I want to read more of this book
Every single book and video I watch just creates work for me
And this is the most interesting of all, now it rears its head after my 20 years of solitude. Only reason anyone is even aware of me is because I am making these blog-posts here in my quest to understand.
I haven't reached page 125 yet. I stopped with the protagonist of the story still in Manhattan, as I refered to yesterday
A keyword search today for a part I read yesterday, for illustration, yields a much better example, all completely new to my awareness today. Impossible for me to believe those details exist physically in my human-brain. Everything we know as humans exists *only* in the physical, chemical-molecules stored in our physical body. Fairy-tales and wishful-thinking make nothing true that you want to believe, in your desperation to escape your pathetic life.
All this now in recent days because of MGM+
Doubt I would have ever remembered that book, in title and author. I didn't like it at the time - well enough to deliberately remember it and because I read through it only one time, unlike Stephen King's The Stand, which I discovered about the same time - because it was set so far back in the distant past. Trying to imagine myself in a similar experience (without the graveyard planet of unburied corpses. The Quiet Earth.), I found it difficult to relate to the story
So... why now?
I never referred to the book by name, these past 20 years
Why are THEY trying so hard to associate *me* with it? And I have delivered conclusive evidence of their conspiracy and the production of "Earth Abides" on MGM+
Are they warning *you*? Giving you a fair chance to repent to your god(s)?
REPENT, sinner! You are too co-dependent on your Imaginary Friend to be anything other than a weak and gullible moron! Your ridiculous monkey-brain incapable of independent thought!
IMDb
The Twilight Zone
Time Enough at Last (1959)
Quotes
Henry Bemis: [noticing someone inked on his poetry pages, obscuring the text] Helen... Who did this, Helen?
Helen Bemis: Who do you think did it, Henry? You should thank me, really. A grown man who reads silly, ridiculous, nonsensical doggerel.
Henry Bemis: This isn't doggerel! There's some very beautiful things here.
Helen Bemis: I say it's doggerel. I also say it's a waste of time.
[snatches the poetry book and rips out pages]
Henry Bemis: Helen! Helen! Don't do that! Helen, please don't do that! Why, Helen? Why do you do these things?
Helen Bemis: Because I'm married to a fool!
From 11/20/1959 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Twilight Zone"::"Time Enough at Last" ) To 3/8/1991 ( ) is 11431 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/18/1997 ( ) is 11431 days
From 4/27/1951 ( premiere USA film "The Man from Planet X" ) To 8/13/1982 ( premiere USA film "Fast Times At Ridgemont High" ) is 11431 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/18/1997 ( ) is 11431 days
From 9/20/1946 ( Harry Truman, 33rd President of USA: The President's News Conference on Foreign Policy ) To 2/18/1997 ( ) 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
https://papersofprinceton.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=Princetonian19910308-01.1.1&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------
From 12/9/1941 ( premiere USA film "The Wolf Man" ) To 2/18/1997 ( ) is 20160 days
20160 = 10080 + 10080
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/8/1993 ( commencement, Princeton University Class of 1993 ) is 10080 days
From 10/28/1994 ( premiere USA film "Stargate" ) To 2/18/1997 ( as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps commissioned-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 I begin repairing the US Hubble Telescope while in space and orbit of the planet Earth - extravehicular activity #5 completes the mission's servicing and refurbishment of the Hubble Space Telescope ) is 844 days
844 = 422 + 422
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/29/1966 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Shore Leave" ) is 422 days
From 6/5/1987 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Earned NEC 1189 - Based on graduation from the Terrier Mk 152 Guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex course - Naval Guided Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia Beach, Virginia, US Navy - leading to permanent assignment until 1990 to CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance), USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2) ) To 2/18/1997 ( ) is 3546 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/19/1975 ( the United States Apollo spacecraft commanded by my biological brother Thomas Reagan the US Navy Captain circa 1975 undocks with the Soviet Union Soyuz spacecraft while in orbit of the planet Earth ) is 3546 days
From 3/12/1964 ( premiere USA film "A Tiger Walks" ) 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 11431 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/18/1997 ( ) is 11431 days
https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-82/sts-82-day-08-highlights.html
NASA
STS-82 Day 8 Highlights
Back to STS-82 Flight Day 07 Highlights:
On Tuesday, February 18, 1997, 6:30 a.m. CST, STS-82 MCC Status Report # 15 reports:
Early this morning, astronauts Mark Lee and Steve Smith completed a 5 hour, 17 minute spacewalk - the fifth spacewalk conducted over the past five days - to complete the servicing and refurbishment of the Hubble Space Telescope. During their final excursion in Discovery's cargo bay, Lee and Smith attached several thermal insulation blankets to three equipment compartments at the top of the Support Systems Module section of Hubble which contain key data processing, electronics and scientific instrument telemetry packages. Following the completion of that work, Lee and Smith briefly returned to the airlock while flight controllers evaluated a possible glitch with one of four Reaction Wheel Assembly units in Hubble used to maneuver the telescope for its scientific observations. After determining that further analysis of the Reaction Wheel Assembly would be required, the astronauts were directed to close out their spacewalk and reentered the airlock for the final time at 2:32 A.M. Central time. A spare Reaction Wheel Assembly was available aboard Discovery for a swapout during an additional spacewalk had it been necessary, but a few hours later, after further analysis, payload controllers reported that the Reaction Wheel Assembly was in excellent shape and operating at the proper speed.
With all of the servicing tasks complete, Commander Ken Bowersox and Pilot Scott Horowitz fired small maneuvering jets on Discovery to complete the reboost of the Hubble Space Telescope, raising its orbit an additional three nautical miles. Hubble will be redeployed early tomorrow morning at 12:41 A.M. Central time at an altitude of about 335 by 321 nautical miles, an increase of about 8 nautical miles from the point at which it was retrieved last week. In all, a total of 33 hours and 11 minutes were logged during the five spacewalks to service and refurbish Hubble, about two hours shy of the time recorded during the five spacewalks for the first servicing mission more than three years ago.
The crew will begin an extended nine hour sleep period at 8:25 a.m. this morning. After they are awakened at 5:25 p.m. this afternoon, the astronauts will begin preparations for the deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope by robot arm operator Steve Hawley, who will release the astronomical observatory for the start of the calibration of its newly installed instruments and the resumption of scientific operations in a few weeks.
On Tuesday, February 18, 1997, 6:30 p.m. CST, STS-82 MCC Status Report # 16 reports:
With an array of new instruments installed, the Hubble Space Telescope is ready to continue its 15-year mission to look deeply into the universe, once it is released from Space Shuttle Discovery later tonight.
Astronaut Steve Hawley will use the robot arm to once again grapple the telescope and lift it from its work platform. While it is still on the robot arm, controllers at the Goddard Space Flight Center will send commands to open the large aperture door at the end of the telescope. Hawley then will send the telescope back to work, releasing it at about 12:41 a.m. CST in a 335 by 321 nautical mile orbit. After the telescope is released, Commander Ken Bowersox will move Discovery slowly away from the observatory, being careful not to disturb the delicate solar arrays.
Hubble goes back to work with two new science instruments, updated guidance systems, a state of the art recorder and several new patches of thermal insulation. In all, 33 hours and 11 minutes were logged during the five spacewalks to service and refurbish Hubble. Calibration of the newly installed instruments and the resumption of scientific operations will begin over the next few weeks.
The crew began its ninth day of the mission to the wake-up music,."That Thing You Do," by the Wonders. Discovery's systems are still operating in excellent condition as it orbits the Earth every 90 minutes.
http://www.airforcemag.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/1991/October%201991/1091apache.aspx
Air Force Magazine
October 1991
Apache Attack
By Richard Mackenzie
The helicopters would open the war. They had to take out Iraq's early warning net, and they had to get it all.
At ten seconds before 2:38 in a moonless sky over Iraq, eight US AH-64 Apache helicopters zeroed in on their targets. On their forward-looking infrared screens appeared the images of two Iraqi radar sites just north of Saudi Arabia, placed there to detect intruding fighters. They were linked to four Iraqi fighter bases and to the Intelligence Operations Center in Baghdad.
The unseen Apaches hovered low, four miles south of the radars. At the controls of Number 976, 1st Lt. Tom Drew broke radio silence. "Party in ten," he said. On cue, ten seconds later, the helicopters unleashed a salvo of laser-guided Hellfire missiles. "This one's for you, Saddam ," muttered CW03 Dave Jones, the pilot of another Apache.
The shots, fired in the predawn hours of January 17, 1991, marked the start of Operation Desert Storm and were among the most critical of the war, blinding Iraq's early warning net at a key moment. US Central Command relied entirely on the Apaches and USAF special operations helicopters to do the job. "If something had happened and we didn't do 100 percent [destruction]," said one gunner, CW04 Lou Hall, "a lot of people were going to get hurt."
The Apaches did achieve 100 percent destruction, or close to it. Eyewitnesses report that, when the Hellfires hit the targets, the radar bases evaporated in clouds of smoke and flame. In the four and a half minutes it took to complete the task, the Apaches had, in the words of Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, "plucked out the eyes" of Iraq's Soviet-supplied air defenses.
IMDb
The Twilight Zone
Time Enough at Last (1959)
Quotes
Henry Bemis: And the best thing, the very best thing of all, is there's time now... there's all the time I need and all the time I want. Time, time, time. There's time enough at last.
[goes to pick up a book, but in doing so his glasses fall off and break. He slowly raises his glasses to his face, seeing they are completely broken]
Henry Bemis: That's not fair. That's not fair at all. There was time now. There was, was all the time I needed...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT_nvWreIhg
OneRepublic - Counting Stars
OneRepublic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting_Stars
Counting Stars
From Wikipedia
"Counting Stars" is a song by American pop rock band OneRepublic from their third studio album, Native (2013)
released as the album's second single on June 14, 2013.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 11:29 AM Pacific-timezone USA Tuesday 11/26/2024
