Thursday, October 09, 2014
"and those are winding sheets."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072203/quotes
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Starsky and Hutch (TV Series)
Pilot (1975)
Quotes
Det. Dave Starsky: Everybody says the same thing, these two guys could never miss. I say they never miss unless they're told to.
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/news/whatsnew/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&NewsID=1728
NASA
Mars Exploration
PRESS RELEASE
10.09.2014
Source: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
CRISM Prepares For Mars-grazing Comet Siding Spring
On October 19, a comet that has travelled many billions of miles will come within about 87,000 miles of Mars - about one-third of the distance of the Moon from Earth. Comet Siding Spring comes from the Oort Cloud, material left over from the formation of the solar system. "This comet is coming into the solar system straight from the Oort Cloud. It's likely this is its first time this close to the sun," said space scientist David Humm, of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland.
Oort Cloud material, including comets, is scattered through a vast region that begins outside the orbits of Neptune and Pluto and extends a substantial fraction of the distance to Proxima Centauri, the closest neighboring star. Oort Cloud comets can tell scientists about the materials - including water and carbon compounds - that existed during the formation of the solar system some 4.6 billion years ago.
Studying this close encounter will be the largest fleet of orbiting scientific observatories ever flown to another world, orbiting around (and rolling on the ground of) Mars. These instruments will, for the first time ever, have the chance to make close-up observations of a comet new to the inner solar system. And though it will not be the easiest task, the teams operating these instruments and spacecraft have developed plans to take advantage of this rare opportunity.
"The close fly-by of Mars by Comet Siding Spring is unique, unexpected, and lucky for us," said Humm, who serves as instrument scientist for the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM), built by APL, and one of the instruments on board NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) that will observe Siding Spring. Two other MRO instruments observing the comet will be the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE), a very high-definition camera, and the Context Imager (CTX). Together, all three imagers will attempt to capture data about Siding Spring that is unobtainable from Earth. Though Earth-based observations of Siding Spring will reveal a great deal of information, "CRISM has a significant advantage due to its proximity to the comet at closest approach," he said.
"CRISM is both a spectrometer and a camera," Humm explained. "It can identify molecules by the light they emit and characterize minerals by the light they reflect. We can then make an image of any material we identify, and see its distribution. If we're fortunate, CRISM will be able to detect some features in the comet gas and dust, and we can make images of the distribution of different gases detected and learn something about the nature of the dust."
There are some challenges. First, though the chances of any comet dust impacting the spacecraft are thought to be very minimal, the decision was made to "hide" the spacecraft in the shadow of Mars after the comet passes, to let the planet absorb any potentially damaging high-speed dust particles that may trail the comet as it passes by.
The greater problem, explained Humm, is that "these instruments are designed for looking at the surface of Mars during daytime, not at a far dimmer comet in the night sky." But the teams have overcome that challenge as well, and now have full observation plans for Siding Spring.
Siding Spring is small (the nucleus is less than a mile in diameter) and fast (it will pass Mars at about 34 miles per second). CRISM, HiRISE, and CTX were built to study a slowly-moving planet, so they will use MRO's ability to rotate in order to capture images as the comet speeds by Mars. The instruments will observe the comet repeatedly for two and a half days as it gets closer and closer to Mars before it makes its closest approach. The peak density of comet dust at Mars is expected 98 minutes after closest approach of the nucleus, and the MRO spacecraft will position itself behind the planet at that time.
Last year's October 1 encounter with Comet ISON - a sungrazing comet that passed within 6.5 million miles of Mars - gave the teams on CRISM and the other Mars observatories a good chance to practice looking at an object hurtling past the planet.
The instruments on MRO are unique in their abilities to study the comet. "HiRISE is the only instrument that can image the nucleus of Comet Siding Spring with more than one pixel, and CRISM will have the best signal-to-noise ratio of any spectrometer that will observe the comet from close up," Humm said.
Still, comet behaviors are peculiar and may seem random; sometimes they fizzle out, sometimes they get very bright, sometimes they do both. "Comets are very unpredictable," said Humm. "No two ever seem to be the same. A new comet like Siding Spring will bring surprises."
Images from Earth-based observatories and the Hubble Space Telescope have shown a typical coma of gas and dust develop as Comet Siding Spring has come closer to the sun. The coma may be larger or smaller when the comet flies by Mars. "If the comet is really active, then we will get good spectra of the coma," Humm explained. "If the comet is inactive, then some of the compositional results could be in question but we may still see broad color differences."
For Humm and other scientists on the CRISM and other MRO teams, an event like the encounter with Siding Spring was not even considered during construction and launch of the orbiter and its instruments back in 2005.
"I would have been very surprised if you had told me we were going to use CRISM to look at a comet," Humm said. "The likelihood of being this close to a new comet is really very small, and we're operating well beyond our design lifetime, so this exciting an opportunity is completely unexpected."
From 6/27/1956 ( premiere US film "Moby Dick" ) To 6/13/2005 is 17883 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 10/19/2014 is 17883 days
From 11/18/1996 ( premiere US film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) To 10/19/2014 is 6544 days
6544 = 3272 + 3272
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 10/18/1974 ( premiere US film "Airport 1975" ) is 3272 days
[ See also: To Be Continued? ]
http://mars.nasa.gov/mro/multimedia/images/?ImageID=5931
NASA
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
03.26.2013
A Comet Heads for Mars
An artist's concept of Comet Siding Spring (2013 A1) and Mars. Closest approach to Mars is on October 19, 2014.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049513/releaseinfo
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Moby Dick (1956)
Release Info
USA 27 June 1956
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049513/fullcredits
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Moby Dick (1956)
Full Cast & Crew
Gregory Peck ... Captain Ahab
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117731/releaseinfo
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Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Release Info
USA 18 November 1996 (Hollywood, California) (premiere)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117731/fullcredits
IMDb
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Full Cast & Crew
James Cromwell ... Zefram Cochran
http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie8.html
Star Trek: First Contact
LILY: Liar!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071110/releaseinfo
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Airport 1975 (1974)
Release Info
USA 18 October 1974
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071110/fullcredits
IMDb
Airport 1975 (1974)
Full Cast & Crew
Charlton Heston ... Alan Murdock
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071110/quotes
IMDb
Airport 1975 (1974)
Quotes
[Nancy tries to communicate with the nearest airport after the mid-air collision]
Nancy Pryor: Salt Lake... Salt Lake! This is Columbia 409! It's Nancy Pryor... stewardess. Something hit us! All the flight crew is dead or badly injured! There's no one left to fly the plane! Help us! Oh my God, help us!
http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie8.html
Star Trek: First Contact
BORG QUEEN: Data!
http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/26/17107085-comet-just-might-hit-mars-in-2014?lite
NBC NEWS
Comet just might hit Mars in 2014
Tuesday Feb 26, 2013 5:48 PM
By Nancy Atkinson
Universe Today
There is an outside chance that a newly discovered comet might be on a collision course with Mars. Astronomers are still determining the trajectory of the comet, named C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring), but at the very least, it is going to come fairly close to the Red Planet in October of 2014.
"Even if it doesn’t impact, it will look pretty good from Earth, and spectacular from Mars, probably a magnitude -4 comet as seen from Mars' surface," Australian amateur astronomer Ian Musgrave wrote.
The comet was discovered in the beginning of 2013 by comet-hunter Robert McNaught at the Siding Spring Observatory in New South Wales, Australia. According to a discussion on the IceInSpace amateur astronomy forum, when the discovery was initially made, astronomers at the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona looked back over their observations to find "pre-recovery" images of the comet dating back to Dec. 8, 2012. These observations placed the orbital trajectory of comet C/2013 A1 right through Mars orbit on Oct. 19, 2014.
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=armageddon
Springfield! Springfield!
Armageddon (1998)
Okay, I want three groups!
One: internal malfunction.
Get the log tape. Start working back.
Maybe it's a glitch.
Two: I want NORAD Space Command and the
junk you track in every orbit.
I want you to check, recheck
and then do it all over again.
Number three: wild cards,
anything and everything.
All right? Now, big Ross,
I want you to get on the telephone.
- Wake up 11,000 people.
- Right.
- Walt, get 'em going.
- Let's go!
- Karl!
Karl! Karl!
Karl! Your Stouffer's pot pie's
been on the table almost ten hours.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 9:39 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Thursday 09 October 2014
