by me, Kerry Burgess, 01/17/2026 06:07 AM
NASA scumbags.
"Blow me up!" said the Iran military leader, circa 1988
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/nasas-moon-rocket-heads-pad-121238857.html
Associated Press
NASA's new moon rocket heads to the pad ahead of astronaut launch as early as February
MARCIA DUNN
Sat, January 17, 2026 at 4:12 AM PST 2 min read
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s giant new moon rocket headed to the launch pad Saturday
The 322-foot (98-meter) rocket began its 1 mph (1.6 kph) creep from Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building at daybreak. The four-mile (six-kilometer) trek could take until nightfall.
From 9/24/1990 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek: The Next Generation"::"The Best of Both Worlds - Part Two" ) To 1/17/2026 ( Saturday ) is 12899 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/25/2001 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Simpsons"::"New Kids on the Blecch" ) is 12899 days
From 1/20/2017 ( ) To 1/17/2026 ( ) is 3284 days
3284 = 1642 + 1642
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/2/1970 ( ) is 1642 days
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1970/05/02
Stargate (1994)
(from internet transcript)
MYERS
Except there's only six symbols in the cartouche.
DANIEL
Well, the seventh actually isn't inside the cartouche, it's just below it, here designated by a little pyramid with two funny neat little guys and funny little line coming out of the top.
[He circles an upside down v that has a symbol above its apex and two human-like figures on each side of the "v" shape and then proceeds to draw it again roughly on the wall next to his chart while he talks. When finished, he laughs at his bad drawing. No one else laughs.]
DANIEL
Anyway...
CATHERINE
He did it.
From 4/18/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2), from my official enlisted US Navy records: during USA Armed Forces Expeditionary Operation Earnest Will with my personal participation and commendation - CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex (operator and advanced technician, UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance) - aboard the USS Wainwright CG-28 US Navy the United States Operation Praying Mantis ) To 1/17/2026 ( ) is 13788 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/3/2003 ( premiere USA TV series episode "War Stories with Oliver North"::"The Life and Times of General Douglas MacArthur" ) is 13788 days
From 4/25/1899 ( ) To 9/25/2019 ( ) is 43982 days
43982 = 21991 + 21991
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/17/2026 ( ) is 21991 days
https://papersofprinceton.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=Princetonian18990425-01.1.2&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------
The Washington Post
Corregidor and the Remembrances of War
By Gregg Jones
On the night of March 12, 1942, MacArthur, his family and some staff officers made their way to Corregidor's dock and boarded four PT boats. MacArthur, under direct orders from President Roosevelt, made his way to Darwin, Australia, where he issued his famous pledge, "I shall return."
MacArthur had designated Gen. Jonathan Wainwright as commander of Corregidor and left him with two jars of shaving cream, a box of cigars and the words, "If I get to Australia you know I'll come back as soon as I can with as much as I can. In the meantime, you've got to hold."
But Corregidor and the peninsula were taking a pounding from Japanese bombers and shore guns. When the defenders on Bataan surrendered on April 9, 1942, the Japanese expected Corregidor to follow because the island relied on daily provision barges from the peninsula.
For 27 days, a devastating rain of shells pounded much of the island into rubble. Most of the 10,000 defenders crammed into the overcrowded, fetid Malinta Tunnel. One by one, the American guns were put out of action. A quarter of the 4,000 troops assigned to defend the beaches were killed or wounded by the shelling.
Finally, Wainwright cabled Roosevelt: "With broken heart and head bowed in sadness but not in shame . . . I must arrange terms for the surrender . . . There is a limit of human endurance and that limit has long been passed." On May 6, 1942, Corregidor surrendered.
https://www.onthisday.com/photos/i-shall-return
Historical Context
"I came through and I shall return," those were the famous words announced by General Douglas MacArthur on March 20, 1942, as he arrived in Australia, following an audacious escape from Japanese-occupied Philippines. Their island in the Philippines - which had been an American territory until the Japanese occupation - had been surrounded by the Japanese. MacArthur's defense and escape captured the imagination of Americans back home and he became a symbol of resistance.
His escape from near certain capture was welcomed by most, though Joseph Goebbels named him the "fleeing general" and Benito Mussolini called him a coward. Nevertheless MacArthur promised to return, and after being awarded the Medal of Honor was put in charge of all American activities in the South West Pacific.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 07:05 AM Pacific-timezone USA Saturday 01/17/2026
