My wife also likes to wake me up in the middle of my sleep at night

That day 7/2/1976 is the date I recognize when I arrived at the comet in the outer solar system, which I then exploded by remote detonation on 7/4/1976.

From 4/12/1967 to 3/16/1993 is: 9470 days
9470 / 2 = 4735
From 7/16/1963 to 7/2/1976 is: 4735 days

Commissioned: 12 April 1967
Decommissioned: 16 March 1993

USS Ray (SSN-653), a Sturgeon-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the ray, a fish characterized by a flat body, large pectoral fins, and a whiplike tail.


The timeline of that mission to the outer solar system:

11/2/1975 - launch from Earth

1/21/1976 - first landing on the planet Mars

1/23/1976 - launched from the planet Mars for deep space

unknown - catastrophic loss of oxygen supply from meteroid damage to ship

6/7/1976 - landed on the moon Phoebe at Saturn

6/9/1976 - launched from the Saturn moon Phoebe to intercept the comet above the elliptic

7/2/1976 - intercepted the comet and began operations to plant bombs to destroy comet

7/4/1976 - remote detonation of thermonuclear bombs which split the comet into fragments

11/26/1976 - landed on the Jupiter moon Callisto and discovered water ice to use for oxygen

11/29/1976 - launched from the Jupiter moon Callisto to return to Earth

4/14/1977 - return to Earth




From 7/16/1963 to 7/3/1965 is: 718 days
718 / 2 = 359

Connie Inge-Lise Nielsen (born July 3, 1965) is a Danish actress.
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In 2000 she became known to worldwide audiences as Lucilla in Ridley Scott's internationally acclaimed Academy Award-winning epic Gladiator, where she starred opposite Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix. She has since then starred in some notable American films, including Mission to Mars (2000), One Hour Photo (2002),




Panoramic photo taken by Spirit Rover on January 1, 2006 from Gusev Crater, looking up a slope and across rippled sand deposits in a dark field dubbed "El Dorado".













This is the operation I recognize that broke me out of the Libyan prisoner where I was a POW in 1986. I ran out into the desert and lived off the land for over a year until I made it back to the U.S. Navy on 5/13/1987.

The United States bombing of Libya (code-named Operation El Dorado Canyon) comprised the joint United States Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps air-strikes against Libya on April 15, 1986.



Memorable quotes for
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)
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Kirk: [responds to a tapping within the wall] What's that noise?

Spock: [tapping continues] I believe it is a primitive form of communication known as morse Code.

Kirk: You're right. I'm out of practice. [tapping]

Kirk: That's an "S".

Spock: "T".

Kirk: "A"...”N"...”D", end of word.

McCoy: "Stand".

Kirk: New word...”B"...”A"...

Spock: "C"...”K".

McCoy: "Back". "Stand back".

Kirk, Spock, McCoy: "Stand back"? [the wall explodes]

Scotty: [on the other side of the wall] What are you standing around for? Do you not know a jailbreak when you see one?



MER-A (Mars Exploration Rover - A), known as Spirit, is the first of the two rovers of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Mission. It landed successfully on Mars on 04:35 Ground UTC on January 4, 2004, three weeks before its twin Opportunity (MER-B) had landed on the other side of the planet. Its name was chosen through a NASA-sponsored student essay competition.

The rover has continued to function effectively over ten times longer than NASA planners expected, allowing it to perform extensive geological analysis of Martian rocks and planetary surface features; as of 2007 its mission is ongoing. An archive of approximately weekly updates on its status can be found at the NASA/JPL website.
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On 2004 January 21 (Sol 18), Spirit abruptly ceased communicating with mission control. The next day the rover radioed a 7.8 bit/s beep, confirming that it had received a transmission from Earth but indicating that the spacecraft believed it was in a fault mode. Commands would only be responded to intermittently. This was described as a very serious anomaly, but potentially recoverable if it were a software or memory corruption issue rather than a serious hardware failure. Spirit was commanded to transmit engineering data, and on January 23 sent several short low-bitrate messages before finally transmitting 73 megabits via X band to Mars Odyssey. The readings from the engineering data suggested that the rover was not staying in sleep mode. As such, it was wasting its battery power and overheating — risk factors that could potentially destroy the rover if not fixed soon. On Sol 20, the command team sent it the command SHUTDWN_DMT_TIL ("Shutdown Dammit Until ") to try to cause it to suspend itself until a given time. It seemingly ignored the command.

The leading theory at the time was that the rover was stuck in a "reboot loop". The rover is programmed to reboot if there's a fault aboard itself. However, if there is a fault that occurs during reboot, it could potentially reboot forever. The fact that the problem persisted through reboot suggested that the error was not in RAM, but in either the flash memory, the EEPROM, or a hardware fault. The last case would likely mean the doom of the rover. Anticipating the potential for errors in the flash memory and EEPROM, the designers had made it so that the rover could be booted without ever touching the flash memory. The radio itself could decode a limited commandset — enough to tell the rover to reboot without using flash. Without access to flash memory, Spirit booted fine, and the reboot cycle was broken.

On January 24 the rover repair team announced that the problem was with Spirit's flash memory and the software that wrote to it. The flash hardware was believed to be working correctly but the file management module in the software was "not robust enough" for the operations the Spirit was engaged in when the problem occurred, indicating that the problem was caused by a software bug as opposed to faulty hardware. NASA engineers finally came to the conclusion that there were too many files on the file system, which was a relatively minor problem. Most of these files contained unneeded in-flight data. After realizing what the problem was, the engineers deleted some files, and eventually reformatted the entire flash memory system. On February 6 (Sol 33), the rover was restored to its original working condition, and science activities resumed.[5]