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Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
[Outside Enterprise - with a 'Giant's Causeway' leading away]
ILIA PROBE: V'Ger!
[Voyager VI platform]
KIRK: V-G-E-R ...V-O-Y-A-G-E-R ...Voyager! ...Voyager VI?
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)
ILIA PROBE: Kirk unit, V'Ger awaits the information.
KIRK: Enterprise, order up the ship's computer library of records, on the late twentieth-century NASA probe, Voyager VI.
[Enterprise bridge]
KIRK (on intercom): We want the old NASA code signal that instructs the probe to transmit its [ data.]
[Voyager VI platform]
KIRK: ...and fast, Uhura, fast!
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
DECKER: That's what it's been signalling, its readiness to transmit its information.
KIRK: And there's no one on Earth who could recognise the old signal and send a response.
McCOY: The Creator does not answer.
KIRK: V'Ger, ...V'Ger, ...V'Ger, ...we are the Creator.
ILIA PROBE: That is not possible. Carbon units are not true lifeforms.
KIRK (OC): We will prove it. We will make it possible for you to complete your programming. Only the Creator could accomplish that. ...Enterprise?
[Enterprise bridge]
UHURA: We have just received the response code, Captain.
[Voyager VI platform]
KIRK: Set the Enterprise transmitter on appropriate frequency, and transmit the code now.
UHURA (on intercom): Transmitting.
DECKER: Five zero four, three two nine, three one seven, five one zero, and the final sequence...
KIRK: That should trigger Voyager's transmitter.
SPOCK: Voyager is not transmitting its data, Captain.
ILIA PROBE: The Creator must join with V'Ger.
KIRK: Uhura! Repeat the final sequence.
ILIA PROBE: The Creator must join with V'Ger.
SPOCK: Voyager is not transmitting, Captain, because it did not receive the final sequence.
McCOY: Jim, we're down to ten minutes.
KIRK: Enterprise, stand by. The antenna leads are melted away.
SPOCK: Yes Captain, just now. By V'Ger itself.
KIRK: Why?
SPOCK: To prevent reception.
KIRK: Of course.
DECKER: To bring the Creator here, to finish transmitting the code in person, ...to touch the Creator.
McCOY: To capture God! V'Ger's going to be in for one hell of a disappointment.
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
ILIA PROBE: They have repressed the Creator.
KIRK: ...the information will not be disclosed.
ILIA PROBE: V'Ger needs the information.
KIRK: Then V'Ger must withdraw all the orbiting devices.
ILIA PROBE: V'Ger will comply if the carbon units will disclose the information.
McCOY: It learns fast, doesn't it?
SPOCK: Captain, the vessel, V'Ger, obviously operates from a central brain complex.
KIRK: The orbiting devices will be controlled from that point.
SPOCK: Precisely.
KIRK: The carbon unit's information cannot be disclosed to V'Ger's probe, but only to V'Ger directly.
DECKER: Forward motion, Captain!
SPOCK: Tractor beam.
DECKER: Captain, what's the next move?
KIRK: The question is, Mister Decker, is there a next move? ...Resume duty stations.
DECKER: All personnel resume stations.
KIRK: Well, Mister Decker, it seems my bluff has been called.
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International Squadron (1941)
Release Info
USA 13 August 1941
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International Squadron (1941)
Full Cast & Crew
Ronald Reagan ... Jimmy Grant
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
UHURA (on intercom): Aye sir.
DECKER: That's what it's been signalling, its readiness to transmit its information.
KIRK: And there's no one on Earth who could recognise the old signal and send a response.
McCOY: The Creator does not answer.
KIRK: V'Ger, ...V'Ger, ...V'Ger, ...we are the Creator.
ILIA PROBE: That is not possible.
From 6/2/1953 ( the coronation ceremony of my biological paternal grandmother Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II ) To 12/6/1979 ( premiere US film "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" ) is 9683 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 5/7/1992 is 9683 days
From 8/13/1941 ( premiere US film "International Squadron" ) To 5/7/1992 is 18530 days
18530 = 9265 + 9265
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 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 ) is 9265 days
From 9/10/1964 ( premiere US film "Rendezvous in Space" ) To 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 ) is 9683 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 5/7/1992 is 9683 days
From 1/13/1928 ( the General Electric first public demonstration of television ) To 1/20/1981 ( my biological maternal grandfather Ronald Wilson Reagan in office as the 40th President of the United States of America ) is 19366 days
19366 = 9683 + 9683
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 5/7/1992 is 9683 days
From 12/1/1984 ( the United States Navy warship USS Taylor FFG 50 commissioned into United States Navy battle force fleet active service - departing 11 February 1986 as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Navy Fire Controlman Petty Officer 3rd Class my first United States Navy fleet assignment beginning 19 December 1984 ) To 5/7/1992 is 2714 days
2714 = 1357 + 1357
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 7/21/1969 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the United States Navy Commander circa 1969 was United States Apollo 11 Eagle spacecraft United States Navy astronaut landing and walking on the planet Earth's moon ) is 1357 days
From 10/4/1923 ( Charlton Heston ) To 10/11/1976 ( the United States of America Public Law 94-479 General of the Armies of the United States approved by United States President Gerald Ford and applies personally and professionally to my biological brother United States Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan ) is 19366 days
19366 = 9683 + 9683
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 5/7/1992 is 9683 days
From 5/18/1917 ( Woodrow Wilson - Proclamation 1370 - Conscription ) To 5/26/1970 ( premiere US film "Beneath the Planet of the Apes" ) is 19366 days
19366 = 9683 + 9683
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 5/7/1992 is 9683 days
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Los Angeles Times
Shuttle Endeavour Blasts Off on Difficult Maiden Flight : Science: The mission includes three spacewalks, practice for space station assembly and rescue of a communications satellite.
May 08, 1992 ROBERT W. STEWART TIMES STAFF WRITER
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — Dodging gusty winds and threatening thunderstorms, the shuttle Endeavour, the nation's newest orbiter, found a hole in the clouds Thursday and blasted off on its maiden voyage.
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Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
Quotes
Anij: Have you ever experienced, a perfect moment in time?
Captain Picard: A perfect moment?
Anij: When time seemed to stop, and you could almost live, in that moment.
Captain Picard: Seeing my home planet from space, for the first time.
http://www.edisontechcenter.org/Television.html
Edison Tech Center
Television
First Home Broadcast
By October 1927 Alexanderson announced that he had successfully sent the first TV images from the GE Plant to his home at 1132 Adams Rd. in Schenectady (see photo above). His device produced 24 lines of resolution. His next task was to transmit voice over radio to accompany the image. Alexanderson went on to make the first public demonstration of his television at Proctors Theater using a projection TV (January 13, 1928).
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LEMELSON-MIT
Ernst Alexanderson
Broadcast and Audio Recording
Electrical engineer and inventor, Ernst Fredrick Werner Alexanderson, developed pioneering technological concepts during the early 20th century that contributed to the birth of the broadcasting industry. Alexanderson’s numerous discoveries formed the basis for the technology that would make the transmission of voice, music, and pictures possible. His more than 340 patents and affiliations with some of the world’s foremost scientists and business executives made him a central figure in the early years of broadcasting and earned him a place on the list of the most prolific U.S.-based inventors of all time.
He returned to work full-time for GE in 1924. For the next decade he worked on technologies that would enable picture transmission and used the station WGY (now CBS affiliate WRGB) in Schenectady, New York, as a testing laboratory for many of his technologies. In 1926, he was able to send the first facsimile from the United States to Europe, with the picture sent on the transmission side, showing up on the receiving side in just two minutes. He had already begun experimenting with moving picture transmission, i.e., television, in 1925, using local test television sets. In 1927, he demonstrated the first home reception of television at his own home in Schenectady, using high-frequency neon lamps and a perforated scanning disc. He unveiled his concept of microwave television transmission to the general public on January 13, 1928.
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Black Hawk Down (2001)
Quotes
Blackburn: Hey man, there's a line.
"Hoot": I know.
Blackburn: And this isn't the back of it.
"Hoot": Yeah, I know.
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
Release Info
USA 6 December 1979 (Washington, D.C.) (premiere)
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HISTORY
JUNE 02, 1953 : CORONATION OF QUEEN ELIZABETH II
On June 2, 1953, Queen Elizabeth II is formally crowned monarch of the United Kingdom in a lavish ceremony steeped in traditions that date back a millennium. A thousand dignitaries and guests attended the coronation at London’s Westminster Abbey, and hundreds of millions listened on radio and for the first time watched the proceedings on live television. After the ceremony, millions of rain-drenched spectators cheered the 27-year-old queen and her husband, the 30-year-old duke of Edinburgh, as they passed along a five-mile procession route in a gilded horse-drawn carriage.
Elizabeth, born in 1926, was the first-born daughter of Prince George, the second son of King George V. Her grandfather died in 1936, and her uncle was proclaimed King Edward VIII. Later that year, however, Edward abdicated over the controversy surrounding his decision to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson, an American divorcee, and Elizabeth’s father was proclaimed King George VI in his place.
During the Battle of Britain, Princess Elizabeth and her only sibling, Princess Margaret, lived away from London in the safety of the countryside, but their parents endeared themselves to their subjects by remaining in bomb-damaged Buckingham Palace throughout the German air offensive. Later in the war, Elizabeth trained as a second lieutenant in the women’s services and drove and repaired military trucks.
In 1947, she married her distant cousin, Philip Mountbatten, a former prince of Greece and Denmark who renounced his titles in order to marry Elizabeth. He was made duke of Edinburgh on the eve of the wedding. The celebrations surrounding the wedding of the popular princess lifted the spirits of the people of Britain, who were enduring economic difficulties in the aftermath of World War II. Their first child, Prince Charles, was born in 1948 at Buckingham Palace. A second, Princess Anne, was born in 1950. On February 6, 1952, the royal couple were in Kenya in the midst of a goodwill tour when they learned the king had died.
Elizabeth was immediately proclaimed Britain’s new monarch but remained in seclusion for the first three months of her reign as she mourned her father. During the summer of 1952, she began to perform routine duties of the sovereign, and in November she carried out her first state opening of the Parliament. On June 2, 1953, her coronation was held at Westminster Abbey.
The ceremony at Westminster was one of pomp and pageantry, and the characteristically poised Elizabeth delivered in a solemn and clear voice the coronation oath that bound her to the service of the people of Great Britain and the British Commonwealth. In the procession through the streets of London that followed, Elizabeth and her husband were joined by representatives from the more than 40 member states of the Commonwealth, including heads of state, sultans, and prime ministers. British troops like the Yeomen of the Guard were joined by a great variety of Commonwealth troops, including police from the Solomon Islands, Malaysians in white uniforms and green sarongs, Pakistanis in puggaree headdresses, Canadian Mounties, and New Zealanders and Australians in wide-brimmed hats. After the parade, Elizabeth stood with her family on the Buckingham Palace balcony and waved to the crowd as jet planes of the Royal Air Force flew across the Mall in tight formation.
In five decades of rule, Queen Elizabeth II’s popularity has hardly subsided. She has traveled more extensively than any other British monarch and was the first reigning British monarch to visit South America and the Persian Gulf countries. In addition to Charles and Anne, she and Philip have had two other children, Prince Andrew in 1960 and Prince Edward in 1964. In 1992, Elizabeth, the wealthiest woman in England, agreed to pay income tax for the first time.
On April 21, 2006, Queen Elizabeth turned 80, making her the third oldest person to hold the British crown. Although she has begun to hand off some official duties to her children, notably Charles, the heir to the throne, she has given no indication that she intends to abdicate.
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
[Enterprise bridge]
CREW: Why... Why ...it's Mister...
KIRK: Spock! ...Spock.
SPOCK: Commander, if I may?
DECKER: If... Oh!
SPOCK: I have been monitoring your communications with Starfleet Command, Captain, I'm aware of your engine design difficulties. ...I offer my services as science officer. ...With all due respect, Commander.
KIRK: If our Exec has no objections?
DECKER: Of course not. I'm well aware of Mister Spock's qualifications.
KIRK: Mister Chekov, log Mister Spock's Starfleet commission reactivated, list him as science officer, ...both effective immediately.
CHAPEL: Mister Spock!!!
McCOY: Well, so help me, I'm actually pleased to see you.
UHURA: It's how we all feel, Mister Spock.
SPOCK: Captain, with your permission, I will now discuss these fuel equations with the Engineer.
KIRK: Mister Spock, welcome aboard.
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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
Would Your Clone Have Its Own Soul, or Be a Soulless Version of You?
How people think about the "spiritual essences" of doppelgangers
By Jesse Bering on February 13, 2009
A close friend of mine from Florida has a talking parrot that I’ve never felt very comfortable around. True, I’m not much of a bird person—I prefer my pets’ pelages to be conducive to cuddling; feathers and scales just leave me feeling cold. However, even those without such biases would likely find this particular bird unsettling. It’s a man-hating, ill-tempered, unkempt old creature on the wrong side of forty, known to draw blood from the petting hands it entices through its deceptive cooing. And yet the parrot “speaks” (loquaciously, I might add) with the sweet, crackly voice of a little old lady.
It’s not so much the striking disconnect between the bird’s irritable temperament and the gentle tenor of its voice that makes me uneasy. Rather, it’s the fact that the voice is the voice of my friend’s long-dead, wheelchair bound mother, a sweet-natured woman from whom my friend inherited the bird about twenty years ago.
My friend claims that she finds it comforting to hear her mother’s voice everyday—singing, humming, chuckling, and blurting out the odd quip. Now, she’s a bright, rational person, but secretly I think my friend, at some level, has tangled up her mother’s identity with this peculiar bird. For example, she confided in me once that if the bird were to die, it would feel as if she’s losing a bit of her mother again too.
Although it’s not entirely clear why most people would find a parrot speaking in the voice of the dead so disconcerting, I suspect this aversive reaction is similar to the psychological confusion we tend to experience when pondering the subject of reproductive cloning. With reproductive cloning, we are similarly confronted with an organism whose personal identity is unclearly differentiated in our minds from a duplicate organism. Just like with talking birds that seem to channel the dead, we mentally stumble over the whereabouts of a person’s real “essence” in our thinking about clones.
Of course, for as long as there has been such a thing as reproductive sex in the animal kingdom (a few billion years), nature has had its own unique brand of cloning in the form of homozygous twins. Yet identical twins—unlike clones such as Dolly the sheep that are created through biotechnology —do not seem to trigger the same onslaught of heated debates regarding personhood. Those who read my earlier article in Scientific American Mind about our species' penchant for belief in the afterlife already know how I feel about the existence of souls—they’re a cognitive illusion. But for researchers who are interested in people’s attitudes toward such a hot-button ethical issue as cloning, it’s the way such beliefs influence our emotions, decisions, thoughts and attitudes about the issue that are of interest, not whether the belief itself is true or false.
You might expect religious affiliation to play a strong role in people’s attitudes towards cloning. But it isn’t that straightforward. For example, in a 2007 report published in the journal Social Science & Medicine, University of Surrey psychologist Richard Shepherd and his colleagues found that, “religious affiliation did not emerge from the various analyses as playing a major role” in focus groups’ weighing the pros and cons of cloning. And yet:
Invocations of the status of the embryo and the sanctity of human life functioned to exempt speakers from further more complex discussions of the permissibility of cloning technologies and other embryological research.
That is to say, although participants in these (British) focus groups seldom mentioned God or souls or even religion in passing, the subject of what it means to be an individual human being in essence crept up liberally—and authoritatively—in their spontaneous conversations.
Although conscious, moralistic concerns about “personhood” seem to be at the heart of many people’s rejection of cloning research, these concerns may be motivated by unconscious, unshakeable ideas about unseen personal essences—otherwise known as souls. I don’t know about you, but as narcissistic as I may be, the thought of bottle-feeding and toilet training my own genetic doppelganger is just creepy. Yet I also couldn’t explain to you exactly why it’s so creepy. I find this aversion of mine puzzling, since I know, rationally, this child wouldn’t really be “me” and, furthermore, I don’t believe in anything as crackpot as souls and spiritual essences. It’s the same type of subtle confusion I’d feel if anything bad were to befall my friend’s mom—er, talking parrot. (For a wonderful and accessible book on the subject of “commonsense dualism,” see Yale psychologist Paul Bloom’s Descartes’ Baby).
Oddly enough, though, I’d clone my beloved dead dog, Kit, in a heartbeat if it could be done safely and I had the money to burn, just as one wealthy Boca Raton couple recently did for their dog, Sir Lancelot (cleverly calling the new version “Sir Lancelot Encore”). Personally, I don’t see anything unethical about or wrong with cloning dead pets, since I know it’s just the animal’s artificial identical twin. Yet I also know that no matter how convincingly I expressed to you my scientific understanding that even identical twins have different environmental experiences starting from their different positioning in their mother’s womb, and the fact that this hypothetical canine clone was its own unique organism, my emotions would still fail to wrap around these empirical facts and I would indeed feel intuitively as though the puppy were Kit reborn. If my attachment to my dog is anything to go by, it’s easy to understand why so many of the participants in Shepherd and his coauthors’ study expressed concern over cloning technology falling into the hands of dubious biotech firms willing to exploit grieving parents.
Lurking behind popular conceptions of cloning seems to be the belief that a human clone would somehow be less than human. In fact, as part of a larger study on people’s folk reasoning (or everyday notions) about bodies, minds and souls, University of California at Riverside psychologist Rebekah Richert and Harvard University psychologist Paul Harris, discovered that although most people believe that a clone would have a mind, much fewer were convinced it would have a soul. The difference between minds and souls is a very subtle one, and most people struggle with teasing the two apart. According to the authors, however, people differentiate minds and souls on several shady grounds.
First, minds are more believable entities for most people than souls. Richert and Harris report that, out of 161 undergraduate students surveyed, 151 (93.8 percent) claimed that the mind exists whereas only 107 felt the same about the soul (66.5 percent).
Second, people tend to conceptualize the soul as coming into existence earlier than the mind. Whereas only 8.1 percent of study participants believed the mind begins “prior to conception,” 26.1 percent stated that the soul predated the union of egg and sperm. An equal number of students thought that minds and souls appeared simultaneously at the moment of conception, but more people thought the mind begins at some point “during pregnancy” (35.4 percent) than the soul (12.4 percent).
Third, more people conceptualize the mind as changing over the lifespan (86.3 percent) than they do the soul (51.6 percent). Whereas only 4.4 percent of the study respondents claimed that the mind remains unchanged over the lifespan, 28.0 percent were certain that this was the case for the soul.
Finally, for most people (83.9 percent) the soul is envisioned as continuing on “in some way” after death, whereas the mind is more likely to be seen as ceasing to exist at death (70.8 percent).
When Richert and Harris asked their participants whether they thought a human clone would have a mind, 67.1 percent said “yes,” 21.1 percent were unsure and 11.8 percent said “no.” In contrast, only 32.3 percent thought a human clone would have a soul, 34.4 percent were unsure, and 33.5 percent were convinced it would be soulless.
Furthermore, the more “spiritual” the participants considered the soul to be (in terms of performing special spiritual functions such as journeying to the afterlife and connecting to a higher power), and the more they distinguished between the mind and soul, the less likely they were to support using embryos for stem cell research, disconnecting people from life support, and cloning humans. Interestingly, just like in the previous study by Shepherd and his colleagues, Richert and Harris discovered that, “people’s concepts of the soul predicted their ethical decision making [on these issues] independently of religious affiliation.”
The science of soul beliefs is an incredibly fascinating affair—one that bioethicists, cloning researchers, and even theologians might be wise to consult before assuming a firm stance on either side of the polemical fence. However, a future filled with soulless clones should be the least of our worries. Human beings might be lazy about many things, but not reproductive sex. And as long as those evolved moral sentiments of ours serve to roadblock scientific progress, I’ve a hunch most of the world’s babies will continue to be made the old-fashioned way.
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Paganism
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Paganism is a term that developed among the Christian community of southern Europe during late antiquity to describe religions other than their own
Throughout Christendom, it continued to be used, typically in a derogatory sense.
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