Today is 02/24/2024

https://hvom.blogspot.com/2024/02/today-is-02122024.html

by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 7:50 PM

Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home

I am Kerry Burgess. This is what I think.

Monday, February 12, 2024

Today is 02/12/2024

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA

4X01 - HE THAT BELIEVETH IN ME

ORIGINAL AIRDATE (SciFi): 04-APR-2008

Anders, approaching Chief: Hey. Hey, this is crazy. What if I get up there and another switch flips in my head and turns me against my own?

Chief: What the frak is wrong with you? Shut the frak up.









From 4/4/2008 ( ) To 2/22/2024 ( ) is 5802 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/21/1981 ( from The Princeton Weekly Bulletin publication, Princeton University: Computer Center lecture. "Using the Computer at Princeton." ) is 5802 days









https://www.yahoo.com/news/odysseus-lunar-lander-sideways-moon-234441385.html

Yahoo! News

The Odysseus lunar lander is sideways on the moon, company that built it says

Jackie Wattles, CNN

Fri, February 23, 2024 at 4:48 PM PST

The Odysseus lunar lander is sideways on the moon, Intuitive Machines, the company that built the vehicle, said during a news conference Friday.

The revelation comes after Intuitive Machines had initially described Odysseus, also called “Odie” or IM-1, as “upright” in an update posted to the social media platform X just after the historic mission made its touchdown on the lunar surface Thursday. But the company’s CEO, Steve Altemus, said data later showed that the spacecraft was likely tilted on its side after having caught one of its feet on a lunar rock.

“We think it came down (moving) about 6 miles an hour this way, and about 2 miles an hour (horizontally along the surface) and caught foot in the surface, and the lander has tipped like this,” Altemus said, using a small model of the lander to demonstrate the suspected issue during a news briefing.

Altemus said only one piece of Odysseus’ cargo is on the side of the spacecraft that’s facing down toward the lunar surface: A piece of art that was sent to the moon by one of Intuitive Machines’ commercial customers.

The CEO also emphasized that the spacecraft remained in stable condition, with its solar panels catching sunlight and fully charging its batteries. Already, some experimental technology payloads from NASA have been put to the test, checking off some key mission objectives.

‘A punch in the stomach’

Notably, Intuitive Machines realized prior to descent that Odysseus had a faulty piece of navigation equipment. And the company opted to bypass the broken pieces and use an experimental NASA instrument that happened to be on board: The Navigation Doppler Radar, or NDL, developed at NASA’s Langley Research Center.

Altemus said initially learning of the issue was “like a punch in the stomach — that we were going to lose the mission.”

The company’s engineers had to essentially operate as hackers, figuring out a way to patch in data from NASA’s NDL — which was intended to be on a simple demo flight — in the hopes it could save the mission.

The hack ultimately worked, and the spacecraft made it to the lunar surface in operational condition. No other US spacecraft has soft-landed on the moon since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, and no commercial spacecraft before Odysseus had ever accomplished such a feat.

The space agency and Intuitive Machines are still working to figure out whether Odysseus can achieve all of its science objectives









BATTLESTAR GALACTICA

4X01 - HE THAT BELIEVETH IN ME

ORIGINAL AIRDATE (SciFi): 04-APR-2008

(from internet transcript)

(Galactica Hangar)

Tigh, on PA: "...All pilots, man your aircraft."

Chief: ...Let's get that bird in the tube. Where the frak are these nuggets? Come on, Mama's not gonna save you today! Let's go! You wanna fly or not?

Seelix, to Anders: Come on, ready or not, let's go.

Anders, approaching Chief: Hey. Hey, this is crazy. What if I get up there and another switch flips in my head and turns me against my own?

Chief: What the frak is wrong with you? Shut the frak up. It's like the Colonel said, okay? Just think of that. Be the man you want to be. 'Til the day you die.

Anders: That's all easier said than done, because I don't know what the frak I am right now.

Chief: You're Samuel T. Anders. That's all you gotta remember. Samuel T. Anders. Now get the frak in your ship.

Athena, walking up: Who else would he be? Hey, rook, stay cool out there, all right?

Anders: Yeah.









From 12/14/1949 ( ) To 4/4/2008 ( ) is 21296 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/22/2024 ( ) is 21296 days









https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041841/releaseinfo/

IMDb

Sands of Iwo Jima

Release info

United States December 14, 1949

Full Cast & Crew

John Wayne ... Sgt. John M. Stryker









BATTLESTAR GALACTICA

4X01 - HE THAT BELIEVETH IN ME

ORIGINAL AIRDATE (SciFi): 04-APR-2008

(from internet transcript)

(Galactica: Tigh's Quarters)

Tigh: Anybody still hearing that frakkin' song?

Tory: Nope.

Chief: Maybe it stopped when we figured out who... What we are.

Tory: Could have been some kind of trigger? To switch us on?

Anders: You know, after that Raider scanned me with that red light, damn thing just cut and ran.

Tigh: They all did.

Chief: You think it recognized you as a Cylon?

Anders: I don't know. Maybe that's why it didn't shoot me. More important, why didn't I shoot him?

Tigh: Racetrack was right. You just made a dumb nugget mistake.

Anders: Did I? Maybe I was programmed to leave my gun safeties on.

Tigh: No, those bastards can't program me to help them. No way.

Chief: Boomer thought the same thing. And then she shot the old man.

Tigh: Boomer didn't know what she was. We do. That is not gonna happen.

(Tigh pulls a gun out of his locker, cocks it, and sets it on the table next to the liquor bottle they're all drinking from.)

Tigh: Agreed?

(They nod, sadly, one by one.)



- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 06:30 AM Pacific-time USA Saturday 02/24/2024