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https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/existing-nasa-spacecraft-could-intercept-182148643.html
Existing NASA Spacecraft Could Intercept the Weird Interstellar Object Cruising Into Our Star System
Victor Tangermann
Wed, July 30, 2025 at 11:21 AM PDT
In a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper, the researcher argued that NASA's Juno spacecraft, which was designed to study Jupiter and launched in 2011, could get eerily close to 3I/ATLAS by March 14, 2026.
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
2X12 - RESURRECTION SHIP (2)
Original Airdate (SciFi): 13-JAN-2006
(from internet transcript)
Fisk: Specialist Gage, let me ask you something. Those men in there, are they wearing Colonial uniforms?
Gage: Yes, sir.
Fisk: Specialist Vireem, do you agree with Specialist Gage here that those are, in fact, Colonial officers?
Vireem: Yes, sir. They killed lieutenant--
Fisk: Shut your frakkin' mouth! You see, I don't quite understand what I just saw because I think I saw you two knuckledraggers treating those men like they were Cylons, which, of course, couldn't be right because if, in fact, that was the case, then you're both subject to charges of assaulting a chief and a lieutenant under color of authority in a time of war. Which, if I'm not mistaken, carries a penalty on this ship that is quite severe.
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
2X10 - PEGASUS
Original Airdate (SciFi): 16-SEP-05
(from internet transcript)
Galactica - Toolroom
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Gage: Think Thorne'll give us a chance at this one too?
Vireem: Nah, I heard him say he's going to have to break her in a little first.
Helo moves toward Vireem aggressively. Tyrol stops him
Tyrol: Whoa, whoa, whoa. No, no, no, not here, not here, not here.
Helo: Who the hell's this Thorne?
Gage: Lieutenant Thorne, sir, cylon interrogator. Rides 'em hard and keeps 'em talkin'.
Vireem: Your little robot girl is in for quite a ride. [Laughs] Yee-ha!
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The Postman (1997)
Quotes
General Bethlehem: Law one. You will obey orders without question. Law two: Punishment shall be swift. Law three: Mercy is for the weak. Four: Terror will defeat reason. Five: Your allegiance is to the clan. Six: Justice can be dictated. Seven: Any clansman may challenge for leadership of the clan.
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journals:
10/23/07 9:53 AM
A Steve Ballmer look-alike in a U.S. Postal Service uniform passed in front of me at 4th and Union this morning as I was outbound.
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journals:
10/23/07 7:31 PM
From 5/7/1976 (Michael Murphy) to 12/7/1998 (my special operation) is: 8249 days
From 7/16/1963 to 2/14/1986 is: 8249 days
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_P._Murphy
Michael Patrick Murphy (May 7, 1976 June 28, 2005) was a United States Navy SEAL posthumously awarded the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions during the current War in Afghanistan. He was the first person to be awarded the medal for actions in Afghanistan; and the first member of the U.S. Navy to receive the award since the Vietnam War.
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The Delta Force
Release info
United States February 14, 1986
Cast
Chuck Norris as Scott
Maj. Scott McCoy: Better hurry, Nick... I think there's gonna be reinforcements on the way.
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journals:
11/19/07 9:39 PM
I have been wondering if Comet Holmes is either photos from 1976 and you can't actually see it in the night sky as it is being reported, or it is a test mission where someone fired up my Orion ship and blew up another comet.
From 12/12/1997 ( premiere USA film "The Postman" ) To 10/23/2007 ( ) is 3602 days
3602 = 1801 + 1801
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/8/1970 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: Frisbee Fans Flying Saucer Fanatics Tell Why They Can't Resist The Urge To Hip Those Plastic Platters ) is 1801 days
From 8/4/1943 ( ) To 10/23/2007 ( ) is 23456 days
23456 = 11728 + 11728
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/12/1997 ( premiere USA film "The Postman" ) is 11728 days
From 7/4/1976 ( at extreme personal risk to himself my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship successfully intercepts the comet nicknamed "Lucifer" - threatening extinction by death and destruction of all life on this planet Earth - in the outer solar system beyond planet Saturn and diverts it away from our planet Earth ) To 10/23/2007 ( ) is 11433 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/20/1997 ( NASA STS-82 astronaut press conference ) is 11433 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 10/23/2007 ( ) is 5640 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/12/1981 ( my biological brother US Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan was the commander aboard the United States STS-1 Columbia spacecraft ) is 5640 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 10/23/2007 ( ) is 5640 days
5640 = 2820 + 2820
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/23/1973 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the 1969 medical-doctor graduate of Princeton University and the 1973 law-doctorate graduate of University of Oxford, England, passes the United States of America Multistate Bar Examination ) is 2820 days
From 2/6/2004 ( as Kerry Burgess my final day as full-time employee of Microsoft Corporation in Seattle beginning 12/07/1998 as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and the deputy director of the United States Marshals Service and the United States Marine Corps brigadier general circa 2004 ) To 10/23/2007 ( ) is 1355 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/19/1969 ( from UPI: Moon walk up to Armstrong ; Apollo 11 dropped into orbit around the moon today ) is 1355 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Holmes
Comet Holmes
Comet Holmes (official designation: 17P/Holmes) is a periodic comet in the Solar System, discovered by the British amateur astronomer Edwin Holmes on November 6, 1892. Although normally a very faint object, Holmes became notable during its October 2007 return when it temporarily brightened by a factor of a million, in what was the largest known outburst by a comet, and became visible to the naked eye. It also briefly became the largest object in the Solar System
During its 2007 return, Holmes unexpectedly brightened from a magnitude of about 17 to about 2.8 in a period of only 42 hours, making it visible to the naked eye. This represents a change of brightness by a factor of a million and is the largest known outburst by a comet thus far. The outburst took place from October 23 to 24, 2007.
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Existing NASA Spacecraft Could Intercept the Weird Interstellar Object Cruising Into Our Star System
Victor Tangermann
Wed, July 30, 2025 at 11:21 AM PDT
Earlier this month, astronomers noticed a mysterious object speeding toward the inner solar system from outside of our star system.
It's an exceedingly rare occurrence, marking only the third confirmed interstellar object to have ventured into our solar system, all of which have been detected since 2017.
Harvard astronomer and alien hunter Avi Loeb was quick to raise the tantalizing — albeit admittedly far-fetched — possibility that the object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, could have been an alien probe sent to us by an intelligent civilization.
And now, in a twist right out of Stanley Kubrick's 1968 "2001: A Space Odyssey," he's suggesting a way that we could use an existing spacecraft to intercept the object's path to test that very hypothesis.
In a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper, the researcher argued that NASA's Juno spacecraft, which was designed to study Jupiter and launched in 2011, could get eerily close to 3I/ATLAS by March 14, 2026.
Juno would have to apply a thrust of 1.66 miles per second on September 14, 2025, Loeb calculated, to intercept the mysterious object's path.
"The close encounter of 3I/ATLAS to Jupiter provides a rare opportunity to shift Juno from its current orbit around Jupiter to intercept the path of 3I/ATLAS at its closest approach to Jupiter," he wrote in a new blog post about the proposal.
While it's technically not a rendezvous — the object's "excessively high hyperbolic speed" wouldn't allow for such a meeting — Juno's arsenal of scientific instruments "can all be used to probe the nature of 3I/ATLAS from a close distance," Loeb argued.
Whether the spacecraft, which has been soaring through space for 14 years now, would have enough fuel to even pull off such a stunt remains unclear.
But Loeb argues it could "rejuvenate Juno’s mission and extend its scientific lifespan beyond" the potential intercept some eight months from now.
The news comes as scientists are still racing to get a better sense of 3I/ATLAS' exact nature. Last week, the recently inaugurated Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile had a closer look, finding that the object is roughly seven miles wide, making it the largest interstellar object ever spotted.
The prevailing and most widely accepted theory suggests that 3I/ATLAS is a comet, with previous observations supporting the idea that its coma, or surrounding cloud of ice, dust, and gas, was anywhere up to 15 miles across.
The Vera C. Rubin observations identified large amounts of dust and water ice surrounding its solid nucleus, as detailed in a July 17 preprint, further adding evidence that it's a comet.
Yet many questions surrounding its origin remain a mystery. Some researchers believe it came from our galaxy's "thick disk," a dense layer that features chemically distinct populations of stars.
Other researchers suggest it could be around three to 11 billion years old, dating it back to the earliest days of the Milky Way.
It seems unlikely that NASA will find Loeb's suggestion compelling enough to fire up Juno's thrusters for an intercept. But it's an extremely rare opportunity to finally get a close glimpse of an interstellar visitor nonetheless — so hopefully they're at least checking his math to see if it's possible.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 12:52 PM Pacific-timezone USA Thursday 07/31/2025
