This Is What I Think.
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Today is 04/27/2024, Post #1
by me, Kerry Burgess: 05/10/2022
I cannot prove, and will never prove, conspiracy. I don't have the resources.
by me, Kerry Burgess, 04/26/2024 06:05 AM
"Synchronicity" is a term introduced by Carl Jung a long time ago and that only fairly recently I became aware
That is not where I got the notion of 'synchronization'
I borrow the notion from my background in the Advanced Electronics Field from the 1980s
The point of this note.
In recent weeks, watching local tv-news, as I usually have the tv on and receiving their antenna broadcast, there is one person in particular, supposedly a journalist, and he said specific words one morning that I am thinking of today
I remember it because it was so ridiculous
There was mention of that ridiculous - as is any form of religion - Jesus Christ mythology superstition and he said "I know that's true"
He's one of more people there that claim in their personal social-media websites to believe that their Imaginary Friend with the beard - a.k.a. Jesus Christ - is always looking down here from the clouds and watching them 24/7
I was thinking about that again then morning and thinking to myself that I might have found interesting pattern if I had thought then what I thought of today
If I had thought about it then I would have checked the calendar-day for a pattern in my original-work
That's the purpose of my "synchronization theory"
So, I didn't record the date *then* because it didn't register on my mind until just now, when I heard a song on one of the local FM antenna stations I tune around to throughout the day. They are still broadcasting tv-news, for about 3 more hours this morning, but I had just turned off the tv and stop listening to their dialog
So, I am using *today* as the Event Date variable
This started by me only because I heard that song on the radio. Then the first video this morning they broadcast of him made me think of a specific detail to look for
Evaluation
Event Date variable: 04/26/2024
Anchor Date: 11/02/1965
Target Date variable: 05/08/1994
Result: 10/22/1995
The Stand - complete edition, by Stephen King
(from internet transcript)
excerpts, Chapter 28
It was two-thirty in the afternoon when she heard the car turn into the driveway, its heavy motor purring complacently, low with power. Frannie put the spade down on the edge of the hole - she was digging in the garden, between the tomatoes and the lettuces - and turned around, a little afraid.
The car was a brand-new Cadillac Coupe de Ville, bottle green, and stepping out of it was fat sixteen-year-old Harold Lauder. Frannie felt an instant surge of distaste. She didn’t like Harold and didn’t know anyone who did, including his late sister Amy. Probably his mother had. But it struck Fran with a tired sort of irony that the only person left in Ogunquit besides herself should be one of the very few people in town she honestly didn’t like.
Harold edited the Ogunquit High School literary magazine and wrote strange short stories that were told in the present tense or with the point of view in the second person, or both. You come down the delirious corridor and shoulder your way through the splintered door and look at the racetrack stars —that was Harold’s style.
“He whacks off in his pants,” Amy had once confided to Fran. “How’s that for nasty? Whacks off in his pants and wears the same pair of undershorts until they’ll just about stand up by themselves.”
Harold’s hair was black and greasy. He was fairly tall, about six-one, but he was carrying nearly two hundred and forty pounds. He favored cowboy boots with pointed toes, wide leather garrison belts that he was constantly hitching up because his belly was considerably bigger than his butt, and flowered shirts that billowed on him like staysails. Frannie didn’t care how much he whacked off, how much weight he carried, or if he was imitating Wright Morris this week or Hubert Selby, Jr. But looking at him—she always felt uncomfortable and a little disgusted, as if she sensed by low-grade telepathy that almost every thought Harold had was coated lightly with slime. She didn’t think, even in a situation like this, that Harold could be dangerous, but he would probably be as unpleasant as always, perhaps more so.
He hadn’t seen her. He was looking up at the house. “Anybody home?” he shouted, then reached through the Cadillac’s window and honked the horn. The sound jagged on Frannie’s nerves. She would have kept silent, except that when Harold turned around to get back into the car, he would see the excavation, and her sitting on the end of it. For a moment she was tempted to crawl deeper into the garden and just lie low among the peas and beans until he got tired and went away.
Stop it, she told herself, just stop it. He’s another living human being, anyway.
“Over here, Harold,” she called.
Harold jumped, his large buttocks joggling inside his tight pants. Obviously he had just been going through the motions, not really expecting to find anyone. He turned around and Fran walked to the edge of the garden, brushing at her legs, resigned to being stared at in her white gym shorts and halter. Harold’s eyes crawled over her with great avidity as he came to meet her.
“Say, Fran,” he said happily.
“Hi, Harold.”
“I’d heard that you were having some success in resisting the dread disease, so I made this my first stop. I’m canvassing the township.” He smiled at her, revealing teeth that had, at best, a nodding acquaintance with his toothbrush.
“I was awfully sorry to hear about Amy, Harold. Are your mother and father—?”
“I’m afraid so,” Harold said. He bowed his head for a moment, then jerked it up, making his clotted hair fly. “But life goes on, does it not?”
“I guess it does,” Fran said wanly. His eyes were on her breasts again, dancing across them, and she wished for a sweater.
“How do you like my car?”
“It’s Mr. Brannigan’s, isn’t it?” Roy Brannigan was a local realtor.
“It was,” Harold said indifferently. “I used to believe that, in these days of shortages, anyone who drove such a thyroidal monster ought to be hung from the nearest Sunoco sign, but all of that has changed. Less people means more petrol.” Petrol, Fran thought dazedly, he actually said petrol. “More everything,” Harold finished. His eyes took on a fugitive gleam as they dropped to the cup of her navel, rebounded to her face, dropped to her shorts, and bounced to her face again. His smile was both jolly and uneasy.
“Harold, if you’ll excuse me—”
“But whatever can you be doing, my child?”
The unreality was trying to creep back in again, and she found herself wondering just how much the human brain could be expected to stand before snapping like an overtaxed rubber band. My parents are dead, but I can take it. Some weird disease seems to have spread across the entire country, maybe the entire world, mowing down the righteous and the unrighteous alike—I can take it. I’m digging a hole in the garden my father was weeding only last week, and when it’s deep enough I guess I’m going to put him in it—I think I can take it. But Harold Lauder in Roy Brannigan’s Cadillac, feeling me up with his eyes and calling me “my child”? I don’t know, my Lord. I just don’t know.
“Harold,” she said patiently. “I am not your child. I am five years older than you. It is physically impossible for me to be your child.”
“Just a figure of speech,” he said, blinking a little at her controlled ferocity. “Anyway, what is it? That hole?”
“A grave. For my father.”
“Oh,” Harold Lauder said in a small, uneasy voice.
“I’m going in to get a drink of water before I finish up. To be blunt, Harold, I’d just as soon you went away. I’m upset.”
“I can understand that,” he said stiffly. “But Fran… in the garden?”
She had started toward the house, but now she rounded on him, furious. “Well, what would you suggest? That I put him in a coffin and drag him out to the cemetery? What in the name of God for? He loved his garden! And what’s it to you, anyway? What business is it of yours?”
She was starting to cry. She turned and ran for the kitchen, almost running into the Cadillac’s front bumper. She knew Harold would be watching her jiggling buttocks, storing up the footage for whatever X-rated movie played constantly in his head, and that made her angrier, sadder, and more weepy than ever.
From 5/8/1994 ( premiere USA TV miniseries "Stephen King's The Stand"::miniseries premiere episode "The Plague" ) To 4/26/2024 ( Today , Friday ) is 10946 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/22/1995 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Space: Above and Beyond"::"Ray Butts" ) is 10946 days
Space: Above and Beyond
"Ray Butts"
Season 1 Episode 6
Aired Sunday 7:00 PM Oct 22, 1995 on FOX
Quotes
McQueen: We're two lifers, you got nothing to hide.
Ray Butts: Forget the butter, McQueen. Maybe we do have the same amount of time in, maybe we wear the same ribbons from our nipples when we put on the dress blues, but don't you think for one second that we are equals, TANK!
2024-04-26_1
https://www.krem.com/article/tech/science/environment/garden-fair-plant-sale-spokane/293-689ca9b0-f4d8-477d-acc3-47ea7d935237
Space: Above And Beyond
"Who Monitors the Birds?"
January 7, 1996
Cooper Hawkes: In the year 2027 the government started the InVitro Program trying to create a new breed of soldier. InVitros are artificially-gestated humans. They call us "Tanks." We're born at 18 years old. My name's Cooper Hawkes. I was born six years ago. Now, it's 2064. Earth is at war with an advanced alien enemy. My squadron is called the Wild Cards - the 58th. They're the only people I've ever cared about.
from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
From: Kerry Burgess {me}
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 11:04 AM
To: Kerry Burgess {me}
Subject: Re: Journal May 21, 2006
Kerry Burgess wrote:
I think it was my first thought after waking up this morning that I used to date Julia Roberts a long time ago.
I also have these unexplained thoughts that I was a fighter pilot in the U.S. military, although I'm not sure which service, but I may have been in two different branches over time. I am also confused about thoughts that I may have been a helicopter pilot. What's next? A space shuttle pilot? Seems like a lot for someone that is only 40. And, while I am not sure when this divergence happened, I am reasonably certain it was before I turned 33. So I must have been a pretty busy guy. Especially because I have thoughts that I was some kind of mathmetician too. I have these thoughts too that I was captured by enemy forces at some point and tortured while in captivity.
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journal: 9/26/2006 3:06 PM
As I was trying to go to sleep last night, I had a thought that I have a doctorate in computer science from Princeton.
and I had thoughts that I studied music as well at Princeton.
from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journals: 9/28/2006 7:13 PM
This sounds very interesting. In my memory of taking Physics my Senior year at Ashdown, I remember being very interested in the class, but we didn’t cover such an interesting topic.
http://www.princeton.edu/main/about/present/
Ayan Chatterjee (left) and Mark Daly measure piano strings as part of a lab project for professor Pierre Piroué's freshman seminar on "Sound, Music and ... Physics."
9/28/2006 7:37 PM
I think I even have memories of the graduate degree process. I am not sure of the terms to describe the process.
9/28/2006 7:47 PM
I actually do remember... something... I can’t explain it. It feels that I am holding an unmarked, undistinguishable book that I don’t know the name of or the contents but I know I have read it already.
9/28/2006 8:34 PM
A few minutes ago I started thinking that maybe I started at Princeton University in 1972. I would have been 13 at the time as Thomas Ray. I remember that Kerry Burgess started first grade in 1972. But then I decided that I probably started Princeton earlier than 1972 and maybe 1972 was the year I completed my first major degree. Or 1972 doesn’t really mean anything in particular to Thomas Ray; rather it is there for continuity sake for the life of Kerry Burgess.
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: H.V.O.M at 3:06 AM Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Salesman
Also, "Salesman." I saw that in a dream while sleeping recently. I saw myself going through an induction process in the United States Marine Corps and I woke up understanding that I was dreaming of my actual experience in 1990. I saw a document that indicated I was being inducted to the United States Marine Corps with the officer grade of Chief Warrant Officer 2. I saw in the dream another document associated with my induction and that document indicated I had been assigned the informal name "Salesman."
Space: Above and Beyond
"Hostile Visit"
The 58th head towards the alien ship. The Saratoga's crew watch them.
McQUEEN'S VOICE: The dim glow falling upon the dried blood of union brothers in the Manassas eve, still guides our path. Constellations, hidden by fierce Pacific storms in the Bataan sky, remain obscured by rain.
CREWMAN: Good luck, guys.
United States Marine Corps lieutenant-colonel T.C. McQUEEN: The stars, a billion for every life laid down in Vietnam, still shine on us and will guide those who follow.
United States Marine Corps first-lieutenant Cooper HAWKES: What dead guy wrote that?
McQUEEN: I wrote it.
From 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} ) To 9/24/1995 ( ) is 2258 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/8/1972 ( premiere USA TV movie "The Astronaut" ) is 2258 days
From 2/25/1961 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Perry Mason"::"The Case of the Angry Dead Man" ) 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 US 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 10918 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/24/1995 ( ) is 10918 days
From 5/14/1992 ( the Intelsat 6 successful rescue during US space shuttle Endeavour orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps commissioned-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 9/24/1995 ( ) is 1228 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/14/1969 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"All Our Yesterdays" ) is 1228 days
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0706368/
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Space: Above and Beyond (1995–1996)
Pilot
Episode aired 24 September 1995
Season 1 Episode 1
Storyline
When an Earth outpost 16 light-years away is destroyed by an unknown alien force, a group of young United States Marine Corps Space Aviators find themselves on the front lines of an intergalactic battle in an attempt to save their home planet.
From 2/28/1961 ( 38 United States Code 101 - the Vietnam Era ) To 5/15/1986 ( premiere USA film "Top Gun" ) is 9207 days
From 11/2/1965 ( ) To 1/17/1991 ( ) is 9207 days
THE ANGRIEST ANGEL - Space: Above and Beyond
Original Air Date: 11th February 1996
(from internet transcript)
She moves down the bar a little closer to McQueen.
WINSLOW: You flew with the Angry Angels, huh?
McQueen gives her a look.
WINSLOW: They're legends. ... Ever been in a zero-gravity chamber?
McQUEEN: Yeah.
WINSLOW: Or tried the one on the Saratoga?
McQUEEN: No.
WINSLOW: Would you like to?
We can hear how things are going with the Chig fooseball from across the room.
HAWKES: Man, this is jaked, huh?
Hawkes kicks the machine.
WANG: Get out of here. I'm trading you. (across the room) Hey, Colonel, come on I need a new guy on my team.
McQueen stands and walks over to Wang and gets right in his face.
McQUEEN: Guy? ... What, do you think, we're back on the block smokin' and jokin'? Hear this loud and clear, marine, I am not your guy. I am not your Joe. I'm not your damn drinking buddy. ... (to Winslow) And I'm sure as hell am not a mark in a singles bar. (to the room) You hear this C.F.B. I am not here to make friends. When this war ends ...
He moves around the Chig fooseball machine.
McQUEEN: ... (to Damphousse) and you go back to raising money for charity, (to Wang) and you're eating dogs at Wriggly, (to West) and you go back to Mayberry, (to them all) I'm still going to be out here ... waiting for the next one. That's why I'm here. That's what I'm good for.
McQueen storms out shoving the door open aggressively.
Cut to McQueen's quarters. The camera pans around the room as we hear McQueen's voice. Among other items we see a copy of the Iliad, a calligraphed wall hanging, tools to paint Chinese characters, china figurines and a medal in a shadow box. There are many books on a bookshelf. On the desk, where McQueen sits, we see the Air Combat Maneuvering and Weapons Systems manual and a photograph of McQueen, in uniform, with a woman.
McQUEEN'S VOICE: Looking darkly upon Hector, swift-footed Achilles answered: 'I cannot forgive you. ... As there are no trustworthy oaths between men and lions, there can be no love between you and me. One or the other must fall before then to glut with his blood, Ares the god who fights under the shield's guard. Remember, every valour of yours, for now the need comes hardest upon you to be a spearman and a bold warrior. There shall be no more escape for you. You will pay in a lump, for all those sorrows of my companions you killed, in your spear's fury.'
THE ANGRIEST ANGEL - Space: Above and Beyond
Original Air Date: 11th February 1996
(from internet transcript)
McQueen cuts away at Elroy's electronics.
McQUEEN: Tell me where he is.
ELROY: You're, you're, you're a war criminal.
McQUEEN: I've got no problem going all the way with this.
McQueen cuts him some more. We hears silicate sounds and recorded voices.
McQUEEN: Where ... is he?
ELROY: He's ... stationed, stationed, stationed, stationed ...
McQueen hits Elroy on the head.
ELROY: ... fourth planet of the Achillies sys-stem, -stem, -stem.
McQUEEN: Wang.
Wang enters. McQueen puts his knife away.
McQUEEN: Take this thing down to the shop, (wipes his hands on Elroy) and inform the flight surgeon I wish to see him.
Cut to operating room. They remove the chip from McQueen
Cut to McQueen's quarters. McQueen is lying on his bunk and tries to get up but finds it very difficult. He's disorientated. He tries standing again.
Cut to flight deck. McQueen is working out again, though this time he moves sluggishly. Hawkes and West watch as McQueen tries to train. McQueen falls down. Hawkes and West go to help him up but he shrugs them off. Ross watches this in dismay.
THE ANGRIEST ANGEL - Space: Above and Beyond
Original Air Date: 11th February 1996
(from internet transcript)
ROSS: The final call is mine, Colonel. You are not fit to fly.
McQUEEN: Sir, the Colonel knows the Commodore to be a man of honour.
ROSS: You are not fit to fly, Colonel.
McQUEEN: Sir, I have not been presented with the opportunity to demonstrate to the contrary, Sir.
ROSS: I don't have the time to let you go through qualifications and I don't need a damn physical to know you don't have your sea-legs. This mission means everything. And I refuse to jeopardise it because you're taking it personally.
Ross walks away.
HAWKES: Sit it out, Colonel.
WANG: Colonel, you don't have to go to be there with us, Sir.
WINSLOW: (she stands) Colonel, ask yourself, then answer, 'Will my condition put the mission, or the 58th, at risk?' ... and I think you know the answer.
ROSS: All right, people, action this day, Hoka Hey.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/231840/Geronimo
Encyclopædia Britannica
Geronimo
Geronimo, Indian name Goyathlay ("One Who Yawns") (born June 1829, No-Doyohn Canyon, Mex. - died Feb. 17, 1909, Fort Sill, Okla., U.S.), Bedonkohe Apache leader of the Chiricahua Apache, who led his people’s defense of their homeland against the military might of the United States.
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THE ANGRIEST ANGEL - Space: Above and Beyond
Original Air Date: 11th February 1996
(from internet transcript)
Cut to funeral party marching through the Saratoga.
Cut to McQueen walking towards the flight deck. He meets the funeral party.
McQUEEN: What else did you expect?
ROSS: You actually think I'm going to allow you to go out there after him?
McQUEEN: You have no choice.
ROSS: You'll have no wing support. No means of defeating its advanced technology. What makes you think you can win?
McQUEEN: I have no choice.
ROSS: I'll be a son of a [bitch] if I go to your funeral, Ty.
McQUEEN: Yes, you will Sir ... but we'll talk about your mother when I get back.
There's a suppressed laugh from Ross. McQueen heads into the flight deck. The chaplain follows him.
( by me, Kerry Burgess: superstition, in context of the 'chaplain', a peddler of superstition ; theologian: an expert only in circular-reasoning )
Space: Above And Beyond
"The Angriest Angel"
11 February 1996
Episode 15 Season 1
US Navy Commander - Chaplain: Colonel. Colonel. Colonel McQueen. Perhaps you should make peace with your maker.
US Marine Corps lieutenant colonel T.C. McQueen: My maker was some geek in a lab coat with an eyedropper and a petri dish. What do I need to make peace with him for?
From 9/10/1948 ( Thedia Newman {circa 1965:} Burgess - the surrogate mother of Kerry Burgess - *me* - the human being cloned from another human being {Thomas Reagan} ) To 2/11/1996 ( ) is 17320 days
17320 = 8660 + 8660
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) 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 8660 days
From 5/25/1995 ( the first Boeing Comanche helicopter prototype unveiled ) To 2/11/1996 ( ) is 262 days
262 = 131 + 131
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/13/1966 ( premiere US TV series episode "Perry Mason"::"The Case of the Avenging Angel" ) is 131 days
From 7/9/1954 ( premiere USA film "Apache" ) To 10/17/1984 ( Ronald Reagan, 40th President of USA: Remarks at a White House Ceremony Launching the Young Astronaut Program ) is 11058 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/11/1996 ( ) is 11058 days
From 9/12/1945 ( Harry Truman, 33rd President of USA: Executive Order 9612 - Amending Executive Order 8902 Prescribing Regulations Pertaining to the Entry of Coffee Into the United States from Countries Signatories of the Inter-american Coffee Agreement ) To 2/11/1996 ( ) is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/17/1991 ( the start of Desert Storm and 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 9207 days
From 10/11/1962 ( premiere USA TV series "McHale's Navy" ) To 1/19/1993 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: in Asheville North Carolina as United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess I was seriously wounded by gunfire when I returned fatal gunfire to a fugitive from United States federal justice in another attempt to kill me the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) is 11058 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/11/1996 ( ) is 11058 days
From 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 ) To 2/11/1996 ( ) is 9762 days
9762 = 4881 + 4881
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/15/1979 ( Richard Nixon, 37th President of USA: Executive Order 12125 - Competitive Status for Handicapped Federal Employees ) is 4881 days
http://www.tv.com/shows/space-above-and-beyond/the-angriest-angel-2-72604/
Space: Above and Beyond
Season 1 Episode 16
The Angriest Angel (2)
Aired Feb 11, 1996 on FOX
AIRED: 2/11/96
US Navy Commander - Chaplain: At these times we should all make peace with our maker.
US Marine Corps lieutenant colonel T.C. McQueen: With all due respect, Chaplain, I don't think our maker wants to hear from me right now because he knows I'm going to go out in that sky in this plane and remove one of his creations from his universe. And when I return, I going to drink a bottle of scotch as if it was Chiggie von Richthofen's blood and celebrate his death.
US Navy Commander - Chaplain: Amen.
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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
1X08 - FLESH AND BONE
Original Airdate: February 25, 2005 (USA)
Caprica #6 - Does he love you?
Caprica Boomer - I think so.
Caprica #6 - Has he said it?
Caprica Boomer - Not directly.
Caprica #6 - Then you're just guessing.
YAH-64_1982_01759-1_cr apache .jpg, from internet
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saab abandonallhope - Space: Above and Beyond
album: "A Rush Of Blood To The Head" (2002)
COLDPLAY
"The Scientist"
(from internet transcript)
Come up to meet you, tell you I'm sorry
You don't know how lovely you are
I had to find you
Tell you I need you
Tell you I set you apart
Tell me your secrets
And ask me your questions
Oh, let's go back to the start
Running in circles
Coming up tails
Heads on a science apart
Nobody said it was easy
It's such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be this hard
Oh, take me back to the start
I was just guessing
At numbers and figures
Pulling the puzzles apart
Questions of science
Science and progress
Do not speak as loud as my heart
Tell me you love me
Come back and haunt me
Oh, and I rush to the start
Running in circles
Chasing our tails
Coming back as we are
Nobody said it was easy
Oh, it's such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be so hard
I'm going back to the start
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space above and beyond Vlcsnap-2014-12-07-22h21m24s145 - Space: Above and Beyond
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who monitors the birds img1 - Space: Above and Beyond
wmtb021 - Space: Above and Beyond
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invasion-of-the-body-snatchers-1956_00h-41m-20s
From 1/28/1994 ( premiere USA film "Body Snatchers" ) To 4/26/2024 ( Today , Friday ) is 11046 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/30/1996 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Home Improvement"::"Tanks for the Memories" ) is 11046 days
From 1/28/1994 ( premiere USA film "Body Snatchers" ) To 4/26/2024 ( ) is 11046 days
11046 = 5523 + 5523
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/16/1980 ( biographical - Harland Sanders dead ) is 5523 days
From 1/22/1946 ( Harry Truman, 33rd President of USA: Directive on Coordination of Foreign Intelligence Activities ) To 7/16/2004 ( premiere USA TV series "Stargate: Atlantis" ) is 21360 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/26/2024 ( Today , Friday ) is 21360 days
atl_102_2013 .jpg, from internet - Stargate: Atlantis, 07/16/2004
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IMDb
Body Snatchers (1993)
Quotes
Carol Malone: Where you gonna go, where you gonna run, where you gonna hide? Nowhere... 'cause there's no one like you left.
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Body Snatchers (1993)
Quotes
Carol Malone: [On phone] Seven-fifty-nine, Sector C.
Steve Malone: [Running down stairs] Carol! We gotta go, we gotta get out of here! We gotta go right now!
Carol Malone: Listen to me, Steve.
Steve Malone: No, you don't understand! We gotta go!
Carol Malone: Go where?
Steve Malone: No, we gotta go! What the hell are you talking about?
Carol Malone: Steve, this is important. Go where? That's right, go where? What happened in your room... Are you listening? What happened in your room is not an isolated incident. It is something that is happening everywhere.
Steve Malone: What are you talking about?
Carol Malone: So, where you gonna go? Where you gonna run? Where you gonna hide? Nowhere, 'cause there's no one like you left. That's right...
Steve Malone: [Realizes that Carol is a pod person] Oh, god.
Carol Malone: That's right, that's good, you're listening now, that's very good. Okay, now I know you're frightened Steve. I know you're scared. That's okay, I understand that. You're confused. Let me tell you something, Steve. Let me tell you something. All that anger, all that fear, all that confusion, it's going to melt away. It's going to go away, Steve. It's going to go away. You go to sleep, you wake up. It's very simple. In the morning you'll wake up, you'll feel wonderful. We're going to be together, we'll be connected, we'll be close. No more fear. C'mon, let's go to bed, Steve...
Steve Malone: [Begins weeping]
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The Stand - complete edition, by Stephen King
(from internet transcript)
excerpts, Chapter 34
For a long time, for days (how many days? who knew? not the Trashcan Man, that was for sure), Donald Merwin Elbert, known to the intimates of his dim and confusing grade-school past as the Trashcan Man, had wandered up and down the streets of Powtanville, Indiana, cringing from the voices in his head, dodging away and putting up his hands to shield against stones thrown by ghosts.
Hey, Trashcan!
Hey, Trashcan Man, digging you, Trash! Lit any good fires this week?
What’d ole lady Semple say when you lit up her pension check, Trash?
Hey, Trash-baby, wanna buy some kerosene?
How’d you like those shock-treatments down in Terre Haute, Trashie?
Trash —
–Hey, Trashcan —
Sometimes he knew those voices weren’t real, but sometimes he would cry out loud for them to stop, only to realize that the only voice was his voice, hitting back at him from the houses and storefronts, bouncing off the cinderblock wall of the Scrubba-Dubba Car Wash where he used to work and where he now sat on the morning of June 30, eating a big sloppy sandwich of peanut butter and jelly and tomatoes and Gulden’s Diablo mustard. No voice but his voice, hitting the houses and stores and being turned away like an unwanted guest and thus returning to his own ears. Because, somehow, Powtanville was empty. Everyone was gone… or were they? They had always said he was crazy, and that’s something a crazy man would think, that his home town was empty except for himself. But his eyes kept returning to the oil tanks on the horizon, huge and white and round, like low clouds. They stood between Powtanville and the road to Gary and Chicago, and he knew what he wanted to do and that wasn’t a dream. It was bad but not a dream and he wasn’t going to be able to help himself.
Burn your fingers, Trash?
Hey, Trashcan Man, don’t you know playin with fire makes you wet the bed?
Something seemed to whistle past him and he sobbed and held up his hands, dropping his sandwich into the dust, cringing his cheek into his neck, but there was nothing, there was no one. Beyond the cinderblock wall of the Scrubba-Dubba Car Wash there was only Indiana Highway 130, going to Gary, but first going past the huge Cheery Oil Company storage tanks. Sobbing a little, he picked up his sandwich, brushed the gray dirt off the white bread as best he could, and began to munch it again.
Were they dreams? Once his father had been alive, and the sheriff had cut him down in the street right outside the Methodist Church, and he had had to live with that his whole life.
Hey, Trash, Sheriff Greeley cut your old man down just like a mad dog, you know that, ya fuckin weirdo?
His father had been in O’Toole’s and there was some bad talk, and Wendell Elbert had a gun and he murdered the bartender with it, then went home and murdered Trashcan’s two older brothers and his sister with it—oh, Wendell Elbert was a strange fellow with a badass temper and he had been getting flaky for a long time before that night, anyone in Powtanville would tell you so, and they would tell you like father like son—and he would have murdered Trashcan’s mother, too, only Sally Elbert had fled screaming into the night with five-year-old Donald (later to be known as the Trashcan Man) in her arms. Wendell Elbert had stood on the front steps, shooting at them as they fled, the bullets whining and striking on the road, and on the last shot the cheap pistol, which Wendell had bought from a nigger in a bar located on Chicago’s State Street, had exploded in his hand. The flying shrapnel had erased most of his face. He had gone wandering up the street with blood running in his eyes, screaming and waving the remainder of the cheap pistol in one hand, the barrel mushroomed and split like the remains of a novelty exploding cigar, and just as he got to the Methodist Church, Sheriff Greeley pulled up in Powtanville’s only squad car and commanded him to stand still and drop the gun. Wendell Elbert pointed the remains of his Saturday night special at the sheriff instead, and Greeley either did not notice that the barrel of the Saturday night special was ruptured or pretended not to notice, and either way the result was the same. He gave Wendell Elbert both barrels of his over and under.
Hey, Trash, ya burned ya COCK off yet?
He looked around for whoever had yelled that—it sounded like Carley Yates or one of the kids who hung out with him—except Carley wasn’t a kid anymore, any more than he was himself.
Maybe now he could be just Don Elbert again instead of the Trashcan Man, the way Carley Yates was now just Carl Yates who sold cars at the Stout Chrysler-Plymouth dealership here in town. Except that Carl Yates was gone, everyone was gone, and maybe it was too late for him to be anyone anymore.
by me, Kerry Burgess, January 14 2020
Makes perfect sense. Mike Pence. Sitting there on the toilet taking a tinkle of his urine with a big grin on his face feeling the love of Jesus Christ standing behind him, the bearded man from "up there" with the puppy-dog eyes loves to hear Mike tinkling
album: "In Heat" (1983)
The Romantics
"Talking In Your Sleep"
When you close your eyes and you go to sleep
And it's down to the sound of a heartbeat
I can hear the things that you're dreaming about
When you open up your heart and the truth comes out
You tell me that you want me
You tell me that you need me
You tell me that you love me
And I know that I'm right
'Cause I hear it in the night
I hear the secrets that you keep
When you're talking in your sleep
I hear the secrets that you keep
When you're talking in your sleep
When I hold you in my arms at night
Don't you know you're sleeping in the spotlight
And all your dreams that you keep inside
You're telling me the secrets that you just can't hide
You tell me that you want me
You tell me that you need me
You tell me that you love me
And I know that I'm right
'Cause I hear it in the night
I hear the secrets that you keep
When you're talking in your sleep
I hear the secrets that you keep
When you're talking in your sleep
I hear the secrets that you keep
When you're talking in your sleep
I hear the secrets that you keep
When you're talking in your sleep
When you close your eyes and you fall asleep
Everything about you is a mystery
You tell me that you want me
You tell me that you need me
You tell me that you love me
And I know that I'm right
'Cause I hear it in the night
I hear the secrets that you keep
When you're talking in your sleep
I hear the secrets that you keep
When you're talking in your sleep
I hear the secrets that you keep
When you're talking in your sleep
I hear the secrets that you keep
When you're talking in your sleep
I hear the secrets that you keep
When you're talking in your sleep
I hear the secrets that you keep
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 02:16 AM Pacific-time USA Saturday 04/27/2024
Friday, April 26, 2024
Today is 04/26/2024, Post #1
by me, Kerry Burgess, 04/25/2024 06:04 AM
Still, there must be some explanation
I have speculated that people in the distant future are so bored with the overall paradise of their existence that their only real source of entertainment is to time-travel scary stories - clandestinely - back to this present time
They know I know they know I know they know I know they know I know they know I know they know I know they know
by me, Kerry Burgess, 04/25/2024 03:49 AM
Only because of a vision and associated dialog in a sleeping-dream just now
Awoke from dream, looked at time projected on ceiling: 03:44 AM
Got out of bed, sat down at this desk, opened text file
The reference in this post to the 1979 item is from my research last night before going to bed for the night
There was nothing about it that could have caused me to have the sleeping-dream I write about now
The vision was simple
In my sleeping-dream, as happens, I saw myself working on my original-work code-pattern, the variations today described here now
My examination returned the calendar-day 12/19/1984
The significance was not immediately obvious to me.
In my vision, I pursued the line of research from a Wikipedia article that mentioned something about a mine that yield the ore gold. Only because an unseen person asked me about that result did I realize that 12/19/1984 was a detail significant to me personally
The cognitive process of this note progresses from the observation by me, as referenced here, about the detail from 1979, which also caused me to think of the detail from year 1991, which I have not yet checked. Then the sleeping-dream caused me to think about 09/26/1962, of which I made observations and describe here now. Then that all caused me to think of other stuff to check
This extends from my note yesterday about the orange-juice
Need more sleep. Debating whether to brew a pot of strong, black, mediocre coffee or to try to fall back to sleep, of which sleep again right now seems doubtful, miserable as it was these past few hours tonight
Just had a glass of pleasantly 36F-chilled orange-juice
The Ballad of Jed Clampett (The Beverly Hillbillies)
Come and listen to a story about a man named Jed
A poor mountaineer, barely kept his family fed,
Then one day he was shootin at some food,
And up through the ground came a bubblin crude.
Oil that is, black gold, Texas tea.
Well the first thing you know ol Jed's a millionaire,
Kinfolk said "Jed move away from there"
Said "Californy is the place you ought to be"
So they loaded up the truck and moved to Beverly.
Hills, that is. Swimmin pools, movie stars.
Well now its time to say good by to Jed and all his kin.
And they would like to thank you folks fer kindly droppin in.
You're all invited back a gain to this locality
To have a heapin helpin of their hospitality.
Beverly Hillbillies, that's what they call 'em now
Nice folks, Y'all come back now, hear?
From 9/26/1962 ( premiere USA TV series "The Beverly Hillbillies"::series premiere episode "The Clampetts Strike Oil" ) To 3/18/2021 ( ) is 21358 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/24/2024 ( Wednesday ) is 21358 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zack_Snyder%27s_Justice_League
Zack Snyder's Justice League
From Wikipedia
Release date March 18, 2021 (United States)
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From 2/8/1968 ( premiere USA film "Planet of the Apes" ) To 4/24/2024 ( ) is 20530 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/17/2022 ( ) is 20530 days
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075004 .jpg, from internet - USS Taylor FFG-50, US Navy
excerpts,
From: Kerry
To: House
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007
Then I was thinking about a time in 1985.
There were two teams of two men, including me, that worked on the helo deck during landing operations
The cable. That blasted cable with the funky connector. I was the first one on the Taylor that had to run out underneath the hovering Seahawk and perform the first exercise of the RAST system.
We didn't have the other end of the cable from the helo that our cable connected to so on my first test, I only had the advice of my Chief Boatswains Mate. Standing there under that helo, I nailed it perfectly
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From 1/20/1986 ( ) To 4/24/2024 ( ) is 13974 days
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From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/19/1984 ( from my official enlisted US Navy documents: as Kerry Wayne Burgess the undesignated E-3 Seaman US Navy I reported to my first fleet assignment for permanent duty aboard USS Taylor FFG-50, US Navy, departing 02/11/1986 as FC3 Kerry Wayne Burgess, US Navy ) is 6987 days
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From 6/15/2011 ( "Leviathan Wakes" by James Corey, book 1 "The Expanse" ) To 4/24/2024 ( ) is 4697 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/12/1978 ( premiere USA TV series "Taxi" ) is 4697 days
From 1/2/1965 ( ) To 4/24/2024 ( ) is 21662 days
21662 = 10831 + 10831
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) 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 commissioned-officer and United States STS-71 pilot astronaut and my 3rd official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 10831 days
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From 2/3/2006 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Battlestar Galactica"::"Scar" ) To 4/24/2024 ( ) is 6655 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/22/1984 ( premiere USA TV series "Airwolf" ) is 6655 days
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
2X15 - "SCAR"
Original Airdate (SciFi): 03/FEB/2006
(from internet transcript)
BB: Who's Scar?
Duck: Not who. What. Toaster's top gun. Deadliest raider in the cylon fleet.
Jo Jo: Gimme break. Come on they're machines. one's the same as the next.
Yeah, that's what we thought till Captain thrace cut the brain out of one.
Hotdog: Scar's the best they got.
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From 11/24/1973 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"The Time Trap" ) To 4/24/2024 ( ) is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) 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 US 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 9207 days
From 12/25/1991 ( 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 as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) To 4/24/2024 ( ) is 11809 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/3/1998 ( {puppet-in-chief} Bill Clinton, 42 President of USA: Statement of Administration Policy: H.R. 2369 - Wireless Privacy Enhancement Act ) is 11809 days
from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
From: Kerry Burgess {me}
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 11:04 AM
To: Kerry Burgess {me}
Subject: Re: Journal May 21, 2006
Kerry Burgess wrote:
I think it was my first thought after waking up this morning that I used to date Julia Roberts a long time ago.
I also have these unexplained thoughts that I was a fighter pilot in the U.S. military, although I'm not sure which service, but I may have been in two different branches over time. I am also confused about thoughts that I may have been a helicopter pilot. What's next? A space shuttle pilot? Seems like a lot for someone that is only 40. And, while I am not sure when this divergence happened, I am reasonably certain it was before I turned 33. So I must have been a pretty busy guy. Especially because I have thoughts that I was some kind of mathmetician too. I have these thoughts too that I was captured by enemy forces at some point and tortured while in captivity.
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journal: 9/26/2006 3:06 PM
As I was trying to go to sleep last night, I had a thought that I have a doctorate in computer science from Princeton.
and I had thoughts that I studied music as well at Princeton.
from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journals: 9/28/2006 7:13 PM
This sounds very interesting. In my memory of taking Physics my Senior year at Ashdown, I remember being very interested in the class, but we didn’t cover such an interesting topic.
http://www.princeton.edu/main/about/present/
Ayan Chatterjee (left) and Mark Daly measure piano strings as part of a lab project for professor Pierre Piroué's freshman seminar on "Sound, Music and ... Physics."
9/28/2006 7:37 PM
I think I even have memories of the graduate degree process. I am not sure of the terms to describe the process.
9/28/2006 7:47 PM
I actually do remember... something... I can’t explain it. It feels that I am holding an unmarked, undistinguishable book that I don’t know the name of or the contents but I know I have read it already.
9/28/2006 8:34 PM
A few minutes ago I started thinking that maybe I started at Princeton University in 1972. I would have been 13 at the time as Thomas Ray. I remember that Kerry Burgess started first grade in 1972. But then I decided that I probably started Princeton earlier than 1972 and maybe 1972 was the year I completed my first major degree. Or 1972 doesn’t really mean anything in particular to Thomas Ray; rather it is there for continuity sake for the life of Kerry Burgess.
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: H.V.O.M at 3:06 AM Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Salesman
Also, "Salesman." I saw that in a dream while sleeping recently. I saw myself going through an induction process in the United States Marine Corps and I woke up understanding that I was dreaming of my actual experience in 1990. I saw a document that indicated I was being inducted to the United States Marine Corps with the officer grade of Chief Warrant Officer 2. I saw in the dream another document associated with my induction and that document indicated I had been assigned the informal name "Salesman."
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From 10/31/2010 ( premiere USA TV series "The Walking Dead"::series premiere episode "Days Gone Bye" ) To 4/24/2024 ( Wednesday ) is 4924 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/27/1979 ( Jimmy Carter, 39th President of USA: United States-Soviet Union Exchange of Prisoners - White House Statement ) is 4924 days
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read the full text at:
https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2014-featured-story-archive/a-look-back-25-years-since-the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall.html
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A Look Back: 25 Years Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall
On December 25, 1991, Gorbachev resigned and the Soviet Union ceased to exist
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Rotor (electric)
From Wikipedia
The rotor is a moving component of an electromagnetic system in the electric motor, electric generator, or alternator. Its rotation is due to the interaction between the windings and magnetic fields which produces a torque around the rotor's axis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brushed_DC_electric_motor
Brushed DC electric motor
From Wikipedia
A problem with the motor shown above is that when the plane of the coil is parallel to the magnetic field - i.e. when the rotor poles are 90 degrees from the stator poles - the torque is zero. In the pictures above, this occurs when the core of the coil is horizontal - the position it is just about to reach in the second-to-last picture on the right. The motor would not be able to start in this position. However, once it was started, it would continue to rotate through this position by momentum.
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Earth got hammered by cosmic rays 41,000 years ago due to a weak magnetic field
Robert Lea
Wed, April 24, 2024
From 3/20/2009 ( premiere USA film "Knowing" AND premiere USA TV series episode "Battlestar Galactica"::series finale episode "Daybreak" ) To 4/24/2024 ( ) is 5514 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/7/1980 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Cosmos"::"The Persistence of Memory" ) is 5514 days
From 2/16/2020 ( premiere USA streaming video-serial Epix MGM+ "War of the Worlds" ) To 4/24/2024 ( ) is 1529 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/9/1970 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The High Chaparral"::"The Journal of Death" ) is 1529 days
From 2/16/2020 ( premiere USA streaming video-serial Epix MGM+ "War of the Worlds" ) To 4/24/2024 ( ) is 1529 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/9/1970 ( premiere USA film "...tick... tick... tick..." ) is 1529 days
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Knowing (2009)
Quotes
[last lines]
Rev. Koestler: [hugging John] This isn't the end, son.
John Koestler: I know.
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: February 11, 2019
Nope. That is most definitely The End for you, fictional bible-thumping coward of mortality. The chemical molecules that made you think you were the most special, self-centered animal in the Universe - THAT YOU ARE COMPLETELY IGNORANT OF - is just so much meaningless vapor now
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Earth got hammered by cosmic rays 41,000 years ago due to a weak magnetic field
Robert Lea
Wed, April 24, 2024 at 5:00 AM PDT
Earth is under constant bombardment by high-energy charged particles called cosmic rays. We're normally shielded from this barrage by Earth's magnetic bubble, the magnetosphere. But what happens when this shield weakens?
Cosmic rays are primarily hydrogen nuclei blasted into space by powerful celestial events such as the supernova deaths of massive stars. These incredibly energetic particles are normally intercepted by the magnetosphere, which also protects us from harsh solar radiation from the sun.
The magnetosphere is not a monolithic, unchanging entity, however. Not only does magnetic north "wobble" slightly away from geographic "true north," but the entire magnetosphere occasionally "flips." This results in the field's north pole becoming south and vice versa, with the intensity of the field waning in the process.
In addition to this, there are other brief periods during which the two magnetic poles of the magnetosphere "disappear," to be replaced by a multitude of magnetic poles. During these periods, called "magnetic field excursions," the strength of magnetic poles also weakens, implying that our planet is less well-protected from cosmic rays at these times.
Related: Where do cosmic rays come from?
The question is, Do periods of low magnetosphere intensity also correlate with major upheavals in Earth's biosphere, the complete zone of our planet over which life exists, ranging from mountaintops to the deepest ocean trenches?
"Understanding these extreme events is important for their occurrence in the future, space climate predictions, and assessing the effects on the environment and on the Earth system," Sanja Panovska, a scientist at GFZ Potsdam in Germany, said in a statement.
To determine the periods during which Earth has experienced a heavier than usual bombardment of cosmic rays, scientists can measure the abundances of different isotopes. These are variants of an element that have different numbers of neutrons in their atomic nuclei.
When cosmic rays strike particles in Earth's atmosphere, they create showers of isotopes called "cosmogenic radionuclides" that rain down to our planet's surface. These build up over time in sediments, which scientists can study after recovering them from the sea bed and in ice cores drilled from regions like Antarctica and Greenland.
One well-studied example of a magnetic field excursion is the Laschamps excursion, which occurred around 41,000 years ago. Panovska has been studying the relationship between the intensity of Earth's magnetosphere and the concentration of cosmogenic radionuclides such as beryllium-10 during this event.
She found that the average production rate of beryllium-10 doubled compared to the rate at which this cosmogenic radionuclide is generated by cosmic ray bombardment today. This indicates a very low magnetosphere intensity during the Laschamps excursion, leading to vastly more cosmic rays reaching Earth's atmosphere and creating showers of secondary particles.
Panovska used these measurements to reconstruct Earth's magnetosphere, finding that it shrank during this event when its strength decreased. She is hoping this reconstruction will help her and fellow scientists get more information from cosmogenic radionuclide and cosmic ray bombardments.
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/announcement-ve-found-alien-life-113105311.html
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‘The announcement we’ve found alien life could be just a couple of years away’
Chris Harvey
Thu, April 25, 2024 at 4:31 AM PDT
“Generally, when I’m on a plane, if I tell somebody that I search for life on planets around other stars, I don’t get to sleep,” says Lisa Kaltenegger, with a laugh. “It’s always a careful, curated answer depending on if I need to do something next morning when I arrive or not. People are like, ‘Oh, I read about this,’ you know, ‘Have we been visited? Is this true?’”
Outside of her need for sleep, Kaltenegger loves those questions. The 47-year-old professor of astrophysics is a pioneer and world expert on the search for extraterrestrial life. As the author of Alien Earths: Planet Hunting in the Cosmos (Allen Lane), Radio 4’s Book of the Week next week, she is well aware that her chosen field of study taps into a deep and abiding human fascination – are we alone in the universe or is there life elsewhere?
And as the director of the Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, which brings together scientists from many separate disciplines to collaborate on the search for life among the stars, she’s better placed right now to answer those questions than almost anyone on Earth.
When I catch up with her over Zoom at her home in Ithaca, she’s just got back from a three-week lecture tour in New Zealand, and a trip up to Burlington, Vermont, “where we had an incredible eclipse. It was beautiful.”
She’s upbeat, passionate, physically expressive. Evidence of alien life, she believes, is tantalisingly close. Kaltenegger is looking for “biosignatures” – telltale signs of life in the atmospheres of distant planets, the sort of gases that organic processes create on Earth, oxygen, methane and others. “We actually have a tool [for finding them],” she says. “And a lot of people don’t realise we do. We have the James Webb Space Telescope, which has been up in space for about a year. We live in this era of golden exploration, with thousands of other worlds on our doorstep, that we now can actually explore.”
Alien Earths is in the best tradition of pop science – bringing water worlds, planets of lava, and the possibility of blue dots like our own before our eyes in a way that is never dry or impenetrable. Kaltenegger is a natural communicator; one of the classes she teaches at Cornell is the introduction to astronomy for non-science majors – “I love being able to change their view of the cosmos,” she says. She took her nine-year-old daughter out of school to go to New Zealand; it was the perfect way to show her the world is a sphere, she says, “to set those physics concepts” on the planet on which we live.
No one should run away with the idea that Kaltenegger is a wide-eyed believer in UFOs, alien visitors, abductions and the rest. In fact, she begins her book by sweeping from the table all the “evidence” put forward so far. She recognises that UFO hunters are responding to “the excitement of trying to find life in the universe”, but “a lot of times with UFO sightings, the data is just not good enough”, she says. “If you have a smudge on a photo, it is interesting, but…”
This turns out to be a big “but”. One has to understand all the variable factors of a sighting, Kaltenegger explains, light reflection, weather patterns, how far away something is if it appears to be moving really fast. In her book, she notes, “I’ve basically said, this data is not good enough for us to make any conclusions.”
What then, of the former US Air Force officer David Grusch, who testified at an American House of Representatives sub-committee last year that, in his time on the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, he had seen documents that showed the existence of a secretive UFO-retrieval programme; that America possesses multiple spacecraft of alien origin and that “non-human biologics” were found at an alien crash site?
Kaltenegger wrote her book “a little bit with that in mind”, she says. “Because I think people are very, very smart, and actually do start to doubt these things when it’s just a little too convenient. But there’s not much out there that’s easily accessible that tells you, be careful if somebody wants to sell you this and what are the questions you should ask.
“When I see that [testimony], honestly what I think is, ‘Oh God, I wish this were true.’ That would be so much easier if we had aliens coming here. Because the search for chemical make-up, and gas as a biosignature, it’s hard, even with the biggest telescopes we have.”
The idea that we are constantly being visited by interstellar entities, she suggests, begs the question, why? – given the technological gulf between us and any intelligent life-form capable of interstellar travel. “We are in the infancy of space exploration. We have boots on the moon, but we don’t even have boots on Mars,” she says. “We are not the place that you would go to.”
All this plays in her head when she sees pronouncements like Grusch’s, she says. “This is where the scientific method is so important. This snake oil is probably not going to help you.” If it was their health, people would ask for a second opinion, she stresses. “It’s funny that some people suspend that thinking when it comes to somebody trying to sell them evidence of alien life.” At the very least, she says, people should not give it credence without a “second independent team for us to confirm it. That’s the least thing.” Her own methodology, she says, “is a much stronger evidence-based search tool”.
Even for scientists prepared to put their evidence for extra-terrestrial life into the public domain, she suggests, the bar remains high. Harvard science professor Avi Loeb caused a stir with his 2021 bestseller, Extraterrestrial, which suggested that an unusually thin stellar object spotted moving away from the sun millions of miles from Earth in 2017 was an alien light sail, propelled by solar radiation instead of wind.
“I think Avi really wants to be the person who finds life in the universe,” Kaltenegger says, with an expression that could perhaps be interpreted as a groan, “[when] people looked at it and said, it couldn’t be [what Loeb claimed] because of the way it moves, at that point, I think as a scientist, you are trained to accept the death of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact, and you move on to the next thing… I think at some point, as scientists, we know better. Chances are, it’s not a light sail.”
In Kaltenegger’s world, though, there is excitement about four potentially life-supporting planets found orbiting the red dwarf star Trappist-1, a mere 40 light years from Earth, in 2017. “The James Webb Space Telescope is observing these planets right now,” she says. “We have a chance to find the gases on these worlds. And to figure out if there’s biosignatures on them within the next, let’s say, five to 10 years.” The time frame, even with the wonders of a space telescope, is necessary because of the difficulties of building a clear picture of an exoplanet with so much light interference from the star itself. It takes time.
But, Kaltenegger says: “If life is everywhere, it can be in that system. It may be that we need to observe 100 systems before we find life, or 1,000. But it could also be that we just need to observe one system.” If that’s the case, she says, then the announcement that we’re not alone, “could be just a couple of years from now”.
When Kaltenegger was a girl growing up in the small Austrian town of Kuchl, in a quiet river valley beneath the Berchtesgaden Alps, the idea that her horizons would one day expand to the furthest visible planets beyond our own solar system was unimaginable.
Her father was a civil engineer and her mother a secretary; her elder sister is an architect. Kaltenegger was “always really curious” about the world around her, she tells me. “I was one of these kids with all the questions.” By the age of 10, the local library had given up trying to put limits on the number of books she could borrow. Yet it would be another five years before the first exoplanet – a planet outside our own solar system – was even found. And it wasn’t until her first year at university in Graz, where she studied astrophysics, that the first exoplanet orbiting a sun-like star was discovered, in 1995, in the constellation of Pegasus.
The Alexandrian astronomer Ptolemy had identified the constellation as far back as the second century, yet the discovery of this planet, 51 Pegasi b, was a game-changing revelation. Still, Kaltenegger felt, “this was something that Nasa did, that the big countries did, I was studying in Graz, which is a pretty tiny town”.
A year later, she travelled to a conference on “Planets Outside the Solar System” in Corsica, by package flight and bus, and met “this really small community of people who were asking all these questions for the first time, you know, what does it mean? Could there be more planets out there? What are the things we should do? It was a very flat hierarchy – the professors would ask the students what they thought, what I thought. I was an undergrad in my second year… The discussion was so fascinating.”
She soon realised, “to understand a planet, you have to understand the star, you have to understand the geology, you have to understand the biology that’s going on… I was basically thinking, this will never get boring.”
Within a few years, she had gained a doctorate in astrophysics, and at 27, moved to Harvard University; in 2010, she took over the leadership of a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, in Germany, before taking up the post of associate professor of astronomy at Cornell.
Along the way, Kaltenegger has encountered sexism many times. “It got a lot better. It’s still not that great sometimes.” She describes how in her first week working for the European Space Agency, her boss had forgotten to copy slides for a meeting with aerospace engineers, but insisted that she not go off to copy them for him, telling her that if she was seen to be doing the copying, whatever she did subsequently, they would always see her as the secretary. It’s essential to challenge sexist attitudes whenever they are expressed, she says, because “if nobody speaks up, they interpret it as everybody agrees with them and that’s not the case”.
“I would say that 80 or maybe even 90 per cent of people think that women in science are capable. And they do understand that it’s historically coloured, that you don’t have as many women with big breakthroughs, because they had such a hard time getting into the field. And if they were in that field, most of the time, they didn’t get the acclaim for whatever they did discover, somebody else did.”
It was her sense of a need for an interdisciplinary approach that became the seed for the Carl Sagan Institute, which she set up in 2015, becoming its founding director: “No one person can know all of science any more,” she says, “so I built this institute with about 15 different departments ranging from astronomy, geology and biology to music and performing arts to interlink that information.”
There are now more than 5,000 confirmed exoplanets, which can be studied in ever greater detail, as more powerful telescopes become available. And the search for evidence of life on these planets has narrowed to ones in the “habitable zone” of a star system – often referred to as the “Goldilocks” zone, because it’s “not too hot, not too close to the star; not too cold, not too far away”, Kaltenegger explains. In fact, the conditions are just right.
“What we know is that around every fifth star, there’s a planet that’s in the habitable zone and small enough to be a rock,” she says. “And our galaxy alone has 200 billion stars. So one out of five gives you billions and billions of opportunities.” She’s clear about what that means about the search for alien life. “I think the biggest surprise would be if we found nothing.”
She knows, though, that there are scientists who have cast doubt on the validity of “biosignatures” as definitive proof of life, who suggest that the possibility of chemical processes that produce the same composition of gases cannot be ruled out. Kaltenegger embraces scientific scepticism: “I think the brutality of the scientific method is really important, especially if you wish to find something. Scrutiny is science’s biggest strength, because it cuts off the wrong answers. However, I think we do, currently, have some combination of biosignatures, the combination of oxygen and methane, that under specific circumstances, if the planet is within this habitable zone, we have no other explanation than there being life.”
The certainty may not be 100 per cent, she says, but if the likelihood reaches 95-99 per cent, then it will cross the threshold for scientific confidence, because any other explanation would rely on “a really exotic geochemistry that we don’t understand and have never encountered… It will depend very much how many of these planets we find. If we find lots of planets with signs of life, to have an exotic geochemistry that works just so for each of those is going to be super unlikely.”
I want to ask Kaltenegger about the scenario in the 1996 film Independence Day and so many others: are we making a mistake searching for alien life, given our own violent, rapacious qualities as a species – is there any reason to think intelligent alien life would be benign? In 2011, the physicist Stephen Hawking said that “the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational” but suggested, “If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out very well for the Native Americans.”
Kaltenegger enjoys science fiction and says that if aliens do visit earth, the military helicopters and quarantine zones of Contact (1997) and Arrival (2016) are “definitely something that I think would happen”, but she’s not buying the Independence Day scenario.
As for trepidation about making contact, she notes, “the cat’s already out the bag”. She explains that a technological civilisation could easily have used “biosignature” techniques to observe Earth and see that it supported life a very long time ago.
“In my first real scientific paper from 2007,” she says, “we figured out that for about two billion years in Earth’s history you could find the combination of oxygen and gases that are the golden fingerprint of life. If there’s somebody out there, I don’t think announcing our presence would make any big difference. Because if they just had our level of technology, they’d know we’re here. It’s been two billion years, and nobody has come to eat us yet.”
I wonder what she makes of Elon Musk’s Space X project and his plan to build a sustainable colony on Mars. “I don’t want to live on Mars,” Kaltenegger says. “I think it will be incredibly hard because you can’t breathe, so that’s a completely different step in exploration than we’ve ever had before – even at the North Pole, you can breathe. But I think if somebody wants to do it, it’d be quite interesting. I think space exploration actually has great benefits.”
One might perhaps expect this response – Kaltenegger’s husband (Filipe Pereira) is a spacecraft systems engineer – but she says one of the benefits is an ecological one. “When you go to space, you have to be able to perfectly recycle.” It’s possible to see the Earth itself as “a gigantic spacecraft”, she adds. “And its life support system is the biosphere.”
What would finding life on other planets do to our concepts of God, I wonder. “For me personally, science and religion are not in conflict. Religion to me is where you cannot do any measurements, where you do not have any data, where you have to believe. And science is the other realm, where you have data… I think the trouble starts when people misunderstand where things are valid. If you tell me that you have to believe everything that’s written in the Bible, then you get into trouble really fast, because I can tell you that the Earth is not 7,000 years old.
“I think there is space for whatever religion you hold, while taking the science, and looking at the beauty that it actually reveals about the cosmos. I can’t tell you what that concept of God could be like, it’s everybody’s personal opinion. But there’s space for it. And if you want, you can put it before the Big Bang – what was before the Big Bang? We don’t know, we have no data.”
Kaltenegger “absolutely” hopes that she’ll find what she’s looking for in her lifetime. The introduction of AI, she says, is a step forward to compare with the invention of the computer. “AI is incredibly good at deciphering, ‘Oh, this is like 20 per cent of green vegetation, 40 per cent of water and 30 per cent of ice.’ Now we have something that can pattern recognise.”
Designs have been drawn up, too, for a next-generation space telescope – the Habitable Worlds Observatory.
But, she insists, “I think that science is a beautiful web of ideas that spreads through time. Even if we can’t find it in my lifetime, the ideas we put together, the things we put into place are the stepping stones that will allow the next generations to do it.”
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 02:58 AM Pacific-time USA Friday 04/26/2024
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