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Dr. Brand: Cooper, I can't tell you any more, unless you agree to pilot this craft. You're the best pilot we ever had.
Cooper: And I barely left the stratosphere.
Dr. Brand: This team never left the simulator. We need a pilot, and this is the mission that you were trained for.
Cooper: What, without even knowing it? An hour ago, you didn't even know I was alive and you were going anyway.
Dr. Brand: We had no choice. But something sent you here. They chose you.
Cooper: Well who's "they"?
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So if we find a home...
...then what?
-That's the long shot.
There is a plan A, and a plan B.
Did you notice anything
strange about the launch chamber?
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From:
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2013 1:22 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
And I am going to send you over a new lease that has your move date as September 27th. Sorry to make you sign all over again. Though the current tenant is VERY grateful to have the extra few days. Thank you again!
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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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Come on, you're a well-educated man Coop...
...and a trained pilot.
-And an engineer.
Okay well right now, we don't need more engineers.
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Dr. Mann: Your father had to find another way to save the human race from extinction. Plan B. A colony.
Brand: But why not tell people? Why keep building those damn stations?
Dr. Mann: Because he knew how hard it would be to get people to work together to save the species instead of themselves.
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This isn't gonna cost you any time.
It's a chance for the people on Earth.
Talk to me.
-Gargantua is an older spinning black hole.
It is what we call a 'gentle' singularity.
-Gentle?
They're hardly gentle.
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CASE: Endurance rotation is 67, 68 RPM.
Cooper: Okay, get ready to match our spin with the retro thrusters.
CASE: It's not possible.
Cooper: No. It's necessary.
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CBSNEWS
"Interstellar" red carpet premiere
Actor Matthew McConaughey and his wife, Camila Alves McConaughey, attend the premiere of Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar," at the TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX on October 26, 2014 in Hollywood, Calif.
The eagerly-anticipated science fiction film opens in select theatres nationwide on November 5.
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[ Cooper: ] You're taking a risk using ex-military security. They are old and their control units are unpredictable.
It's what the government could spare.
http://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodore-Roosevelt
Encyclopædia Britannica
Theodore Roosevelt
President of United States
Theodore Roosevelt, bynames Teddy Roosevelt and TR (born October 27, 1858, New York, New York, U.S.—died January 6, 1919, Oyster Bay, New York), the 26th president of the United States (1901–09) and a writer, naturalist, and soldier. He expanded the powers of the presidency and of the federal government in support of the public interest in conflicts between big business and labour and steered the nation toward an active role in world politics, particularly in Europe and Asia. He won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1906 for mediating an end to the Russo-Japanese War, and he secured the route and began construction of the Panama Canal (1904–14).
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Cooper: Newton's third law. You've got to leave something behind.
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tv.com
Stargate Universe Season 2 Episode 5
Cloverdale
Aired Monday 9:00 PM Oct 26, 2010 on Syfy
AIRED: 10/26/10
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The Paradise Syndrome
Aired Unknown Oct 04, 1968 on NBC
AIRED: 10/4/68
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STARGATE WIKI
Stargate: The Movie (1994)
[Daniel shuts off the recording. He goes over to the coffee pot to refill his cup, only to find the carafe is practically empty.]
INT—CORRIDOR JUST OUTSIDE LAB
[Daniel shuffles out of the lab tiredly with the carafe. A guard sits by a desk with his feet propped up, reading a newspaper.]
GUARD
(admonishing)
Uh-uh-uh.
[Daniel flashes his ID badge, and the guard settles back with his paper. Daniel goes to the water fountain and refills the carafe, glancing around and noticing the front page of the guard's paper has an article title "Orion Upclose" with a quarter page photograph of the constellation. He stops filling the carafe and moves over to the paper. He grabs that page out of the guard's hands and rushes back into the lab. The guard is still sitting there as Daniel's head appears again in the lab door window.]
DANIEL
Can I borrow this?
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Soviet warships being watched in Gulf
Houston Chronicle News Services
TUE 11/05/1985 HOUSTON CHRONICLE
A U.S. Navy vessel is closely monitoring the movements of two Soviet warships that entered the Gulf of Mexico and came within 40 miles of the Texas coast, the U.S. Navy said.
The USS Taylor, American guidedmissile frigate, has been tracking the Soviet ships - a guided-missile destroyer and a guided-missile frigate - since they left Havana Thursday, said Lt. Cmdr. Craig Quigley, a Navy spokesman in Norfolk, Va.
The Taylor is always "within visual range" of the Soviet vessels that were last reported about 100 miles southwest of Tampa, Fla., and moving in a southeasterly direction, possibly toward Cuba, said Quigley.
However, there was no way to determine whether the Soviet warships were preparing to leave the Gulf and return to Havana. "They can always change rudder at a moment's notice," he said.
The destroyer and frigate - part of a larger group of four Soviet ships that entered the Caribbean in September - entered the Gulf Thursday, Quigley said.
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It is an Indian Air Force drone.
Solar cells could power an entire farm.
Take the wheel Tom.
Go, go go!
Keep it pointed at that.
Faster Tom, we're losing it.
-Yes.
Point right at it.
Hang on, here we go, here we go.
Nice driving Tom.
Dad?
-Almost got it, don't stop, don't stop.
Dad?!
Tom!!!
Wha..? You told me to keep driving.
Well I guess that answers the ol'
'if I ask you to drive off a cliff' scenario.
We lost it.
-No we didn't!
Wanna give it a whirl?
Let's land it down there,
right at the edge of the reservoir.
Nicely done!
How long do you think it's been up there?
Delhi Mission Control went down
same as ours, 10 years ago.
So for 10 years?
Why'd it come down so low?
-I don't know.
Maybe the sun cooked it's brain
or it was looking for something.
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-What?
Give me that large flatblade
Maybe some kind of signal.
I don't know.
What are you gonna do with it?
I'm gonna give it something socially
responsible to do...
...like driving a combine.
-Can't we just, let it go?
It wasn't hurting anybody.
Listen, this thing needs to learn how to adapt Murph,
like the rest of us.
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May 1943
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The following events occurred in May 1943:
May 15, 1943 (Saturday)
At an airbase at Carlsbad, New Mexico, Dr. Louis Fieser, the chemist who had developed napalm, conducted the first test of the experimental "bat bomb", with a timed 0.6 ounce explosive attached to a Mexican free-tailed bat. After a demonstration with dummy bombs showed that the bats would, as planned, seek shelter in buildings, Dr. Fieser attached live explosives to six dormant bats for a demonstration in front of cameras. The bats woke up before detonation, then flew towards the wooden control tower, barracks, and other buildings and set a fire that destroyed much of the base.
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NEW ORLEANS
Bat Bomb Tests Go Awry
Headlines for May 15, 1943, could have read, “Bat Bomb Destroys New Airfield,” but the plan to use small incendiary bombs attached to bats as a method to firebomb Japan was just as top secret as the Manhattan Project.
The idea to use bats as a way to deliver small fire-starting bombs was proposed by Dr. Lytle S. Adams of Pennsylvania. Dr. Adams was a dentist by trade, but dabbled in inventions as well as aviation. On December 7, 1941, Adams was vacationing in the southwestern United States. On this trip, he saw millions of bats emerging from the Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico. He stated in a 1948 interview, “[I] had been tremendously impressed by the bat flight…Couldn’t those millions of bats be fitted with incendiary bombs and dropped from planes? What could be more devastating than such a firebomb attack?” Dr. Adams sent proposals for his project, and after some top level scientific review, President Roosevelt approved a plan to investigate the possible use of bat bombs on January 12, 1942.
The Adam’s Plan, as the proposal came to be known, called for millions of bats to be fitted with tiny incendiary bombs. The bats would then be dropped from a high altitude above Japanese industrial cities. Adams felt that a bat’s natural cold weather hibernation would be a beneficial element of the plan. Low temperatures at high altitudes would simulate winter hibernation, and as the bats fell they would gradually warm up and awaken. Once back to ground level, the bats would roost in places they felt most comfortable, such as eaves, attics, and other out of the way places. The tiny incendiary bombs would have a time delay start, and ignite as the bats were roosting. The small fires created would be hard to see, so they would be well established before anyone noticed them. This would make it harder for the fires to be put out once they were noticed, but would also give people a chance to flee unharmed. Adams felt that such a plan would cripple the manufacturing capabilities of Japan without causing extreme loss of life.
Once approval came from the White House, Dr. Adams set to work figuring out just how the bat bomb could work. The idea had two main components that had to work together, but were developed separately. Adams, along other naturalists, would work on the bat side of the equation. They would work closely with Thomas R. Taylor of the civilian group National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), who was appointed by President Roosevelt to oversee the scientific aspects of the project. Primarily, Taylor worked to design the bombshell which would carry the bats. Also part of NDRC was Dr. Louis Fieser, the inventor of napalm, who worked on the small incendiary bombs required to be carried by the bats.
Thomas Taylor at NDRC and Col. W.C. Kabrich of CWS began efforts to boost support for the program as well as develop an incendiary that would work for the bat bomb. By June 13, 1942, they had secured the support of the US Army Air Forces. In an official letter, Commanding General of the Army Air Forces Hap Arnold stated, “The Army Air Forces will cooperate with the Chemical Warfare Service when experiments reach the stage requiring tests from airplanes.” This support allowed both the bat and incendiary bomb teams to continue pursuing their various goals in developing a bat bomb. However, it seems that many upper level military leaders did not like the Adams Plan and were very doubtful of its practicality. Despite their reservations, work on the bat bomb continued, though both teams would be under immense pressure to produce positive results.
Once both the bat and the bomb teams had acquired the necessary information and tested their subjects separately, it was then time to test them together. The first tests were conducted in Muroc, California at the Army Air Force Base. Bats were gathered from Carlsbad and flown to Muroc. Bat unit member Jack Couffer constantly readjusted ice in the bat cages to ensure the bats did not overheat in the May heat of the Mojave Desert. These tests did not go well for the bat unit or those developing the incendiaries. The fire starting capabilities of the incendiary were not yet dependable, and the bomber pilot would not allow the bombs on board in case the igniters malfunctioned. This eventually led to Fieser’s development of safety pins attached to bottom of the trays. Also, the bat unit had to make due with a cardboard version of the bombshell they hoped to fabricate out of metal. However, the cardboard was too flimsy to hold up in the slipstream of the plane. Both teams went back to work with research and agreed to meet a month later. Lucky for those working on the Adams Plan, no high-ranking military officials attended the Muroc tests.
The next tests took place in Carlsbad, New Mexico about six weeks after the Muroc tests. Unlike Muroc, these tests were attended by an Army Air Forces captain and a CWS colonel. USMC General Louis DeHaven also attended the testing, having been notified of them by US Navy Admiral Ernest King. The location was great for the bat team, as it was close to a bat colony. It was also the location of the Carlsbad Air Force Base. Due to the top secret nature of the Adams Plan, the team was allowed to use a newly constructed, but not yet occupied, auxiliary air field on the base. The new air field was complete with barracks, offices, hangars, a control tower, and several other buildings.
In the six weeks since the Muroc tests, Dr. Fieser did not have time to make all of the needed adjustments. The new mechanical time delay igniter was not ready, nor was the safety pin mechanism. The team was forced to use a chemical delay igniter and bombs with no safety mechanism. These bombs were fine for testing fire starting abilities on the ground, but they were not stable enough to load on the airplane. Doing so could endanger the plane, the crew and the surrounding area. However, they overcame this obstacle by informing the brass that sending armed bats out over the airfield and the area was not a good idea. Since armed bats could potentially set homes and other structures on fire. Therefore, bats released from the plane needed to have dummy bombs attached to them anyway.
The first trails at Carlsbad tested the effectiveness of the bombshell. The shell was dropped loaded with bats strapped with dummy bombs. The chute deployed as intended, and the bat trays came out of the shell accordion style. Soon, the tiny bats began to launch off the trays in all directions. This part of the test was a success. The team spent hours combing the area to try to find all the places the bats had flown to. They found them roosting in eaves and barns miles from the drop zone, another success for the bat team. A second bomb was loaded and deployed with similar results.
Unfortunately, though the team suffered a serious setback at these tests. Fieser, in an effort to make a training film, wanted to put live bombs on the bats to demonstrate the incendiaries igniting. The idea was that the bats would be cooled down to a semitorpid state, and the bombs would be attached and activated with the chemical delay igniter before the bats awoke. Thus, the incendiaries would ignite while the bats were on the table. This way the film crew could photograph every aspect of the Adam’s Plan right in front of them. Unfortunately for the team, the heat of the day warmed more quickly than expected and only kept them “hibernating” for about ten minutes. Fieser had set the timers for fifteen minutes. As the armed bats awoke, they took flight. Before the bats could be caught, they followed the Adams Plan perfectly, roosting in the eaves of the airfield’s buildings. Everything worked as it was supposed to, the bats and incendiaries worked perfectly. The setback however was that the newly built, unoccupied airfield burned to the ground. Due to the top secret nature of the Adams Plan fire crews were not even allowed in to try and salvage some of the buildings in order to prevent them from seeing how the fires had started. It took only six bats to burn the Carlsbad auxiliary air field.
The bat bomb would continue to be tested for almost another year. Ultimately though, in February 1944, despite continued progress by Fieser and the bat unit, Project X-Ray was discontinued. Several factors were cited for the project’s cancelation. First, some felt that the fundamental idea of the plan was flawed, and that reliable data could not be obtained. Second, there were still many uncertainties regarding the bat’s behavior. Furthermore, the team knew all along that the bats’ natural rhythm meant that they could only launch this type of attack seasonally. The bats lived in Mexico in the winter months, and were not strong enough in the spring months to carry the seventeen-gram incendiary. Despite the project’s pace, it would not have been ready until mid-1945, a full year from when the plan was terminated. Finally, the US military had already spent close to two million dollars on the project, and was not pleased with the time frame still needed to complete the project and thus a continued financial investment would be necessary. Additional, even though the atomic bomb is not cited anywhere as a cause for discontinuing the bat bomb project, many involved with the Adams Plan believe another top secret bomb being developed under the codename the Manhattan Project was thought to have more potential.
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Carlsbad Current-Argus: 'Bat Bomb' project was scrapped 70 years ago
By Jessica Onsurez / Carlsbad Current-Argus
POSTED: 05/26/2014 07:01:53 PM MDT
CARLSBAD >> A military experiment involving a dentist, a famous chemist and some Mexican free-tailed bats sputtered and died 70 years ago, but not before making an indelible mark on Carlsbad's military history.
On May 15, 1943 an enraged Col. William C. Lewis, commander of the Carlsbad Air Force Base, stood outside the gates of his auxiliary field with fire engine equipment and watched it burn.
The commander, who was turned away by visiting Army officials, was even more aggrieved when asked to supply a bulldozer which could grind the burnt evidence into the ground wrote Jack Couffer, a young private visiting the airfield as part of a top secret project, in his book "Bat Bombs".
"It was a small field, maybe about five miles from the base. But it was used for training runs and so would have been a sore loss for them," said Bobby Lee Silliman, an amateur historian with an interest in the Carlsbad Army Airfield Base.
In the official report, base fire marshal George S. Young reported that the total loss was estimated at $6,838, listing the cause of the fire as "explosion of incendiary bomb materials."
"In-as-much as the work being done under Lt. Col. Epler was of a confidential nature, and everyone connected with this base had been denied admission, it is impossible for me to determine the exact cause of the fire, but my deduction is that an explosion of incendiary bomb material cause the fire," wrote Young to the base commander.
That was the day the top secret program, meant to turn the tide for the U.S. in World War II, came to a screeching halt.
Called the Adams Plan unofficially and Project X-Ray officially, the $2 million project proposed using "bat bombs" to force an end to the armed conflict that had spread worldwide.
Project Beginnings
In January 1942, a leading military operative received a note from President Franklin D. Roosevelt with the explicit order to follow up on what would later be called an "idea so idiotic it could possibly work." That idea, proposed by Dr. Lytle S. Adams, was to attach incendiary devices to the species Chiropera — bats — and drop them on the Japanese mainland. Adams, a dentist from Pennsylvania by trade, modeled himself a scientist and inventor. A previous inventions, a rapid air-mail drop process, had gained the respect of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt who acted as the intermediary between Adams' new proposal and her husband. "This man is not a nut," read the missive sent by Roosevelt to Col. W.M. J. Donovan, who forwarded Adams proposal to the staff of the National Research Defense Committee.
Although having gained the president's tentative approval, the military's grudging interest and a nod from Harvard University bat specialist Donald Griffin, Adam's proposal was dealt a blow when technical personnel from the Chemical Warfare department of the National Inventors Council determined that no bat species would be able to support the weight of even the smallest incendiary invented at the time. Adams, who was dedicated to his plan to defeat the Empire of Japan, would not rest on the opinion of the NIC.
Adams would gather a rag tag bunch of scientist and military privates in his own "bat unit" to continue with the development of the "bat bomb" according to Couffer. The bomb, Adams postured, would drop hundreds of hibernating bats strapped with miniature incendiaries in Japan's airspace. The bats would wake from their suspended animation and roost, igniting hundreds of small fires; a tactic creating maximum damage with minimum loss of life.
The Mexican free-tailed bat is a medium sized mammal that they can weigh between 11 to 14 grams and have a wings span of 12 to 14 inches. But the attractiveness of the free-tailed for this mission was its ability to carry four times its weight efficiently — something that biologist Jack C. von Bloeker Jr., part of Adam's motley project crew determined would satisfy the naysayers.
The NIC's concerns over developing a lightweight incendiary device were eased when chemist Louis Fieser was assigned to the problem. Fieser brought to Project X-Ray a new, powerful incendiary called napalm.
Test Gone Awry
While collecting millions of free-tailed bats near Bandera, Texas, Adams got a letter from the head of the Army Air Force pledging to provide the "bat unit" with 14 stratoliners — pressurized, heavy bomber planes — and their pilots for test runs.
The first test run in Muroc, Texas, however, was a disaster. The container devised to hold the hibernating bats, made of heavy cardboard and glue, disintegrated in mid-air.
Adams promised a secondary test run at a small air field base in Carlsbad would provide better results to military officials who had begun to turn their attention to another top secret New Mexico-based research mission which would be come to called the Manhattan Project.
Still wrestling with problems of hibernation, but sporting a new mechanical payload design, Adams' team proceeded to the southeastern desert May 1943 in hopes of proving their project still had merit. Joining Adams and the "bat unit" was visiting Gen. Louis DeHaven, in addition to an Air Force captain and chemical warfare service colonel. Much to everyone's surprise the mechanical payload worked as designed, releasing a wave of free-taileds, freshly caught from the nearby Carlsbad Caverns, carrying dummy napalm bombs. Two more test flights gave similar results — thus the decision to try a small live payload was made, Some attribute the mistake to Fieser, who wished to visually record the live detonation of his clever new device.
In his book Couffer writes that as a few bats in hibernating state were being fitted with the live napalm device, some began to wake for unknown reasons and escaped their handlers.
"Fieser underestimated the desert heat's ability to warm and wake the bats from their torpor," writes Michael Barnhart, amateur historian. The incendiary device which had been constructed with a 15-minute delay gave Adam's team little time to recover them. However, the effectiveness of the time-delayed bomb was proven when 15 minutes later the combination Operations and Crew Chief building burst into flame.
Napalm, a mixture of a thickening substance, napthehenic and palmitic acid, had been developed by Fieser and used successfully throughout WWII. It fueled the flames that engulfed the 30-foot tower, pushing them toward the visiting Gen. DeHaven's car and other structures on the field. Couffer would call this the beginning of the end.
While the destruction of the base had been viewed as a disaster, the ultimate potential of Project X-Ray had been proven. Mexican free-tailed bats could deliver a timed incendiary device that would cause maximum fire damage. Ultimately, Adams would be pushed out of the project when it passed to the US Marine Corps for further testing. Fieser would inherit Project X-Ray — and the bat unit. In December 1943 official word from military commanders in the Marine Corps brought development of the bat bombs to an end, and the project was completely de-constructed by 1944. While the project's termination would be blamed on time-constraints and budget, history shows that a more destructive device, the atom bomb, had become the lead project and single hope of an American military determined to end a war which cost millions of lives on both sides of the fight.
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-05-17/news/mn-398_1_space-shuttle-program
Los Angeles Times
Thousands Greet Shuttle's Touchdown : Space: About 125,000 view the desert landing. Rescue of satellite highlights Endeavour's maiden voyage.
May 17, 1992 ROBERT W. STEWART TIMES STAFF WRITER
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE — Space shuttle Endeavour sounded its signature twin sonic booms and touched down on a concrete runway at Rogers Dry Lake at 1:57 p.m. Saturday, ending a historic, nine-day maiden voyage.
"Welcome to California and congratulations on a spectacular and historic flight," Jim Halsell, a National Aeronautics and Space Administration official at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, told the seven-member crew after the Endeavour coasted to a stop.
"Thank you, Houston," replied Navy Capt. Daniel C. Brandenstein, the shuttle's commander.
Moments earlier, a red, white and blue drag chute, making its first appearance on a shuttle mission, fell away from the orbiter as it slowed to a speed of 60 knots.
Donald Puddy, an official at the Johnson Space Center, pronounced the crew in "absolutely superb shape."
The public response to Endeavour's mission, which featured an unprecedented three-astronaut capture of a stranded communications satellite, was the most enthusiastic since the shuttle program resumed in 1988, NASA officials said.
A crowd estimated at 125,000 turned out in the high desert to watch the landing.
Endeavour, which blasted off May 7 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, was built at a cost of $2 billion to replace Challenger, lost Jan. 28, 1986, in an explosion that killed seven crew members and stalled America's manned space program for 2 1/2 years.
The astronauts' dramatic capture of the marooned Intelsat 6 satellite, using nothing but their gloved hands, represented a triumph for the manned space program. The crew clamped a new rocket motor onto the satellite, which fired Thursday, boosting the Intelsat 6 into its proper orbit 22,300 nautical miles above the Atlantic Ocean.
The feat involved the longest spacewalk in history and the first three-astronaut walk. It was the product of 36 hours of intense planning and rehearsal on the ground and in space.
"To call what we've all witnessed in the last few days exciting, I think is a gross understatement," Leonard Nicholson, director of the space shuttle program, said at a post-landing news conference.
However, the failure of the tool designed to snare the satellite, a "capture bar" that took two years and $7 million to develop, raised questions about NASA's ability to simulate conditions in space.
The simulation issue will become increasingly important as NASA moves toward construction in late 1995 of the space station Freedom. The station may cost as much as $40 billion by the end of the decade.
"We don't have a simulator that can put all the components together--the orbiter, the (shuttle's robot arm), myself, the capture bar and the satellite, basically five bodies that are all dynamic. . . . So that was probably the area that was most difficult," astronaut Pierre J. Thuot said Friday during an in-flight news conference.
Thuot was repeatedly frustrated last Sunday and Monday as he worked alone trying to snag the $150-million satellite with the capture bar. But the Intelsat 6 proved much more sensitive to force than NASA had expected and spun away every time Thuot attempted to snare it with the bar. That prompted the decision to send three astronauts outside the orbiter Wednesday to grab the satellite with their hands.
The Johnson Space Center simulator developed to train Thuot in capture techniques is a spinning, 12-foot-wide wheel suspended from posts on a platform that rests on a special "air-bearing floor." Air that gushes from jets in the floor suspends the platform and the wheel in an attempt to duplicate weightlessness.
However, engineers concluded that the satellite orbiting in space is at least 10 times more sensitive to forces applied to it than the simulated satellite on which Thuot practiced.
NASA engineer Calvin Seaman, who designed the capture bar, this week blamed incorrect data provided by the satellite's builder and owner for the failure of the instrument.
However, an official at Hughes Aircraft Co. of El Segundo, which built the Intelsat 6, said the data provided by Hughes was correct.
"We supplied them with the data and it was accurate data," said Charles P. Rubin, Hughes' program manager for the Intelsat rescue.
"What I think (Seaman) was trying to say is that there is a lot of difficulty in building a simulator, even when you have the data. Sometimes you just can't achieve what the data tells you.
"I think you can always build a simulator better, but I don't think you can duplicate the (space) environment," Rubin said.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=8397
The American Presidency Project
John F. Kennedy
XXXV President of the United States: 1961 - 1963
427 - Remarks to the Members of the Panel on Mental Retardation.
October 18, 1961
I WANT to express my appreciation to the members of this panel who have agreed to serve on a most important subject. I am especially 'glad that this is not merely a national effort but will attempt to coordinate our research and information and results with those of other countries who have been working on this problem for some years.
This is a matter which I think should be brought out into the sunlight and given a full national commitment, and I want to express my thanks to all the members of this panel who have been willing to serve, because I think that we can make easier the lives of many, many thousands of people and their families. It is high time that the country gives its time and attention to this.
I want to express my thanks to all the doctors on the panel, and to the Secretary of HEW and to Secretary Goldberg, who is in a related field, and to the members of the institutes of health who have shown what can be done by a concentrated national commitment. So that we want to do the same in this area, which is one of the most heartrending tragedies of life, and we want to do something about it.
We are all much in your debt.
Note: The President spoke in the Rose Garden at the White House.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Annapolis 2
That part about the relay reminds me of a relay when I was in the first grade. Something happened and, being on the last leg, didn't get the baton until late and had to run all the way across by myself. I remember feeling embarrassed.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 2006 excerpt ends]
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=deep-impact
Springfield! Springfield!
Deep Impact (1998)
[ Oren Monash: ] You haven't trained for this mission.
http://articles.latimes.com/1995-07-01/news/mn-19226_1_mir-aboard-atlantis
Los Angeles Times
Doctor, Two Cosmonauts Undergo Medical Tests Aboard Atlantis-Mir
July 01, 1995 From Associated Press
HOUSTON — After 3 1/2 months of being the doctor, astronaut Norman E. Thagard became the patient Friday and was poked and probed aboard Atlantis-Mir, the linked U.S. shuttle and Russian space station.
Dr. Ellen Baker drew blood from Thagard, a physician, and his two Russian crew mates and performed physical exams to help scientists understand the effects on the body of long stays in space. Thagard spent 3 1/2 months aboard the space station Mir, a U.S. space endurance record.
Mission Control, meanwhile, was puzzled by the higher than expected use of fuel by Atlantis.
http://www.e-reading.org.ua/bookreader.php/71211/Clancy_-_Rainbow_Six.html
Tom Clancy
Rainbow Six
PROLOGUE
SETTING UP
"You!" Number 2 called from forward.
"Yes?" Clark replied, looking studiously forward.
"Sit still!" The man's English wasn't bad. Well, European schools had good language programs.
"Hey, look, I, uh, had a few drinks, and-well, you know, how about it? Por favor, " John added sheepishly.
"No, you will stay in your seat!"
"Hey, whatcha gonna do, shoot a guy who needs to take a leak? I don't know what your problem is, okay, but I gotta go, okay? Please?"
Number 2 and #3 traded an oh-shit look that just confirmed their amateur status one last time. The two stews, strapped in their seats forward, looked very worried indeed but didn't say anything. John pressed the issue by unbuckling his seat belt and starting to stand. Number 2 raced aft then, gun in front, stopping just short of pressing it against John's chest. Sandy's eyes were wide now. She'd never seen her husband do anything the least bit dangerous, but she knew this wasn't the husband who had slept next to her for twenty-five years-and if not that one, then he had to be the other Clark, the one she knew about but had never seen.
"Look, I go there, I take a leak, and I come back, okay? Hell, you wanna watch," he said, his voice slurred now from the half glass of wine he'd drunk alongside the terminal. "That's okay, too, but please don't make me wet my pants, okay?"
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Annapolis 2006
How the hell did I do all that stuff AND still go through the Academy? I must have been training for it for many years before.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 2006 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: February 14, 2007
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 02/14/07 5:09 PM
I woke up thinking that there is something that is supposed to counter my POW training.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 02/14/07 5:27 PM
I'm supposed to know what they are saying but I don't remember.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 14 February 2007 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 03/22/07 9:39 PM
Imagine all the time I could have spent just over the past three years training our sailors and soldiers.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 22 March 2007 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 9:53 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: Sleep journal 3/29/06
Fell asleep for almost two hours. Awoke after a feeling something I guess like acid reflux. Can't remember now what I was dreaming at the time, but I remember now thinking it seemed relevant, it was something unpleasant that upset my stomach. I suspected my dream manipulators produced that response.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 29 March 2006 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 9:53 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: Sleep journal 3/29/06
Kerry Burgess wrote:
It goes without a doubt that most people would jump at the chance to try to control someone's mind. I doubt strongly that anyone is controlling my mind using any method, including dream manipulation. But just imagine is someone learned how to manipulate your dreams while you sleep. At most, they may be changing subtle behaviors on my part, but nothing major. I found myself thinking about that the other day. I wondered why I chose a Dr. Pepper from the vending machine instead of a Pepsi. When Coca-Cola is available, that is always my choice. But when the choice is Pepsi or Dr. Pepper, I normally choose Pepsi. So I found myself wondering why I chose DP the other day. I wondered if that was a suggestion made when I was sleeping and I followed the suggestion because it didn't really matter that much to me. I wonder about the minor details like that, that they could actually control some of my choices when I wouldn't have much of a preference on the two choices. So it is control of my decisions when the possible choices are not that important to me. It's doubtful they could influence me to choose DP over Coke, but when CC isn't an option, they could influence the decision among the alternative choices. I'm going to be wondering about these things for the rest of my life.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 29 March 2006 excerpt ends]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692/quotes
IMDb
Interstellar (2014)
Quotes
Doyle: We have a mission.
Cooper: Yeah, and our mission is to find a planet that can habitate the people living on Earth right now. Okay? Plan A does not work if the people on Earth are dead by the time we pull it off.
http://www.oocities.org/elzj78/bsgminiseries.html
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: Miniseries (2003)
(Back in the main section of the ship)
Roslin: ...including the colonies of Caprica, Picon, Aerlon and Tauron. (The passengers gasp, and then everyone starts asking questions at once.) Stop. Please, stop. Please, I'm trying to reach the government right now to get more information. In the meantime, we should all be prepared for an extended stay aboard this ship, okay? So, uh, you, please, and you (points at flight attendants) take an inventory of the emergency supplies and rations.
Doral: Wait a minute, who put you in charge?
http://www.oocities.org/elzj78/bsgminiseries.html
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: Miniseries (2003)
Roslin: So why don't you help me out, and go down into the cargo area, and see about setting it up as a living space. Everyone else, please, please, try and stay calm.
http://www.oocities.org/elzj78/bsgminiseries.html
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: Miniseries (2003)
Doral: Captain, I can't tell you how glad I am to see you.
Apollo: Oh? Why is that?
Doral: Well, personally, I'd feel a lot better if someone qualified were in charge around here.
Apollo: Is something wrong with your pilot?
Doral: No, it's just that he's not the one giving orders. It's, uh, it's a bad situation, isn't it, sir?
Apollo: Yes, it is.
http://www.oocities.org/elzj78/bsgminiseries.html
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: Miniseries (2003)
Apollo: Thanks for the lift.
Pilot: (laughs) Should thank her.
Roslin: Start the cargo transfer, and prep bay 3 for survivors.
Billy: Yes, ma'am.
Apollo: I'm sorry, survivors?
Roslin: As soon as the attack began, the government ordered a full stop on all civilian vessels. So now we've got hundreds of stranded ships in the solar system, some are lost, some are damaged, some are losing power. We have enough space on this ship to accomodate up to 500 people and we're going to need every bit of it.
Doral: But we don't even know what the tactical situation is out there.
Roslin: The tactical situation is that we are losing, right, Captain?
Apollo: Right.
Roslin: So we pick up as many people as we can, we try to find a safe haven to put down... Captain? I'd like you to look over the navigational charts for a likely place to hide from the Cylons. That's all.
Apollo: (to Doral) Lady's in charge.
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=interstellar
Springfield! Springfield!
Interstellar (2014)
Losing control of the stick.
We've got flashes.
Flashes of lightness and blackness.
There's a turbulence in the gravity.
Computers going down.
The gravitational pull, we're losing control of the stick.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 7:55 PM Thursday, December 08, 2011
The Mall
Watching in recent hours this evening the DVD for the 1994 television miniseries Stephen King's "The Stand," as I didn't make it all the way through the first DVD of the two-disc set, I have watched some scenes this evening that remind me of a dream I had in recent weeks. I don't recall the precise day I had that dream but it wasn't long ago and I have thought about it several times since then and I can still visualize certain scenes in it and I have kept thinking to myself that the dream was important and that the details I saw in that dream were important and somehow relevant to the real world. So I am watching tonight the scenes at their campsite next to the streams and that reminded me of that dream in certain regards and then I saw "Mother Abagail" laughing with delight as she ran a remote-controlled lawn mower across her yard in Boulder Colorado and that reminded me of my dream and so finally I decided to stop and make this note at the point where "Mother Abagail" is praying to God right around the time the power station is being brought back online and unless I am too much mistaken, having paused the DVD at this point, where she takes off into the night and everyone begins searching for her.
What that part makes me think about is how in that dream, I am thinking about as I write these paragraphs, for the first time I can ever recall I actually had a vivid dream where I was talking in person to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the person I was talking to, I was very certain in the dream, was literally Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
I can still remember that I had brought to her a couple of items and I was feeling apologetic because I had not included those items, and this part has always been vague, in some kind of report. But what is not vague is that I saw a brief smile from her, which I thought of because I might have been feeling apologetic perhaps for overlooking something earlier, which was the reason I was talking to her again and with those two items in hands, one of which was a pair of wire cutters and the other was a non-conductive tool that I remember from using to adjust certain variable electronic components as potentiometers and similar items that are soldered to printed circuit boards, and so apparently those two items were part of a collection that was being put together and I came back to her and told her we needed to add those items to the collection. Reinforcing the notion that we were all moving somewhere, which is vague now in sequence because I cannot recall which happened first, is the scene with the lawn mower. But I wasn't using a lawn mower but I was using a device for trimming grass. I think the actual product name is Weed Eater. Similar to 'Jet Ski' I think that product name has become synonymous with products that fulfill a similar purpose. So anyway, at some point in the dream and the sequence of events in the dream is now lost in my mind, or maybe not, I had arrived at a place where two streams converged and that place seemed to be a destination. There might have been people there already but I keep wanting to say that I was part of a group that was moving to that location and that was someplace uninhabited. I saw the streams converging and one stream was smaller and it looked kind of polluted. I was left with the sense that it was not really an ideal place to go to. I did see some signs of civilization there such as next to the stream was paved roads and I could see the metal shoulder barriers of the road. There was high weeds on the banks of the streams and I was using a weed trimmer to cut it down but I stopped perhaps half way through. Other people were around but that is vague. A scene that seems important and that I have thought about several times is that at some point I was on top of a boat that had a white cover over it and I think the boat was on a trailer and I could see myself as I adjusted cargo straps that stretched over the white cover of that boat and somewhere below a woman was looking up at me as I was on top of the boat and she was speaking to me and I cannot recall now, if I ever did, what she said but I do recall that I asked her why she was telling me any of the information she was telling me and I think I responded to her that she needed to tell the police what she was saying. I don't recall anything else about that dream, although there are some other details that don't seem important to note here.
I do not recall now precisely when I had that dream but I think that was right around the time I was having those dreams during that period when I wrote about that dream where I was standing at the ATM at the Southcenter Mall and the police car drove up and I thought the reason it was there was so I could here the message being broadcast over the police radio circuits.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 08 December 2011 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 12:55 PM Friday, December 09, 2011
Wait a minute. I had that wrong yesterday.
Something I just heard on the radio a few minutes ago reminded me that I had seen Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in a dream before and her appearance was her literal self as I understood in the dream. I was sitting on a sofa and I was in a place I don't recognize and I can still visualize and she served me a refreshment and I have thought about that many times but now I forget what I was thinking about specifically as she stood there. Naturally I would say "Thank you" but I don't think I did say that. She never did speak in the dream and after she handed me the cup she went back to her desk which was behind me and the sofa and she continued working on some documents. I heard some dialog from another man and woman just after that but I am not really certain if they were in the same room we were in although I could visualize them to a certain extent. I thought about this after I heard something on the radio just a few minutes ago and I do not record here certain specific details about that dream.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 09 December 2011 excerpt ends]
From 2/9/1941 ( the Winston Churchill "Give Us The Tools" speech ) To 5/25/1993 is 19098 days
19098 = 9549 + 9549
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 12/25/1991 ( as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) is 9549 days
From 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) To 5/25/1993 is 801 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 1/12/1968 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"A Piece of the Action" ) is 801 days
[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2014/08/and-whos-responsible-for-it-sir.html ]
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=46613
The American Presidency Project
William J. Clinton
XLII President of the United States: 1993 - 2001
Exchange With Reporters on the White House Travel Office
May 25, 1993
Q. Mr. President, are you upset by this whole Travel Office mess? And who's responsible for it, sir?
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 5:18 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Friday 04 September 2015
