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Sunday, February 24, 2013

The Companion




Well, whether I get through four episodes today is doubtful. I have to keep stopping to make these notes.

In very recent days I have flouted all theories about the future of our planet Earth.

I have decided that a global apocalypse of mindless automaton zombies is definitely not the destiny of our planet Earth.

Those of you following along at home understand how I established that "Stargate Wraith" represent a true evil force that has turned the "Stargate" producers into their slaves. They are slaves helping the evil forces capture more slaves.

I have decided that there is only one "Stargate Wraith" in existence on this planet Earth.

I have decided that she dies because she cannot control me. She cannot gain nourishment from me.

I have decided that when that bitch dies then I am free again.

When I regain freedom then I can start jumping back to the past as a time-traveler to set in motion the events that cause me to defeat that bitch.










From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 12:18 PM
To: 'Kerry Burgess'
Subject: RE: The Companion

http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/31.htm

Metamorphosis

Stardate: Unknown

Original Airdate: Nov 10, 1967


SPOCK: Captain, Doctor.

(From the doorway, the three see a swirly thing which then disappears. Cochrane comes in with a tray of drinks.)

KIRK: What was that?

COCHRANE: Well, sometimes the light plays tricks on you. You'd be surprised what I've imagined I've seen around here sometimes.

SPOCK: We imagined nothing, Mister Cochrane. There was an entity out there and I suspect it was the same entity which brought us here. Please explain.

COCHRANE: There's nothing to explain.

(He hands a drink to Nancy.)

NANCY: Thank you.

KIRK: You'll find I have a very low tolerance level where the safety of my people are concerned. We find you out here, where no human has any business being. We were virtually hijacked in space and brought here. Now I'm not just requesting an explanation, Mister. I'm demanding one.

COCHRANE: All right. It was the Companion.

KIRK: The what?










http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083929/quotes

IMDb


Memorable quotes for

Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)


Brad Hamilton: Jeez. Doesn't anyone fucking knock any more?










http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/31.htm

Metamorphosis

Stardate: Unknown

Original Airdate: Nov 10, 1967


KIRK: Bones, what do you make of that?

MCCOY: Almost a symbiosis of some kind, a sort of joining.

KIRK: Exactly what I think. Not exactly like a pet owner speaking to a beloved animal, would you say? MCCOY: No, it's more than that.

KIRK: Agreed. More like love.

(The Companion vanishes, so Kirk and McCoy go over to Cochrane.)

MCCOY: Are you all right?

COCHRANE: Yes. It kind of drains me a little, but I'm all right.










http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/31.htm

Metamorphosis

Stardate: Unknown

Original Airdate: Nov 10, 1967


SPOCK: You say we'll be unable to get the ship to function again?

COCHRANE: Not a chance. There's some sort of dampening field down here. Power systems don't work. Take my word for it.

SPOCK: You don't mind if we continue to try?

COCHRANE: Go right ahead. You've got plenty of time.










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


Damping

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


In physics, damping is an effect that reduces the amplitude of oscillations in an oscillatory system










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


Field coil

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A field coil is a component of an electro-magnetic machine, typically a rotating electrical machine such as a motor or generator. A current-carrying coil is used to generate a magnetic field.

Magnetic fields require a continuous circuit, thus more than one pole. Most arrangements use one field coil per pole. Some older or simpler arrangements use a single field coil with a pole at each end.


Stators and rotors

Many rotary electrical machines require current to be conveyed to (or extracted from) a moving rotor, usually by means of brushgear.[clarification needed] This brushgear is often the most complex and least reliable part of such a machine. It may also represent a limit on the maximum current that the machine can handle. For this reason, when machines must use two sets of windings, the windings carrying the least current are usually placed on the rotor and those with the highest current on the stator.










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


Electromagnetic induction

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Electromagnetic induction is the production of an electric current across a conductor moving through a magnetic field. It underlies the operation of generators, transformers, induction motors, electric motors, synchronous motors, and solenoids.

Michael Faraday is generally credited with the discovery of induction in 1831


Michael Faraday formulated that electromotive force (EMF) produced around a closed path is proportional to the rate of change of the magnetic flux through any surface bounded by that path. In practice, this means that an electric current will be induced in any closed circuit when the magnetic flux through a surface bounded by the conductor changes. This applies whether the field itself changes in strength or the conductor is moved through it.










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


Sine wave

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


The sine wave or sinusoid is a mathematical curve that describes a smooth repetitive oscillation. It is named after the function sine, of which it is the graph.










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


Alternator

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


An alternator is an electromechanical device that converts mechanical energy to electrical energy in the form of alternating current.


Principle of operation


The rotating magnetic field induces an AC voltage in the stator windings.










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


Amplitude

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The amplitude of a periodic variable is a measure of its change over a single period (such as time or spatial period). There are various definitions of amplitude (see below), which are all functions of the magnitude of the difference between the variable's extreme values.

In older texts the phase is sometimes called the amplitude.


Peak-to-peak amplitude

Peak-to-peak amplitude is the change between peak (highest amplitude value) and trough (lowest amplitude value, which can be negative). With appropriate circuitry, peak-to-peak amplitudes of electric oscillations can be measured by meters or by viewing the waveform on an oscilloscope.










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


Damping ratio

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In engineering, the damping ratio is a dimensionless measure describing how oscillations in a system decay after a disturbance. Many systems exhibit oscillatory behavior when they are disturbed from their position of static equilibrium. A mass suspended from a spring, for example, might, if pulled and released, bounce up and down. On each bounce, the system is "trying" to return to its equilibrium position, but overshoots it. Sometimes losses (e.g. frictional) damp the system and can cause the oscillations to gradually decay in amplitude towards zero. The damping ratio is a measure of describing how rapidly the oscillations decay from one bounce to the next.

The behaviour of oscillating systems is often of interest in a diverse range of disciplines that include control engineering, mechanical engineering, structural engineering and electrical engineering. The physical quantity that is oscillating varies greatly, and could be the swaying of a tall building in the wind, or the speed of an electric motor, but a normalised, or non-dimensionalised approach can be convenient in describing common aspects of behavior.


Oscillation modes

Where the spring–mass system is completely lossless, the mass would oscillate indefinitely, with each bounce of equal height to the last. This hypothetical case is called undamped.

If the system contained high losses, for example if the spring–mass experiment were conducted in a viscous fluid, the mass could slowly return to its rest position without ever overshooting. This case is called overdamped.

Commonly, the mass tends to overshoot its starting position, and then return, overshooting again. With each overshoot, some energy in the system is dissipated, and the oscillations die towards zero. This case is called underdamped.

Between the overdamped and underdamped cases, there exists a certain level of damping at which the system will just fail to overshoot and will not make a single oscillation. This case is called critical damping. The key difference between critical damping and overdamping is that, in critical damping, the system returns to equilibrium in the minimum amount of time.



From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2012 3:43 AM
To: 'Kerry Burgess'
Subject: RE: The Companion

http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/31.htm

Metamorphosis

Stardate: Unknown

Original Airdate: Nov 10, 1967


KIRK: Cochrane got it off of us, but I don't know whether he did us a favour or not.

MCCOY: What kind of talk is that?

KIRK: How do you fight a thing like that? I've got a ship up there somewhere, responsibility for four lives here, one of them dying because of me.

MCCOY: It isn't your fault.

KIRK: I'm in command, Bones. It makes it my fault. How do you fight a thing like that?

MCCOY: Maybe you're a soldier so often that you forget you're also trained to be a diplomat. Why not try a carrot instead of a stick?

KIRK: Spock.

SPOCK: Yes, Captain?

KIRK: The universal translator on the shuttlecraft. We can try that, talk to that thing.

SPOCK: The translator is for use with more congruent life forms.

KIRK: Adjust it, change it. The trouble with immortality is it's boring. Adjusting the translator will give you something to do.

SPOCK: It is possible. If I could widen its pattern of reception

KIRK: Right down your alley, Spock. Get it here and get to work. That thing is still out there. Better go that way.










http://www.tv.com/shows/lost/in-translation-392052//


tv.com


Lost Season 1 Episode 17

...In Translation


Quotes


Charlie (reacting to the knowledge that Sun speaks English): You speak English?

Hurley: Didn't see that one coming.



From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2012 3:33 AM
To: 'Kerry Burgess'
Subject: RE: The Companion

http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/31.htm

Metamorphosis

Stardate: Unknown

Original Airdate: Nov 10, 1967


(Another contact session is in progress.)

KIRK: Companion, do you love the man?

COMPANION: I do not understand.

KIRK: Is he important to you, more important than anything? Is he as though he were a part of you?

COMPANION: He is part of me. The man must continue.

KIRK: He will not continue. He will cease to exist. By your feeling for him, you are condemning him to an existence he will find unbearable. He will cease to exist.

COMPANION: He does not age. He remains forever.

KIRK: You speak of his body. I speak of his spirit. Companion, inside the shelter, a female of our species is dying. She will not continue. That is what will happen to the man unless you release all of us.

COMPANION: I do not understand.

KIRK: Our species can only survive if we have obstacles to overcome. You take away all obstacles. Without them to strengthen us, we will weaken and die. You regard the man only as a toy. You amuse yourself with him.










http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/damienrice/delicate.html


DAMIEN RICE


"Delicate"

We might kiss when we are alone
When nobody's watching
We might take it home
We might make out when nobody's there
It's not that we're scared
It's just that it's delicate

So why do you fill my sorrow
With the words you've borrowed
From the only place you've known
And why do you sing Hallelujah
If it means nothing to you
Why do you sing with me at all?

We might live like never before
When there's nothing to give
Well how can we ask for more
We might make love in some sacred place
The look on your face is delicate

So why do you fill my sorrow
With the words you've borrowed
From the only place you've known
And why do you sing Hallelujah
If it means nothing to you
Why do you sing with me at all?

So why do you fill my sorrow
With the words you've borrowed
From the only place you've known
And why do you sing Hallelujah
If it means nothing to you
Why do you sing with me at all?










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


...In Translation

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


"...In Translation" is the 17th episode of the first season of Lost. The episode was directed by Tucker Gates and written by Javier Grillo-Marxuach and Leonard Dick. It first aired on February 23, 2005 on ABC.


The next day on the beach, Hugo "Hurley" Reyes (Jorge Garcia) listens to Damien Rice's "Delicate" on his CD player but the song cuts off midway when the batteries die.










http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie4.html

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home


GILLIAN: What you're hearing is recorded whale song. It is sung by the male. He'll sing anywhere from six to as long as thirty minutes, and then, start again. In the ocean, the other whales will pick up the song, and pass it on.

(Spock is seen swimming in the underwater tank)

GILLIAN: The songs change every year, but we still don't know what purpose they serve. Are they some kind of navigational signal? Could they be part of the mating ritual? Or is it pure communication beyond our comprehension? Frankly we just don't know

OLDER WOMAN: Maybe he's singing to that man.










http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie4.html

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home


SCOTT: Admiral, we have a serious problem. Would you please come down? It's these Klingon crystals, Admiral. The time-travel drained them. They're giving out. De-crystallising.

KIRK: Give me a round figure, Mister Scott.

SCOTT: Oh, twenty-four hours, give or take, staying cloaked. After that, Admiral, we're visible, ...and dead in the water. In any case, we won't have enough to break out of Earth's gravity, to say nothing of getting back home.

KIRK: I can't believe we've come this far only to be stopped by this! Is there no way to re-crystallise dilithium?

SCOTT: Sorry, sir. We can't even do that in the twenty-third century.

SPOCK: Admiral, there may be a twentieth century possibility.

KIRK: Explain.

SPOCK: If memory serves, there was a dubious flirtation with nuclear fission reactors resulting in toxic side effects. By the beginning of the fusion era, these reactors had been replaced, but at this time, we may be able to find some.

KIRK: I thought you said they were toxic.

SPOCK: We could construct a device to collect their high-energy photons safely. These photons could then be injected into the dilithium chamber, causing crystalline restructure. ...Theoretically.










http://www.tv.com/shows/lost/in-translation-392052//


tv.com


Lost Season 1 Episode 17

...In Translation


Sun: When I slapped you I was protecting you.

Michael: Oh, yeah? From what?

Sun: From Jin. You don't know what he's capable of.



From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2012 3:24 AM
To: 'Kerry Burgess'
Subject: RE: The Companion

I’m not certain that release date for the Damien Rice album is correct. I am not certain if it is correct or if it is incorrect.

The real question is why anyone would feel compelled to make the association on that Wikipedia page.

Must be some kind of insurance scam. They have life insurance and on him and that is part of their scam to kill him and to collect the insurance money.



From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2012 3:18 AM
To: 'Kerry Burgess'
Subject: RE: The Companion

http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/31.htm

Metamorphosis

Stardate: Unknown

Original Airdate: Nov 10, 1967


MCCOY: Spock! Are you all right?

SPOCK: Yes. Quite all right, Doctor. A most fascinating thing happened. Apparently, the Companion imparted to me a rather quaint, old-fashioned electric shock of respectable voltage.

MCCOY: It attacked you?

SPOCK: Evidently. Unquestionably, a large part of its substance is simple electricity.

MCCOY: Oh, yes. I'm not a scientist or a physicist, Mister Spock, but am I correct in assuming that anything that generates electricity can be shorted out?

SPOCK: Quite correct, Doctor.

[Cochrane's home]

(Spock is demonstrating the device he has put on the table.)

SPOCK: Put this in the proximity of the Companion, throw this switch, and it will scramble every electrical impulse the creature can produce. It cannot fail.

KIRK: It troubles you, Cochrane?

COCHRANE: The Companion saved my life. It's taken care of me all these years. We've been very close in a way that's hard to explain. I suppose I even have an affection for it.

KIRK: It's also keeping you prisoner.



From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2012 3:14 AM
To: 'Kerry Burgess'
Subject: RE: The Companion

I clearly recall watching that episode on television when it premiered. I was still living in Kent Washington. 04 May 2005 was when I went to the city police there to file a report. You know what happened then.





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_(Damien_Rice_album)


O (Damien Rice album)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


O is Damien Rice's first studio album, originally released on 1 February 2002, in Ireland and in the United Kingdom. The album is dedicated to Rice's friend Mic Christopher, who died of a head injury in 2001.


"Delicate" was used during the closing credits of an episode of House, M.D.. It was also used during the episode of Lost called "...In Translation" for the final scene


Track listing


"Delicate"
"Volcano"
"The Blower's Daughter"
"Cannonball"
"Older Chests"
"Amie"
"Cheers Darlin'"
"Cold Water"
"I Remember"
"Eskimo"





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


...In Translation

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


"...In Translation" is the 17th episode of the first season of Lost. The episode was directed by Tucker Gates and written by Javier Grillo-Marxuach and Leonard Dick. It first aired on February 23, 2005 on ABC.


The next day on the beach, Hugo "Hurley" Reyes (Jorge Garcia) listens to Damien Rice's "Delicate" on his CD player but the song cuts off midway when the batteries die.



From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2012 3:04 AM
To: 'Kerry Burgess'
Subject: The Companion

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0636268/releaseinfo

IMDb


Release dates for

"Lost"

...In Translation (2005)

Country Date

USA 23 February 2005





http://www.tv.com/shows/lost/in-translation-392052//


tv.com


Lost Season 1 Episode 17

...In Translation


EPISODE RECAP


Michael and Walt are finishing the raft. Michael tells Walt how much he is going to like New York City. He starts to get really happy as he explains it but Walt would rather go play with his dog. As he runs away, Jack comes over to talk to Michael. He says that people are starting to talk about who is going on the raft other than Michael and Walt. Michael explains that the raft is built for 4 people. He only has one spot left. Jack wants to know who took the third spot. Sawyer delivers the cable he promised Michael as his way to "buy a ticket" on the raft.

That night, Kate and Sun sit by the fire and talk. Kate asks why Sun lets Jin treat her so poorly. Sun says that she won't understand because she doesn't know Jin like she does. She says that he wasn't always like this - he used to be loving. Before she can say more, there is a commotion behind them. They go outside to find out what is going on and find the raft engulfed in flames. The castaways try to put the fire out by throwing sand on the raft but it's too late. Michael turns to Sun and says "Where is he?"

Michael has never been more furious. All his hard work is wasted.










http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/31.htm

Metamorphosis

Stardate: Unknown

Original Airdate: Nov 10, 1967


KIRK: Do you want to leave here?

COCHRANE: Believe me, Captain, immortality consists largely of boredom. What's it like out there in the galaxy?

KIRK: We're on a thousand planets and spreading out. We cross fantastic distances and everything's alive, Cochrane. Life everywhere. We estimate there are millions of planets with intelligent life. We haven't begun to map them. Interesting?

COCHRANE: How would you like to sleep for a hundred and fifty years and wake up in a new world?

KIRK: It's all out there waiting for you, but we'll need your help to get away.

COCHRANE: You've got it.

[Outside the shuttlecraft]

(Spock is working when the Companion appears next to him. He reaches to touch it, and then is flung away. The electrics in the shuttlecraft all burn out.)










http://www.tv.com/shows/lost/in-translation-392052//


tv.com


Lost Season 1 Episode 17

...In Translation


EPISODE RECAP


Michael has never been more furious. All his hard work is wasted. Jack and Kate do their best to try and calm him down long enough to convince him that they can't be sure Jin is the one to blame. Michael doesn't want to hear it. No one else does either. The only thing that gets Michael's attention is when Walt gets to close to the fire while attempting to put it out. He goes to get Walt and Sun runs off to find Jin.

She finds Jin at the caves. He is searching through Jack's medicine cabinet. His hands are burned. Sun looks on and is crushed by what she has discovered. She tries to explain that Michael was only trying to get them off the island.



- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 6:08 PM Pacific Time Seattle USA Sunday 24 February 2013