A few hours ago I stopped for the first time to look at a collection of DVDs in a store and I had never before looked in that collection. I noticed a copy of the 1998 film "Sphere" in there and I was pleased to find a copy of it. I guess I haven't watched it since I referenced it on a television broadcast in May 2008. I have probably watched it more times that once. I probably would have gone to see it when it premiered in the theatre but I have absolutely no idea whether I did or not and all I feel a slight twinge of anger when I try to think about whether I saw it or not in the theatre.
I haven't watched it yet today but I plan to do so in the next couple hours or so.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 05/24/08 3:03 PM
"Stop calling me Jerry."
The dialog explains later that they miscoded the translation and that they should have used the 'H' which was next to the 'J.' I cannot remember when I last watched this movie but I remember thinking that 'K' is on the other side of 'J.'
Sphere (1998)
15 AETVP: Saturday, May 24 1:00 PM
1998, PG-13, *, 02:13, Color, English, United States,
A psychologist (Dustin Hoffman), a biochemist (Sharon Stone), a mathematician (Samuel L. Jackson) and others investigate a large golden sphere deep in the ocean.
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samuel L. Jackson, Peter Coyote, Liev Schreiber, Queen Latifah, Marga Gomez Director(s): Barry Levinson Producer(s): Michael Crichton, Barry Levinson, Andrew Wald Executive Producer(s): Peter Giuliano
[ JOURNAL ARCHIVE 24 May 2008 excerpt ends ]
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Norman Goodman: What is it, Harry?
Dr. Harry Adams: Take a look. It's chipped!
Captain Harold C. Barnes: Alright, it's chipped - so what?
Dr. Harry Adams: Well I thought you said this thing wouldn't damage when it crashed and that this titanium alloy was so superstrong there's no way you can hurt it.
Captain Harold C. Barnes: I did.
Dr. Harry Adams: So how come it chips when this scientist just bangs on it with a hammer?
From 9/10/1943 ( premiere US film "The Kansan" ) To 2/13/1998 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US film "Sphere" ) is 19880 days
19880 = 9940 + 9940
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/19/1993 ( in Asheville North Carolina as Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess I was seriously wounded by gunfire when I returned fatal gunfire to a fugitive from United States federal justice who was another criminal sent by Bill Gates-Nazi-Microsoft-George Bush the cowardly violent criminal in another attempt to kill me the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) is 9940 days
From 9/22/1960 ( premiere US film "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs" ) To 1/3/1993 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US TV series "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine"::series premiere episode "Emissary" ) is 11791 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 2/13/1998 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US film "Sphere" ) is 11791 days
From 7/19/1989 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-George Bush kills 111 passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 232 and destroys the United Airlines Flight 232 aircraft because I was a passenger of United Airlines Flight 232 as United States Navy Petty Officer Second Class Kerry Wayne Burgess and I was assigned to maintain custody of a non-violent offender military prisoner of the United States ) To 2/13/1998 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US film "Sphere" ) is 3131 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/30/1974 ( the US NASA ATS-6 satellite launched into orbit of the planet Earth ) is 3131 days
From 6/27/1994 ( United States Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan the pilot and plane crash survivor along with me Kerry Wayne Burgess - circa 1990 also known for official duty as Wayne Newman the Deputy United States Marshal and then as Chief Deputy United States Marshal and the active duty commissioned officer of the United States Marine Corps - and the other Lockheed L-1011 aircraft passengers and crew murdered in a scheduled terrorism-sabotage attack by Bill Gates-Nazi-Microsoft-Corbis-NASA-George Bush the cowardly violent criminal by causing the external mounted Orbital Sciences Pegasus space satellite booster rocket to explode and fatally disable our aircraft ) To 2/13/1998 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US film "Sphere" ) is 1327 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/21/1969 ( premiere United Kingdom TV "Royal Family" ) is 1327 days
From 5/22/1947 ( Harry S. Truman endorses the Truman Doctrine ) To 2/13/1998 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US film "Sphere" ) is 18530 days
18530 = 9265 + 9265
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 3/16/1991 ( date hijacked from me:my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) is 9265 days
From 9/13/1959 ( premiere United Kingdom TV series "Interpol Calling" ) To 12/25/1991 ( as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) is 11791 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 2/13/1998 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US film "Sphere" ) is 11791 days
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USA 13 February 1998
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Sphere (1998)
In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, a huge vessel rests on the ocean floor. Rushed to the scene is a group of American scientists who descend to the depths of the sea to investigate this astonishing discovery. What they find defies their imaginations and mocks their attempts at logical explanation. It is a massive spaceship, undamaged from it's fall from the sky-and at least three hundred years old.
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Sphere
:03:23
-Good sleep?
-Not bad.
:03:26
So where are we?
:03:27
Where you from?
:03:29
San Diego.
Left yesterday.
:03:31
So you came Honolulu-Guam-Pago-here?
:03:35
Long trip.
:03:36
What do you do?
:03:38
I'm a psychologist.
:03:40
Hey, a shrink.
:03:42
They've called in everything else.
:03:44
How do you mean?
:03:45
We've ferried people out of Guam
for the last 2 days.
:03:48
Physicists, biologists, mathematicians,
you name it.
:03:51
Everybody being flown to the middle
of nowhere in the Pacific Ocean.
:03:54
What's going on?
:03:55
They're not telling us anything, sir.
What did they tell you?
:03:59
There was a plane crash.
:04:01
Do you get called in on crashes?
:04:03
I'm on a list of psychologists the FAA
brings in when a plane goes down.
:04:07
So where exactly are we now?
:04:09
That's where we're headed.
Over there.
:04:12
Here.
:04:13
Take a look.
:04:15
What is that?
:04:22
All that for a plane crash?
:04:23
I never mentioned a plane crash.
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SP-4217 Beyond the Ionosphere
Chapter 6
NASA Experimental Communications Satellites, 1958-1995
Applications Technology Satellites: The Next Generation?
The first of the second generation of the ATS program, known as ATS-6, also was the last ATS mission. Congress canceled the program in 1973 as a budget-cutting measure and to allow the commercial communications satellite industry to underwrite its own research and development. In 1974, NASA unsuccessfully attempted to reinstate the ATS program. Thus, the impressive ATS-6 spacecraft, launched 30 May 1974, marked the end of an era and the beginning of a dry spell for NASA experimental communications satellites.
Built by Fairchild Space and Electronics Company for Goddard, the ATS-6 spacecraft was much larger than its predecessors, weighing 1,336 kilograms (compared with 431 kilograms for ATS-5) and standing just over eight and a half meters tall and sixteen meters across its booms (ATS-5 was 1.8 meters tall and 1.4 meters in diameter). In addition to being the largest geosynchronous communications satellite launched to date, it was the first three-axis stabilized communications satellite. ATS-6 incorporated many significant design firsts, such as a 9.14-meter parabolic reflector, a digital computer for attitude control, solid-state high-power radio frequency transmitters, a primary structure made of graphite composite material, heat pipes for primary thermal control, monopulse tracking for attitude control, and a radio frequency interferometer for attitude determination and control.15
Equally significant was the demonstration of technology for tracking and data relay satellites that led to the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) program. In the TDRSS, a tracking and data relay satellite uses the geosynchronous orbital vantage point to look down on low-altitude satellites. Data are relayed from the low-altitude [60] satellite to a ground station through the geosynchronous satellite. Without this space relay capability, NASA needed ground stations all over the globe to collect data from satellites as they passed overhead. Because a low-altitude satellite orbits the Earth in a matter of a few hours, it is only in view of a single ground station for typically 20 minutes at a time. ATS-6 tracked the Nimbus 5 and 6 and the GEOS 3 (Geodynamics Experimental Ocean Satellite) satellites with a roll-and-pitch accuracy of better than 0.2 degree.
The nine-meter antenna enabled small ground receivers to pick up a good quality signal. A demonstration in India, in 1975, relayed television signals from a six-gigahertz uplink through the ATS-6 spacecraft and back to Earth at 860 megahertz, directly to three-meter antennas installed in approximately 2,000 villages. The large deployable antenna required tight pointing by the spacecraft, which is why it used three-axis stabilization.
ATS-6 carried out radio-wave propagation studies at frequencies up to thirty gigahertz; it also established L-band (1,550 to 1,650 megahertz) relay links to aircraft and demonstrated multiple aircraft tracking.
ATS-6 experienced a failure of three of its four orbit control jets in May 1979. That failure led to the decision to power down the spacecraft on 3 August 1979. Subsequently, its telemetry system was activated between November 1979 and February 1980 to collect particle data for correlation with similar data being collected by other satellites.
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The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960)
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USA 22 September 1960 (New York City, New York)
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The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960)
In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Ruben Flood loses his job as a traveling salesman, when the company goes bankrupt.
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The Kansan (1943)
Country Date
USA 10 September 1943
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The Kansan (1943)
Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He soon comes into conflict with the town banker, who controls everything in town and is squeezing the townspeople for every penny he can get out of them.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 2:54 PM Pacific Time USA Saturday 28 April 2012
