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Celebrating the Space Needle's 60th anniversary
The Space Needle, which made its debut at the 1962 World's Fair, turns 60 this week.
10:45 AM Apr 21, 2022
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Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
(from internet transcript)
Doctor Beverly CRUSHER: Then the missile complex must be the one where Zefram Cochrane is building his warp ship.
From 11/18/1996 ( premiere US film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) To 4/19/1999 ( ) is 882 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/2/1968 ( premiere US film "2001: A Space Odyssey" ) is 882 days
From 11/18/1996 ( premiere US film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) To 4/19/1999 ( ) is 882 days
882 = 441 + 441
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/17/1967 ( premiere US TV series "The Invaders" ) is 441 days
From 7/8/1926 ( Elisabeth Kübler-Ross ) To 6/8/1993 ( commencement, Princeton University Class of 1993 ) is 24442 days
24442 = 12221 + 12221
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/19/1999 ( ) is 12221 days
From 1/17/1991 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 officially the United States Apache attack helicopter pilot ) To 4/19/1999 ( ) is 3014 days
3014 = 1507 + 1507
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/18/1969 ( as Kerry Burgess my official United States Navy documents includes: In the Circuit Court of Sevier County Arkansas Thedia Gay Burgess was granted a divorce ) is 1507 days
From 8/29/1980 ( I'm only 14-years-old and Thedia just got married again for the 5th time to some different Arkansas yokel, all during my lifetime ) To 4/19/1999 ( ) is 6807 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/22/1984 ( premiere US film "The Karate Kid" ) is 6807 days
From 1/4/1913 ( Lewis Smith dead ) To 12/6/1979 ( premiere US film "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" ) is 24442 days
24442 = 12221 + 12221
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/19/1999 ( ) is 12221 days
From 2/21/1997 ( the landing of the US space shuttle Discovery orbiter vehicle mission STS-82 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-82 pilot astronaut and my 4th official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) To 4/19/1999 ( ) is 787 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/29/1967 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"The Trouble with Tribbles" ) is 787 days
From 5/13/1922 ( Bea Arthur ) To 10/28/1955 ( Microsoft Corbis Bill Gates the transvestite and 100% female gender as born to brother-sister sibling parents ) is 12221 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/19/1999 ( ) is 12221 days
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19990417&slug=2955594
Saturday, April 17, 1999
Space Needle Will Be City's Youngest Historic Landmark -- A High Point In Seattle History
By Charles E. Brown
Seattle Times Staff Reporter
The Pike Place Market, the Smith Tower and other historic Seattle landmarks are about to be joined by the best-known landmark of them all - the Space Needle.
On Monday, the 605-foot-high crown jewel of the 1962 World's Fair officially becomes a historic landmark, the youngest one in town.
Though the new status means it will be next to impossible to tear down the 37-year-old Needle - or even significantly alter it - exceptions will enable it to be dolled up for special occasions as it has been in the past.
http://www.secinfo.com/dRqWm.57Hs.htm
Statement of Beneficial Ownership · Schedule 13G
UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
NEWPORT NEWS SHIPBUILDING, INC. (Name of Issuer)
NAME OF PERSONS FILING:
(1) Cascade Investment LLC, a limited liability company organized under the laws of the State of Washington.
(2) William H. Gates III.
(b) ADDRESS OF PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OFFICE:
(1) 2365 Carillon Point, Kirkland, Washington 98033.
(2) One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052.
Item 4. OWNERSHIP.
(a) AMOUNT BENEFICIALLY OWNED: 2,562,900
(b) PERCENT OF CLASS: 7.8%
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 19, 1999, SEC File Number 005-52635
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/space-tourisms-first-small-steps-20428780/
Smithsonian Magazine
AIR & SPACE MAGAZINE
Space Tourism’s First Small Steps
Forty years ago, Pan American was taking reservations for the moon.
William Lengeman III
September 2007
On Christmas Eve in 1968, when the Apollo 8 astronauts read passages of the Bible’s Genesis to an Earthbound TV audience, Juan Trippe, the PR-savvy head of Pan American World Airways, thought to phone ABC-TV. He let it be known that the airline was keeping a list of people interested in one day taking a commercial flight to the moon. By the next morning, Pan Am had received “a flurry of requests” from wannabe space tourists, adding to a list that already numbered about 100 names.
Two weeks later, the New York Times reported that the Abruscatos of Long Island, and their two young children, were among the 200 people now on the waiting list. There was a backlog of unprocessed applications pending and more pouring in, even though Pan Am had no means of getting anyone to the moon and lacked the authority to do so if they had. Of course, the company likely had no real expectation of flying anyone to the moon in the near future.
The waiting list is said to have gotten underway in 1964, when Gerhard Pistor, an Austrian journalist, beseeched a Viennese travel agent to book him on a flight to the moon. The agent forwarded the request to Pan Am, where public relations personnel thought to draw up a list of like-minded souls. (The airline made similar waiting lists for the much ballyhooed debuts of the 747 and supersonic transport, which were slated to get off the ground in late 1969 and the early 1970s, respectively.)
A Pan Am spokesperson acknowledged that a few problems would need to be sorted out before lunar flights could get off the ground—among them, the high cost of fuel, passenger comfort during launch, and lack of accommodations on the moon. As the company began mentioning the waiting list in its radio and TV spots, the number of names grew rapidly, and the First Moon Flights Club—complete with a snazzy membership card—was born.
By July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set foot on the moon, there were 25,000 names on the Pan Am list, and another player had moved into the burgeoning field of space tourism.
Trans World Airlines’ waiting list was smaller than Pan Am’s but had also been growing at a brisk clip since the Apollo 8 mission. Though no real progress had been made in getting the average Joe to the moon, Pan Am figured that, at six cents per mile, a one-way trip would cost about $14,000. Given the lack of lunar accommodations, though, it was a pretty safe bet that most passengers would spring for a round-trip ticket.
Even as Apollo 11 was splashing down in the Pacific, TWA announced that it had filed an application with the Civil Aeronautics Board to be allowed to fly “persons, property and mail between points within the United States and points on the moon.” TWA buttressed its claim by mentioning that it was already serving as a contractor to NASA in various capacities.
In July 1969, Holiday magazine chose the moon as its “place of the month,” and in early 1971, the New York Times Sunday travel section featured an article that speculated on the possibilities of the moon as tourist trap. By this time, Pan Am’s club had swelled to 80,500 members.
New York Times writer Jon Swan wondered if, by the time tourists made it to the moon, there might not be levitators “to whisk individual tourists from crater to crater or from mare to highland.” He speculated, however, that perhaps the novelty would quickly wear off. “Apart from the view, and from whatever thoughts and feelings it might inspire, another moot question is just what the moon will have to offer to the run-of-the-mill tourist.” By March 3, 1971, when Pan Am shut down its waiting list, it contained more than 93,000 names from 90 countries, including such luminaries as Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater and Walter Cronkite.
Both airlines’ real-world enthusiasm for space tourism had been foretold in a fictional context. In 1955, TWA began a five-year stint as the sponsor of the new Rocket To The Moon exhibit in the Tomorrowland section at Disneyland. The 80-foot high TWA Moonliner included in that exhibit featured TWA's colors and logo.
On April 2, 1968, Stanley Kubrick's groundbreaking movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey, premiered to a decidedly mixed reception. Viewers could hardly have failed to notice that the shuttle craft featured in the the film was a Pan Am “Space Clipper” known as the Orion III. 2001 fans who had to have one could do so—more or less —thanks to the Aurora model company, which marketed plastic replicas of the ship.
Neither Pan Am or TWA ever got around to shuttling anyone to the moon. As late as 1989, the 20th anniversary of the first moon landing, Pan Am was still holding out hope, though perhaps with tongue placed in cheek. Any such ambitions were dashed two years later when the struggling carrier finally went under. TWA followed Pan Am into oblivion in—please pause to contemplate the irony—2001.
From 4/18/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Petty Officer Second Class Fire Controlman (FC2), from my official enlisted United States Navy records: during USA Armed Forces Expeditionary Operation Earnest Will with my personal participation and commendation - CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computer Complex (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance) - aboard the USS Wainwright CG-28 US Navy the United States Operation Praying Mantis ) To 11/18/1996 ( ) is 3136 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/4/1974 ( construction begins of the United States space shuttle Enterprise ) is 3136 days
From 4/18/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Petty Officer Second Class Fire Controlman (FC2), from my official enlisted United States Navy records: during USA Armed Forces Expeditionary Operation Earnest Will with my personal participation and commendation - CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computer Complex (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance) - aboard the USS Wainwright CG-28 US Navy the United States Operation Praying Mantis ) To 11/18/1996 ( ) is 3136 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/4/1974 ( Richard Nixon, 37th President of USA: Proclamation 4296 - World Environment Day, 1974 ) is 3136 days
From 5/7/1992 ( the first launch of the United States 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 and my 1st official United States of America National Aeronautics and Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) To 11/18/1996 ( ) is 1656 days
1656 = 828 + 828
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/8/1968 ( premiere US film "Planet of the Apes" ) is 828 days
From 12/19/1984 ( from my official enlisted United States Navy documents: as Kerry Wayne Burgess the E-3 seafarer United States Navy I reported for permanent duty aboard the USS Taylor FFG 50 departing 11 February 1986 as FC3 Kerry Wayne Burgess US Navy ) To 11/18/1996 ( ) is 4352 days
4352 = 2176 + 2176
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/18/1971 ( Richard Nixon, 37th President of USA: Executive Order 11628 - Establishing a Seal for the Environmental Protection Agency ) is 2176 days
From 2/28/1960 ( Dorothy Stratten ) To 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 ) is 11339 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/18/1996 ( ) is 11339 days
From 2/11/1929 ( that wacky cult phony religious Vatican City, Catholic-superstition, established among all the other wacko nutjob religions on this Planet Earth and *all* religion, "spirituality", "karma", any "faith" marketing-buzzword, is mere supersition and your cowardly terror of mortality, you're unable to cope with reality ) To 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 ) is 22678 days
22678 = 11339 + 11339
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) To 11/18/1996 ( ) is 11339 days
From 12/20/1994 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: in non-aviator related duties boots on the ground in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) To 11/18/1996 ( ) is 699 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/2/1967 ( Lyndon Johnson, President of USA: Memorandum on Inaugurating a Test Program To Reduce Hard-Core Unemployment ) is 699 days
From 6/20/1902 ( the Spokane Clocktower begins operation ) To 7/22/1964 ( premiere US film "Bikini Beach" ) is 22678 days
22678 = 11339 + 11339
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/18/1996 ( ) is 11339 days
From 1/1/1960 ( Dwight Eisenhower - Letter to the Attorney General on Receiving His Report on Deceptive Practices in Broadcasting Media ) To 1/17/1991 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 officially the United States Apache attack helicopter pilot ) is 11339 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) To 11/18/1996 ( ) is 11339 days
From 7/3/1958 ( the first flight of the John Silva "Telecopter" ) To 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash in Sioux City Iowa and from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the end of Kerry Burgess - *me* - the natural human being cloned from another human being {Thomas Reagan} ) is 11339 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) To 11/18/1996 ( ) is 11339 days
From 7/3/1958 ( Dwight Eisenhower - Memorandum Concerning Proposed Agreement With the United Kingdom for Cooperation on Uses of Atomic Energy for Mutual Defense ) To 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash in Sioux City Iowa and from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the end of Kerry Burgess - *me* - the natural human being cloned from another human being {Thomas Reagan} ) is 11339 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) To 11/18/1996 ( ) is 11339 days
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Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Release Info
USA 18 November 1996 (Hollywood, California) (premiere)
USA 22 November 1996
The Borg travel back in time intent on preventing Earth's first contact with an alien species. Captain Picard and his crew pursue them to ensure that Zefram Cochran makes his maiden flight reaching warp speed.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063442/quotes
IMDb
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Quotes
Dr. Zaius: The Forbidden Zone was once a paradise. Your breed made a desert of it, ages ago.
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
DATA: Have you forgotten?
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Captain PICARD: A missile complex?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phot
Phot
A phot (ph) is a photometric unit of illuminance, or luminous flux through an area. It is not an SI unit, but rather is associated with the older centimetre gram second system of units. The name was coined by André Blondel in 1921.
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Stripes (1981)
Quotes
Cruiser: I thought I'd better join before I got drafted.
Sergeant Hulka: Son, there ain't no draft no more.
Cruiser: There was one?
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/radio-address-about-the-state-the-union-message-the-economy
The American Presidency Project
RICHARD NIXON 37th President of the United States: 1969 - 1974
Radio Address About the State of the Union Message on the Economy.
February 21, 1973
Good afternoon: Tomorrow I will send to the Congress the economic section of my State of the Union report.
One fact stands out above all others in this report: For the first time in nearly 20 years, we can look forward to genuine prosperity in a time of peace.
For most people, talking about the economy brings to mind some vast, complicated machine. Today, I want to talk about the economy in personal terms-about its impact on you and your family.
From 7/9/1987 ( as Kerry Wayne Burgess enlisted United States Navy Fire Controlman Petty Officer 2nd Class (FC2)(E-5) selectee I arrived at my second US Navy fleet assignment for permanent assignment until 1990 to CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computer Complex (UNIVAC digial-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance), USS Wainwright CG-28, United States Navy, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Petty Officer Second Class Fire Controlman (FC2) ) To 10/28/1994 ( ) is 2668 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/21/1973 ( Richard Nixon, 37th President of USA: Radio Address About the State of the Union Message on the Economy ) is 2668 days
From 11/15/1938 ( André-Eugène Blondel dead ) To 11/10/1967 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Metamorphosis" ) is 10587 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/28/1994 ( ) is 10587 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 the date of the secret, doctorate-degree credential from Princeton University, I can only theorize, struggling to understand ) To 10/28/1994 ( ) is 1322 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/16/1969 ( Richard Nixon, 37th President of USA: Executive Order 11475 - Adjusting the Rates of Monthly Basic Pay for Members of the Uniformed Services ) is 1322 days
From 5/4/1974 ( Richard Nixon, 37th President of USA: Remarks Opening Expo '74, Spokane, Washington ) To 10/28/1994 ( ) is 7482 days
7482 = 3741 + 3741
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/30/1976 ( Gerald Ford, 38th President of USA: Remarks at the Swearing In of George Bush as Director of Central Intelligence ) is 3741 days
From 1/17/1991 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 officially the United States Apache attack helicopter pilot ) To 10/28/1994 ( ) is 1380 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/13/1969 ( US Air Force colonel Buzz Aldrin accepts the Presidential Medal of Freedom for US Apollo 11 Eagle on behalf of my biological brother Thomas Reagan the United States Navy Commander and the US Apollo 11 Eagle and US Navy astronaut ) is 1380 days
From 1/17/1991 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 officially the United States Apache attack helicopter pilot ) To 10/28/1994 ( ) is 1380 days
1380 = 690 + 690
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/23/1967 ( premiere US TV series "Speed Racer" ) is 690 days
From 6/5/1987 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my official enlisted United States Navy documents includes: Earned NEC 1189 - Based on graduation from the Terrier Mk 152 Guided-missiles Fire Control Computer Complex course - Naval Guided Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States Navy - leading to permanent assignment until 1990 to CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computer Complex (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance), USS Wainwright CG-28, United States Navy, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Petty Officer Second Class Fire Controlman (FC2) ) To 10/28/1994 ( ) is 2702 days
2702 = 1351 + 1351
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/15/1969 ( Richard Nixon, 37th President of USA: Telegram to the Apollo 11 Astronauts on the Eve of the Launch ) is 1351 days
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111282/releaseinfo
IMDb
Stargate (1994)
Release Info
USA 28 October 1994
- posted by me, Kerry Burgess 11:31 AM Pacific-time USA Friday 04/22/2022
