"Cibola Burn" by James Corey, "The Expanse" series of novels, Book 4
Chapter 7: Holden
There should be fanfare, Holden thought.
"Cibola Burn" by James Corey, "The Expanse" series of novels, Book 4
Chapter 7: Holden
He resisted the urge to hit the general quarters alarm just to add tension to the moment.
The new sun was a faint yellow-white light, not all that different from Sol when viewed from the Ring sitting just outside Uranus's orbit. It had five rocky inner planets, one massive gas giant, and a number of dwarf planets in orbits even farther out than the Ring. The fourth inner planet, sitting smack dab in the middle of the Goldilocks Zone, was Ilus. New Terra. Berng Survey Four. RCE charter 244771912-F23. Whatever you wanted to call it.
All those names were too simple for what it really was. Mankind's first home around an alien star. Humans kept finding ways to turn the astonishing events of the last few years mundane. A few decades from now, when all the planets had been explored and colonized, the hub and its rings would just be a freeway system. No one would think twice about them.
From 6/17/2014 ( "Cibola Burn" by James Corey, "The Expanse" Book 4 ) To 3/18/2022 ( Today, Friday ) is 2831 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/3/1973 ( premiere US film "The Neptune Factor" ) is 2831 days
From 2/1/1958 ( Explorer 1 - the first United States satellite successfully launched by the United States into orbit of the planet Earth ) To 6/17/2014 ( "Cibola Burn" by James Corey, "The Expanse" Book 4 ) is 20590 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/18/2022 ( ) is 20590 days
From 3/16/1991 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate and possibly - or something - the date of the secret, doctorate-degree credential from Princeton University, I can only theorize, struggling to understand ) To 3/18/2022 ( ) is 11325 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/4/1996 ( from USA NASA: For the first time, NASA's Galileo spacecraft flew close to Jupiter's moon Callisto this morning ) is 11325 days
From 6/8/1993 ( commencement, Princeton University Class of 1993 ) To 3/18/2022 ( ) is 10510 days
10510 = 5255 + 5255
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/23/1980 ( premiere US TV series episode "Galactica 1980"::"The Super Scouts - Part 2" ) is 5255 days
From 11/26/1976 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in solar system deep space in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship this day makes his first landing the Jupiter moon Callisto ) To 3/18/2022 ( ) is 16548 days
16548 = 8274 + 8274
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/28/1988 ( as Kerry Burgess my official enlisted United States Navy documents includes: "AND LEVELS OF FORCE", USS Wainwright CG-28, United States Navy ) is 8274 days
From 10/28/1994 ( premiere US film "Stargate" ) To 3/18/2022 ( ) is 10003 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/23/1993 ( premiere US TV series episode "Frontline"::"Choosing Death: Health Quarterly Special" ) is 10003 days
Stargate: The Movie (1994)
(from internet transcript)
WEST
So, you think you've solved in fourteen days what they couldn't solve in two years?
DANIEL
(surprised)
Two years?
WEST
Any time.
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-nasa-personnel-the-kennedy-space-center
The American Presidency Project
RICHARD NIXON
37th President of the United States: 1969 ‐ 1974
Remarks to NASA Personnel at the Kennedy Space Center.
November 14, 1969
Dr. Paine and all of you here at Cape Kennedy for this occasion:
I do want to say that it has been a very great privilege to be here. And speaking for Mrs. Nixon and my daughter, who are here with me, we think this trip--our trip from Washington to here--was definitely worthwhile.
When I announced earlier in the week that I was trying to arrange my schedule to come down, there were those who said, "Well, why can't you see it all on television?" It is true that I have seen some previous launches on television but I thought I would share with you the experience of one who has never seen a launch live before and what the difference is.
Perhaps if I may use the analogy of sports--I really believe while I like to go to a football game live and feel the crowd and the rest, I really believe that when you sit at home and see a football game on television, you can probably see it as well or even better than you can see it by being there, because the camera will watch that T formation or the quarterback and will be sure you're watching the ball rather than the fake.
But while that is true in the field of sports, football and baseball, it simply is not true in the case of what we have just seen a few moments ago. Here it is a sense of not just the sight and the picture but of feeling it--feeling the great experience of all that is happening.
I would add to that by saying that coming here and coming to this room brings an extra dimension to this great space launch that we saw a moment ago.
Dr. Paine, Frank Borman, Colonel [Thomas P.] Stafford, a lot of my friends in this activity, have often told me: Remember that the three who are up there couldn't be there except for tens of thousands on the ground, tens of thousands of people who sometimes may seem to be-and you may feel you are faceless--just numbers, just like these computers that we see in front of you.
I do want you to know that I realize that except for what you are doing here, they could not be there and they could not make this mission successful.
I think that you can be proud of the fact--and we are proud of the fact--that every one of our astronauts, when they have come to the White House--and I have had the privilege of entertaining several of them--every one of them makes the point that those on the ground, the engineers, and the technicians, and the scientists, and all of those who work in the program, that they are really the heart of this great, successful experience for the American people and for all the people of the world.
Finally, I simply want to say that I know there has been a lot of discussion as to what the future of the space program is. As you know, we have been discussing that in the Cabinet and within the administration.
I do think. you can be assured that in Dr. Paine and his colleagues you have men who are dedicated to this program, who are making the case for it, making the case for it as against other national priorities and making it very effectively. I leaned in the direction of the program before. After hearing what they have had to say with regard to our future plans, I must say that I lean even more in that direction,
Announcements will be made in the future as they have been made in the past as to the commitment of this Nation to the program. I realize that within those in the program, between scientists, engineers, and others, there are different attitudes as to what the emphasis should be, whether we should emphasize more exploration or more in taking the knowledge we have already acquired and making practical applications of it.
All of these matters have been brought to my attention. I can assure you every side is getting a hearing. We want to have a balanced program but most important, we are going forward. America, the United States, is first in space. We are proud to be first in space. We don't say that in a jingoistic way. We say it because as Americans we want to give the people of this country, and particularly our young people, the feeling that here is an area we can concentrate on for a positive goal, concentrate and be proud of being Americans, be proud of what we have accomplished, not only for ourselves but for future generations and for the whole world.
In that vein, I simply want to say I am proud of those three men up there. I talked to them on the phone before they left and I am just proud of everybody in this room and the thousands across this country who made it possible.• You are part of a great organization. The whole Nation owes you a debt of gratitude and, as President of the United States, I express that debt and acknowledge it today.
Here is Mrs. Nixon. I think you would like to know that she is the woman I am with today and every day. The girl in lilac is Tricia, our daughter.
Also, while, of course, he needs no introduction because he has been to several of these launches as Chairman of the Space Council, we are very happy to have today the Vice President of the United States and Mrs. Agnew.
We have a few other celebrities here you should know. I don't think I can see them all, but we have Senator Margaret Chase Smith of the State of Maine, a real space enthusiast. And Senator [Edward J.] Curhey of Florida who told me the weather would be perfect today if I would just come.
We have several Congressmen here: Congressman [Louis, Jr.] Frey, your own Congressman from this area; Congressman [James G.] Fulton from Pennsylvania, also on the Space Committee. Cheer for them real hard because they get your appropriations for you. Congressman [J. Herbert]. Burke from that little pocket of poverty, Fort Lauderdale; and Congressman [William C.] Bill Cramer, is he here? He must be campaigning.
And then I think, too, you would like to see the Science Adviser from sunny California, Lee DuBridge, over here--the President's Science Adviser.
Well, after being an emcee here, I think I will ask for Johnny Carson's1 job next week.
Thank you very much.
1A television emcee.
Note: The President spoke at 11:57 a.m. at the Kennedy Space Center, Fla., after watching the launch of spacecraft Apollo 12. Dr. Thomas O. Paine was Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Richard Nixon, Remarks to NASA Personnel at the Kennedy Space Center. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/240116
From 3/3/1959 ( the birthdate in Hawaii of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 3/15/1963 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication: Princetonians On TV Shows This Weekend ) is 1473 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/14/1969 ( ) is 1473 days
From 10/20/1967 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"The Doomsday Machine" ) To 11/14/1969 ( ) is 756 days
756 = 378 + 378
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/15/1966 ( the United States Gemini 12 spacecraft splashdown and my biological brother Thomas Reagan the United States Navy officer was United States Gemini 12 spacecraft United States Navy astronaut returning from orbit of the planet Earth ) is 378 days
From 7/8/1965 ( Lyndon Johnson, 36th President of USA: Executive Order 11231 - Establishing the Vietnam Service Medal ) To 7/20/1969 ( 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 1473 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/14/1969 ( ) is 1473 days
From 7/8/1965 ( Lyndon Johnson, 36th President of USA: Executive Order 11232 - Suspension of the Provision of Section 5751(b) of Title 10, United States Code, Which Relates to Officers in the Line of the Navy of the Grade of Commander ) To 7/20/1969 ( 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 1473 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/14/1969 ( ) is 1473 days
From 4/27/1961 ( premiere US TV series episode "CBS Reports"::"Why Men in Space?" ) To 5/21/1969 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the Princeton University doctor of medicine degree graduation of my biological brother Dr Thomas Reagan MD and in 1973 the law-doctorate graduate of University of Oxford, England ) is 2946 days
2946 = 1473 + 1473
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/14/1969 ( ) is 1473 days
From 11/14/1969 ( ) To 7/24/2006 ( by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journals ) is 13401 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/12/2002 ( premiere US film "Reign of Fire" ) is 13401 days
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Daniel Abraham
Biography
Born November 14, 1969 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journal: July 24, 2006
If we could just figure out a better way to travel to orbit without these silly rocket boosters, we would be well on our way to exploring more of the solar system and other solar systems. There has got to be a cheap and safe way to cheat gravity. Sometimes I think I know how to do it, but I just can't remember.
- posted by me, Kerry Burgess 08:41 AM Pacific-time USA Friday 03/18/2022
