"But nope, a few hours ago the meteor I read about bursting over a large city was in Russia."

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/22/dec-22-1864-gen-sherman-offers-savannah-as-a-christmas-gift-to-president-lincoln/?_r=0

The New York Times


Dec. 22, 1864 Gen. Sherman Offers Savannah as a ‘Christmas Gift’ to President Lincoln

By THE LEARNING NETWORK DECEMBER 22, 2011 4:09 AM

On Dec. 22, 1864, as the Civil War entered its final months, Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman sent a message to President Lincoln notifying him that he had captured the city of Savannah, Ga., thereby completing his 300-mile “March to the Sea” that had begun in Atlanta on Nov. 16.

Sherman’s message was published in the Dec. 26 edition of The New York Times. It read, “I beg to present you as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.”

Sherman, who had captured Atlanta in September 1864, believed that advancing across the state to Savannah would be effective as a form of psychological warfare, demonstrating to Southerners that their army could not protect them from the invading troops. He employed a “scorched earth policy” to inflict maximum psychological, economic and tactical damage to the Confederacy. His troops destroyed farms and plantations, burned down food stores and twisted railroad tracks. He left a trail of destruction that devastated Southern morale.










http://articles.latimes.com/1994-07-17/news/mn-16802_1_comet-fragment

Los Angeles Times


Comet Fragments Begin Crashing Into Jupiter : Astronomy: Impact of first chunk creates a Gargantuan fireball. Scientists are elated at the images.

July 17, 1994 ROBERT LEE HOTZ TIMES SCIENCE WRITER

The world's astronomers focused Saturday on Jupiter as mountain-sized fragments of a shattered comet--traveling 60 times faster than a bullet--began raining down on the dark side of the solar system's largest planet, triggering a fireball half the size of Earth.

After the predicted impact of the first--and smallest--chunk of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 at 1 p.m., astronomers in Spain and Chile reported seeing a large plume as the impact site rotated into view. Within 90 minutes, the fiery plume had grown into a huge fireball 4,000 miles across and 1,000 miles high, NASA astronomers said late Saturday.

The plume is brighter than anything else on Jupiter and brighter than its brightest moon, Io, said comet co-discoverer Eugene Shoemaker. "I mean, it's bright!" he exclaimed.

When the first raw image from the Hubble Space Telescope showed evidence of what appeared to be the plume from the first impact, scientists gathered around the video monitor gasped in astonishment and then shouted with glee.

They swigged celebratory champagne straight from bottles. "We actually saw some amazing things," said planetary astronomer Heidi B. Hammel at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center outside Washington.

"We can actually see the impact site," she said. "It is a new feature on Jupiter, and we are going to have 20 more of them this week, each one even brighter."

Although the impacts were all to take place out of Earth's vision, Jupiter rotates so quickly that the impact sites come into view within half an hour of each collision.

Virtually every major telescope in the world was trained on the giant planet as the first of 21 chunks of the comet hit the night side of Jupiter on schedule.

Thousands of astronomers jockeyed for the best view--from the South African Astronomical Observatory outside Cape Town and the Palomar Observatory outside San Diego to a thicket of eight observing stations atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii, and NASA's airborne observatory circling the globe at 41,000 feet over Australia.

The Hubble telescope, orbiting well above the atmosphere that blurs the vision of earthbound observers, has one of the best views of Jupiter and is expected to take hundreds of images of the impact sites in the coming week. NASA also has launched high-altitude sounding rockets from New Mexico.

In all, three major fragments of debris were expected to blast through the planet's swirling cloud cover by midnight Saturday, with others bombarding the planet at about six-hour intervals for the next six days. The largest piece of comet is expected to hit Jupiter on Wednesday.

Although the first comet fragment hit just after lunchtime, scientists did not see any processed images of Jupiter, taken by NASA's space telescope, until late Saturday.

Denied a direct view of the shooting stars, scientists were searching for aftereffects of the impacts--from lightning-like flashes reflected on Jupiter's many moons, to shock waves rippling the giant planet's thick atmosphere or minute temperature changes caused by the massive release of energy. Some scientists have suggested that the comet would strike with more force than all the nuclear weapons on Earth combined.

Shoemaker, an astronomer at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz., discovered the comet this year with his wife, astronomer Carolyn Shoemaker, and colleague David H. Levy, an astronomer at the Palomar Observatory.










http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=the-twilight-zone-1959&episode=s03e08

Springfield! Springfield!


The Twilight Zone

It's a Good Life


Why, it's just a real good day.
Just a a real good day.
Well, howdy, anthony.
I was looking for you a bit ago.
Your mama said you was out in the barn.
I was looking at the cow.
Oh, oh, that's good.
That's real good that you were looking at the cow.
Now, uh you weren't playing any tricks on your old dad, were you? I mean, remember last year when you when we had the pigs? I turned them into monsters.
Oh, doggone if you didn't.
Funny looking things, too.
But good things, anthony, real good things and it's good that you done that.
Oh, it's real good.
Television night tonight.
I'm going to make television for everybody.
Oh, you sure are, and everybody is looking forward to it, too.
Just like they do every week when you make television.










http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/28.htm

The City on the Edge of Forever [ Star Trek: The Original Series ]

Stardate: 3134.0

Original Airdate: Apr 6, 1967


UHURA: Captain, I'm frightened.

KIRK: Earth's not there. At least, not the Earth we know. We're totally alone.










From 4/12/2010 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 ) To 2/15/2013 is 1040 days

1040 = 520 + 520

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 4/6/1967 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"The City on the Edge of Forever" ) is 520 days



From 5/24/1962 ( premiere US film "Lonely Are the Brave" ) To 2/15/2013 ( the Chelyabinsk meteor ) 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



[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-take-out-window-for-microsofties-is.html ]


http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/asteroids/news/asteroid20130215.html

NASA


Asteroid and Comet Watch


Russia Meteor Not Linked to Asteroid Flyby 02.15.13


Update: March 21, 2013

The large fireball (technically, called a "superbolide") observed on the morning of Feb. 15, 2013, in the skies near Chelyabinsk, Russia, was caused by a relatively small asteroid approximately 17 to 20 meters in size (about 18.6 to 21.9 yards) that entered Earth's atmosphere at high speed and at a shallow angle. In doing so, it released a tremendous amount of energy, fragmented at high altitude, and produced a shower of pieces of various sizes that fell to the ground as meteorites.

The fireball was observed not only by video cameras and low-frequency infrasound detectors, but also by U.S. government sensors. Information on the composition of the meteor was also derived from meteorite fragments found in the Chelyabinsk area. With this new data incorporated, the details of the impact have become clearer.

At 9:20:20 a.m. local time (3:20:20 UTC) the meteor entered Earth's atmosphere over the Kazakhstan/Russia border. As it descended through the upper atmosphere, it traveled northwest into Russia. The impactor's trajectory approached Earth along a direction that remained within 15 degrees of the direction of the sun. Asteroid detection telescopes cannot scan regions of the sky this close to the sun. During the atmospheric entry phase, an impacting object is both slowed and heated by atmospheric friction. In front of it, a bow shock develops where atmospheric gases are compressed and heated. Some of this energy is radiated to the object, causing it to ablate, and in most cases, break apart. Fragmentation increases the amount of atmosphere intercepted and so enhances ablation and atmospheric braking. The object disintegrates when the force from the unequal pressures on the front and back sides exceeds its tensile strength. This disruption, or disintegration, usually occurs around the time of maximum brightness.

Thirteen seconds after atmospheric entry, at 9:20:33 a.m. local time (03:20:33 UTC), the fireball, traveling at a velocity of 11.6 miles per second (18.6 kilometers per second), achieved its maximum brightness just south of Chelyabinsk, Russia, at an altitude of 14.5 miles (23.3 kilometers). The approximate effective diameter of the asteroid is estimated to be about 18 meters (about 19.7 yards), and its mass about 11,000 tons. Approximate total impact energy of the Chelyabinsk Fireball, in kilotons of TNT explosives (the energy parameter usually quoted for a fireball), is 440 kilotons. Note that these estimates of total energy, diameter and mass are very approximate. The Chelyabinsk event was an extraordinarily large fireball, the most energetic impact event recognized since the 1908 Tunguska blast in Russian Siberia.

The U.S. government sensor data also provides an approximate path for the Chelyabinsk impactor. A similar calculation can be made from analysis of video records of the event; both methods yield similar results. This path through the atmosphere reinforces that the fireball was not associated with asteroid 2012 DA14, which made a very close flyby of Earth just over 16 hours later. This is known because the two objects approached the Earth from completely different directions and had entirely different orbits around the sun.










From 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 ) To 10/19/2001 is 3870 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/7/1976 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in deep space of the solar system in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship this day was his first landing the Saturn moon Phoebe and the Saturn moon Phoebe territory belongs to my brother Thomas Reagan ) is 3870 days



[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2013/04/boston-marathon-microsoft-steve-ballmer.html ]


http://www.washington.edu/news/archive/id/2658


UNIVERSITY of WASHINGTON


2001-10-31

UW consolidates departments to form Department of Genome Sciences


The UW Board of Regents, at its Oct. 19 meeting, approved the consolidation of the Department of Genetics in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Molecular Biotechnology in the School of Medicine. The merger creates the new Department of Genome Sciences in the School of Medicine.

Professor Stan Fields, noted for developing the two-hybrid system to analyze protein interactions, is the acting chair of the new department. He is working with Dr. Maynard Olson, acting chair of the former Department of Molecular Biotechnology, and Dr. Breck Byers, chair of the former Department of Genetics, both of whom played leadership roles in launching the new department.










http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=revolution&episode=s01e01

Springfield! Springfield!


Revolution

Pilot


Here's what you need to understand.
I have been searching for you for a very long time through mud and filth, away from my home and my wife and my bed.
So I'm in a mood.



- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 12:27 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Saturday 09 May 2015