JOURNAL ARCHIVE: posted by H.V.O.M at 11:11 PM Friday, September 02, 2005
The Running Man
I have always read a lot, since I was a kid. When I was in the Navy I read a lot of books when we were out to sea and one of my favorites authors during that time was Stephen King, not to mention Tom Clancy and Louis L'Amour.
One of King's book that has been on my mind a lot over these past few years is The Running Man. You may have seen the movie, but the book is a lot different and I think a much better work. Anyway, there have also been a lot of similarities between my experience over the past few years and that of the protagonist character in the book.
One notable event happened a few years ago when I was still working with Microsoft, although was soon to quit, and I was living in an apartment in Redmond. Noises bother me a lot and the people in the apartment above me were causing quit a commotion. It sounded like they had a lot of people in there and they were all stomping around. I went up there and knocked on the door. Before they opened it, I heard someone on the other side say, "Shh, it's the running man."
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 02 September 2005 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 02/28/10 6:59 PM
It seems that June 27 was the ending of the miniseries episode titled "The Plague." After he paniced, which was more intense in the book, and then falls down on the green grass, I wasn't certain if the voice of "Mother Abagail" was him thinking about a memory of a dream or if he was really hearing her voice. I started thinking the second time it happened, by the expression on his face, that he did hear the voice, but then I think to myself he was just simply concentrating hard or something similar to the memory of the dream and thinking about the details from the dream. The episode ends with him walking barefoot and wearing sweatpants and t-shirt on the street in the dark.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 28 February 2010 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 5:41 AM Saturday, November 03, 2007
I have pondering over this detail for a while and I have been thinking it was some kind of automated beacon from the Orion ship. I don't know where I left it. Orbiting the Sun maybe. So anyway, I have been thinking I programmed it to make this signal on this particular day. I don't think it is a coincidence.
I try to remember how pleased I probably felt after returning to Earth in April 1977. Can you imagine what that was like for me to return to Earth in April 1977 after my mission to successfully divert the comet? How great a feeling would that be after all that? Everywhere I looked, I saw the results of my success. Every single positive detail about life I saw represented success to me. The trees stood there as proof to my success. I would have returned to nothing but ashes and a few pissed off survivors in their underground bunkers if I had failed. There would have been nothing left on the surface of the planet Earth. I assume there would have still be an atmosphere. Probably no ozone layer though. The atmosphere probably would have eventually dissipated.
From 7/16/1963 to 8/15/1977 ("Wow!") is: 5144 days
'5144'
From 3/4/1959 to 7/16/1963 is 5 days, 1 week, 4 months, 4 years
'5144'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow_signal
The Wow! signal was a strong, narrowband radio signal detected by Dr. Jerry R. Ehman on August 15, 1977 while working on a SETI project at the Big Ear radio telescope of Ohio State University. The signal bore expected hallmarks of potential non-terrestrial and non-solar system origin. It lasted for 72 seconds, the full duration Big Ear observed it, but has not been detected again. It has been the focus of attention in the mainstream media when talking about SETI results.
Amazed at how closely the signal matched the expected signature of an interstellar signal in the antenna used, Ehman circled the signal on the computer printout and wrote the comment "Wow!" on its side. This comment became the name of the signal.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: October 22, 2006
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 10/22/2006 1:00 PM
Maybe after I hit that comet, it produced a large cloud of dust around it that prevented a coma from forming. On it second pass through that inner solar system, the cloud had dissipated and its coma was visible from Earth.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 22 October 2006 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
To: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Fri, May 19, 2006 10:02:20 AM
Subject: Re: Star Trek: TNG: Time's Arrow, June 15, 1992
Kerry Burgess wrote:
There's the "major" that shows up, I hear people stressing something about "marine air." What does it mean?
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 19 May 2006 excerpt ends]
1994 television miniseries "The Stand" DVD video:
01:15:50 Disc 1
Mother Abagail: Hello there, East Texas. What kept you?
Stu Redman: I was lost in the corn. Then I heard the guitar. It sounds so sweet.
Mother Abagail: I ain't been able to make a decent F chord in 20 years. But thank you kindly.
Stu Redman: Who are you? Where is this?
Mother Abagail: I'm Abagail Freemantle. And this is Hemingford Home. Stuart, those folks who got you won't leave you to live much longer. You know that, don't you?
Stu Redman: I reckon maybe I do.
Mother Abagail: The beast is loose in the streets of Bethlehem. The rats are in the corn.
Stu Redman: I don't follow you, ma'am. Ma'am? Ma'am, ma'am? Where are you?
Mother Abagail: Folks around these parts just call me Mother Abagail, East Texas.
Randall Flagg: AHHH!!!
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20151025/us-texas-storms-fce29160b6.html
excite news
Southeast Texas to get heavy rain; people told to be patient
Oct 25, 3:09 AM (ET) [ Saturday 25 October 2015 ]
By JAMIE STENGLE
DALLAS (AP) — Heavy rains were expected to fall in Southeast Texas through midday Sunday as the remnants of Hurricane Patricia combined with a powerful storm system that has flooded roads in the state and caused a freight train to derail.
Houston Mayor Annise Parker said people should be "prepared to be patient."
"There will be localized flooding in Houston, primarily street flooding," she said Saturday.
Brian Kyle, lead meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Houston, said forecasters expected Saturday's rains in Southeast Texas to intensify overnight.
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http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1510/24/cnr.05.html
CNN
TRANSCRIPTS
CNN NEWSROOM
Tropical Strom Patricia Hits Parts of Texas; Democratic Presidential Candidates to Attend Event in Iowa; Russian Foreign Minister Announces Russian Forces will Help Free Syrian Army; Tracy Morgan Recovery from Car Accident Profiled; University of Louisville Basketball Program Involved in Scandal over Prostitution and Player Recruits. Aired 2-2:30p ET
Aired October 24, 2015 - 14:00 ET
WHITFIELD: Right. All right, Sara Ganim, terrible, tragic situation.
All right, now, in Galveston County, Texas, issuing voluntary evacuations is underway right now because of flooding. This is 23 million Americans who are now under the threat of a major flooding event triggered by remnants of hurricane Patricia which is now a tropical depression. This is video from Navarro County, Texas, near Dallas. This area has been hit with more than 20 inches of rain so far. Floodwaters washed out train tracks and derailed this 64-car freight train loaded with cement.
CNN meteorologist Tom Seder has been tracking this storm all morning long from the CNN Weather Center. And CNN's Ed Lavandera is live for us near Dallas where that freight train was swept off the tracks. So Ed, let me go to you first. It sounds like it's still windy, still raining. What are the conditions overall is there? And how are emergency crews able to get to that freight train?
ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Fredericka, it's unrelenting rain. It doesn't stop. It's pouring down rain, it's been a steady downpour throughout the morning and that hasn't stopped. Although, we are this close you can see the train there in the distance, and 64 cars that were toppled over by the rushing flood waters.
We are seeing the waters here recede, and we know some crews have been going up and walking up to the train there. The vehicles outfitted to drive along the same tracks to assess the situation there. But so far, no real work being done to begin the process of getting the train back up and out of this area, clearly waiting for these flood waters to recede, which is going to take some time. It has dropped considerably, but the onslaught of water that this area has received, Fredericka, has been simply staggering.
Nearly 20 inches of rain in the last day and a half is falling here in the area which has caused the shutting down of interstate 45 for many hours in the overnight. Just a little while ago water is passing over the highway, making it impractical and dangerous for the heavy traffic that usually navigates that stretch of highway. This is the highway that connects Dallas to Houston. So you can imagine on a weekend it'll be heavily traveled. So we'll continue to monitor that.
And now, as you know, and we've been reporting, the remnants of hurricane Patricia as it's pushing toward the northeast into Mexico and in through Texas, all of that mixing together through the storm system that has already been sitting over the state of Texas and more rain expected the rest of this weekend.
http://www.weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/hurricane-patricia-mexico-coast
The Weather Channel
Hurricane Patricia Recap: Strongest Landfalling Pacific Hurricane on Record
Published Oct 24 2015 11:40 PM EDT weather.com
Hurricane Patricia was a tropical cyclone that formed in the eastern Pacific and rapidly intensified into a Category 5 hurricane. Even more quickly than the storm strengthened, it rapidly weakened over the rugged terrain of Mexico.
Patricia initially formed on Oct. 20, 2015 and dissipated on Oct. 24, 2015.
Looking Back at Patricia
Just 30 hours after peaking in intensity as the most powerful tropical cyclone ever measured in the Western Hemisphere, former Hurricane Patricia degenerated into a weak remnant low over northeast Mexico.
On Oct. 23, Patricia became the most powerful tropical cyclone ever measured in the Western Hemisphere as its maximum sustained winds reached an unprecedented 200 mph (320 kph) and its central pressure fell to 879 millibars (25.96 inches of mercury).
The eye of Hurricane Patricia made landfall on Oct. 23 at 6:15 p.m. CDT near Cuixmala in Jalisco state of southwest Mexico. Maximum sustained winds at landfall were estimated at 165 mph, still firmly within the Category 5 range on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.
An automated weather observation site in Cuixmala reported a 185-mph wind with a gust of 211 mph at the time of landfall, but NOAA cautioned that these measurements have not been evaluated for quality or calibration.
The landfall point was about 60 miles (96 km) northwest of Manzanillo, where tropical storm-force winds likely occurred.
But less than 24 hours later, at 4 p.m. CDT Oct. 24, the National Hurricane Center downgraded Patricia to a remnant low centered about 45 miles (70 km) southwest of Monterrey, Mexico.
In addition to its unprecedented 200-mph (320-kph) sustained winds, Hurricane Patricia broke the record for lowest pressure in any hurricane on record. With a minimum central pressure of 880 millibars (25.99 inches of mercury) at the 4 a.m. CDT advisory Oct. 23, Patricia broke the record of 882 millibars set by Wilma in the Atlantic Basin almost exactly 10 years earlier. Around 1 p.m. CDT Oct. 23, the minimum central pressure reached its lowest point, 879 millibars (25.96 inches of mercury).
Data from an Air Force Hurricane Hunter airborne reconnaissance mission late on the night of Oct. 22 provided critical data demonstrating the extreme intensification of Hurricane Patricia in near-real time. A new NOAA reconnaissance aircraft reached the eye of Patricia early on the afternoon of Oct. 23 to gather additional direct measurements of the storm's intensity.
Unprecedented Among Pacific Hurricanes
Hurricane Patricia became the strongest Pacific hurricane on record shortly after midnight CDT early on Oct. 23. Air Force Hurricane Hunters had flown through the eye of Patricia and reported a sea-level pressure of 894 millibars as measured by a dropsonde inside the eye itself. Wind measurements suggested that the pressure measurement was not in the exact center of the eye and was probably not the absolute lowest pressure, prompting NHC to estimate the minimum central pressure at 892 millibars in its special 12:30 a.m. CDT advisory.
Tropical cyclone strength comparisons are typically based on minimum central pressure. At 892 millibars, Patricia shattered the Eastern Pacific basin's previous record of 902 millibars set by Hurricane Linda in 1997.
While a number of typhoons in the western North Pacific have been stronger, Patricia is now by far the strongest hurricane on record in any basin where the term "hurricane" applies to tropical cyclones – namely, the central and eastern North Pacific basins and the North Atlantic basin, which includes the North Atlantic Ocean itself plus the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea.
Rapid Weakening
Patricia's intensity decreased very quickly as the storm's center grinded across the rugged terrain of Mexico's interior.
The center of Patricia pushed inland on a track that spared Mexico's major cities from the worst damage, including the popular coastal resort cities of Manzanillo and Puerto Vallarta and the inland metropolis of Guadalajara, Mexico's second-largest city.
Rainfall was heavy enough to cause flooding and mudslides, including a slide in the state of Michoacán that took a section of roadway out with it, injuring two people whose vehicle fell into the slide.
Only one Category 5 hurricane had ever previously been known to make landfall on Mexico's Pacific coast. That hurricane followed a path similar to that of Hurricane Patricia and struck near Puerto Vallarta in late October 1959, causing some 1,800 deaths.
The good news is the core of strongest winds only occurred over a very small area near the center, with hurricane force winds that extended outward up to 30 miles from the center at landfall. Tropical storm force winds extended outward up to 175 miles at the time of landfall.
Patricia became the first Category 5 hurricane to pose an imminent threat to land in North America since Hurricane Felix approached Nicaragua in September 2007. Like Patricia, Felix ultimately stayed a Category 5 all the way to landfall.
Rapid Intensification and Rapid Weakening
Patricia rapidly organized and intensified as maximum sustained winds with the storm increased 115 mph in a 24-hour window from 85 mph at 4 a.m. CDT on Oct. 22 to 200 mph at 4 a.m. CDT Oct. 23.
During that same time, the minimum central pressure of Patricia also decreased 100 millibars, from 980 millibars to 880 millibars.
This places Patricia among the most rapidly intensifying tropical cyclones ever witnessed anywhere in the world since the advent of modern meteorology.
Patricia weakened even faster than it strengthened; by 4 a.m. CDT Oct. 24, its central pressure had risen 106 millibars in 24 hours, from 880 to 986. Its maximum sustained winds had dropped to 75 mph, a loss of 125 mph from 24 hours earlier.
From 4 p.m. CDT Oct. 23 (the last NHC advisory before landfall) to 4 p.m. CDT Oct. 24 (the final NHC advisory on Patricia), Patricia's maximum sustained winds plummeted from 190 mph to 30 mph, a loss of 160 mph. The minimum central pressure in that 24-hour period rose from 900 millibars to 1,004 millibars, a rise of 104 millibars.
Perhaps even more jarring is the fact that Patricia went from a Category 5 hurricane at 7 p.m. CDT Oct. 23 to a remnant low only 21 hours later.
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http://www.stargate-sg1-solutions.com/wiki/Stargate:_The_Movie_Transcript
STARGATE WIKI
Stargate: The Movie (1994)
O'NEIL
Your job here is to realign the Stargate. Can you do that or not?
[Daniel nods, then shrugs.]
DANIEL
I can't.
[The three look stunned.]
O'NEIL
(threateningly)
You can't or you won't?
DANIEL
I can decipher the symbols on the Stargate, but I need an order of alignment. Now those coordinates were marked on tablets back on Earth and there must be something like that here. And I-I just need to find it.
[He chuckles nervously.]
KAWALSKI
Find it? Whaddya mean, find it? You didn't say anything about "finding" anything.
DANIEL
Well, I assumed the tablets would be here, I mean right here.
O'NEIL
You assumed?!
KAWALSKI
(angry)
You're a lying son of a bitch!
(he shoves Daniel to the ground)
You didn't say a word about finding anything.
O'NEIL
Kawalski.
[O'Neil steps between Kawalski and Daniel, who's shakily getting to his feet. The other men are starting to look over.]
O'NEIL
Set up a camp down here. Organize our supplies.
KAWALSKI
Sir...
O'NEIL
You've got your orders.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978
1978
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the year 1978.
February 21 – Electrical workers in Mexico City find the remains of the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan in the middle of the city.
https://books.google.com/books?id=SQS7BwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA503&ots=7mB4Dif3Uy&dq=Tenochtitlan%20%22february%2021%2C%201978%22&pg=PA503#v=onepage&q=Tenochtitlan%20%22february%2021,%201978%22&f=false
Google Books
The Cambridge World History: Volume 3, Early Cities in Comparative ...
edited by Norman Yoffee
page 503
Tenochtitlan was a symbolically planned city, following the template of the native cosmic map. Although Mexican archaeologists continue finding better information on the nature and organization of the sacred precinct, we still have a sketchy plan of its former self. The main temple is the best-understood construction in this precinct. On February 21, 1978, workers from the Electric Light Company were digging at the corner of Guatemala and Argentina Streets and discovered a large stone carved with a series of reliefs. Excavations on the spot revealed an enormous monolith 3.25 meters in diameter, with a representation of a decapitated and dismembered female nude carved in relief. It was a depiction of the goddess Coyolxauhqui who, according to Aztec myth, had been killed by her brother, the war-god Huitzilopochtli. The discovery of the Coyolxauhqui stone led the authorities to order further work to expose this central area of Tenochtitlan.
http://tenochtitlan.ace.fordham.edu/exhibits/show/coyolxauhquistone/coyolxauhquistoneplacement
Tenochtitlan
Placement and Context
Understanding the significance of the Coyolxauhqui stone’s location is crucial to comprehending all of its inherent symbolism. On February 21, 1978, electricians working in Mexico City discovered the Coyolxauhqui stone as they were digging beneath the city street level. Before this discovery, archaeologists had been trying to garner attention and political support for excavations of Aztec ruins within the city; but, it was Coyolxauhqui who really got the public and the politicians behind the idea of excavation.
As excavation of the Templo Mayor and surrounding area gathered steam, Coyolxauhqui’s significance became clearer.
The stone was originally placed on the south side of Templo Mayor. The Templo Mayor honors two gods, arguably the most prominent in the Mexica pantheon of deities as we understand it today: Tlaloc and Huitzilopochtli. Each side of the temple aligns with the mountain that corresponds to a deity: The north side of the temple lies on an axis with Mt. Tlaloc, aligning with Tlaloc, and the south side aligns with Mt. Coatepec, the “Serpent Mountain.” If we recall from the chronicles, Mt. Coatepec is the site of the battle between Huitzilopochtli and Coyolxauhqui. However, the symbolism does not end there.
The temples are clearly meant to evoke the significance of these mythological stories and stand in as symbolic mountains within the heart of Tenochtitlan. Mirroring the story of her demise, Coyolxauhqui lays at the bottom of the steps on the side of the Templo Mayor dedicated to Huitzilopochtli, just as she lay dismembered and defeated at the bottom of Mt. Coatepec.
Scholars have reason to believe that located at the top of the Templo Mayor was the sacred bundle representing Huitzilopochtli, and potentially the massive statue of Coatlicue as well. In imperial state religious ceremonies, many of the chronicles describe the manner in which sacrificial victims were brought to the top of the Templo Mayor to be sacrificed and their hearts removed (different variations depending on the occasion). In ceremonies honoring Huitzilopochtli, victims may also have been beheaded and dismembered, in the style of Coyolxauhqui. After the victims fall to the bottom of the steps, Coyolxauhqui awaits them, all of her earth goddess iconography comes into play; her placement suggests that she awaits the sacrificial bodies in order to eat them and restore the earth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenochtitlan
Tenochtitlan
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mexico-Tenochtitlan, commonly known as Tenochtitlan was an Aztec altepetl (city-state) located on an island in Lake Texcoco, in the Valley of Mexico. Founded on June 20 of 1325, it became the capital of the expanding Mexican Empire in the 15th century, until captured by the Spanish in 1521.
At its peak it was the largest city in the Pre-Columbian Americas. It subsequently became a cabecera of the Viceroyalty of New Spain. Today the ruins of Tenochtitlan are located in Mexico City's downtown.
Ruins
Tenochtitlan's main temple complex, the Templo Mayor, was dismantled and the central district of the Spanish colonial city was constructed on top of it. The great temple was destroyed by the Spanish during the construction of a cathedral. The location of the Templo Mayor was rediscovered in the early 20th century, but major excavations did not take place until 1978–1982, after utility workers came across a massive stone disc depicting the nude dismembered body of the moon goddess Coyolxauhqui. This stone disc is 3.25 meters in diameter (or 10.5 ft). These finds are held at the Templo Mayor Museum.
The ruins, constructed over seven periods, were built on top of each other. The resulting weight of the structures caused them to sink into the sediment of Lake Texcoco. This resulted in the ruins now resting at an angle instead of horizontally.
Mexico City's Zócalo, the Plaza de la Constitución, is located at the site of Tenochtitlan's original central plaza and market, and many of the original calzadas still correspond to modern city streets. The Aztec calendar stone was located in the ruins. This stone is 4 meters in diameter and weighs over 20 tons. It was once located half-way up the great pyramid.
http://vma.uoregon.edu/inst_doprofile.lasso?&DoWhat=d&Document=487
Wired Humanities Projects, University of Oregon
Virtual Mesoamerican Archive
Tenochtitlan: Coyolxauhqui stone
Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. (FAMSI)
On February 21, 1978, México City electrical workers were excavating a trench six feet below the street level to the northwest of the cathedral when they encountered a monolithic carved stone block. Archaeologists were immediately called to the scene to salvage what turned out to be an eleven foot in diameter stone disk carved with a relief in human form. Recognizing the symbol of golden bells on her cheeks, salvage archaeologists identified the image as a goddess known as Coyolxauhqui, ‘She Who is Adorned with Bells.’ According to legend the goddess was killed by Huitzilopochtli, her half-brother, and cast down from a mountain called Coatepec meaning Hill of Serpents.”
http://www.famsi.org/research/pohl/pohl_aztec2.html
FAMSI
THE AZTECS: TENOCHTITLÁN
A map of Tenochtitlán made from Cortés’ personal memory and published in 1524. Despite the use of European artistic conventions, it features many accurate details. There were three major causeways that ran from the mainland into the city which was divided into four districts and populated by more than two hundred thousand people. In 1521, Cortés demolished the ceremonial center during the course of the longest continuous battle ever recorded in military history. Ancient Tenochtitlán was lost to memory.
http://www.famsi.org/research/pohl/pohl_aztec2.html
FAMSI
THE AZTECS: TENOCHTITLÁN
Construction of the México City subway during the 1960’s led to the excavation of smaller district and calpulli temples such as a round structure possibly dedicated to Quetzalcoatl now preserved at the Piño Suarez metro station lying seven blocks south of the zocalo. Archaeologists suspected from such chance finds that the ruins of the Great Temple might be found as well.
http://www.famsi.org/research/pohl/pohl_aztec2.html
FAMSI
THE AZTECS: TENOCHTITLÁN
On February 21, 1978, México City electrical workers were excavating a trench six feet below the street level to the northwest of the cathedral when they encountered a monolithic carved stone block. Archaeologists were immediately called to the scene to salvage what turned out to be an eleven foot in diameter stone disk carved with a relief in human form. Recognizing the symbol of golden bells on her cheeks, salvage archaeologists identified the image as a goddess known as Coyolxauhqui, “She Who is Adorned with Bells.” According to legend the goddess was killed by Huitzilopochtli, her half-brother, and cast down from a mountain called Coatepec meaning Hill of Serpents.
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Coyolxauhqui
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Aztec mythology, Coyolxauhqui ("Face painted with Bells") was a daughter of Coatlicue and Mixcoatl and is the leader of the Centzon Huitznahuas, the southern star gods.
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FAMSI
THE AZTECS: TENOCHTITLÁN
Careful examination of the Coyolxauhqui stone led archaeologists to conclude that the monument was “in situ,” meaning it had never been seen by the Spaniards, much less smashed and reburied like so many other monoliths. Remembering that Coyolxauhqui’s body was said to have come to rest at the foot of the mountain, the archaeologists began to surmise that Coatepec, which is to say its incarnation as the Great Temple itself, might lay very nearby. It was not long before the archaeologists discovered parts of a grand staircase and then the massive stone serpent heads, literally signifying Coatepec, surrounding the base of the pyramid itself. The Great Temple had been found by decoding a thousand year old legend.
http://www.stargate-sg1-solutions.com/wiki/Stargate:_The_Movie_Transcript
STARGATE WIKI
Stargate: The Movie (1994)
SHORE
It's guiding itself. Can you believe it?
[The computer describes a lot of illegible data as a device tracks across a star chart.]
SHORE
The thing has locked itself onto a point somewhere in the Kaliam galaxy.
JENNY
It has mass. It-it could be a moon or a large asteroid.
DANIEL
Where are we on that map?
CATHERINE
(points)
Look down.
[Daniel moves to the far end of the star chart where a red square box is. Then follows to where the trajectory guide is now sitting.]
CATHERINE
That's right, Jackson. It's on the other side of the...known universe.
http://www.tv.com/shows/together-we-stand/a-chicken-in-every-wok-195000/
tv.com
Together We Stand Season 1 Episode 6
A Chicken in Every Wok
Aired Wednesday 8:00 PM Oct 29, 1986 on CBS
AIRED: 10/29/86
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STARGATE WIKI
Stargate: The Movie (1994)
DANIEL
What is this place?
[He looks around with a torch, helping Shau'ri step through the hole. The torch lights up the Earth glyph written on the wall. Daniel stares amazed at hieroglyphs on the wall. He begins muttering the Ancient Egyption words of the symbols as he goes.]
DANIEL
Cypian. Rem-e-n-jef. Bah-ka-naf-sema. Tah-parief. I'll be damned.
SHAU'RI
(repeating a variation of one of the words Daniel spoke)
Tah-pah-rief?
[He turns around, startled.]
DANIEL
Huh?
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Stargate (1994)
Release Info
USA 28 October 1994
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STARGATE WIKI
Stargate: The Movie (1994)
INT—CAVE
[Shau'ri and Daniel sit on the floor, talking with each other in the native tongue.]
O'NEIL
Thought you couldn't speak their language.
[Daniel jumps, startled, and stands, chuckling nervously.]
DANIEL
Huh? You scared me.
[O'Neil, Skaara, Kawalski, and Brown walk further into the cave. O'Neil looks angry. Daniel and Shau'ri move to meet them. Daniel gestures at the wall.]
DANIEL
It's an ancient Egyptian dialect. I mean, it's like the rest of their culture. It's evolved completely independently. But...uh...once you know the vowels....
O'NEIL
Just answer the question.
DANIEL
Well—uh. I-I me—I just had to learn how to pronounce it. I mean, it hasn't been a living, spoken language in more than one thousand years. I mean, look at this. It says, uh: "A traveler from distant stars escaped from a dying world looking for a way to extend his own life."
[Daniel points to icons on the wall showing an alien creature with the eye of Ra over his chest.]
FLASHBACK
[An alien creature, similar to the pictograph description, cries out as if in pain.]
DANIEL
(voiceover)
"His body, decaying and weak...he couldn't prevent his own demise." Apparently his whole species was becoming extinct. "So he travelled..."
END FLASHBACK
INT—CAVE
DANIEL
or "searched", "...the galaxies looking for a way to cheat death."
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IMDb
Fowled-Up Party (1957)
Release Info
USA 3 November 1957
DSC00178.JPG
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Stephen King
The Stand - The Complete & Uncut Edition
Chapter 44
Vaguely, Larry remembered the spell of rain that had occurred the afternoon he had found his mother dying, just before the superflu had hit New York like a highballing freight train. Remembered the thunderstorm and the white curtains blowing wildly into the apartment. He shivered a little, and the wind danced a spiral of fire out of the fire and up toward the black starshot sky. Embers cycloned up even higher and flickered out. He thought of fall, still distant but not so far as it had been on that day in June when he had discovered his mother lying on the floor, delirious. He shivered a little. North, far down on the beach, Joe’s torch bobbed up and down. It made him feel lonely and all the colder—that single light flickering in the large and silent darkness. The surf rolled and boomed.
“Do you play?”
He jumped a little at her voice and looked at the guitar case lying beside them on the sand. It had been leaning against a Steinway piano in the music room of the big house they had broken into to get their supper. He had loaded his pack with enough cans to replace what they had eaten this day, and had taken the guitar on impulse, not even looking inside the case to see what it was—coming from a house like that, it was probably a good un. He hadn’t played since that crazy Malibu party, and that had been six weeks ago. In another life.
“Yeah, I do,” he said, and discovered that he wanted to play, not for her but because sometimes it felt good to play, it eased your mind. And when you had a bonfire on the beach, someone was supposed to play the guitar. That was practically graven in stone.
“Let’s see what we got here,” he said, and unsnapped the catches.
He had expected something good, but what lay inside the case was still a happy surprise. It was a Gibson twelve-string, a beautiful instrument, perhaps even custom-made. Larry wasn’t enough of a judge of guitars to be sure. He did know that the fretboard inlays were real mother-of-pearl, catching reddish-orange glints from the fire and waxing them into prisms of light.
“It’s beautiful,” she said.
“It sure is.”
He strummed it and liked the sound it made, even open and not quite in tune. The sound was fuller and richer than the sound you got from a six-string. A harmonic sound, but tough. That was the good thing about a steel-string guitar, you got a nice tough sound. And the strings were Black Diamonds, wrapped and a little hokey, but you got an honest sound, a trifle rough when you changed chords—zing! He smiled a little, remembering Barry Grieg’s contempt for the smooth flat guitar strings. He had always called them “dollar slicks.” Good old Barry, who wanted to be Steve Miller when he grew up.
“What are you smiling about?” Nadine asked.
“Old times,” he said, and felt a little sad.
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/58.htm
The Paradise Syndrome [ Star Trek: The Original Series ]
Stardate: 4842.6
Original Airdate: Oct 4, 1968
[Obelisk chamber]
KIRK [OC]: (dazed and confused) Where am I? What place is this? What are these? (phaser and communicator) I feel should know. They're familiar and yet unfamiliar. How did I get here? Who am I? Try to remember.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=34721
The American Presidency Project
Ronald Reagan
XL President of the United States: 1981 - 1989
Statement on Signing the National Park Airspace Management Bill
August 18, 1987
I have signed H.R. 921, which calls for the cooperative efforts of the Secretary of the Interior and the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to specify compatible aviation uses over our national parks. In its report on H.R. 921, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation recognized, however, the potential problems of an agency other than the FAA developing airspace regulations and expressed concern that the plenary authority of the FAA over airspace management not be diminished or diffused. Accordingly, it urged cooperative efforts between the Secretary of the Interior and the Administrator of the FAA in the development of airspace use recommendations for the Grand Canyon.
Because I share the committee's concern, I am directing that the Secretary of the Interior, in developing his recommendations for aviation uses over the Grand Canyon, take into consideration, to the extent permitted by law, the views of the Administrator of the FAA. This will not only assure a cooperative effort but should facilitate the timely adoption of the recommendations by the FAA.
Note: H.R. 921, approved August 18, was assigned Public Law No. 100-91.
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IMDb
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
Release Info
USA 6 December 1979 (Washington, D.C.) (premiere)
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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: Miniseries (2003)
(Credits - in this case, just the Battlestar Galactica title.)
(We zoom in on Galactica from a distance as the actors' names appear.)
(Inside the ship, Starbuck is jogging through the corridors. She passes several people and then approaches a tour group.)
Starbuck: Make a hole.
(Tour group makes a hole and she runs through.)
Tour guide: As I was saying, form follows function. Now, nowhere is this axiom of design more readily apparent than on board the world famous Battlestar Galactica. This ship, the last of her kind still in service, was constructed over fifty years ago in the early days of the Cylon War. Now originally there were twelve battlestars, each representing one of Kobol's Twelve Colonies. Galactica represented Caprica
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The Roots of Heaven (1958)
Release Info
USA 15 October 1958
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052148/quotes
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The Roots of Heaven (1958)
Quotes
Saint Denis: He's guilty of the oldest crime in the world. Too much faith in human beings!
http://www.tv.com/shows/stephen-kings-the-stand/the-plague-1178981/
tv.com
Stephen King's The Stand Season 1 Episode 1
The Plague
Aired Sunday 12:00 AM May 08, 1994 on ABC
AIRED: 5/8/94
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tv.com
Fame Season 6 Episode 20
The Lounge Singer Who Knew Too Much
Aired Unknown Apr 20, 1987 on
Reggie, Ian and Dusty compete in a video contest; Jillian's computer error puts Christopher's life in danger when he comes into possession of a cassette labeled "top secret" by a conglomerate involved in national security.
AIRED: 4/20/87
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Fair Today (1941)
Release Info
USA 24 February 1941
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IMDb
King Ralph (1991)
Release Info
USA 15 February 1991
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IMDb
King Ralph (1991)
Taglines
When Ralph becomes royalty, laughter reigns!
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
DECKER: NASA. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Jim, this was launched more than three hundred years ago.
KIRK: Voyager series, designed to collect data and transmit it back to Earth.
DECKER: Voyager VI ...disappeared into what they used to call a black hole.
KIRK: It must have emerged sometime on the far side of the Galaxy and fell into the machine's planet's gravitational field.
SPOCK: The machine inhabiters found it to be one of their own kind, primitive yet kindred. They discovered its simple twentieth-century programming. Collect all data possible.
DECKER: Learn all that is learnable. Return that information to its Creator.
SPOCK (OC): Precisely, Mister Decker, the machines interpreted it literally.
SPOCK: They built this entire vessel so that Voyager could fulfil it's programming.
KIRK: And on its journey back it amassed so much knowledge, it achieved consciousness itself. It became a living thing.
ALIEN MACHINE VOICE (OC): (unintelligible)
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=9786
The American Presidency Project
Dwight D. Eisenhower
XXXIV President of the United States: 1953-1961
267 - Remarks at a Dinner Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Powered Flight.
December 17, 1953
President Johnson, and ladies and gentlemen:
It is indeed a great honor to have the privilege of addressing the aristocracy of aviation. Moreover, it is a very and even greater honor to join with you in honoring two names, those of the Wright brothers, which names will glow brightly in America's history as long as this country may endure.
Before such an audience as this, I shall not be foolish enough to talk at length about the accomplishments and the history of aviation. By no means would I get up before a college of surgeons and discuss or instruct in an intricate operation, and I am not going to make that kind of mistake here.
But I do want to refer to one element--one development--in the history of aviation: speed.
Recently, in reading about the Wrights, I noted that in that early year of 1903, when 30 miles an hour was achieved that was a very good performance. Then I noted, almost in the same day's paper, that someone recently flew 1,650 miles an hour. In 50 years we multiplied the speed of travel by 50 times. And let's go ahead until 2003. My grandson will then be half a dozen years younger than I am now. But if we keep up this same rate, he will see airplanes traveling at 82,500 miles an hour, if my mental arithmetic is somewhat correct.
Now, beyond that you have only to double it and you are at the speed of light. Then we will have the physicists talk about what is going to happen when you pierce the radiant barrier. It will be an interesting problem for them: if you travel faster than light, will you go blind?
This speed has become characteristic not only of the vehicle the great aviation industry has produced, but of the people. I shall tell you a little incident about one of your speakers this evening. A little more than 11 years ago tonight, we landed in North Africa. My headquarters was at Gibraltar. I had an aviation chief, and a question came up about aviation involving, really, the flight of some P-38's from Britain on down to Gibraltar. We needed them badly. I knew nothing of what they could do. So I sent for my Chief, General Doolittle. Not to be found. And so on my own I had to decide that a P-38 could fly that far, so I sent a cable and said send them on down.
Now, when Jimmy Doolittle came in, I said, "Where have you been?" And with his eyes glowing, he said, "I was flying a fighter plane against some French ships."
"Well," I said, "Jimmy, that is very interesting." And I said, "We have got a number of second lieutenants over there flying the ships, and you can be one of two things, a second lieutenant on a fighter ship or you can be my chief of aviation and a major general." I assure you, never did a potential second lieutenant get promoted faster.
Now, there are other characteristics about their personnel that have brought aviation to the point that it is today. I think they are vision and imagination, courage and perseverance.
Now, as the airplane of today is so much more complicated than the ship that the Wright brothers flew at Kitty Hawk as almost to defy comparison, so is our world of today a far more complicated thing than it was in those simple early days of this century.
This world is traveling in the speed of the complexity and intricacy of its problems almost as fast as aviation has come ahead. Indeed, I think maybe aviation is symbolic of what has happened to us.
Now I subscribe to every word that has been said here this evening about air power. It is important to us. It is a deterrent to potential enemies. It is absolutely needed in this day and time to us, if we are to preserve this country inviolate to attack.
But my belief goes far beyond that. I do not believe that in any amount of armed force, of whatever nature, is there real safety over the long run for any nation. The power of the surprise attack grows too great, and with every further step in the perfection of the airplane, with the terrifying increase in the power of bombs, we get to the point that the side that denies the moral and spiritual values in life preserves over people who live as we do such a terrifying advantage that something must be done about it.
Now that something, I submit, my friends, is the same vision, the same imagination, the same courage and the same perseverance that brought the Wright brothers' ship today to the B-52 and the B-47, and this new 1,650-mile job.
You people, as you build this air force, as you maintain it, as you keep it on top in quality, and wherever necessary in quantity, you must turn your imaginations and these great talents that you have displayed to our country in the widest sense. You must think in the deepest of spiritual and moral values, and how we are going to protect them, because there finally will be the capstone, as I see it, of all the service that the aviation industry can possibly do to our beloved country.
Again my friends, my profound thanks to each of you for the warmth and cordiality of your welcome, and for listening to me so courteously.
Good night.
Note: The President spoke at 10:24 p.m. at the Statler Hotel in Washington.
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Battlestar Galactica Episode 1
Battlestar Galactica:The Mini-Series
AIRED: 12/8/03
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The Outer Limits - Original Season 1 Episode 4
The Man With the Power
Aired Monday 8:00 PM Oct 07, 1963 on ABC
AIRED: 10/7/63
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Springfield! Springfield!
The Outer Limits
The Man With the Power
HELLO, VERA.
I BROUGHT SOMEBODY HOME WITH ME.
MEET STEVE CRANDON.
VERA? WE'RE WORKING TOGETHER ON THE PROJECT.
HOW DO YOU DO, MRS.
FINLEY.
HOW DO YOU DO.
STEVE IS ONE OF THE ASTRONAUTS, VERA.
SPEAKING OF THE SPACE CENTER, HAROLD, DEAN RADCLIFFE DROPPED IN THIS AFTERNOON.
OH, YES? HE WANTED TO SEE YOU.
HE SEEMED ANGRY.
SAID YOU WERE NEGLECTING YOUR CLASSES.
YOU CAN'T SAY I DIDN'T WARN YOU, HAROLD.
OH, WELL, THERE'S- THERE'S NO USE LETTING A LITTLE BAD NEWS SPOIL OUR DINNER.
I'VE ALREADY EATEN.
I LEFT SOME THINGS ON THE STOVE FOR YOU TO HEAT UP.
YOU SAID YOU WERE GOING TO COME HOME EARLY AND HELP WASH WINDOWS.
YOU DIDN'T, NATURALLY, SO I CAN'T STOP NOW.
I SEEM TO HAVE BARGED IN AT A WRONG TIME, MR.
FINLEY.
I'LL CATCH A BUS BACK.
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Stephen King
The Stand - The Complete & Uncut Edition
Chapter 37
At first Stu accepted the sound without question; it was such a typical part of a bright summer morning. He had just passed through the town of South Ryegate, New Hampshire, and now the highway wound through a pretty country of overhanging elms that dappled the road with coins of moving sunlight. The underbrush on either side was thick—bright sumac, blue-gray juniper, lots of bushes he couldn’t name. The profusion of them was still a wonder to his eyes, accustomed as they were to East Texas, where the roadside flora had nothing like this variety. On the left, an ancient rock wall meandered in and out of the brush, and on the right a small brook gurgled cheerily east. Every now and then small animals would move in the underbrush (yesterday he had been transfixed by the sight of a large doe standing on the white line of 302, scenting the morning air), and birds called raucously. And against that background of sound, the barking dog sounded like the most natural thing in the world.
He walked almost another mile before it occurred to him that the dog—closer now, by the sound—might be out of the ordinary after all. He had seen a great many dead dogs since leaving Stovington, but no live ones. Well, he supposed, the flu had killed most but not all of the people. Apparently it had killed most but not all of the dogs, as well. Probably it would be extremely people-shy by now. When it scented him, it would most likely crawl back into the bushes and bark hysterically at him until Stu left its territory.
He adjusted the straps of the Day-Glo pack he was wearing and refolded the handkerchiefs that lay under the straps at each shoulder. He was wearing a pair of Georgia Giants, and three days of walking had rubbed most of the new from them. On his head was a jaunty, wide-brimmed red felt hat, and there was an army carbine slung across his shoulder. He did not expect to run across marauders, but he had a vague idea that it might be a good idea to have a gun. Fresh meat, maybe. Well, he had seen fresh meat yesterday, still on the hoof, and he had been too amazed and pleased to even think about shooting it.
The pack riding easily again, he went on up the road. The dog sounded as if it was just beyond the next bend. Maybe I’ll see him after all, Stu thought.
He had picked up 302 going east because he supposed that sooner or later it would take him to the ocean. He had made a kind of compact with himself: When I get to the ocean, I’ll decide what I’m going to do. Until then, I won’t think about it at all. His walk, now in its fourth day, had been a kind of healing process. He had thought about taking a ten-speed bike or maybe a motorcycle with which he could thread his way through—the occasional crashes that blocked the road, but instead had decided to walk. He had always enjoyed hiking, and his body cried out for exercise. Until his escape from Stovington he had been cooped up for nearly two weeks, and he felt flabby and out of shape. He supposed that sooner or later his slow progress would make him impatient and he would get the bike or motorcycle, but for now he was content to hike east on this road, looking at whatever he wanted to look at, taking five when he wanted to, or in the afternoon, dropping off for a snooze during the hottest part of the day. It was good for him to be doing this. Little by little the lunatic search for a way out was fading into memory, just something that had happened instead of a thing so vivid it brought cold sweat out onto his skin. The memory of that feeling of someone following him had been the hardest to shake. The first two nights on the road he had dreamed again and again of his final encounter with Elder, when Elder had come to carry out his orders. In the dreams Stu was always too slow with the chair. Elder stepped back out of its arc, pulled the trigger of his pistol, and Stu felt a heavy but painless boxing glove weighted with lead shot land on his chest. He dreamed this over and over until he woke unrested in the morning, but so glad to be alive that he hardly realized it. Last night the dream hadn’t come. He doubted if the willies would stop all at once, but he thought he might be walking the poison out of his system little by little. Maybe he would never get rid of all of it, but when most of it was gone he felt sure he would be able to think better about what came next, whether he had reached the ocean by then or not.
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!
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 05 September 2013 excerpt ends]
http://www.tv.com/shows/stargate-universe/cloverdale-1357996/
tv.com
Stargate Universe Season 2 Episode 5
Cloverdale
Aired Monday 9:00 PM Oct 26, 2010 on Syfy
AIRED: 10/26/10
http://www.tv.com/shows/star-trek/the-paradise-syndrome-24941/
tv.com
Star Trek Season 3 Episode 3
The Paradise Syndrome
Aired Unknown Oct 04, 1968 on NBC
AIRED: 10/4/68
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_in_aviation
1918 in aviation
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of aviation-related events from 1918:
October 14
The first all-U.S. Marine Corps air combat action in history takes place, when five Airco DH.4s and three Airco DH.9s bomb Pitthem, Belgium. On the return flight, German Fokker D.VII and Pfalz D.III fighters attack the bombers. Second Lieutenant Ralph Talbot (pilot) and Gunnery Sergeant Robert Guy Robinson (gunner) become separated from the formation after their DH.4 loses power, then encounter 12 German fighters. Although Robinson is terribly wounded during the resulting dogfight, they hold off the Germans and Talbot lands at a Belgian hospital, where Robinson is treated. For this action, they will become the first U.S. Marine Corps aviators to receive the Medal of Honor during a ceremony on November 11, 1920.
October 25 – U.S. Marine Corps Second Lieutenant Ralph Talbot dies in a crash during a test flight 11 days after the action for which he will receive a posthumous Medal of Honor in 1920.
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Tough Enough To Do The Job
Story and Photos by
JOCS Kirby Harrison
Enlisted aircrew are a tough lot. They are part of a tradition of tough that has been passed down since the earliest days of U.S. Naval Aviation — days long before they were known as “aircrew.” Back then, they were called observers, often flying in the open rear cockpit of a biplane.
Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant Robert Guy Robinson was an observer, and one of those early enlisted aircrewmen. On October 14, 1918, he and Marine pilot Lieutenant Ralph Talbot took their WW I DeHavilland DH-4 aloft to do battle over the fields of Belgium. Separated from their formation by engine problems, they were jumped by 12 German planes. In the ensuing melee, Robinson shot down one of the attackers. Moments later, he was hit by enemy fire and his elbow shattered. His normally reliable Lewis gun jammed. While Talbot desperately maneuvered, Robinson cleared the gun with one hand and continued to fight. Again the young Marine was hit, this time in the stomach. And again, through the thigh. Robinson collapsed over his gun.
Talbot shot down another enemy plane and dived to escape. Dodging ground fire, he crossed German lines at 50 feet and landed at a hospital where Robinson was treated for his wounds and survived. For their actions, Robinson and Talbot became the first Marine pilot and enlisted aircrewman to win the Medal of Honor.
1994 television miniseries "The Stand" DVD video:
00:26:25 Disc 2
Randall Flagg: "Baby, can you dig your man? He's a righteous man"
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Stephen King
The Stand - The Complete & Uncut Edition
Chapter 21
Stu Redman was frightened.
He looked out the barred window of his new room in Stovington, Vermont, and what he saw was a small town far below, miniature gas station signs, some sort of mill, a main street, a river, the turnpike, and beyond the turnpike the granite backbone of far western New England—the Green Mountains.
He was frightened because this was more like a jail cell than a hospital room. He was frightened because Denninger was gone. He hadn’t seen Denninger since the whole crazy three-ring circus moved from Atlanta to here. Deitz was gone, too. Stu thought that maybe Denninger and Deitz were sick, perhaps dead already.
Somebody had slipped. Either that, or the disease that Charles D. Campion had brought to Arnette was a lot more communicable than anyone had guessed. Either way, the integrity of the Atlanta Plague Center had been breached, and Stu thought that everyone who had been there was now getting a chance to do a little firsthand research on the virus they called A-Prime or the superflu.
They still did tests on him here, but they seemed desultory. The schedule had become slipshod. Results were scrawled down and he had a suspicion that someone looked at them cursorily, shook his head, and dumped them in the nearest shredder.
That wasn’t the worst, though. The worst was the guns. The nurses who came in to take blood or spit or urine were now always accompanied by a soldier in a white-suit, and the soldier had a gun in a plastic Baggie. The Baggie was fastened over the wrist of the soldier’s right gauntlet. The gun was an army-issue .45, and Stu had no doubt that, if he tried any of the games he had tried with Deitz, the .45 would tear the end of the Baggie into smoking, burning shreds and Stu Redman would become a Golden Oldie.
If they were just going through the motions now, then he had become expendable. Being under detention was bad. Being under detention and being expendable… that was very bad.
He watched the six o’clock news very carefully every night now. The men who had attempted the coup in India had been branded “outside agitators” and shot. The police were still looking for the person or persons who had blown a power station in Laramie, Wyoming, yesterday. The Supreme Court had decided 6–3 that known homosexuals could not be fired from civil service jobs. And for the first time, there had been a whisper of other things.
AEC officials in Miller County, Arkansas, had denied there was any chance of a reactor meltdown. The atomic power plant in the small town of Fouke, about thirty miles from the Texas border, had been plagued with minor circuitry problems in the equipment that controlled the pile’s cooling cycle, but there was no cause for alarm. The army units in that area were merely a precautionary measure. Stu wondered what precautions the army could take if the Fouke reactor did indeed go China Syndrome. He thought the army might be in southwestern Arkansas for other reasons altogether. Fouke wasn’t all that far from Arnette.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 06:20 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Sunday 25 October 2015
