Tank City

JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess

Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2013 6:32 AM

To:


Subject: "Guess Who's Not Coming to Dinner?"

from 12/20/1994 to 5/1/2011 is 5976 days

from 11/2/1965 to 3/14/1982 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Jeffersons"::"Guess Who's Not Coming to Dinner?" ) is 5976 days



from 6/29/1995 to 5/1/2011 is 5785 days

from 11/2/1965 to 9/4/1981 is 5785 days










http://www.columbiasc.net/economicdevelopment/416

CITY of COLUMBIA S.C.


WELCOME TO THE CITY OF COLUMBIA


The City of Columbia has established an International Business Center to assist companies seeking expanded business opportunities in the United States.

Within the Columbia area, there are over 30 companies with ties to 13 countries across the globe. International businesses from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom take advantage of our well-established network of transportation and outstanding quality of life. Since 1988, these companies have invested some $1,505,715,020 into our local economy. (View companies and investment) In addition to capital investment, these companies also add diversity to our culture that cannot be found in other areas. The City of Columbia prides itself on a globally diverse community that people from all over the world will want to call “home!”

Sister Cities of Columbia in Columbia, South Carolina, is a program of the nonprofit World Affairs Council. It is dedicated to furthering global understanding among the citizens of Columbia by encouraging and assisting the city and its citizens to link with similar communities throughout the world. The goal for the communities involved is to learn more about each other and to develop lasting and meaningful exchanges.

Exchanges occur in the fields of business, education, medicine, religion, government and culture. An ideal affiliation involves a large number of citizens and organizations in both communities exchanging people, ideas, and cultures on a long-term, continuing basis. The World Affairs Council has administered the Sister Cities program on behalf of the City of Columbia since April of 1996.

Currently, the City of Columbia has four sister cities:

Kaiserslautern, Germany

Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Chelyabinsk, Russia










JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess

Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2013 3:16 AM

To: 'Kerry Burgess'

Subject: RE: Tank City

The size of that object went from being reported as about ten feet and about ten thousand pounds to now being reported as having been 10 million tons.

The Tunguska blast was 10 megatons but that was in terms of released energy. The recent blast was 0.5 megatons of released energy.





http://www.weather.com/news/meteor-hits-earth-20130215

THE WEATHER CHANNEL


NASA Reveals New Information on Friday's Russian Fireball

weather.com & Associated Press Published: Feb 16, 2013, 5:57 AM EST


NASA has released new details about the meteor that disintegrated in the skies over Russia's Ural Mountains, captivating the world Friday.

(MORE: Social Media Responds to the Sighting | Meteorites Strike Earth Regularly)

Scientists now say the object was 55 feet large, with an estimated mass of 10,000 kilotons. The new data also reveals the meteorite released almost 500 kilotons of energy - that's also more than Friday's original estimate.

The entire event, from the time it entered the atmosphere to the its final disintegration took 32.5 seconds.


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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess

Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2013 12:46 AM

To: 'Kerry Burgess'

Subject: RE: Tank City

Now, see. There’s something I *should have* written about. I should have written about my thoughts before it happened. My thoughts about using my mental powers to cause a meteorite strike at the Alamogordo weapons test site.

If that wouldn’t have proved something then I’m not sure what else would.





http://www.divxmoviesenglishsubtitles.com/W/WarGames_(1983)_CD1.html


WarGames


George is with the FBI.|He brought the kid in.
It looks like we've got|a high-school prank on our hands.
Paul, what happened?
The kid broke into the war game using a|password left by the original programmer.
- A password?|- Yes, sir.
None of my team even knew it was there.
Kid claims|he was looking for a toy company.
That's great!|Anybody in here buy that one?
We can find the password and take it out,|but it might help to beef up security.
Oh. Beef up, huh?
How about screwed up?
We did all that and he broke in again.
Kid says your computer called him.
What the hell is going on, John?
I woke up the president. I told him|we were under attack by the Russians.
You know what an idiot that makes me|look? Not to mention the general.


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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess

Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 11:04 PM

To: 'Kerry Burgess'

Subject: RE: Tank City

http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/16/16980332-fireball-over-north-california-causes-a-stir


COSMIC LOG on NBCNEWS.com


Fireball over North California causes a stir

25 minutes ago [ RETRIEVED approx. 11 PM on 15 February 2013 Pacific Time Seattle USA ]


By Gil Aegerter, NBC News

A fireball streaking across the Northern California sky Friday night brought a flood of witness reports -- the same day that a meteor exploded over Russia and an asteroid made a near-Earth fly-by.

The fireball was seen around 7:45 p.m., by witnesses as far north as Fairfield and as far south as Gilroy, NBCBayArea.com reported. It was also reportedly seen in Sacramento and Walnut Creek. NBC station KSBW of Monterey said the object was visible along California's Central Coast, too.

NBCBayArea.com said Candice Guruwaiya gave this account on Facebook of seeing it in San Jose: "I was leaving Safeway on Branham and Snell when I saw it. ... It was a bright green when it first appeared, then it went to a bright yellow. It was awesome!"

The fireball was seen about 24 hours after a meteor exploded over Russia's Chelyabinsk region and a 150-foot-wide asteroid came within 17,200 miles of Earth.










http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314979/quotes

IMDb


Memorable quotes for

"Battlestar Galactica" (2003)


[on the Galactica's 1-MC after news of the attack came in]

Adama: This is the Commander. Moments ago, this ship received word of a Cylon attack against our homeworlds is under way. We do not know the size or the disposition or the strength of the enemy forces, but all indications point to a massive assault against Colonial defenses. Admiral Nagala has taken personal command of the Fleet aboard the battlestar Atlantia following the complete destruction of Picon Fleet Headquarters in the first wave of the attacks. "How? Why?" doesn't really matter now. What does matter is that as of this moment, we are at war. You've trained for this. You're ready for this. Stand to your duties, trust your fellow shipmates, and we'll all get through this. Further updates as we get them. Thank you.


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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess

Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 9:38 AM

To: 'Kerry Burgess'

Subject: RE: Tank City

http://www.snpp.com/episodes/1F11.html


Bart Gets Famous


Original airdate in N.A.: 3-Feb-94


At the kitchen table, Bart sits with a stack of books surrounding him.

Homer: What the hell are you reading books for?

Bart: I'm doing "The Conan O'Brien Show", and I want to have some intelligent stuff to talk about.

Homer: Don't forget to say "I didn't do it."

Bart: Dad, there's more to me than just a catch-phrase.

Homer: How do you figure, boy?

Bart: Watch "The Conan O'Brien Show", you'll see.

Homer: All right, but after Leno I'm all laughed out, you know.

-- "Bart Gets Famous"

On "Late Night with Conan O'Brien", Bart tries to talk to the host.

Bart: You know, Conan, I have a lot to say. I'm not just a one-line wonder. Did you know that a section of rain forest the size of Kansas is burned every single --

Conan: Just do the line.

Bart: [glum] I didn't do it.

[Everyone laughs and cheers]










http://apnews.excite.com/article/20130215/DA4F6GRO1.html

excite news


Meteor explodes over Russia, nearly 1,000 injured

Feb 15, 11:55 AM (ET)

By JIM HEINTZ and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV


MOSCOW (AP) - A meteor streaked across the sky and exploded over Russia's Ural Mountains with the power of an atomic bomb Friday, its sonic blasts shattering countless windows and injuring nearly 1,000 people.

The spectacle deeply frightened many Russians, with some elderly women declaring that the world was coming to an end. Many of the injured were cut by flying glass as they flocked to windows to see what the reason was for such an intense flash of light.

The meteor - estimated to be about 10 tons - entered the Earth's atmosphere at a hypersonic speed of at least 54,000 kph (33,000 mph) and shattered into pieces about 30-50 kilometers (18-32 miles) above the ground, the Russian Academy of Sciences said in a statement.

Amateur video showed an object speeding across the sky about 9:20 a.m. local time, just after sunrise, leaving a thick white contrail and an intense flash.

"There was panic. People had no idea what was happening," said Sergey Hametov, a resident of Chelyabinsk, a city of 1 million about 1,500 kilometers (930 miles) east of Moscow.

"We saw a big burst of light, then went outside to see what it was and we heard a really loud, thundering sound," he told The Associated Press by telephone.

The meteor released several kilotons of energy above the region, the science academy said. It was probably about 2 meters (6 1/2 feet) across, about the size of an SUV, said Richard Binzel, a professor of Planetary Science at MIT.

The shock wave blew in an estimated 100,000 square meters (more than 1 million square feet) of glass, according to city officials, who said 3,000 buildings in the city were damaged. At one zinc factory, part of the roof collapsed.

The meteor hit less than a day before Asteroid 2012 DA14 is to make the closest recorded pass of an asteroid to the Earth - about 17,150 miles (28,000 kilometers). But the European Space Agency in a tweet said its experts had determined there was no connection - just cosmic coincidence.


The meteor could have produced much more serious problems. Chelyabinsk is an industrial town long held to be one of the world's most polluted areas, and the area around it hosts nuclear and chemical weapons disposal facilities.

Vladimir Chuprov of Greenpeace Russia said the Russian government has underestimated potential risks of the region. He noted that the meteor struck only 100 kilometers (60 miles) from the Mayak nuclear storage and disposal facility, which holds dozens of tons of weapons-grade plutonium.

A chemical weapons disposal facility at Shchuchye also contains some 6,000 tons (5,460 metric tons) of nerve agents, including sarin and VX, about 14 percent of the chemical weapons that Russia is committed to destroy.


Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, speaking at an economic forum in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, said the meteor could be a symbol for the forum, showing that "not only the economy is vulnerable, but the whole planet."

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a nationalist leader noted for his vehement statements, blamed the Americans.

"It's not meteors falling. It's the test of a new weapon by the Americans," the RIA Novosti news agency quoted him as saying.










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


Chelyabinsk

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Chelyabinsk is a city and the administrative center of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located in the northwest of the oblast, 210 kilometers (130 mi) south of Yekaterinburg, just to the east of the Ural Mountains, on the Miass River, on the border of Europe and Asia. Population: 1,130,132 (2010 Census)


History


During the Soviet industrialization of the 1930s, Chelyabinsk experienced rapid growth. Several industrial establishments, including the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant and the Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant, were built at this time. During World War II, Joseph Stalin decided to move a large part of Soviet factory production to places out of the way of the advancing German armies in late 1941. This brought new industries and thousands of workers to Chelyabinsk—still essentially a small city. Several enormous facilities for the production of T-34 tanks and Katyusha rocket launchers existed in Chelyabinsk, which became known as "Tankograd" (Tank City). Chelyabinsk was essentially built from scratch during this time. A small town existed before this, signs of which can be found in the centre of the city. The S.M. Kirov Factory no. 185 moved here from Leningrad to produce heavy tanks — it was transferred to Omsk after 1962.

Chelyabinsk has had a long association (since the 1940s) with top-secret nuclear research, though this is more properly applicable to Chelyabinsk Oblast as a whole, as nuclear facilities such as Chelyabinsk-70 (Snezhinsk) are, or were, located far outside the city. A serious nuclear accident occurred in 1957 at the Mayak nuclear fuel reprocessing plant, 150 km north-west of the city, which caused deaths in Chelyabinsk Oblast but not in the city.


2013 meteor event

Main article: 2013 Russian meteor event

This article documents a current event. Information may change rapidly as the event progresses.

On 15 February 2013 at about 9:20 a.m. local time (0320 GMT), a meteor flew over the Ural Mountains causing explosions and reportedly injuring more than 900 people. Fragments of it fell into an area of the Chelyabinsk region.


Twin towns and sister cities

Chelyabinsk is twinned with:


Columbia, South Carolina, United States


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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess

Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 6:40 AM

To: Kerry Burgess

Subject: Re: Tank City

Tank City.

That water tank I saw disintegrating high in the atmosphere that made me think of that large orange space shuttle fuel tank that is expended during launch.

What I saw in the dream though, was more of a water tank on a tower structure similar to what you see in municipalities in the south United States. I can't think of any similar structures around here. Maybe out in Spokane but I'm not certain. There is what seems to be a large water tank in Issaquah but I don't think it is on top of a tower structure.


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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess

To: Kerry Burgess

Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 3:57 AM

Subject: Re: Tank City

Watching that dashcam video again you can see the shadows of utility poles that are near the car and that are produced from the light of the meteor.


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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess

To: Kerry Burgess

Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 3:55 AM

Subject: Re: Tank City

The photos of the damage from the shockwave are quite dramatic. A large plume of black smoke seems to be the zinc factory, as well as a large and spread out rubble of bricks.

The video of the blast of the shockwave are really incredible. You can see the people are freaked out about it as they are standing talking in the office and then suddenly the curtains blow inward and papers fly across the room.

Other videos have sound and the sound of the blast is really stunning. You can hear glass breaking and crashing. The video camera holder loses steady control of the camera either from the blast wave or just the reaction to the sound of the blast.

There is one really good dashcam video showing the meteor approaching mostly in the direction of the car and that is really an interesting sight.

The best one is where the dashcam video is pointed in a direction perpendicular to the transit of the meteor. The brightness of the object is really incredible and I wonder if that is an accurate capture of the quality considering that video captures are distorted most times of brightness.

As for the dashcam video that points perpendicular to the transit of the meteor my first thought watching the video is that it reminds me of the "Nexus" ribbon from "Star Trek Generations."


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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess

To: Kerry Burgess

Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 3:32 AM

Subject: Re: Tank City

Then I read that Chelyabinsk Russia, where the meteor burst happened on the 14th February 2013 is the sister-city of Columbia South Carolina!

How about that?!


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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess

To: Kerry Burgess

Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 3:28 AM

Subject: Re: Tank City

Yesterday I started for the first time to wonder if that prescient sense I feel often could actually be a symptom of mental illness, such as Alzhemer's, but no. What about that last new episode of "NCIS"? I carefully documented that. The facts are about impossible to ignore. How did I get right that part about the elevator in the hotel?


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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess

To: Kerry Burgess

Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 3:25 AM

Subject: Tank City

Damn, I was so close on that.

In recent days the meteor I imagined striking the planet's surface would hit in the southwestern United States where atomic testing has happened. I gave that some serious thought. I thought how that would be a warning to Barack Obama. I thought about how dangerous a meteorite strike would be there because it would kick up radioactive contamination.

But nope, a few hours ago the meteor I read about bursting over a large city was in Russia. Known as Tank City during World War 2 because of production facilities I also read it is considered the most polluted city in the world because it was the center of plutonium production.

All they need is some bearskins now, Mr. Spock, because the Russians reported that the meteor on 14th February 2013 collapsed a very large roof section of a zinc factory in that town where reported 400 people sought medical treatment.

Is that a first? A first in recorded history? There have been other times when meteors struck but is that the first time a city has been damaged and the first time people sought medical treatment for a meteor strike?


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- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 6:33 PM Pacific Time Seattle USA Monday 18 February 2013