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From 1/18/1974 ( premiere US TV series "The Six Million Dollar Man" ) To 12/15/1993 is 7271 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/29/1985 ( premiere US TV series "MacGyver" ) is 7271 days
From 9/30/1935 ( Franklin Roosevelt - Address at the Dedication of Boulder Dam ) To 12/25/1991 ( as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) is 20540 days
20540 = 10270 + 10270
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/15/1993 is 10270 days
From 11/12/1963 ( John Kennedy - National Security Action Memorandum Number 271 ) To 12/25/1991 ( as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) is 10270 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/15/1993 is 10270 days
From 4/20/1964 ( Lyndon Johnson - Remarks at the Swearing In of Dr. W. Randolph Lovelace as Director of Space Medicine for the Manned Space flight ) To 12/15/1993 is 10831 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) 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 officer and United States STS-71 pilot astronaut ) is 10831 days
From 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash and the end of Kerry Burgess the natural human being cloned from another human being ) To 12/15/1993 is 1610 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 3/31/1970 ( Explorer 1 - the first United States satellite successfully launched by the United States into orbit of the planet Earth - reenters the Earths atmosphere ) is 1610 days
From 7/15/1946 ( Harry Truman - Statement by the President Following Approval of the Financial Agreement With Great Britain ) To 12/15/1993 is 17320 days
17320 = 8660 + 8660
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash and the end of Kerry Burgess the natural human being cloned from another human being ) is 8660 days
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The American Presidency Project
William J. Clinton
XLII President of the United States: 1993-2001
Letter Accepting the Resignation of Les Aspin as Secretary of Defense
December 15, 1993
Dear Les:
It is with deep sadness that I accept your request that, for personal reasons, you be relieved of your duties after your years of intense, unselfish and extraordinarily effective service to our nation and its security. I am grateful that you are prepared to remain at your post through January 20, or beyond if necessary, as we work through the immediate issues before us and as we manage a smooth transition to your successor.
I hope that after you have taken the break you have requested, you will consider other important assignments that you would find challenging and personally rewarding.
I am proud of your accomplishments over the past year, and you should be, as well. In the Congress, in the campaign and as Secretary of Defense, you have been an effective leader in efforts to harness together our defense strategy and defense resources, culminating in this year's Bottom Up Review. Together with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, you skillfully managed difficult issues—such as the military service of homosexuals and women in combat—that could have proved both deeply divisive and damaging to our military effectiveness and readiness. You helped conduct the first review of our nuclear posture since the end of the Cold War and advanced a new counter proliferation strategy. And you helped in the distinguished appointment of a new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General John Shalikashvili.
All of this took skill and hard work, and all Americans are in your debt for it.
I look forward to urging you once again to bring your great skills and deep devotion to your country's service.
With admiration,
BILL CLINTON
Dear Mr. President,
It has been one year since you asked me to serve as your Secretary of Defense. It has been an honor for me to work with you as we have reshaped our country's military to protect Americans in a vastly changed world.
I am proud of the progress we have made in dealing with these changes. We now have a clear strategic sense of the new dangers we now face. After a year's work we will be able to secure our country against these new dangers with a Bottom Up Force. By strategically defining the strengths we need and honestly projecting how much this force will cost, we have also built a new consensus to invest what is necessary to underwrite this Bottom Up Force. As a result we have moved for the first time in fifteen years away from the polarizing debates about how much we should spend on defense and worked together to build the military strengths we know we need. This has helped end the gridlock that for years kept us from governing and from concentrating on our agenda at home.
We have also worked together with our uniformed military leadership to find common ground on some difficult social issues that were avoided in the past and which could have divided our military. So we can now ensure that we will have a ready to fight force without the continuing distractions of these controversies.
As you know, dealing with these changes have made it a tough year for us all—tough issues, tough calls.
I share your pride in the progress we have made. But now, as we have discussed on previous occasions, I ask you to relieve me of the duty as your Secretary of Defense on January 20. I ask this for quite personal reasons. I have been working continually for over two decades to help build a strong American military. It's time now for me to take a break and undertake a new kind of work.
Of course, I pledge my every effort to support you and my successor in a smooth and orderly transition. You can continue to draw on one of the strongest and most talented senior management teams the Department of Defense has ever seen. Bill Perry and General Shali will give you a continuity of leadership as my successor works with the Senate to assume office.
Finally, I want to thank you for the honor of serving you and our country. You are a great Commander-In-Chief. I know that while you are our President our country will grow in all of its strengths, Americans will continue to be secure, our men and women in uniform will always be honored, and we will be true to our best values as a people.
Sincerely,
LES ASPIN
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William J. Clinton
XLII President of the United States: 1993-2001
Letter on the Swearing-In of John D. Holum as Director of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
December 15, 1993
Dear John:
I am delighted to extend my congratulations as you are sworn in as the Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.
There are few challenges more pressing today than arms control and nonproliferation. Already we have taken several steps to address these challenges. In the past year, we have submitted the Chemical Weapons Treaty to the Senate. We have ratified the Open Skies Treaty. We have advanced new proposals on a comprehensive test ban and the ABM Treaty, and have made substantial progress in the denuclearization of the States of the Former Soviet Union. We have elevated nonproliferation on the national agenda and with your leadership will be pursuing a range of measures such as focused regional strategies and comprehensive approaches to the dangers posed by fissile materials. These steps and others we will take together can make our people safer and our nation more secure.
Much remains to be done to meet these challenges. Under your guidance, ACDA will play a crucial role in advancing the full range of our arms control and nonproliferation agenda. I look forward to having the benefit of your counsel, your expertise and your leadership skills as we work together to ensure a safer world for generations to come.
Sincerely,
BILL CLINTON
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The American Presidency Project
William J. Clinton
XLII President of the United States: 1993-2001
Remarks on the Resignation of Les Aspin as Secretary of Defense
December 15, 1993
Ladies and gentlemen, it is with real sadness that today I accept Secretary Aspin's request to be relieved of his duties as Secretary of Defense for personal reasons. I am very grateful that he's agreed to remain at his post until January 20th, and beyond if necessary, so that we can plan together for the coming year and effect a smooth transition at the Pentagon.
Les has been a close adviser and a friend of mine for a long time. I have valued his wise counsel as a key member of our national security team. And I have told him that after he takes the break he's requested, I very much hope he will consider other assignments for this administration.
During a lifetime of public service in Congress, with our transition, and at the Pentagon, Les Aspin has made invaluable contributions to this Nation's defense and security. None of them have been more significant than his service as Secretary of Defense. Along with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he has provided solid leadership for our uniformed and civilian defense personnel during a period of transition that is historic and has at times been unsettling.
He helped launch creative policy responses to the fundamental changes of this era, from the dissolution of the Soviet empire to the growing challenges of ethnic conflict and weapons proliferation. And through it all, he has led with character, with intelligence, with wisdom, and the unflappable good humor that is both his trademark and his secret weapon.
One of his most important contributions in this past year has been his efforts to help our administration relate our defense strategy in this new era and our defense spending. Under his leadership, the Pentagon conducted the first comprehensive review of our forces since the end of the cold war. This now well-known, bottom-up review has provided our Nation with a profile of this era's threats and a vision of our force structure that will guide our Nation's military for many years to come.
He's provided steady leadership for the entire defense community as it has confronted the inevitable downsizing that accompanied the end of the cold war. He acted on the recommendations of the base closure commission in a way that demonstrated equity, responsibility, and a great concern for the communities and the families that were hit hard by the closure of our military facilities. And as we've reduced our force levels, he's been the first to voice concerns for the men and women in uniform who shoulder the burden of our national security.
His leadership has also been invaluable in helping our country to adapt to our military social changes. He led the way in our efforts to open the doors for women to serve our Nation in combat roles and helped to ensure more equitable rules toward homosexuals in our military. He's provided creative leadership as he's mobilized the Pentagon to develop new and stronger responses to the many security challenges of this new era, such as his new counterproliferation initiative. And on a range of tough decisions and tough challenges abroad, from Bosnia to Korea, he has called them as he saw them, bringing to bear a lifetime of experience and dedication and a razor-sharp mind to our Nation's security interest.
Above all, Secretary Aspin has provided deep strategic thinking and leadership at a time of profound change in this world. As a result, when our citizens go to bed tonight, we can do so secure in the knowledge that our Nation is building the right forces and acquiring the right capabilities for this new era.
I will always appreciate the thoughtful and dedicated and ultimately selfless service that Les Aspin provided to me and to this Nation over this last year. I asked a lot of him, tough times and tough problems. He gave even more to me, to our military, and to our country than was asked, and I will always be very, very grateful.
Thank you.
NOTE: The President spoke at 5:21 p.m. in the Oval Office at the White House.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
XXXII President of the United States: 1933-1945
155 - Address at the Dedication of Boulder Dam
September 30, 1935
Senator Pittman, Secretary Ickes, Governors of the Colorado's States, and you especially who have built Boulder Dam:
This morning I came, I saw and I was conquered, as everyone would be who sees for the first time this great feat of mankind.
Ten years ago the place where we are gathered was an unpeopled, forbidding desert. In the bottom of a gloomy canyon, whose precipitous walls rose to a height of more than a thousand feet, flowed a turbulent, dangerous river. The mountains on either side of the canyon were difficult of access with neither road nor trail, and their rocks were protected by neither trees nor grass from the blazing heat of the sun. The site of Boulder City was a cactus-covered waste. The transformation wrought here in these years is a twentieth-century marvel.
We are here to celebrate the completion of the greatest dam in the world, rising 726 feet above the bed-rock of the river and altering the geography of a whole region; we are here to see the creation of the largest artificial lake in the world—115 miles long, holding enough water, for example, to cover the State of Connecticut to a depth of ten feet; and we are here to see nearing completion a power house which will contain the largest generators and turbines yet installed in this country, machinery that can continuously supply nearly two million horsepower of electric energy.
All these dimensions are superlative. They represent and embody the accumulated engineering knowledge and experience of centuries; and when we behold them it is fitting that we pay tribute to the genius of their designers. We recognize also the energy, resourcefulness and zeal of the builders, who, under the greatest physical obstacles, have pushed this work forward to completion two years in advance of the contract requirements. But especially, we express our gratitude to the thousands of workers who gave brain and brawn to this great work of construction.
Beautiful and great as this structure is, it must also be considered in its relationship to the agricultural and industrial development and in its contribution to the health and comfort of the people of America who live in the Southwest.
To divert and distribute the waters of an arid region, so that there shall be security of rights and efficiency in service, is one of the greatest problems of law and of administration to be found in any Government. The farms, the cities, the people who live along the many thousands of miles of this river and its tributaries —all of them depend upon the conservation, the regulation, and the equitable division of its ever-changing water supply. What has been accomplished on the Colorado in working out such a scheme of distribution is inspiring to the whole country. Through the cooperation of the States whose people depend upon this river, and of the Federal Government which is concerned in the general welfare, there is being constructed' a system of distributive works and of laws and practices which will insure to the millions of people who now dwell in this basin, and the millions of others who will come to dwell here in future generations, a just, safe and permanent system of water rights. In devising these policies and the means for putting them into practice the Bureau of Reclamation of the Federal Government has taken, and is destined to take in the future, a leading and helpful part. The Bureau has been the instrument which gave effect to the legislation introduced in Congress by Senator Hiram Johnson and Congressman Phil Swing.
We know that, as an unregulated river, the Colorado added little of value to the region this dam serves. When in flood the river was a threatening torrent. In the dry months of the year it shrank to a trickling stream. For a generation the people of Imperial Valley had lived in the shadow of disaster from this river which provided their livelihood, and which is the foundation of their hopes for themselves and their children. Every spring they awaited with dread the coming of a flood, and at the end of nearly every summer they feared a shortage of water would destroy their crops.
The gates of these great diversion tunnels were closed here at Boulder Dam last February. In June a great flood came down the river. It came roaring down the canyons of the Colorado, through Grand Canyon, Iceberg and Boulder Canyons, but it was caught and safely held behind Boulder Dam.
Last year a drought of unprecedented severity was visited upon the West. The watershed of this Colorado River did not escape. In July the canals of the Imperial Valley went dry. Crop losses in that Valley alone totaled $10,000,000 that summer. Had Boulder Dam been completed one year earlier, this loss would have been prevented, because the spring flood would have been stored to furnish a steady water supply for the long dry summer and fall.
Across the San Jacinto Mountains southwest of Boulder Dam, the cities of Southern California are constructing an aqueduct to cost $220,000,000, which they have raised, for the purpose of carrying the regulated waters of the Colorado River to the Pacific Coast 259 miles away.
Across the desert and mountains to the west and south run great electric transmission lines by which factory motors, street and household lights and irrigation pumps will be operated in Southern Arizona and California. Part of this power will be used in pumping the water through the aqueduct to supplement the domestic supplies of Los Angeles and surrounding cities.
Navigation of the river from Boulder Dam to the Grand Canyon has been made possible, a 115-mile stretch that has been traversed less than half a dozen times in history. An immense new park has been created for the enjoyment of all our people.
At what cost was this done? Boulder Dam and the power houses together cost a total of $108,000,000, all of which will be repaid with interest in fifty years under the contracts for sale of the power. Under these contracts, already completed, not only will the cost be repaid, but the way is opened for the provision of needed light and power to the consumer at reduced rates. In the expenditure of the price of Boulder Dam during the depression years work was provided for 4,000 men, most of them heads of families, and many thousands more were enabled to earn a livelihood through manufacture of materials and machinery.
And this picture is true on different scales in regard to the thousands of projects undertaken by the Federal Government, by the States and by the counties and municipalities in recent years. The .overwhelming majority of them are of definite and permanent usefulness.
Throughout our national history we have had a great program of public improvements, and in these past two years all that we have done has been to accelerate that program. We know, too, that the reason for this speeding up was the need of giving relief to several million men and women whose earning capacity had been destroyed by the complexities and lack of thought of the economic system of the past generation.
No sensible person is foolish enough to draw hard and fast classifications as to usefulness or need. Obviously, for instance, this great Boulder Dam warrants universal approval because it will prevent floods and flood damage, because it will irrigate thousands of acres of tillable land and because it will generate electricity to turn the wheels of many factories and illuminate countless homes. But can we say that a five-foot brushwood dam across the head waters of an arroyo, and costing only a millionth part of Boulder Dam, is an undesirable project or a waste of money? Can we say that the great brick high school, costing $2,000,000, is a useful expenditure but that a little wooden school house project, costing five or ten thousand dollars, is a wasteful extravagance? Is it fair to approve a huge city boulevard and, at the same time, disapprove the improvement of a muddy farm-to-market road?
While we do all of this, we give actual work to the unemployed and at the same time we add to the wealth and assets of the Nation. These efforts meet with the approval of the people of the Nation.
In a little over two years this great national work has accomplished much. We have helped mankind by the works themselves and, at the same time, we have created the necessary purchasing power to throw in the clutch to start the wheels of what we call private industry. Such expenditures on all of these works, great and small, flow out to many beneficiaries; they revive other and more remote industries and businesses. Money is put in circulation. Credit is expanded and the financial and industrial mechanism of America is stimulated to more and more activity. Labor makes wealth. The use of materials makes wealth. To employ workers and materials when private employment has failed is to translate into great national possessions the energy that otherwise would be wasted. Boulder Dam is a splendid symbol of that principle. The mighty waters of the Colorado were running unused to the sea. Today we translate them into a great national possession.
I might go further and suggest to you that use begets use. Such works as this serve as a means of making useful other national possessions. Vast deposits of precious metals are scattered within a short distance of where we stand today. They await the development of cheap power.
These great Government power projects will affect not only the development of agriculture and industry and mining in the sections that they serve, but they will also prove useful yardsticks to measure the cost of power throughout the United States. It is my belief that the Government should proceed to lay down the first yardstick from this great power plant in the form of a State power line, assisted in its financing by the Government, and tapping the wonderful natural resources of Southern Nevada. Doubtless the same policy of financial assistance to State authorities can be followed in the development of Nevada's sister State, Arizona, on the other side of the River.
With it all, with work proceeding in every one of the more than three thousand counties m the United States, and of a vastly greater number of local divisions of Government, the actual credit of Government agencies is on a stronger and safer basis than at any time in the past six years. Many States have actually improved their financial position in the past two years. Municipal tax receipts are being paid when the taxes fall due, and tax arrearages are steadily declining.
It is a simple fact that Government spending is already beginning to show definite signs of its effect on consumer spending; that the putting of people to work by the Government has put other people to work through private employment, and that in two years and a half we have come to the point today where private industry must bear the principal responsibility of keeping the processes of greater employment moving forward with accelerated speed.
The people of the United States are proud of Boulder Dam. With the exception of the few who are narrow visioned, people everywhere on the Atlantic Seaboard, people in the Middle West and the Northwest, people in the South, must surely recognize that the national benefits which will be derived from the completion of this project will make themselves felt in every one of the forty-eight States. They know that poverty or distress in a community two thousand miles away may affect them, and equally that prosperity and higher standards of living across a whole continent will help them back home.
Today marks the official completion and dedication of Boulder Dam, the first of four great Government regional units. This is an engineering victory of the first order—another great achievement of American resourcefulness, American skill and determination.
That is why I have the right once more to congratulate you who have built Boulder Dam and on behalf of the Nation to say to you, "Well done."
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 12/03/08 6:05 PM
As I was walking back into the building from the grocery store, I was thinking about how that dialog in last night's "NCIS" episode about parallel parking could correspond to my dream about the shuttle landing, especially if that plot element of the car crash is about my experience in 1985 with almost getting shot down on 5/9/1985.
Also, on the way out, I was thinking that I landed on the surface of the planet Venus and that happened during one of the Skylab missions and was probably in 1974 as part of Skylab 4, as part of the test of the Orion ship, as I wrote about earlier. I was thinking again about that interesting "Six Million Dollar Man" episode where "Steve Austin" has to battle a robotic probe that was destined for the planet Venus but some kind of malfunction occurs and it is on the Earth causing mayhem and destruction.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 12/03/08 6:43 PM
From what I was thinking, the purpose of the flight to the planet Venus, in conjuction with the Skylab 4 flight, as I am thinking, was to test the aerobraking maneuver I would have to suceed at during the encounter with the planet Saturn in June 1976. One difference with the flight to Venus is that I could stay aboard the Orion ship, which was a scaled down version or something was not complete about it, I don't yet recall completely, as it encountered the atmosphere of the planet Venus. The reason I could not stay onboard the Orion ship during the planet Saturn encounter was because there was too much radiation from the planet for me to survive the encounter. So then I made a landing in the spacecraft I would use to transit the comet and if that ship could survive the crushing atmosphere of the planet Venus then that was another reassurance that it would endure the calamity of the atmosphere of the comet.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 12/03/08 6:50 PM
The planet Venus and the planet Earth would often make close approaches to each other over the decades and centuries and the Skylab 4 mission was at a time when Earth and Venus were relatively close to each other and from my initial calculation with Solar System Live, there might have been a closest-approach during that mission timeframe.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 12/03/08 6:52 PM
The distances are still to great though for me to have traveled there in the timeframe I am thinking of if I had relied only on chemical rockets for propulsion there and back and the thoughts persist that I made that transit back and forth with the nuclear pulse propulsion.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 12/03/08 6:54 PM
The Skylab 4 launch was 11/16/1973 and on that day:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Solar
Solar System: Fri 1973 Nov 16 12:00
Venus
Distance(AU)
0.645
Mars
Distance(AU)
0.513
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 12/03/08 6:57 PM
It looks as though Venus is catching up to Earth for its closet-approach by the time 1 month has elapsed since Skylab 4 launched.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Solar
Solar System: Sun 1973 Dec 16 12:00
Venus
Distance(AU)
0.426
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 12/03/08 6:59 PM
The two planets are even closer by the time of the 2/8/1974 splashdown of the Skylab 4 crew.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Solar
Solar System: Fri 1974 Feb 8 12:00
Venus
Distance(AU)
0.306
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 12/03/08 7:02 PM
by 2/18/1974, the distance seems to be opening and is listed as 0.357 AU.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 12/03/08 7:06 PM
The closest approach of the planet Venus and the planet Earth seems to be sometime during 1/20/1974 and 1/21/1974 as the website reports a distance of 0.269 AU for both days at 12:00 PM.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 12/03/08 7:08 PM
No, that's wrong. It's just about at closest-approach but the listing for 1/22/1974 and 1/23/1974 at 12:00 PM is 0.268 AU.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 12/03/08 7:10 PM
It's back to 0.269 AU by 1/24/1976 at 12:00 PM.
There is also a factor that I think is refered to as precession that factors in when searching for closest approach. It is something about how a rotating object that is attached to something else will wobble as it rotates.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 12/03/08 7:14 PM
http://www.onlineconversion.com/length_all.htm
Welcome to OnlineConversion.com
All Length and Distance Conversions
0.268 astronomical unit = 24 912 106.523 mile [survey, US]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 12/03/08 7:16 PM
So I guess that means if you weighed 100 pounds on the planet Earth, then you would feel as though you weighed 9200 pounds on the planet Venus.
Not sure if that is how it is figured and that if the conversion is a direct conversion and in terms of atmospheric pressure, as opposed to gravity, it is something similar to a wind chill type of calculation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus
Venus
Venus is the second-closest planet to the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. The planet is named after Venus, the Roman goddess of love. It is the brightest natural object in the night sky, except for the Moon, reaching an apparent magnitude of −4.6. Because Venus is an inferior planet from Earth, it never appears to venture far from the Sun: its elongation reaches a maximum of 47.8°. Venus reaches its maximum brightness shortly before sunrise or shortly after sunset, for which reason it is often called the Morning Star or the Evening Star.
Classified as a terrestrial planet, it is sometimes called Earth's "sister planet," because the two are similar in size, gravity, and bulk composition. Venus is covered with an opaque layer of highly reflective clouds of sulfuric acid, preventing its surface from being seen from space in visible light; this was a subject of great speculation until some of its secrets were revealed by planetary science in the twentieth century. Venus has the densest atmosphere of all the terrestrial planets, consisting mostly of carbon dioxide, as it has no carbon cycle to lock carbon back into rocks and surface features, nor organic life to absorb it in biomass. It has become so hot that the earth-like oceans that the young Venus is believed to have possessed have totally evaporated, leaving a dusty dry desertscape with many slab-like rocks. The best hypothesis is that the evaporated water has dissociated, and with the lack of a planetary magnetic field, the hydrogen has been swept into interplanetary space by the solar wind. The atmospheric pressure at the planet's surface is 92 times that of the Earth.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 12/03/08 7:26 PM
Or hell, maybe my flight to the planet Venus was not even during the Skylab flights and was in between or even after.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 12/03/08 7:29 PM
Maybe I left Earth by myself before Skylab 3 launched but then I linked up with Skylab 3 in orbit and returned to Earth with them.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 03 December 2008 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 12/16/08 2:36 PM
The thoughts occur to me again that my flight to the planet Venus is encoded in the dates associated with "The Six Million Dollar Man" television program.
As I was thinking about it just now, I pondered over the dates of 3/7/1973 and 1/18/1974, which are the premiere dates of the pilot episode and then the premiere of the regular television series.
the period of 3/7/1973 to 1/18/1974 is 317 days and so 317 days before 3/7/1973 was 4/24/1976.
That date was during the Apollo 16 mission to the Moon and I pondered over how my flight to Venus could have occured in conjunction with that flight and that is specifically why the Apollo 16 lunar lander has the callsign of Orion.
The lunar lander landed on the Moon on 4/21/1972 UT but there is a date listed for 4/24/1972 as when the Apollo 16 command module, Caspar, launched a subsatellite that orbited the Moon for 34 days.
I have been thinking that is the date I returned from the surface of the Moon and then launched in my Orion ship for the planet Venus and I was in space on that flight for over 6 months. I made one landing on the surface, or maybe more than one, and I brought back stuff I retrieved from the surface.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 12/16/08 4:03 PM
The date 12/15/1973 has some interesting possibilities as I compare it with the 5/4/1989, or 5/5/1989 as I computed earlier, launch date of the Magellan probe and with the Gemini 12 flight.
But yet, I don't know. I started thinking just as I started writing this that my first landing on the planet Venus was in early 1974 and possibly in January.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 12/16/08 4:05 PM
Now I am wondering if I timed the premiere of the regular series of "The Six Million Dollar Man" to coincide with my first landing on the planet Venus on 1/18/1974.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 12/16/08 4:08 PM
The Magellan probe might actually encode my first landing on the planet Venus and then the day I returned to the planet Earth from that flight. The period of 1/18/1974 to 5/4/1989 equals 3/3/1959 to 6/7/1974.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 12/16/08 4:22 PM
from 1/18/1974 to the 6/2/1978 premiere of "Capricorn One" equals 3/3/1959 to 7/16/1963
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 12/16/08 4:30 PM
From 1/18/1974 ( my first landing on planet venus and my documented and lawful exclusive claim to the territory of planet Venus ) To 6/2/1978 ( premiere US film "Capricorn One" ) is 1596 days
From 3/3/1959 ( my birth date US ) To 7/16/1963 ( my wife ) is 1596 days
From 4/14/1977 ( I returned to Earth after successfully diverting the comet in the outer solar system ) to 6/2/1978 ( premiere US film "Capricorn One" ) is: 414 days
From 6/2/1978 ( premiere US film "Capricorn One" ) To 7/21/1979 ( my wife Phoebe and I are married ) is 414 days
From 10/9/1971 ( I am board-certified surgeon as Dr. Thomas Reagan M.D. ) to 6/2/1978 ( premiere US film "Capricorn One" ) is: 2428 days
2428 = 1214 + 1214
From 7/16/1963 ( my wife ) to 11/11/1966 ( I was Gemini 12 spacecraft astronaut ) is: 1214 days
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077294/
Capricorn One (1978)
Release Date: 2 June 1978 (USA)
James Brolin ... Col. Charles Brubaker
Brenda Vaccaro ... Kay Brubaker
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 12/16/08 4:46 PM
From 1/18/1974 ( my first landing on planet venus and my documented and lawful exclusive claim to the territory of planet Venus ) To 1/11/1979 ( premiere UK film "Capricorn One" ) is 3 days, 3 weeks, 59 months
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Pilot Movie 1: The Six Million Dollar Man - DVD video
07 March 1973
00:02:25
Dr. Rudy Wells: Hey, Steve. You got a positive genius for antagonizing the wrong people.
Colonel Steve Austin: I know. It's the story of my life.
http://www.tv.com/shows/macgyver/pilot-47204/
tv.com
MacGyver Season 1 Episode 1
Pilot
Aired Sunday 9:00 PM Sep 29, 1985 on ABC
AIRED: 9/29/85
https://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/qVncp893wEmJFplIn1AlHA.aspx
JOHN F. KENNEDY PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY & MUSEUM
National Security Action Memorandum Number 271
National Security Action Memorandum Number 271: Cooperation with the USSR on the Outer Space Matters, November 12, 1963
Date: 11/12/1963
https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v25/d410
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Office of The Historian
FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1961–1963, VOLUME XXV, ORGANIZATION OF FOREIGN POLICY; INFORMATION POLICY; UNITED NATIONS; SCIENTIFIC MATTERS
410. National Security Action Memorandum No. 2711
Washington, November 12, 1963.
MEMORANDUM FOR
The Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
SUBJECT
Cooperation with the USSR on Outer Space Matters
I would like you to assume personally the initiative and central responsibility within the Government for the development of a program of substantive cooperation with the Soviet Union in the field of outer space, including the development of specific technical proposals. I assume that you will work closely with the Department of State and other agencies as appropriate.
These proposals should be developed with a view to their possible discussion with the Soviet Union as a direct outcome of my September 20 proposal for broader cooperation between the United States and the USSR in outer space, including cooperation in lunar landing programs. All proposals or suggestions originating within the Government relating to this general subject will be referred to you for your consideration and evaluation.
In addition to developing substantive proposals, I expect that you will assist the Secretary of State in exploring problems of procedure and timing connected with holding discussions with the Soviet Union and in proposing for my consideration the channels which would be most desirable from our point of view. In this connection the channel of contact developed by Dr. Dryden between NASA and the Soviet Academy of Sciences has been quite effective, and I believe that we should continue to utilize it as appropriate as a means of continuing the dialogue between the scientists of both countries.
I would like an interim report on the progress of our planning by December 15.
John F. Kennedy
http://www.azlyrics.com/p/pinkfloyd.html
AZ
PINK FLOYD
album: "The Dark Side Of The Moon" (1973)
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/pinkfloyd/braindamage.html
AZ
PINK FLOYD
"Brain Damage"
The lunatic is on the grass
The lunatic is on the grass
Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs
Got to keep the loonies on the path
The lunatic is in the hall
The lunatics are in my hall
The paper holds their folded faces to the floor
And every day the paper boy brings more
And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
And if there is no room upon the hill
And if your head explodes with dark forbodings too
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon
The lunatic is in my head
The lunatic is in my head
You raise the blade, you make the change
You re-arrange me 'till I'm sane
You lock the door
And throw away the key
There's someone in my head but it's not me.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 7:16 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Saturday 13 May 2017
