Battlestar Galactica"::series premiere episode "33" ) is 13082 days

13082 = 6541 + 6541

From 7/16/1963 ( my wife ) To 6/12/1981 ( U.S. President Ronald Reagan : Proclamation 4848—National P.O.W.-M.I.A. Recognition Day 1981 ) is 6541 days



From 4/21/1972 ( I was Apollo 16 Orion astronaut walking on Earth's moon ) to 10/18/2004 ( premiere UK TV series "Battlestar Galactica"::series premiere episode "33" ) is: 11868 days

11868 = 5934 + 5934

'59-34' ( my birth date UK )


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Release dates for

"Battlestar Galactica" (2004)

UK 18 October 2004










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.










From 7/21/1979 ( my wife Phoebe and I are married ) to 12/11/1997 ( by authority of my discovery by my physical presence at Jupiter moon Callisto in 1976 I approve this date as the official announcement that the Jupiter moon Callisto has oxygen at its surface ) is: 6718 days

6718 = 3359 + 3359

'33-59' ( my birth date US )



From 11/2/1975 ( I launched from Earth by myself to intercept Comet Lucifer in the outer solar system ) to 12/11/1997 ( by authority of my discovery by my physical presence at Jupiter moon Callisto in 1976 I approve this date as the official announcement that the Jupiter moon Callisto has oxygen at its surface ) is: 8075 days

From 3/4/1959 ( my birth date UK ) to 4/12/1981 ( I was the commander aboard the STS-1 Columbia spacecraft as Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan U.S. Navy ) is: 8075 days


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1997/12/971211074040.htm

Oxygen Discovered At Callisto's Surface, Sulfur Dioxide Sources At Io

ScienceDaily (Dec. 11, 1997) — 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





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

Jupiter: Moons: Callisto

With a diameter of over 4,800 km (2,985 miles), Callisto is the third largest satellite in the solar system and is almost the size of Mercury. Callisto is the outermost of the Galilean satellites, and orbits beyonds Jupiter's main radiation belts.





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callisto_%28moon%29

Callisto (moon)

Callisto is a moon of the planet Jupiter, discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei. It is the third-largest moon in the Solar System and the second largest in the Jovian system, after Ganymede. Callisto has about 99% the diameter of the planet Mercury










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Memorable quotes for

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)


Han Solo: You said you wanted to be around when I made a mistake, well, this could be it, sweetheart.

Princess Leia: I take it back.