JOURNAL ARCHIVE: August 20, 2006
I started thinking that I discovered life on Mars. Some kind of sandbugs. And that explains a lot too. Something about sandkings or sand devils. Something about holes bored into the walls of a gully or cliff, as though by creatures. They would have wanted me to examine the gullies to see if they were created by water or some other force of erosion. I have severeal memories of something like that. There was also that large gully behind my dad's house on that ranch in the plains of nothern Oklahoma. As I was thinking about all this, I remember riding a go-cart around through those fields and I wonder if that represents driving some kind of vehicle that was sent down to the Mars surface with me in 1976.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: August 19, 2006
At least the crazies are still predictable. But I guess that also explains why I am still here.
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NASA
Mars Curiosity
Sept. 9, 2016
Mars Rover Views Spectacular Layered Rock Formations
The layered geologic past of Mars is revealed in stunning detail in new color images returned by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, which is currently exploring the “Murray Buttes” region of lower Mount Sharp. The new images arguably rival photos taken in U.S. National Parks.
Curiosity took the images with its Mast Camera (Mastcam) on Sept. 8. The rover team plans to assemble several large, color mosaics from the multitude of images taken at this location in the near future.
"Curiosity's science team has been just thrilled to go on this road trip through a bit of the American desert Southwest on Mars," said Curiosity Project Scientist Ashwin Vasavada, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.
The Martian buttes and mesas rising above the surface are eroded remnants of ancient sandstone that originated when winds deposited sand after lower Mount Sharp had formed.
"Studying these buttes up close has given us a better understanding of ancient sand dunes that formed and were buried, chemically changed by groundwater, exhumed and eroded to form the landscape that we see today," Vasavada said.
The new images represent Curiosity's last stop in the Murray Buttes, where the rover has been driving for just over one month. As of this week, Curiosity has exited these buttes toward the south, driving up to the base of the final butte on its way out. In this location, the rover began its latest drilling campaign (on Sept. 9). After this drilling is completed, Curiosity will continue farther south and higher up Mount Sharp, leaving behind these spectacular formations.
Curiosity landed near Mount Sharp in 2012. It reached the base of the mountain in 2014 after successfully finding evidence on the surrounding plains that ancient Martian lakes offered conditions that would have been favorable for microbes if Mars has ever hosted life. Rock layers forming the base of Mount Sharp accumulated as sediment within ancient lakes billions of years ago.
On Mount Sharp, Curiosity is investigating how and when the habitable ancient conditions known from the mission's earlier findings evolved into conditions drier and less favorable for life.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: - posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 05:17 AM Pacific Time Seattle USA Friday 22 February 2013 - http://hvom.blogspot.com/2013/02/chain-reaction.html
Back in the year 2003 I wrote a letter on my computer at home and I printed it out on to paper and I put that letter in a stamped envelope for the postal service and I sent that letter through the United States Postal Service. I had the envelope of the letter addressed specifically to the Chief of Operations United States Navy and I referenced a special projects branch I had found on the internet.
I wrote about a computer program I created for the guided missile computer complex system that would transfer memory from one of the computers to the other when we were in the Persian Gulf in 1988. We had two identical systems in place. They were twins you could say. The transfer of code was problematic and the solution was not obvious.
I mailed the letter to the Chief of Operations United States Navy and told them I should have received the Silver Star.
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occupational conversion index
enlisted/officer/civilian
September 1993
Department of Defense
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FC 1189 a TERRIER Fire Control Computer MK 152 Complex Tech. Maint. Tech.
From 1/21/1976 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut bound for deep space in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship this day was his first landing the planet Mars and his documented and lawful exclusive claim to the territory of the planet Mars ) To 6/10/2003 is 10002 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 3/22/1993 ( the debut of the Intel Pentium microprocessor ) is 10002 days
From 8/8/1953 ( the Soviet Union announced hydrogen bomb capabilities ) 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 13734 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/10/2003 is 13734 days
From 2/18/1944 ( premiere US film "Million Dollar Kid" ) To 6/10/2003 is 21662 days
21662 = 10831 + 10831
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/29/1995 ( the Mir space station docking of the United States space shuttle Atlantis orbiter vehicle mission STS-71 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-71 pilot astronaut ) is 10831 days
From 3/3/1959 ( the birthdate in Hawaii of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 6/10/2003 is 16170 days
16170 = 8085 + 8085
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 12/22/1987 ( Ronald Reagan - Executive Order 12618 - Uniform Treatment of Federally Funded Inventions ) is 8085 days
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NASA
Spirit
NSSDC ID: 2003-027A
Launch Date: 2003-06-10
Launch Site: Cape Canaveral, United States
Funding Agency
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (United States)
The "Spirit" rover (Mars Exploration Rover A or MER-2) is one of the two rovers launched to Mars in mid-2003. The rovers arrived at Mars in January of 2004
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Intel® Pentium® Processor 66 MHz 60 MHz Mar. 22, 1993
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The Seattle Times
Monday, May 17, 1993
High-Technology -- Computers With New Intel Chip Arrive
AP
NEW YORK - Two months after the leading computer-chip maker introduced its most powerful chip, the first machines to use it have arrived.
About two dozen manufacturers today will introduce computers that have Intel Corp.'s new Pentium microprocessor for a brain.
However, few will put much emphasis on the Pentium in desktop computers. Some will simply introduce upgrade cards to put the more powerful chip in existing PCs.
Manufacturers instead are focusing on high-end workstations and servers, which are specialized machines for computer networks, with the belief that Pentium's power will first be popular with engineers and other sophisticated users.
The Pentium, formally unveiled March 22, has 3.1 million transistors and runs existing software applications about five times faster than Intel's 486 processor, which has 1.2 million transistors and is the chip now sold in most desktop PCs.
"We didn't go try to replace the 486 in the volume desktop right off the bat because that's not where the marketplace is going to be," said Rob DiGiacomo, director of product management for NCR Corp.
NCR's first Pentium products will range from a $70,000 server down to $18,000 workstation.
One reason it will take longer for Pentium to reach the desktop market is because Intel isn't ready to produce the chip in huge quantities.
In announcing its Pentium products, Unisys Corp. says the company believes its 486 products for the time being will be more cost-effective for most PC users.
"Anytime you introduce an advanced new technology, it's initially very expensive," Unisys spokesman Oliver Picher said. "As the price of the technology comes down, the volume goes up."
Intel plans to produce about 10,000 Pentium chips by the end of June and several hundred thousand by the end of the year.
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Los Angeles Times
THE NATION
1st of 2 Rovers to Mars Lifts Off as Skies Clear
June 11, 2003 Usha Lee McFarling Times Staff Writer
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The first of two NASA rovers began its difficult journey to Mars on Tuesday, soaring into a hazy blue sky atop a Boeing Delta II rocket.
The spacecraft's departure at 1:58 p.m. Eastern time met with jubilant cheers from NASA scientists, who have spent three years building the rovers and planning their roughly 300-million-mile journeys.
"Woo hoo, we're going to Mars!" said Matt Golombek, a geologist from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and co-leader of the team that picked the rover landing sites.
Roughly an hour after the launch, mission leaders received confirmation from a Deep Space Network satellite dish in Canberra, Australia, that the spacecraft, named Spirit, was healthy and on its proper path to Mars.
The track was so precise that very little propellant, if any, will be needed to correct the spacecraft's path, said Pete Theisinger, rover project manager. "Spirit got a great ride on the rocket today," he said. "I'm a very happy guy."
The second rover is set for launch later this month. The $800-million twin robot geologists are expected to reach Mars in January. They will search for evidence that Mars may have once been far warmer and wetter than it is today, and that it could have supported life.
Tuesday's liftoff occurred after two days of severe thunderstorms, which delayed the launch and frayed the nerves of those anxious to see the spacecraft safely on its way.
"I really was feeling sick. This is really tense," said David Bell, a Cornell University planetary scientist who built the panoramic cameras aboard the rovers.
The rovers are considered the most complex and capable mobile robots to leave Earth. They can travel the length of a football field in a day. Their extendable arms with diamond-tipped grinders will be able to expose the inside of Martian rocks for the first time. Their cameras will take pictures of such high quality and resolution that they could be used on IMAX movie screens, said Steve Squyres, the Cornell scientist overseeing the scientific instruments on the rovers.
"We're going to show you Mars like you've never seen Mars before," he added.
The JPL engineers who assembled and tested the rovers planned to celebrate Tuesday night but then get right back to work. They have another rover to launch.
Others, like John Grant of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, have seven months of work ahead to better understand the hazards at the landing site and to improve the rovers' chances for safe touchdowns. Spirit will land in Gusev Crater. Its sibling, Opportunity, will land at Meridiani Planum.
"There's going to be a lot more holding your breath during landing," Grant said.
The second rover launch is scheduled for June 25, but may be delayed for several days, said Omar Baez, the launch director at Kennedy Space Center.
Preparation of the Delta II rocket that will carry the second rover was stalled by the same rains that postponed the first launch, he said. "It's going to be a challenge to get out on the 25th," he said.
While relieved by the nearly flawless launch, JPL engineers were already starting to worry about the most difficult part of the trip: the descent to the Martian surface.
Both spacecraft will scream through the Martian atmosphere at 12,000 mph, encountering temperatures of more than 2,600 degrees Fahrenheit before they deploy parachutes and protective air bags. If all goes as planned, they will bounce to safe landings on the surface of Mars.
It is a period that JPL landing engineer Richard Cook calls "six minutes of terror."
"Ask me how I'm doing after it lands," said JPL Director Charles Elachi, who watched the launch from Pasadena. "Then I'll be relaxed."
From 5/7/1992 ( the first launch of the US space shuttle Endeavour orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-49 pilot astronaut ) To 11/6/2000 is 3105 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 5/4/1974 ( Richard Nixon - Remarks Opening Expo '74, Spokane, Washington ) is 3105 days
From 1/16/1941 ( premiere US film "The Face Behind the Mask" ) To 1/21/1976 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut bound for deep space in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship this day was his first landing the planet Mars and his documented and lawful exclusive claim to the territory of the planet Mars ) is 12788 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 11/6/2000 is 12788 days
[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-walking-dead.html ]
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IMDb
Red Planet (2000)
Release Info
USA 6 November 2000 (premiere)
From 1/21/1976 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut bound for deep space in his privately financed atomic-pulse propulsion spaceship this day was his first landing the planet Mars and his documented and lawful exclusive claim to the territory of the planet Mars ) To 1/14/2004 is 10220 days
10220 = 5110 + 5110
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 10/30/1979 ( premiere US TV movie "Casper the Friendly Ghost: He Ain't Scary, He's Our Brother" ) is 5110 days
[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2013/07/dd-214.html ]
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George W. Bush [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
Remarks at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
January 14, 2004
Thanks for the warm welcome. I'm honored to be with the men and women of NASA.
From 4/30/1975 ( premiere US TV series pilot "Starsky and Hutch" ) To 10/6/1995 is 7464 days
7464 = 3732 + 3732
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 1/21/1976 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut bound for deep space in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship this day was his first landing the planet Mars and his documented and lawful exclusive claim to the territory of the planet Mars ) is 3732 days
From 1/21/1976 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut bound for deep space in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship this day was his first landing the planet Mars and his documented and lawful exclusive claim to the territory of the planet Mars ) To 10/6/1995 is 7198 days
7198 = 3599 + 3599
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 9/10/1975 ( premiere US TV series "Starsky and Hutch" ) is 3599 days
From 4/12/1961 ( John Kennedy - Message to Chairman Khrushchev Concerning the Flight of the Soviet Astronaut ) 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 10930 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 10/6/1995 is 10930 days
From 6/27/1994 ( the US NASA Stargazer Pegasus rocket failure ) To 10/6/1995 is 466 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 2/11/1967 ( Lyndon Johnson - Statement by the President Concerning the Report "The Space Program in the Post-Apollo Period." ) is 466 days
[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2016/04/message-to-world-conference-on-narcotic.html ]
http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/news/204
NASA
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Will the real ‘first exoplanet’ please stand up?
July 08, 2015
By Pat Brennan, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Exoplanet hunters disagree over who made the first discovery of a world orbiting another star. The question can even inspire a bit of intercontinental rivalry, with both American and European teams laying claim to “firsts.”
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 6:06 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Saturday 10 September 2016
