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Star Trek - "Metamorphosis" - tv series Season 2 Episode 9 - 11/10/1967

(from internet transcript)

Zefram COCHRANE: Look, I'll tell you everything you want to know, but not here. Your ship is sure a beauty.

KIRK: Yes, she is. And you've been out of circulation quite a while. The principles may be new to you. Mister Spock, why don't you explain our methods of propulsion to Mister Cochrane?









KIRK: What about you, Cochrane? How did you get here?

Zefram COCHRANE: Marooned, I told you. Look, we'll have lots of time to learn about each other. I have a small place over that way. All the comforts of home.









Zefram COCHRANE: There's nothing to explain.

(He hands a drink to Nancy.)

NANCY: Thank you.

KIRK: You'll find I have a very low tolerance level where the safety of my people are concerned. We find you out here, where no human has any business being. We were virtually hijacked in space and brought here. Now I'm not just requesting an explanation, Mister. I'm demanding one.










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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devils_Tower

Devils Tower

Coordinates: 44°35′26″N 104°42′55″W

From Wikipedia

Devils Tower (also known as Matȟó Thípila or Bear Lodge) is a laccolithic butte, composed of igneous rock in the Bear Lodge Ranger District of the Black Hills, near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. It rises 1,267 feet (386 m) above the Belle Fourche River, standing 867 ft (264 m) from summit to base. The summit is 5,112 ft (1,558 m) above sea level.

Devils Tower National Monument was the first United States national monument, established on September 24, 1906, by President Theodore Roosevelt.









From 9/24/1906 ( ) To 10/1/1908 ( ) is 738 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/10/1967 ( ) is 738 days









Star Trek

"Metamorphosis"

Season 2 Episode 9

Aired Nov 10, 1967

When their shuttle is diverted to a planetoid, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy encounter Earth's Warp Drive pioneer, Zefram Cochrane, who appears to have survived there alone for 150 years.









Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

(from internet transcript)

[Montana settlement]

LILY: You're gonna regret this tomorrow.

Doctor Zefram COCHRANE: One of the things you should have learned about me by now is that I don't have regrets. ...Come on, Lily, one more round.










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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Model_T










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https://corporate.ford.com/articles/history/the-model-t/

The Model T was first tested by Henry Ford himself

After the test of his own product, the vehicle was shipped to its first customer on October 1, 1908.










DSCN4640 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
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From 10/15/1943 ( ) To 11/10/1967 ( ) is 8792 days

8792 = 4396 + 4396

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/15/1977 ( ) is 4396 days



From 11/2/1954 ( ) To 11/15/1966 ( ) is 4396 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/15/1977 ( ) is 4396 days



https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075860/releaseinfo/

IMDb

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Release info

United States November 15, 1977 (New York City, New York, premiere)

Richard Dreyfuss as Roy Neary









Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Jillian Guiler: Barry!










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https://papersofprinceton.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=Princetonian19431015-01.1.1&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN--------









IMDb

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Quotes

[a farmer is one of several people, including Roy and Jillian, who witnesses three UFOs flying over an Indiana road]

Farmer: They can fly rings around the moon. But we're *years* ahead of them on the highway.









To 11/15/1977 ( premiere USA film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" ) From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) is 4396 days

8792 = 4396 + 4396

From 11/26/1976 ( desperate for oxygen replenishment from loss due to accident months earlier, my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in solar system deep space in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship this day makes his first landing the Jupiter moon Callisto - from his successful strike 145 days earlier in the outer solar system beyond planet Saturn to divert comet nicknamed "Lucifer", threatening the existence by death and destruction of all life on this planet Earth ) To 12/22/2000 ( ) is 8792 days









To 4/14/1977 ( departed this planet Earth on 11/02/1975, my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in his privately financed nuclear-pulse propulsion spaceship returned to the planet Earth from solar system deep space from his successful strike in the outer solar system beyond Saturn to divert comet nicknamed "Lucifer", threatening the existence of all life on this planet Earth ) From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) is 4181 days

8362 = 4181 + 4181

From 1/30/1978 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Six Million Dollar Man"::"The Lost Island" ) To 12/22/2000 ( ) is 8362 days









From 12/7/1998 ( as Kerry Burgess my first day as full-time employee of Microsoft Corporation in Seattle until 02/06/2004, employed as technical accounts manager in Microsoft Premier Support for Enterprise and then Microsoft Premier Support for Developers - title: Applications Development Consultant ) To 12/22/2000 ( ) is 746 days

746 = 373 + 373

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/10/1966 ( ) is 373 days









Google

The movie Cast Away premiered in the United States on December 7, 2000, and was widely released in theaters on December 22, 2000.



https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162222/releaseinfo/

IMDb

Cast Away

Release info

United States December 22, 2000









IMDb

Cast Away (2000)

Quotes

Chuck Noland: I know what I have to do now. I've got to keep breathing









From 3/3/1959 ( ) to 12/7/1998 ( ) is 14524 days

14524 = 7262 + 7262

From 7/16/1963 ( ) to 6/3/1983 ( premiere USA film "WarGames" ) is 7262 days









https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrity_v._New_Jersey

Garrity v. New Jersey

From Wikipedia

Supreme Court of the United States

Argued November 10, 1966

Decided January 16, 1967

Garrity v. New Jersey, 385 U.S. 493 (1967), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that law enforcement officers and other public employees have the right to be free from compulsory self-incrimination. It gave birth to the Garrity warning, which is administered by investigators to suspects in internal and administrative investigations in a similar manner as the Miranda warning is administered to suspects in criminal investigations.










cast-away-2000_01h-10m-22 - Cast Away (2000)
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- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 1:41 PM Pacific-timezone USA Monday 08/31/2026