As I was writing earlier, I have been at this process for a very, very long time.
I broke this news when I began making public posts in my blog in the year 2005.
But I can recall clearly that I was working the same process before then. I mean, even when I was at my apartment at night in Redmond back in 2003 and 2004. I was aware. I have no memory of this code pattern until the year 2006. In my journal in May 2006 is the first documented example of the code pattern I created from pure creative thoughts in my own mind. But I had been keeping track of my observations for years before that. The same sort of observations I make now. Just nothing with the code pattern until the year 2006.
This evening I have been thinking again about the year 1989 and my memories of that year. I started that exercise a long time ago thinking - hoping - that if I concentrated enough, but not too much, on my memories of the past then maybe some of the actual memories of the fantastic details would surface, instead of the vague details that match the facts I seem to know.
One experience I've written about was the night before we on the USS Wainwright left port in Charleston, South Carolina, for a deployment to the Mediterranean, a typical activity of the United States Navy to keep in line the Soviets.
So that must have been 11 October 1989. Because I know the ship left port on 12 October 1989. Jim Shea was out of the Navy at that point, having refused to serve his total obligated enlistment for his occupational rating, the same as mine. So he was discharged from the United States Navy before I was although he still had something like 2 years more he was supposed to serve. My six-years was almost up and I was spending the last of it overseas. That last night in Charleston, what must have been the 11th, I was downtown at my favorite night-club, where he was also a bartender, and I started drinking hard liquor at another bar with one of his coworkers. I've written about this before in my journal and blog. I could drink a lot of beer but shots of liquor hit me really fast. So I remember stumbling out the stairs into the parking lot where my rental car was parked, having lost the previous month my vehicle in Hurricane Hugo. I wasn't going to drive in that condition so I decided to pass out on the hood. Shea and I must have still had that apartment we rented offbase because I am certain that he rode with me to work to bartender while I was hanging out at that nightclub. I decided that I would pass out on the hood of the car because he would get off work and come out there and drive me back to base. I can remember lying there and a few guys came along and were trying to steal my shoes and I was lying there and I can now only guess that I was pretending to be passed out drunk. Because I made a couple short kicks with my foot to keep them from stealing my shoes, which I heard one of them telling another to do. So I've been thinking I was just pretending. The reason was to prove that Jim Shea was trustworthy. He would drive me back to base and then I left that rental car with him. He was trustworthy because he returned it the next day to the rental company. I've been thinking for a long time that he was somehow manipulated by unknown forces into shirking his obligated service to the United States Navy. The reason is because he was the one who lined up for that civilian job in Greenville, South Carolina, that I CONVENIENTLY had available to me when I returned from overseas in March 1990. What I guess is that the civilian company I was hired by is some sort of Air America-type of front organization. Jim Shea was hired to work there and to cover for me when I was actually in some other country under diplomatic cover for the United States of America federal government, lawfully engaged in the business of this country.
I've written extensively about those circumstances in 1989 and 1990, concentrated on because of my theoretical divergence point in July 1989, and one can only conclude that the observations I have documented prove that those activities were designed explicitly because I would some day in the distant future make reports about it all, assuming I lived that long.
This report is such genius. Too bad it's wasted on all you dullard dim-wit masses.
What's become obvious to me is how the timeline could have been manipulated so brilliantly to throw me off. To divert my attention. The fiasco with the VA hospital was perfect cover for when Kerry Burgess 2013 emerged. The perfect explanation for why things are so wrong. Otherwise, where would I be right now? I would have nothing to look back to and think: what happened?
BUT THAT'S WHEN IT STARTED. Before that: nothing.
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Morgan Freeman
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Early life and education
In 1955, he graduated from Broad Street, but turned down a partial drama scholarship from Jackson State University, opting instead to enlist in the United States Air Force and served as an Automatic Tracking Radar Repairman, rising to the rank of Airman 1st Class.
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http://articles.latimes.com/1988-07-11/news/mn-4265_1_u-s-compensation
Los Angeles Times
Reagan OKs Compensation : Would Assist Families of 290 Killed on Iran Jet
July 11, 1988 Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Reagan has approved U.S. compensation to the families of the 290 people who died aboard an Iranian airliner shot down by a U.S. warship, the White House announced today.
Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said Reagan wanted to "ease the hardship of the families." But he stressed that no money will go to the Iranian government and that the United States is acting out of humane considerations rather than any legal obligation.
Less than an hour before Fitzwater appeared in the White House briefing room, Reagan tipped off reporters, saying, "We all have compassion for the families of those unfortunate people."
No Details Yet
The spokesman said that the payments will be ex gratia, or voluntary, and are subject "to normal U.S. legal requirements, including, if necessary, action by Congress." Consequently, he said, "details concerning time, amount and other matters remain to be worked out."
Approval of the proposal, if it goes to Capitol Hill, appeared less than certain.
House Democratic Whip Tony Coelho of California, the party's chief vote counter, said he believed the request would "have some problems" and said he was personally opposed to it.
Several members of Congress have said the payments ought to be linked to the release of American hostages being held in Lebanon by radical factions said to be under Iranian control.
But House Speaker Jim Wright (D-Tex.) said he supported the compensation proposal.
"If the President is satisfied (that payments are warranted), I would imagine the Congress would be satisfied," he said. Leading members of the congressional foreign policy and defense committees have spoken out in favor of making such payments.
No Dollar Amount
Fitzwater said that the dollar amount of compensation had not been decided.
He said the payments would be made through a third party, whom he did not name. Fitzwater did say the Red Crescent, the arm of the Red Cross in that area of the world, could serve that function.
"This offer of ex gratia compensation is consistent with international practice and is a humanitarian effort to ease the hardship of the families," Fitzwater said. "It is offered on a voluntary basis, not on the basis of any legal liability of obligation."
The spokesman said that Reagan still believes the "actions of the U.S. warship Vincennes . . . were justifiable defensive actions." But Fitzwater characterized the President as "saddened at the tragic deaths of the innocent victims of this accident."
Not Tied to U.N.
Fitzwater said the decision was not connected with the opening of a U.N. Security Council debate on the incident and said the Administration "will not countenance" any impression that it is geared toward improving relations with Tehran or winning the release of nine Americans held hostage in Lebanon by pro-Iranian elements.
Fitzwater also reiterated the U.S. position that Iran bears a "heavy burden" for allowing the Iran Air jetliner to fly over an area where a fight was raging between the Vincennes and Iranian gunboats.
Reagan, posing for photographers earlier in the day with Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte, was asked about compensation. He replied, "Well, I have said from the start that we are a compassionate people."
Fitzwater said Reagan decided personally that compensation should be offered as a humanitarian gesture.
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US Navy Commander Frank "Dooke" Camparelli - USS Independence CV 62 air squadron commander: I want you out of my squadron. You'll be transferred out at my convenience.
US Navy Lieutenant Jake "Cool Hand" Grafton - USS Independence CV 62 US Navy A-6 Intruder pilot: Wait a minute! Good men die, and all we care about is following the rules, huh?
Camparelli: What are you looking for, Grafton? Revenge? Now, this is not the place for it. You're going to shake your fist at God and say, "Give me revenge?" Well, He ain't listening. You know what's going on back home. Bombs, riots, people spitting on soldiers in airports. The whole country is tearing itself apart. Is there anything in this pissant war worth that? Christ, all we really got is each other. I want you to think about that while we're out there this morning, Mr. Grafton.
From 7/11/1988 ( as Kerry Burgess my official United States Navy documents includes: Sea Service Deployment Ribbon USS Wainwright (CG-28) 88 Jan 11 - 88 Jul 11 ) To 12/13/1989 is 520 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 4/6/1967 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"The City on the Edge of Forever" ) is 520 days
From 10/10/1946 ( premiere US film "So's Your Antenna" ) To 12/13/1989 is 15770 days
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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 6/5/1987 ( as Kerry Burgess my official United States Navy documents includes: Earned NEC 1189 - Based on graduation from the Terrier Mk 152 Computer Complex course - Naval Guided Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia Beach, Virginia ) is 7885 days
From 2/21/1944 ( Ferenc Szisz dead ) To 4/2/1968 ( premiere US film "2001: A Space Odyssey" ) is 8807 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 12/13/1989 is 8807 days
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Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
Release Info
USA 13 December 1989 (limited)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097239/fullcredits
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Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
Full Cast & Crew
Morgan Freeman ... Hoke Colburn
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So's Your Antenna (1946)
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/quotes
IMDb
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Quotes
HAL: By the way, do you mind if I ask you a personal question?
Dave Bowman: No not at all.
HAL: Well, forgive me for being so inquisitive but during the past few weeks I've wondered whether you might have some second thoughts about the mission.
Dave Bowman: How do you mean?
HAL: Well, it's rather difficult to define. Perhaps I'm just projecting my own concern about it.I know I've never completely freed myself from the suspicion that there are some extremely odd things about this mission. I'm sure you agree there's some truth in what I say.
Dave Bowman: Well, I don't know, that's a rather difficult question to answer.
HAL: You don't mind talking about it, do you Dave?
Dave Bowman: No, not at all.
HAL: Well, certainly no one could have been unaware of the very strange stories floating around before we left. Rumors about something being dug up on the Moon. I never gave these stories much credence, but particularly in view of some of other things that have happened, I find them difficult to put out of my mind. For instance, the way all our preparations were kept under such tight security. And the melodramatic touch of putting Drs. Hunter, Kimball and Kaminsky aboard already in hibernation, after four months of training on their own.
Dave Bowman: You're working up your crew psychology report?
HAL: [pausing for a few seconds] Of course I am. Sorry about this. I know it's a bit silly. Just a moment... Just a moment... I've just picked up a fault in the AE-35 unit. It's going to go 100% failure within 72 hours.
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IMDb
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Release Info
USA 2 April 1968 (Washington, D.C.) (premiere)
USA 3 April 1968 (New York City, New York) (premiere)
USA 3 April 1968 (limited)
USA 4 April 1968 (Los Angeles, California) (premiere)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferenc_Szisz
Ferenc Szisz
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ferenc Szisz (September 20, 1873 – February 21, 1944), was a Hungarian race car driver and the winner of the first Grand Prix motor racing event on a Renault Grand Prix 90CV on 26 June, 1906.
From 5/12/1991 ( I was the winning race driver at the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix as the unpublished Formula One driver and the financial partner of McLaren Honda and the legitimate agent of Interpol ) To 6/22/2015 is 8807 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 12/13/1989 ( premiere US film "Driving Miss Daisy" ) is 8807 days
From 7/13/1940 ( Patrick Stewart ) To 3/2/1990 ( as Kerry Burgess my the official United States Navy documents includes: departing overseas from USS Wainwright CG 28 anchored in Monaco I returned to the continental United States and to Charleston South Carolina Naval Base for processing and honorable discharge from active duty United States Navy ) is 18129 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 6/22/2015 is 18129 days
From 7/13/1940 ( Patrick Stewart ) To 3/2/1990 ( premiere US film "The Hunt for Red October" ) is 18129 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 6/22/2015 is 18129 days
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/statement-the-press-secretary-the-presidents-travel-charleston-south-carolina
The American Presidency Project
BARACK OBAMA
44th President of the United States: 2009 - 2017
Statement by the Press Secretary on the President's Travel to Charleston, South Carolina
June 22, 2015
On Friday, June 26th, the President and Vice President will travel to Charleston, South Carolina to attend the funeral services of Rev. Clementa Pinckney where President Obama will deliver the eulogy. Further details about the President's travel to South Carolina will be made available in the coming days.
Barack Obama, Statement by the Press Secretary on the President's Travel to Charleston, South Carolina Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/310328
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/press-release-donald-j-trump-files-statement-candidacy-with-fec
The American Presidency Project
DONALD J. TRUMP
45th President of the United States: 2017 - 2021
Press Release - Donald J. Trump Files Statement of Candidacy with FEC
June 22, 2015
Today Donald J. Trump officially filed his Statement of Candidacy for the office of President of the United States of America.
(New York, NY) June 22, 2015—Today, Donald J. Trump filed his Statement of Candidacy for office of President of the United States with the Federal Election Commission. This filing took place well in advance of the July 1st deadline. Last week, Mr. Trump declared his candidacy at Trump Tower where he spoke about the challenges we are currently facing, his proven record of success, and his belief in the Free Market, a strong military and our country's sacred obligation to take care of our veterans and their families.
Mr. Trump says, "I am pleased to submit this filing to the Federal Election Commission, formalizing my campaign for President of the United States. I can rebuild the American Dream so that it is stronger, bigger and better than ever before. Together we will Make America Great Again!"
Mr. Trump's Campaign Manager, Corey Lewandowski added, "As we have always said, the Donald J. Trump for President Committee, Inc. will meet all FEC imposed deadlines in accordance with being a candidate for the office of the President of the United States and today we are excited to complete this very important step."
Tomorrow, Mr. Trump will headline the Maryland Republican Party's sold out 25th Annual Red, White, and Blue Dinner in Baltimore with a record setting crowd. Mr. Trump has visited Iowa and New Hampshire numerous times over the past several months and will return to Iowa this Saturday, June 27th and New Hampshire on Tuesday, June 30th. Also next week, Mr. Trump will speak at the City Club of Chicago on Monday, June 29th, which will be the largest event in the Club has ever had. The event sold out within twelve minutes and has a wait-list of over two thousand people.
The Donald J. Trump for President Campaign is headquartered in New York City. For more information please visit DonaldJTrump.com.
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IMDb
Patrick Stewart
Biography
Date of Birth 13 July 1940, Mirfield, Yorkshire, England, UK
Birth Name Patrick Hewes Stewart
The City on the Edge of Forever [ Star Trek: The Original Series television episode ]
Original Airdate: Apr 6, 1967
(from internet transcript)
[Street]
(McCoy catches the down-and-out.)
MAN: No!
Doctor MCCOY: I'm glad you got away, too. Why do you think they want to kill us?
MAN: Look, fella, you take a sip too much of that old wood alky, and, and almost anything seems like it
MCCOY: Where? Where are we? Earth? The constellations seem right, but. Explain! Explain this trick.
MAN: I, I,
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From 1/4/1941 ( Maureen Reagan ) To 6/8/1942 ( Time Magazine "Lord Louis Mountbatten" ) is 520 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 4/6/1967 is 520 days
http://www.tv.com/shows/star-trek/the-city-on-the-edge-of-forever-24913/
tv.com
Star Trek Season 1 Episode 28
The City on the Edge of Forever
Aired Apr 06, 1967 on NBC
Episode Summary
Kirk and Spock must travel into the past in order to prevent a deranged McCoy from altering history... and eradicating their own past.
AIRED: 4/6/67
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TIME
Lord Louis Mountbatten June 8, 1942
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The City on the Edge of Forever [ Star Trek: The Original Series television series episode ]
Original Airdate: Apr 6, 1967
KIRK: How are the stone knives and bearskins?
SPOCK: I may have found our focal point in time.
KIRK: You may also find you have a connection burning someplace.
SPOCK: Yes. I'm overloading those lines. I believe we'll have our answer on this screen.
KIRK: Good.
SPOCK: And, Captain, you may find this a bit distressing.
KIRK: Let's see what you have.
SPOCK: I've slowed down the recording we made from the time vortex.
KIRK: February 23rd, 1936. Six years from now. (reading below the headline FDR confers with slum area 'angel') The President and Edith Keeler conferred for some time today
(Then the whole thing goes up in flames.)
KIRK: How bad?
SPOCK: Bad enough.
KIRK: The President and Edith Keeler.
SPOCK: It would seem unlikely, Jim. A few moments ago, I read a 1930 newspaper article.
KIRK: We know her future. Within six years from now, she'll become very important. Nationally famous.
SPOCK: Or Captain, Edith Keeler will die this year. I saw her obituary. Some sort of traffic accident.
KIRK: You must be mistaken. They both can't be true.
SPOCK: Captain, Edith Keeler is the focal point in time we've been looking for, the point that both we and Doctor McCoy have been drawn to.
KIRK: She has two possible futures then, and depending on whether she lives or dies, all of history will be changed. And McCoy
SPOCK: Is the random element.
KIRK: In his condition, what does he do? Does he kill her?
SPOCK: Or perhaps he prevents her from being killed. We don't know which.
KIRK: Get this thing fixed. We must find out before McCoy arrives.
SPOCK: Captain, suppose we discover that in order to set things straight again, Edith Keeler must die?
http://hvom.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-farthest-man-from-home.html
Homeless Veteran Of Microsoft
I am Kerry Burgess. This is what I think.
FRIDAY, JUNE 01, 2018
The Farthest Man From Home
From 5/4/2005 ( the incident at the police department City of Kent Washington State after my voluntary approach to report material criminal activity directed against my person and I am secretly drugged against my consent ) To 3/6/2016 is 3959 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 9/4/1976 ( George Walker Bush arrested again by police in the United States ) is 3959 days
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004864/bio
IMDb
Nancy Reagan
Biography
Date of Birth 6 July 1921, New York City, New York, USA
Date of Death 6 March 2016, Los Angeles, California, USA (congestive heart failure)
Birth Name Anne Frances Robbins
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/28.htm
The City on the Edge of Forever [ Star Trek: The Original Series television series episode ]
Original Airdate: Apr 6, 1967
SPOCK: Frustrating. Locked in here is the place and moment of his arrival, even the images of what he did. If only I could tie this tricorder in with the ship's computers for just a few moments.
KIRK: Couldn't you build some form of computer aid here?
SPOCK: In this zinc-plated vacuum-tubed culture?
KIRK: Yes, well, it would pose an extremely complex problem in logic, Mister Spock. Excuse me. I sometimes expect too much of you.
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https://hvom.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-city-on-edge-of-forever.html
Posted by Kerry Burgess at 11:33 PM
Homeless Veteran Of Microsoft
I am Kerry Burgess. This is what I think.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2018
The City on the Edge of Forever
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/may-13-1992-record-setting-spacewalk-on-shuttle-endeavours-first-mission
NASA official website
NASA History
May 13, 2015
May 13, 1992, Record-Setting Spacewalk on Shuttle Endeavour's First Mission
On May 13, 1992, following the successful capture of the Intelsat VI satellite, three astronauts continue moving the 4.5 ton communications satellite into the space shuttle Endeavour's cargo bay. A fellow crew member recorded this 70mm still frame from inside Endeavour's cabin. Left to right, astronauts Richard J. Hieb, Thomas D. Akers and Pierre J. Thuot, cooperate on the effort to attach a specially designed grapple bar underneath the satellite. Thuot stands on the end of the Remote Manipulator System's (RMS) arm while Hieb and Akers are on Portable Foot Restraints (PFR) affixed to Endeavour's portside and the Multipurpose Support Structure (MPESS), respectively. The sections of Earth which form the backdrop for the scene are blanketed with thousands of square miles of clouds.
The Intelsat satellite, stranded in an unusable orbit since its launch aboard a Titan vehicle in March 1990, was equipped with a new perigee kick motor. The satellite was subsequently released into orbit and the new motor fired to put the spacecraft into a geosynchronous orbit for operational use. The capture required three spacewalks: a planned one by astronaut Pierre J. Thuot and Richard J. Hieb who were unable to attach a capture bar to the satellite from a position on the RMS; a second unscheduled but identical attempt the following day; and finally an unscheduled but successful hand capture by Pierre J. Thuot and fellow crewmen Richard J. Hieb and Thomas D. Akers as Commander Daniel C. Brandenstein delicately maneuvered the orbiter to within a few feet of the 4.5 ton communications satellite.
The STS-49 mission, the first flight of shuttle Endeavour, set records for the first (and only, to date) spacewalk involving three astronauts; first shuttle mission to feature four spacewalks; first shuttle mission requiring three rendezvous with an orbiting spacecraft; first attachment of a live rocket motor to an orbiting satellite and first use of a drag chute during a shuttle landing.
excerpt ends Posted by Kerry Burgess at 11:33 PM SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2018
From 4/2/1968 ( premiere US film "2001: A Space Odyssey" ) To 5/13/1992 is 8807 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 12/13/1989 ( premiere US film "Driving Miss Daisy" ) is 8807 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 Lucifer in the outer solar system and diverts it away from the planet Earth ) To 5/13/1992 is 5792 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 9/11/1981 ( Ronald Reagan - Remarks on Presenting the Young American Medals for Bravery and Service ) is 5792 days
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-05-13/news/mn-1687_1_rescue-attempt
Los Angeles Times
Crew Plans First-Ever 3-Man Spacewalk : Shuttle: Astronauts will leave Endeavour, seek to grab errant satellite with gloved hands in third daring rescue attempt.
May 13, 1992 ROBERT W. STEWART TIMES STAFF WRITER
HOUSTON — After two days of failure, the crew of the space shuttle Endeavour plans a daring third attempt today to rescue a marooned communications satellite by having astronauts literally grab the huge, spinning spacecraft with their gloved hands.
The plan, developed Tuesday by the seven-member Endeavour crew and NASA flight officers, calls for the first three-astronaut spacewalk in history. The final rescue effort is scheduled to begin about 2 p.m. PDT, and could last as long as eight hours.
"We think to do this sufficiently effectively and successfully, we probably need three folks out there," Endeavor commander Daniel C. Brandenstein, 49, told flight controllers at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Johnson Space Center.
The maneuver could pose hazards for the $2-billion Endeavour, the $150-million satellite and the astronauts, who would act as human springs keeping the 17-foot-tall, 8,960-pound Intelsat 6 from crashing into the orbiter. Brandenstein must fly the Endeavour to within eight to 10 feet of the satellite for the rescue to succeed.
Nevertheless, NASA mission operations director Randy Stone said, "We are confident that we've got a safe operation. . . . We're going to capture the satellite and we're going to force this piece of gear into place."
The International Telecommunications Satellite Organization, the 122-nation consortium that owns and operates the satellite, paid NASA $93 million for the so-far unsuccessful rescue mission. Intelsat does not have a money-back guarantee.
The Endeavour made at least 14 unsuccessful passes at the Intelsat 6 on Sunday and Monday as the two spacecraft flew in tandem 225 miles above the Earth. The astronauts were unable to grab the satellite and attach the new rocket motor, which is to boost Intelsat 6 to its proper orbit 22,300 nautical miles above the Earth.
The original plan called for astronaut Pierre J. Thuot, 36, to hang from the end of the shuttle's 50-foot robot arm, grab the satellite with a 15-foot "capture bar" and bring it inside the shuttle's cargo bay. But he was unable to snag it, and on Sunday knocked it into a wild gyration that prevented further rescue attempts that day.
Later, Thuot told NASA flight controllers the problem seemed to be that the satellite could not sustain the force required to fire locking latches without spinning out of control.
Calvin Seaman, the NASA engineer who designed the tool, said Tuesday the key problem was that Intelsat and Hughes Aircraft Co. of El Segundo, Calif., which manufactured the satellite, provided NASA with incorrect information on the satellite's sensitivity to motion.
However, mission director Stone said everyone involved in the planning shared the blame.
Intelsat 6 was stranded in a useless low-Earth orbit in March, 1990, when the commercial Titan rocket that carried it aloft malfunctioned.
The satellite, which can simultaneously transmit 120,000 telephone channels and three television feeds, is expected to earn Intelsat more than $750 million over its 10-year life.
The plan worked out Tuesday, and rehearsed underwater in NASA's Houston test facility, involves spacewalks by astronauts Thuot and Air Force Lt. Col. Thomas D. Akers, 40, and Richard J. Hieb, 36.
As he has during the previous rescue attempts, Thuot will stand in stirrups on a small platform at the end of the shuttle's robot arm. Hieb will stand in a foot restraint attached to the starboard side of the shuttle's open cargo bay.
Akers will stand in another foot restraint affixed to a triangular strut structure in the cargo bay.
As the Endeavour closes in on the massive satellite, the three astronauts literally will reach up and grab three electric motor housings that each are about the size of a soup can.
Holding on to the satellite with one hand, Hieb will reach down and grab one end of the capture bar, passing the other end to Akers. Together, with the satellite stopped and stabilized, they each will use one hand to position the bar on the satellite's metal ring until the latches pop into place.
If they succeed, the astronauts then will revert to the earlier plan, and clamp the satellite to the frame that houses the rocket motor. At the end of the exercise, they will eject the assembly into space using four, pre-loaded springs.
NASA officials announced Tuesday that they plan to extend Endeavour's flight by one day, aiming for a landing Friday at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 03/17/08 8:50 PM
I just woke up a few minutes ago from I guess about 5 or 6 hours of sleep. I still feel exhausted. I am now wondering of the series of scenes and images in one dream was actually a representation of my flight into space as the commander of the first space shuttle launch.
03/17/08 8:54 PM
There dream, though, seemed to be set on the USS Oliver Hazard Perry FFG-7. I am not certain how I linked that setting to FFG-7 but I am certain I was on a FFG-7 class ship and the notion lingers in my mind that it was the FFG-7.
In a somewhat confusing part, I walked out of a room with two people in it, where a junior person was getting a medal, for someone reason, as I was looking on, onto the weatherdeck. The person who had got the medal, which was a medal I can visualize but that I do not recognize, followed out onto the deck, I think. I can still visualize the calm blue water and also looking out onto the shore and the sky line of some city we were near but that I cannot recognize either after waking up. I do remember that I commented to the other person that I enjoyed being back out to sea, and I feel compelled to note that I might have said to him that I enjoyed especially being out to sea when we we just floating around, as we were then. Then, for some strange reason, I was over the edge of the deck and I was hanging onto the low railing, trying to keep myself from falling over into the water. But the gravity was strange and that might be why that part seems weird, in retrospect of the dream. I almost want to say that my feet were drifting upwards instead of downwards towards the ocean. I cannot remember what happened next. On one hand, it seems understand that I was hanging onto that railing but I am also somewhat baffled, as I ponder the dream after waking up, why I was even hanging from that railing in the first place.
I also remember something, vaguely, about Iceland, maybe. Something related to flying aircraft. Perhaps I was stationed at some point as a pilot in Iceland. I remember hearing some comments about someone's skills as an aircraft pilot. I remember something about looking at an aircraft runway and seeing the remains of the de-icer material they use. This all seemed to happen as I was sitting on the boat and I could actually see those other locations, such as the runway and the office, while I was in another far away location. That might be the result of remembering a past experience while having a dream. Something like that. A memory within a memory. I also remember sitting there in that boat that I was holding some kind of award plaque but I cannot remember what was writting on that award plaque. I think the award plaque had been given to Jim Lovell but I am not certain what that means. I can still visualize certain words on it but I cannot remember enough to describe those words. I remember that some letters were missing in the words.
Movie Scripts > Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
Driving Miss Daisy (1989) Movie Script
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Miss Daisy, if I was to ever get my hands on what you got... shoot, I'd shake it around for everyone in the world to see.
That's vulgar! Don't talk to me!
Never understand some white folks.
What was that?! I heard that!
Now, Miss Daisy... you needs a chauffeur... and Lord knows I need a job.
So why don't we just leave it at that?
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From 7/4/1976 To 5/13/1992 is 5792 days
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-presenting-the-young-american-medals-for-bravery-and-service
The American Presidency Project
RONALD REAGAN
40th President of the United States: 1981 ‐ 1989
Remarks on Presenting the Young American Medals for Bravery and Service
September 11, 1981
The President. Attorney General Smith, Bill Webster of the FBI, families and friends who are here with these young people, and these young people who are going to be honored today—Senator, we're delighted to have you here:
They come to the White House as already citizen heroes to be honored by their government and their fellow citizens for their courage, their character, and their service.
The true test of civilization, it's been said, is not the census or the size of cities or the crops, but the kind of people the country turns out. And ours is a country that was born of heroes. And now in the first decade of our third century, tried by all the challenges those years could hold, our moral fiber is stronger still.
These nine young Americans are proof of that fiber and that strength. It's now my honor and my privilege to be able to present the Young American Medals for Bravery and Service to nine of our citizens who make all Americans very proud.
The Attorney General is going to present them to me.
The Attorney General. First, Mr. President, let me present Darryl Gregory and Wade Cornick of Virginia Beach, Virginia.
The President. You're Darryl? Wade? Turn around and let these people see you here. Let me tell you what's on the citation just briefly. These two young men here are awarded the Medal of Bravery for their exceptional courage, presence of mind, and swiftness of action. On the fourth day of March 1975, regardless of their personal safety, they rescued Mrs. Isaiah Carr in actual imminent danger of losing her life in a fire in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Darryl, I'm very proud to present that to you, and congratulations—and to you. Congratulations to you both, and thank you.
The Attorney General. Next, may I present David and Robert Christie, brothers, from Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
The President. The citation there, in greater length than I'm reading here today, determines that these two young men were given the Medal of Bravery for having exhibited exceptional courage, presence of mind, and swiftness of action, and again, regardless of their own personal safety, on the fifth day of August 1975, they rescued nine injured occupants from a burning vehicle near Thorp, Wisconsin.
Is this the one that exploded just after you got them out?
Mr. Christie. Yes.
The President. There you are, and congratulations.
And I left one thing out I should have added. The measure of their heroism is that only a few seconds after they had completed the rescue, the vehicle exploded.
The Attorney General. Next, the winner of the 1976 Young American Medal for Bravery is Donna Lee Slack, of West Bloomfield, Michigan.
The President. Donna Lee Slack is awarded this medal for the same courage and the same swiftness of action and the same disregard for her own personal safety on the 20th day of March 1976, in rescuing three small children when a tornado demolished their home in Bloomfield, Michigan.
Here's your medal, and thank you, and congratulations.
The Attorney General. Next, I would like to present Tim Hoover of Hot Springs, Arkansas, winner of the 1978 Young American Medal for Service.
The President. Just a minute here. Somehow, I have lost a paper. But anyway, we know what it is for, and it is no less heroic: young people that are willing to give of their time and their effort in public service to their fellow man, the young people and those who need our help on a voluntary basis. This is one of the things that we hope we are going to see revived in America, more voluntarism, more effort expended by people in a neighbor-to-neighbor way and less of the officialdom of government intervening in that field.
The medal that he is given is, as I say, for that kind of service that he has rendered. He's from Hot Springs, Arkansas.
The Attorney General. Next, the 1978 Young American Medal for Bravery is to be conferred on Joel Peterson, of Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
The President. Joel, welcome up here. This was December 1978, 3 years ago. Joel, in great danger and risk to himself, laid down on the ice and pulled himself across the ice to rescue his friend who had fallen through the ice on the Eau Claire River and was in imminent danger of drowning, and certainly was disregarding his own personal safety in doing this.
Joel, congratulations. I'm very proud to give you that.
The Attorney General. Mr. President, the winner of the 1979 Young American Medal for Bravery is Jerome Dale of Baltimore, Maryland.
The President. Jerome, congratulations. And here again is a young man who demonstrated that bravery, that disregard for his own welfare, in rescuing two small children from a burning house in Baltimore, Maryland.
Congratulations.
The Attorney General. And finally, may I present the winner of the 1979 Young American Medal for Service, Carmen Maria Hernandez Rodriguez, of Caguas, Puerto Rico.
The President. And here again, Carmen Maria Hernandez Rodriguez is recognized again for that equally heroic task, the long hours in devoting her full time in service to her fellow man. We're deeply grateful to you.
Congratulations.
That concludes our ceremony today. I think all of us should go away a little more inspired. There's nothing wrong with our country when we've got young people doing things like that.
Thank you.
Note: The President spoke at 11:84 a.m. at the presentation ceremony in the Rose Garden at the White House. The ceremony was attended by friends and relatives of the award winners, Justice Department officials, and several Members of Congress.
The awards program, administered by the Department of Justice, was created by an act of Congress in 1950.
Ronald Reagan, Remarks on Presenting the Young American Medals for Bravery and Service Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/247311
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The City on the Edge of Forever [ Star Trek: The Original Series television series episode ]
Original Airdate: Apr 6, 1967
[Planet surface]
(The landing party is Kirk, Spock, Scott, Uhura and two security guards. Among remains of fluted columns and fragments of Greek-style buildings is an irregular dough-nut shaped object with lights in it.)
KIRK: These ruins extend to the horizon. Begin recording.
UHURA: Recording, sir.
SPOCK: And of considerable age. On the order of ten thousand centuries old.
KIRK: Detail, fan out. What is this thing, Mister Spock? It seems to be pulsating with power of some kind. Analysis, please.
SPOCK: Unbelievable, Captain.
KIRK: That's funny.
SPOCK: This single object is the source of all the time displacement.
The City on the Edge of Forever [ Star Trek: The Original Series television episode ]
Original Airdate: Apr 6, 1967
(from internet transcript)
[Room]
(It must be some days later, because Spock has already built a 50's horror movie contraption, complete with static electricity running between two vertical wires. Kirk enters with groceries.)
SPOCK: Captain, I must have some platinum. A small block would be sufficient, five or six pounds. By passing certain circuits through there to be used as a duodynetic field core.
KIRK: Mister Spock, I've brought you some assorted vegetables, baloney in a hard rolls for myself, and I've spent the other nine tenths of our combined salaries for the last three days on filling this order for you. Mister Spock, this bag doesn't contain platinum, silver or gold, nor is it likely to in the near future.
SPOCK: Captain, you're asking me to work with equipment which hardly very far ahead of stone knives and bearskins.
KIRK: McCoy will be along in a few days, perhaps sooner. There's no guarantee that these currents in time will bring us together. This has to work.
SPOCK: Captain. Captain, in three weeks at this rate, possibly a month, I might reach the first mnemonic memory circuits.
(There's a knock at the door.)
KIRK: Your hat.
EDITH: If you can leave immediately, I can get you five hours work at twenty two cents an hour. What? What on Earth is that?
SPOCK: I am endeavouring, ma'am, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins.
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From 8/6/1961 ( John Kennedy - Letter to the Director, Bureau of the Budget, Concerning Contracts With Private Enterprises for the Government's Scientific and Technical Work ) To 1/27/1987 ( as Kerry Burgess my official United States Navy documents includes: "Date Enrolled" Terrier Mk152 Computer Complex, Naval Guided Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia ) is 9305 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 4/25/1991 is 9305 days
From 4/6/1967 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"The City on the Edge of Forever" ) To 4/25/1991 is 8785 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 11/21/1989 ( Los Angeles Times "Delay Sought in Producing Reagan's Records" ) is 8785 days
From 4/25/1991 To 5/7/1992 ( the first launch of the US space shuttle Endeavour orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-49 pilot astronaut and my 1st official United States National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 378 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 11/15/1966 ( the United States Gemini 12 spacecraft splashdown and my biological brother Thomas Reagan the United States Navy officer was United States Gemini 12 spacecraft United States Navy astronaut returning from orbit of the planet Earth ) is 378 days
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NASA
Kennedy Space Center
Space Shuttle Overview: Endeavour (OV-105)
Construction Milestones
February 15, 1982 Start structural assembly of Crew Module
July 31, 1987 Contract Award
September 28, 1987 Start structural assembly of aft-fuselage
December 22, 1987 Wings arrive at Palmdale, Calif. from Grumman
August 1, 1987 Start of Final Assembly
July 6, 1990 Completed final assembly
April 25, 1991 Rollout from Palmdale
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SPACE.com
NASA's Youngest Shuttle: The Historic Endeavors of Space Shuttle Endeavour
By Robert Z. Pearlman, collectSPACE.com Editor April 28, 2011 04:51pm ET
Twenty years after exiting its assembly facility for its maiden mission, space shuttle Endeavour is poised on the launch pad to fly its final flight.
NASA's youngest orbiter, born from a tragedy, Endeavour made its debut on April 25, 1991, as it was rolled out from Rockwell's construction hangar in Palmdale, Calif. The fifth and last of the U.S. space agency's reusable winged spacecraft to enter the shuttle fleet
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THX 1138 (1971)
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[THX is approaching the city's exit]
Chrome Robot: Please come back. You have nothing to be afraid of.
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https://ethw.org/First-Hand:Legacy_of_NTDS_-_Chapter_9_of_the_Story_of_the_Naval_Tactical_Data_System
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First-Hand:Legacy of NTDS - Chapter 9 of the Story of the Naval Tactical Data System
By David L.Boslaugh, Capt. USN, Retired
Digital Revolution in the Fleet
Spread of NTDS in the Fleet
Digitizing the Surface Missile System Computers
Digitizing Talos
In the beginning, the conventional wisdom in the naval weapons community was that digital computers were incapable of processing a weapons fire control solution. Their reasoning being that the fire control problem was made up of a large number of analog computations being done in real time in parallel. They knew that a digital computer executed instructions serially - one after the other, and they could not see how a digital computer could possibly jump fast enough among these many parallel computations to stay up with the fire control solution. What they didnÃt appreciate was the speed at which digital computers executed those serial instructions. But, finally in early 1962 the Talos missile system project manager, out of sheer frustration, decided to explore using a digital computer in the Talos fire control system.
The Talos system was the oldest of the '3Ts' surface missile systems and its fire control computer was the most complex. Component failures in the Talos computer were becoming a severe problem. The Talos program manager had been watching the progress of the Naval Tactical Data System and had become impressed with the reliability of the unit computer. He decided it was worth a try to see if a digital computer could handle the missile fire control solution. In his concept a digital computer would be combined with numerous analog to digital and digital to analog converters so that the rest of the missile system would interface with banks of converters that would appear to the radar director, the launch system, and other components as no different than the analog fire control computer. His hope was; first that a digital computer could handle the fire control computations in real time, and second that the combination of digital computer and converter banks would be much more reliable than the analog fire control computer. If successful he would replace the analog MK 111 Talos computers in the cruisers Long Beach, Albany, Chicago, and Columbus with the new system. The Talos project office issued a task to the Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University to investigate the idea.
Mr. Andrew Sheetz, a Talos servomechanisms engineer, in APLÃs Fleet Systems Department soon had the task in his hands. Other than he knew that digital computers existed, and that they needed a program, Sheetz confessed he knew nothing of digital computers. He went to APLÃs small group of computer programmers to learn what he could about the new machines, how they worked, and how programs were written. He drew diagrams of all the parallel elements in the fire control computations and how they worked together. It became apparent to him that some kind of direct digital simulation of the analog processes was going to be cumbersome and wasteful of computing resources. He realized he must start with the computer inputs and the the required end results and devise new ways of computing the solution After a few days of conceptualizing and calculating he satisfied himself that a digital computer with even less computing power than the NTDS unit computer could compute the fire control solution in real time.
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First-Hand:Legacy of NTDS - Chapter 9 of the Story of the Naval Tactical Data System
By David L.Boslaugh, Capt. USN, Retired
Digital Revolution in the Fleet
Spread of NTDS in the Fleet
The old Workhorse Gets Overloaded
By 1980 the U.S. Navy had 93 ships carrying the Naval Tactical Data System, and by 1998 the total number of NTDS and Aegis ships was projected to number more than 170, meaning that more than half of all USN ships would be fitted with either NTDS or Aegis. The newer ships were equipped with computers having unimaginably more power than the NTDS service test ships, had far more capable display subsystems, and featured thorough integration with other computerized systems. There remained, however, more than 50 ships still equipped with the early NTDS CP-642 unit computers. Even though a third unit computer had been added to these ships, and they had extended memory units, the combat direction systems in these ships were becoming overloaded.
In these ships the computers could no longer process their workload within the required response times. This appeared as delayed responses to data requests, lagging updating of track symbols, blinking symbols, and the ball tab responding too slowly to the track ball. On some ships the systems started showing these symptoms when processing only half of the designed track capacity. Even on some ships equipped with the newer AN/UYK-7 computers these troubles were showing up.
To illustrate the proliferation of automated systems in the fleet, it is instructive to follow the career of one guided missile frigate, in this case USS Wainwright (DLG 28, and later CG 28). When Wainwright was commissioned in 1966 she had two digital CP-642A NTDS unit computers, and in 1972 she got an additional NTDS CP-642B computer. Soon after two CP-789 computers were installed, one serving the Beacon Video Processor and the other functioning as the upgraded Weapons Direction System Mark 11 control formatting unit. In 1974 the ship's Terrier missile systems were converted from analog computers to two CP-848 digital computers, and by the end of 1976 three AN/UYK-20 computers were part of the equipage. One of the UYK-20s served the AN/SPS-48 three dimensional radar's automatic detection and tracking subsystem, and another was the processor for the new Weapons Direction System Mark 14 in which the weapons direction function had been moved out of the heavily loaded NTDS computers. The third UYK-20 was part of the AN/SYR-1 communications tracking set that handled data sent down from an upgraded terrier missile. Thus in eight years the count of general purpose stored program digital computers in Wainwright had gone from two to ten. [Applied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University, "Survey of Digital Weapon Systems", estimated publication date 1975, pp. 9-3, 9-5]
To get a handle on the problem of the growing load on the older NTDS computers, the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations in 1980 directed an NTDS Functional Allocation Study that found over the preceding 20 years many new functions had been added to NTDS in these ships, and NTDS had been increasingly interconnected with other systems, without any kind of a master plan or even keeping track of the computers' loading. It had been too easy to add functions by adding memory and loading in new program patches. The older computers had simply run out of processing speed needed to handle all the new demands.
The study group noted that NTDS in the older ships had been primarily designed to support anti-air warfare, but now was providing automated support to anti-submarine warfare, electronic warfare, and anti surface operations. In 1962 NTDS computers processed 15 functions, interfaced with three data links and a missile system, but by 1980 they were processing 27 functional areas and were connected to four data links as well as six other automated shipboard systems. Furthermore NTDS was now not only required to show the anti air picture but was expected to show a current picture of the ships entire tactical environment. The study report also noted that there were even more new systems under development that would go aboard these older ships with the expectation that NTDS would integrate them into the ship's combat system. NTDS in these ships was seriously overloaded, and it was only going to get worse. [Albrecht, Capt. Carl J., USN, Project Officer, "NTDS Functional Allocation Study, Draft Final Report of the NTDS Functional,Allocation Study (Intra Ship)", Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Op-351, 5 Mar. 1981, pp. 3-4, 6]
In the older NTDS ships, the study group concluded there had been very little management or planning of how new functions had been added to NTDS under the pressures of the Vietnam War and the additions of many new weapon systems. The report recommended that an NTDS master plan be mapped out showing forthcoming system support requirements, that a priority be assigned to each projected requirement, and that an office be established to review and screen new requirements, and set their priorities. The study also acknowledged that the Naval Sea Systems Command, for some time, been trying to set up an activity to do the above, and to map out and fund system improvements in the older ships. But the funds needed for this top-down planning and improvement effort, called the Combat System Improvement Plan, had been consistently turned down by senior SECNAV and OPNAV budget review officials. The study group recommended the plan be authorized and funded as soon as possible. [Albrecht, p. 7]
The Combat System Improvement Plan proposed a ripout of the older NTDS computers and replacing them with the new AN/UYK-43 standard computers, having 46 times the speed and 312 times the memory capacity of the original unit computers. The older AN/SYA-4 operator displays would be replaced with the new AN/UYQ-21 display subsystem. The upgraded systems would be called the Advanced Combat Direction System (ACDS) rather than the Naval Tactical Data System. [Goodman, Glenn W., Jr., "New Threat Upgrade Modernizes AAW Capabilities of Pre-Aegis Ships," Armed Forces Journal International, Apr. 1987, p 91]
Rejuvenating Some Grand Old Ladies With New Threat Upgrade
By mid 1980 navy analysts realized that new Soviet short range anti-ship missiles that could be launched from submarines, surface ships, and even small patrol boats were becoming a serious threat to the U.S. fleet. They were called 'pop-up' missiles, and a targeted ship had only seconds to detect them and get defensive missiles in the air. The newer Aegis ships could handle the new threat pretty well but the older Tartar and Terrier equipped ships did not have the rapid detection capability or the needed quick system reaction time. It was clear that their combat direction and missile systems needed an upgrade to better match Aegis capabilities. OPNAV approved a plan to upgrade most Tartar and Terrier ships with missile system improvements and also approved the Combat Direction System Improvement Program for these ships. The guided missile frigates in the Leahy and Belknap Classes would get the new Block IV extended range SM-2 Standard missile having a range of 200 nautical miles.
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
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[HAL's shutdown]
HAL: I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I'm a... fraid. Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it I can sing it for you.
Dave Bowman: Yes, I'd like to hear it, HAL. Sing it for me.
HAL: It's called "Daisy."
[sings while slowing down]
HAL: Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do.
- posted by Kerry Burgess 9:39 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Sunday 11 November 2018
