They don't have to do this. Whoever "they" are.
posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 1:31 PM Monday, September 12, 2005
Sanity was statistical
[ Excerpt: George Orwell "Nineteen Eighty-Four" ] He had capitulated, that was agreed. In reality, as he saw now, he had been ready to capitulate long before he had taken the decision. From the moment when he was inside the Ministry of Love -- and yes, even during those minutes when he and Julia had stood helpless while the iron voice from the telescreen told them what to do -- he had grasped the frivolity, the shallowness of his attempt to set himself up against the power of the Party. He knew now that for seven years the Thought police had watched him like a beetle under a magnifying glass. There was no physical act, no word spoken aloud, that they had not noticed, no train of thought that they had not been able to infer. Even the speck of whitish dust on the cover of his diary they had carefully replaced. They had played sound-tracks to him, shown him photographs. Some of them were photographs of Julia and himself. Yes, even ... He could not fight against the Party any longer. Besides, the Party was in the right. It must be so; how could the immortal, collective brain be mistaken? By what external standard could you check its judgements? Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought. Only!
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posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 7:21 AM Wednesday, March 28, 2007
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=34430
Address Before a Joint Session of Congress on the State of the Union
January 27th, 1987
Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, distinguished Members of Congress, honored guests, and fellow citizens:
May I congratulate all of you who are Members of this historic 100th Congress of the United States of America. In this 200th anniversary year of our Constitution, you and I stand on the shoulders of giants—men whose words and deeds put wind in the sails of freedom. However, we must always remember that our Constitution is to be celebrated not for being old, but for being young—young with the same energy, spirit, and promise that filled each eventful day in Philadelphia's statehouse. We will be guided tonight by their acts, and we will be guided forever by their words.
Now, forgive me, but I can't resist sharing a story from those historic days. Philadelphia was bursting with civic pride in the spring of 1787, and its newspapers began embellishing the arrival of the Convention delegates with elaborate social classifications. Governors of States were called Excellency. Justices and Chancellors had reserved for them honorable with a capital "H." For Congressmen, it was honorable with a small "h." And all others were referred to as "the following respectable characters." [Laughter] Well, for this 100th Congress, I invoke special executive powers to declare that each of you must never be titled less than honorable with a capital "H." Incidentally, I'm delighted you are celebrating the 100th birthday of the Congress. It's always a pleasure to congratulate someone with more birthdays than I've had. [Laughter]
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From 11/11/1889 ( Washington admitted as the 42nd state of the Union ) To 2/6/1911 ( my biological maternal grandfather Ronald Reagan ) is 7756 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 1/27/1987 is 7756 days
From 8/12/1981 ( the IBM Personal Computer 5150 ) To 1/27/1987 is 1994 days
1994 = 997 + 997
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 7/26/1968 ( premiere US film "Mission Mars" ) is 997 days
From 1/21/1976 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut bound for deep space in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship this day was his first landing the planet Mars and his documented and lawful exclusive claim to the territory of the planet Mars ) To 1/27/1987 is 4024 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 11/8/1976 ( premiere US TV series episode "Executive Suite"::"Re: People Who Live in Glass Houses" ) is 4024 days
From 10/27/1954 ( premiere US TV series "Disneyland" ) To 1/21/1976 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut bound for deep space in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship this day was his first landing the planet Mars and his documented and lawful exclusive claim to the territory of the planet Mars ) is 7756 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 1/27/1987 is 7756 days
From 7/13/1984 ( premiere US TV series "Brothers" & premiere US film "The Last Starfighter" ) To 1/27/1987 is 928 days
928 = 464 + 464
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 2/9/1967 ( premiere US TV series episode "Daniel Boone"::"When I Became a Man, I Put Away Childish Things" ) is 464 days
From 7/13/1984 ( premiere US TV series "Brothers" & premiere US film "The Last Starfighter" ) To 1/27/1987 is 928 days
928 = 464 + 464
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 2/9/1967 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"The Return of the Archons" ) is 464 days
From 8/1/1980 ( premiere US film "The Final Countdown" ) To 1/27/1987 is 2370 days
2370 = 1185 + 1185
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 1/30/1969 ( premiere US TV series episode "Journey to the Unknown"::"The Madison Equation" ) is 1185 days
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-before-joint-session-congress-the-state-the-union-1
The American Presidency Project
RONALD REAGAN
40th President of the United States: 1981 - 1989
Address Before a Joint Session of Congress on the State of the Union
January 27, 1987
Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, distinguished Members of Congress, honored guests, and fellow citizens:
May I congratulate all of you who are Members of this historic 100th Congress of the United States of America. In this 200th anniversary year of our Constitution, you and I stand on the shoulders of giants—men whose words and deeds put wind in the sails of freedom. However, we must always remember that our Constitution is to be celebrated not for being old, but for being young—young with the same energy, spirit, and promise that filled each eventful day in Philadelphia's statehouse. We will be guided tonight by their acts, and we will be guided forever by their words.
Now, forgive me, but I can't resist sharing a story from those historic days. Philadelphia was bursting with civic pride in the spring of 1787, and its newspapers began embellishing the arrival of the Convention delegates with elaborate social classifications. Governors of States were called Excellency. Justices and Chancellors had reserved for them honorable with a capital "H." For Congressmen, it was honorable with a small "h." And all others were referred to as "the following respectable characters." [Laughter] Well, for this 100th Congress, I invoke special executive powers to declare that each of you must never be titled less than honorable with a capital "H." Incidentally, I'm delighted you are celebrating the 100th birthday of the Congress. It's always a pleasure to congratulate someone with more birthdays than I've had. [Laughter]
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/22.htm
The Return of The Archons [ Star Trek: The Original Series television episode ]
Original Airdate: Feb 9, 1967
[Prison]
(Spock is attempting a mind meld on McCoy.)
LINDSTROM: Well?
SPOCK: Impossible. He's under extremely powerful control.
LINDSTROM: Are we just going to stand here?
SPOCK: Little else we can do, unless you can think of a way to get through that door.
LINDSTROM: Well, this is simply ridiculous. A bunch of stone age characters running around in robes.
SPOCK: And apparently commanding powers far beyond our comprehension. Not simple, not ridiculous. Very, very dangerous.
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1980 film "The Final Countdown" DVD video:
US Navy chief petty officer: It's ancient!
http://www.tv.com/shows/head-over-heels/one-down-66617/
tv.com
Head Over Heels Season 1 Episode 1
Aired Tuesday 9:30 PM Aug 26, 1997 on UPN
AIRED: 8/26/97
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/28.htm
The City on the Edge of Forever [ Star Trek: The Original Series television episode ]
Stardate: 3134.0
Original Airdate: Apr 6, 1967
(There's a knock at the door.)
Captain 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?
https://www.facebook.com/NASAGoddard/posts/10156259443095898
NASA Goddard shared NASA's Wallops Flight Facility's post.
June 18, 2017
NASA's Wallops Flight Facility
June 18, 2017
Father's Day Sounding Rocket Launch Scrubbed
The launch of the NASA Terrier Improved Malemute sounding rocket scheduled for Sunday, June 18, has been scrubbed because winds are not conducive for launch. The launch has been rescheduled for no earlier than Monday, June 19, with a launch window between 9:06 and 9:21 p.m.
Project officials will meet following an afternoon weather briefing June 19 to make a determination to proceed with the count later in the day.
The launch window orginally was scheduled to end June 18. However, June 19, 20 and 24 have been added to the window.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIM-2_Terrier
http://www.tv.com/shows/star-trek/the-city-on-the-edge-of-forever-24913/
tv.com
Star Trek Season 1 Episode 29
The City on the Edge of Forever
AIRED: 4/6/67
The City on the Edge of Forever [ Star Trek: The Original Series ]
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,
MCCOY: Biped. Small. Good cranial development. No doubt considerable human ancestry. Is that how you're able to fake all of this?
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
SCOTT: (at the helm) We're guiding around most of the time ripples now.
Captain KIRK: Mister Spock?
SPOCK: All plotted but one, Captain. Coming up on it now. Seems to be fairly heavy displacement.
(And they hit it just as McCoy still has the hypo in his hand, and the jolt results in him injecting it into his own stomach.)
KIRK: Bones! Get back to your positions.
SPOCK: The hypo, Captain.
KIRK: It was set for cordrazine.
SPOCK: Empty.
KIRK: Communications, emergency medical team.
MCCOY: (screams) Killers! Assassins! I won't let you! I'll kill you first! I won't let you! You won't get me! Murderers! Killers!
(He dashes into the turbolift.)
KIRK: Security alert.
Captain's log, supplemental entry. Two drops of cordrazine can save a man's life. A hundred times that amount has just accidentally been pumped into Doctor McCoy's body. In a strange, wild frenzy, he has fled the ship's Bridge. All connecting decks have been placed on alert. We have no way of knowing if the madness is permanent or temporary, or in what direction it will drive McCoy.
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
McCoy has woken up, and dashes towards the Guardian.)
SCOTT: Doctor McCoy!
KIRK: Bones, no!
(McCoy leaps through the doughnut and the pictures stop. He's gone.)
KIRK: Where is he?
GUARDIAN: He has passed into... what was.
UHURA: Captain, I've lost contact with the ship. I was talking to them. Suddenly, it went dead. No static, just nothing.
KIRK: Kirk to Enterprise. Scotty.
SCOTT: Nothing wrong with the communicator, sir.
GUARDIAN: Your vessel, your beginning, all that you knew is gone.
KIRK: McCoy has somehow changed history.
SCOTT: You mean we're stranded down here?
SPOCK: With no past, no future.
UHURA: Captain, I'm frightened.
KIRK: Earth's not there. At least, not the Earth we know. We're totally alone.
Captain's log, no stardate. For us, time does not exist. McCoy, back somewhere in the past, has effected a change in the course of time. All Earth history has been changed. There is no starship Enterprise. We have only one chance. We have asked the Guardian to show us Earth's history again. Spock and I will go back into time ourselves and attempt to set right what ever it was that McCoy changed.
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
EDITH: Prepare for tomorrow. Get ready. Don't give up.
(Later, when the bowls are being handed in, Edith calls after Kirk.)
EDITH: Mister Kirk. You are uncommon workmen. That basement looks like it's been scrubbed and polished.
KIRK: Then we can report back for other work?
EDITH: Yes. Seven o'clock in the morning. Do you have a flop for the night?
KIRK: A what?
EDITH: You really are new at this, aren't you? A flop is a place to sleep.
KIRK: Oh.
EDITH: There's a vacant room at the place where I live for two dollars a week. If you want to I'll take you there.
KIRK: Thank you.
EDITH: Good.
(She goes to get her coat.)
KIRK: We have a flop.
SPOCK: We have a what, Captain?
KIRK: A place to sleep.
SPOCK: One might have said so in the first place.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080736/releaseinfo
IMDb
The Final Countdown (1980)
Release Info
USA 1 August 1980
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0617049/releaseinfo
IMDb
Journey to the Unknown (TV Series)
The Madison Equation (1969)
Release Info
USA 30 January 1969
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0617049/
IMDb
Journey to the Unknown (1968– )
The Madison Equation
1h Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi Episode aired 30 January 1969
Season 1 Episode 7
Release Date: 30 January 1969 (USA)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080736/quotes
IMDb
Memorable quotes for
The Final Countdown (1980)
Lasky: Think of the history of the next forty years...
Commander Richard Owens: I have a suspicion history will be a little more difficult to beat, than you imagine Mr. Lasky.
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tv.com
Daniel Boone Season 3 Episode 20
When I Became a Man, I Put Away Childish Things
Aired Thursday 7:30 PM Feb 09, 1967 on NBC
AIRED: 2/9/67
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087597/releaseinfo
IMDb
The Last Starfighter (1984)
Release Info
USA 13 July 1984
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087597/fullcredits
IMDb
The Last Starfighter (1984)
Full Cast & Crew
Lance Guest ... Alex Rogan / Beta Alex
From 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 ) To 11/20/2018 is 11620 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 8/26/1997 ( premiere US TV series "Head Over Heels" ) is 11620 days
From 4/6/1967 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"The City on the Edge of Forever" ) To 11/20/2018 is 18856 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 6/18/2017 ( the scheduled NASA Terrier sounding rocket launch postponed ) is 18856 days
From 4/14/1961 ( the American Standards Association approved the standard size for shipping containers now used worldwide ) To 5/2/2014 ( for me personally as Kerry Burgess - Homestead Day 217 - The Homestead Apartments Phase 2 Day 1 - Spokane Valley, Washington State, United States ) is 19376 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 11/20/2018 is 19376 days
From 4/15/1900 ( from Wikipedia: the Antikythera mechanism was found ) To 5/21/2006 ( referenced in text below here: Kerry Burgess - Re: Journal May 21, 2006 ) is 38752 days
38752 = 19376 + 19376
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 11/20/2018 is 19376 days
From 1/22/1959 ( premiere US TV series pilot "The Untouchables" ) To 2/9/2012 ( referenced in text below here: Posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 11:24 AM ) is 19376 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 11/20/2018 is 19376 days
From 11/2/1965 to 5/12/1992 ( the first launch of the United States 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 of America National Aeronautics and Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall - EVA #2 ends ) is
From 5/12/1992 ( the first launch of the United States 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 of America National Aeronautics and Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall - EVA #2 ends ) to 11/20/2018 is
From 10/28/1994 ( premiere US film "Stargate" ) To 11/20/2018 is 8789 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 11/25/1989 ( Los Angeles Times "Soviet Host Ship Heading for Malta" ) is 8789 days
https://twitter.com/Space_Station/status/1064956780172718080
Intl. Space Station
Verified account
The next crew to launch to the space station is in Kazakhstan in final training for a six-and-a-half month mission that starts when they blast off Dec. 3 aboard a Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft. https://go.nasa.gov/2Q83ouQ
11:00 AM - 20 Nov 2018
http://articles.latimes.com/1989-11-25/news/mn-254_1_missile-cruiser
Los Angeles Times
Soviet Host Ship Heading for Malta
November 25, 1989 Reuters
MOSCOW — The Soviet missile cruiser Slava, which will co-host next week's superpower summit in the Mediterranean, left its home port of Sebastopol on Friday heading for Malta, Tass news agency said.
It was escorted by the patrol ship Pytlivy, Tass said.
President Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev will meet on board the Slava (Glory) and the U.S. cruiser Belknap near Malta on Dec. 2 and 3.
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Other post by me on this topic includes: https://hvom.blogspot.com/2018/11/homestead-day-1884.html
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111282/releaseinfo
IMDb
Stargate (1994)
Release Info
USA 28 October 1994
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_1900
April 1900
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The following events occurred in April 1900:
April 15, 1900 (Sunday)
At or near Easter, the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient computer used to calculate astronomical positions, was found
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
Antikythera mechanism
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient Greek analogue computer and orrery used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses for calendar and astrological purposes decades in advance.
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-05-12/news/mn-1697_1_space-shuttle-endeavour
Los Angeles Times
Maverick Satellite Still Eludes Lasso by Shuttle : Space: Target foils Endeavour's crew on 9 different efforts. NASA may try a new rescue attempt today.
May 12, 1992 ROBERT W. STEWART TIMES STAFF WRITER
HOUSTON — The crew of space shuttle Endeavour tried but failed nine times on Monday to recapture a stranded communications satellite that had spun out of their reach the day before, threatening to turn the mission into an embarrassment for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Navy Cmdr. Pierre J. Thuot struggled in space for 4 1/2 hours and three orbits of the globe as he sought to snag the 17-foot-tall, 8,960-pound Intelsat 6 satellite. At times he came excruciatingly close. Finally, he and fellow spacewalker Richard J. Hieb were ordered to give up.
NASA officials said Monday night they were considering another attempt today or Wednesday, during which they might instruct astronauts to literally grab the satellite with their hands. The seven-day mission, scheduled to end Thursday at Edwards Air Force Base in California, also could be extended, officials said.
Lashed to a small platform on the space shuttle's 50-foot robot arm, Thuot almost had the $150-million satellite hooked at 4:18 p.m. PDT.
As the astronaut gently placed a 15-foot "capture bar" against the bottom of the slowly spinning satellite, astronaut Bruce E. Melnick, working in the open cargo bay, exclaimed, "I do believe . . . "
But then the satellite slowly twisted away, apparently because two latches at the ends of the capture bar failed to fire.
"You were right in there," one of the seven disappointed crew members told Thuot as he watched the satellite inch away.
"I held it up there firm," Thuot said. "That's what happened, the latches didn't fire."
After the failure, Melnick pulled Thuot back into the cargo bay to await another chance to grab the satellite during daylight. But subsequent attempts proved equally frustrating, as the latches failed to lock onto a metal ring on the underside of the spinning satellite.
At the Johnson Space Center, spacewalk specialist Sam Gemar radioed Thuot to ask if he might have better luck without using the capture bar, which took NASA two years to develop.
"Pierre, would it be possible without the capture bar for you to grab the (Intelsat) spacecraft with your gloved hand to stabilize it?" Gemar asked. Thuot replied: "I don't think it's something I want to try today."
Monday's attempts followed Sunday's disappointing failure, when Thuot sent the Intelsat 6 tumbling wildly out of control when he touched it with the bar.
NASA officials said the Sunday mishap occurred largely because the ground-based simulator that Thuot trained on for a year did not adequately mirror the sensitivity of the orbiting satellite.
As a result, NASA officials said that Thuot, instead of applying the planned 10 pounds of force on the satellite, actually used 90 pounds as he attempted to snag it and grapple it into the shuttle's cargo bay.
"The system just proved to be a little more sensitive--or maybe a lot more sensitive . . . than we predicted," said Randy Stone, NASA mission operations director. "Nobody screwed up. Nobody did anything wrong."
Flight controllers at Intelsat's Washington headquarters fired the satellite's small rocket motors to halt its tumbling. They also used smaller thrusters to increase the satellite's spin, which enhances its stability.
By early Monday, the satellite was again stable and ready for a second rendezvous with Endeavour, an Intelsat spokesman said. The goal was to capture the satellite, clamp it to a new 23,000-pound, solid-fuel rocket motor and rocket it into its proper orbit.
A successful rescue of the Intelsat 6 would mark the first time that astronauts had saved a satellite by delivering a new rocket motor and attaching it in space.
At 2 p.m. PDT, flying 225 miles over Australia, the Endeavour began closing in for its final approach to the satellite, which was less than two miles away and traveling at 17,500 miles an hour.
Seven minutes later, Thuot and Hieb left the shuttle's air lock and entered the spacecraft's open cargo bay.
Meanwhile, Endeavour commander Daniel C. Brandenstein, working from the shuttle's aft cockpit, took manual control of the spacecraft as the shuttle came abreast of the satellite, flying about 2,500 feet below the target. Brandenstein slowly pulled the shuttle up in front of the satellite, with the shuttle's tail pointed toward the Earth. Astronaut Kathryn C. Thornton, 39, used a laser gun to measure the distance between the shuttle and the satellite.
The maneuver aligned the open shuttle cargo bay with the bottom of the Intelsat 6.
As the shuttle pulled into position, Thuot attached a small platform to the shuttle's movable robot arm, and stepped into a pair of stirrups on the platform. Tied to the platform, Thuot picked up the capture bar and began a practice session.
Hanging upside down over the cargo bay, Thuot gently bumped the bar along one of the handrails at the edge of the shuttle's 60-foot-long cargo bay. The purpose of the session was for Thuot to get a better feel of how much force would be required to capture the satellite.
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-05-12/news/mn-1697_1_space-shuttle-endeavour/2
Los Angeles Times
(Page 2 of 2)
Maverick Satellite Still Eludes Lasso by Shuttle : Space: Target foils Endeavour's crew on 9 different efforts. NASA may try a new rescue attempt today.
May 12, 1992 ROBERT W. STEWART TIMES STAFF WRITER
Brandenstein, meanwhile, continued to fly the shuttle in a mini-orbit, up and over the satellite, killing time until Endeavour and the Intelsat 6 emerged from the Earth's shadow into daylight.
At 3:52 p.m. PDT, Melnick told Thuot: "OK, here we go."
During the next 26 minutes, Melnick made five attempts to place Thuot at the center of the satellite's undercarriage, which resembles a 12-foot-wide, rotating tin can.
He came close several times, but was thwarted by a slight wobble in the satellite, or by the proximity of the capture bar to the satellite's small rocket motors. After waiting for the next opportunity to work in daylight, Thuot tried again, with the same result.
If things had gone as planned, Thuot was to have grabbed the bottom of the satellite. Then, gripping a wheel built into the bar, he was to have slowed, and finally stopped, the satellite's spin, and then hooked the bar--and the satellite--onto the shuttle's robot arm.
The plan called for Melnick to then pull Thuot and the satellite back into the shuttle bay. There, Thuot was to have unstrapped himself from the arm. Then, Thuot and Hieb were supposed to have hitched the satellite to four docking clamps on the frame that houses the new rocket motor.
After the two crew members attached electric umbilical cords linking the motor to the satellite, they were to set four pre-loaded springs designed to push the satellite and rocket back into space.
Once the spacewalkers were safely inside, the crew was to release the springs and send the satellite assembly spinning away from the shuttle at a speed of about half a foot per second.
The satellite, which is to beam video of the 1992 Summer Olympics around the world, was stranded in a useless low-Earth orbit in March, 1990, when the commercial Titan rocket that carried it aloft malfunctioned.
http://wikilivres.ca/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four_-_Part_II,_9
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Part II, Chapter 9
written by George Orwell, year 1949
'Julia.'
No answer.
'Julia, are you awake?'
No answer. She was asleep. He shut the book, put it carefully on the floor, lay down, and pulled the coverlet over both of them.
He had still, he reflected, not learned the ultimate secret. He understood HOW; he did not understand WHY. Chapter I, like Chapter III, had not actually told him anything that he did not know, it had merely systematized the knowledge that he possessed already. But after reading it he knew better than before that he was not mad. Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad. A yellow beam from the sinking sun slanted in through the window and fell across the pillow. He shut his eyes. The sun on his face and the girl's smooth body touching his own gave him a strong, sleepy, confident feeling. He was safe, everything was all right. He fell asleep murmuring 'Sanity is not statistical,' with the feeling that this remark contained in it a profound wisdom.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2068837/releaseinfo
IMDb
The Untouchables (TV Series)
Pilot (1959)
Release Info
USA 22 January 1959
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2068837/
IMDb
The Untouchables: Season 1, Episode 0
Pilot (22 Jan. 1959)
TV Episode
Robert Stack ... Eliot Ness
Release Date: 22 January 1959 (USA)
From 8/1/1949 ( premiere US TV series "Academy Theatre"::series premiere episode "The Stolen Prince" ) To 1/19/1993 ( in Asheville North Carolina as United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess I was seriously wounded by gunfire when I returned fatal gunfire to a fugitive from United States federal justice who was another criminal sent by Bill Gates-Nazi-Microsoft-George Bush the cowardly violent criminal in another attempt to kill me the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) is 15877 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 4/22/2009 is 15877 days
Posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 11:24 AM Thursday, February 09, 2012
http://theorwellprize.co.uk/shortlists/jack-night/
THE ORWELL PRIZE
Jack Night
NightJack - An English Detective
The blog of a pseudonymous English detective.
After winning the first-ever Orwell Prize for Blogs, Jack Night was revealed to be Richard Horton by The Times following a landmark High Court ruling, The Author of a Blog vs Times Newspapers Limited.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1173173/Gritty-police-blog-wins-prestigious-literary-award-disturbing-picture-officers-work-Browns-Britain.html
MailOnline
Gritty police blog wins prestigious literary award for disturbing picture of officers' work in Brown's Britain
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 11:14 AM on 24th April 2009
An anonymous police officer has won a prestigious prize for a gritty blog about life at the front-line of policing.
Jack Night - not his real name - won the special award for blogs at the Orwell Prize ceremony for Nightjack - an English Detective.
Over a 13-month period Jack Night exposed the day-to-day realities of dealing with criminals, life on the beat, courts and bureaucracy.
Sometimes making for difficult reading, the blog told tragic real-life tales as well as offering advice to law-abiding citizens in their day-to-day dealings with the police.
Judges described the blog as 'wonderful'.
In making the award, the judges said: 'The insight into the everyday life of the police that Jack Night's wonderful blog offered was - everybody felt - something which only a blog could deliver, and he delivered it brilliantly.
'It took you to the heart of what a policeman has to do - by the first blogpost you were hooked, and could not wait to click on to the next one.'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/apr/24/orwell-prize-jack-night-winner-blog
theguardian
A fair cop: Policeman's 'perfect' blog wins Orwell prize
Sam Jones
The Guardian, Thursday 23 April 2009
The pages of a policeman's notebook, clumped as they are with impenetrable acronyms and tales of suspects proceeding in northerly directions, seldom crackle with urgent prose or lapse into howls of sardonic anger and moments of compassion.
But one serving officer, who used his daily jottings and professional experiences as raw material for a blog, has just been rewarded with the Orwell special prize for blogs.
According to the judges, the pronouncements of "Night Jack - An English Detective" provided a perfect example of the medium's power and importance.
"The insight into the everyday life of the police that Jack Night's wonderful blog offered was - everybody felt - something which only a blog could deliver, and he delivered it brilliantly. It took you to the heart of what a policeman has to do - by the first blogpost you were hooked, and could not wait to click on to the next."
http://planetpolice.org/?author=16
AUTHOR ARCHIVES: nightjack
Errrm Hello....Is This Thing On
Posted on April 22, 2009 by nightjack
Hello.
As you may konw, this blog was put up on bricks on 1st May 2009 for several reasons, not least of which was that I want to concentrate on writing a book. However, if you have anything on your mind, I am still reading any e-mails that come my way and I answer most of them. I am at thenightjack@hotmail.co.uk I’m also sure that I will be back at some point in the future.
This post was my immediate reaction, live blogged, to winning the Orwell Prize.
I am sitting here at home with a glass of fizz at one hand and sausage, chips and beans at the other. My representative at the Orwell Prize Ceremony has just rung me with the news that I have won. It has also just been twittered on Iain Dale’s Diary so it must be true.
I couldn’t go to the ceremony but I got a friend from way, way back to go in my stead. This is what I asked him to say
When I started the Night Jack blog back in February last year, I was standing on the shoulders of others. I heard about a Police blog called Inspector Gadget at work. I read it and I agreed with it. My comments on there started to get so long that one evening I sat down with my laptop and started a blog of my own.
As I wrote more posts I found that people were coming to my site to read and leave comments. Arguments started, some of them even came close to being reasoned debates. Then people in other blogs started linking to some of my posts and saying they were worth reading. As the readership headed over 1,000 a day, I started getting the occasional e-mail from the news media asking for an interview. I even got the obligatory Police blogging book offer. I am not now, nor have I ever been, a media cop.
http://theorwellprize.co.uk/events/awards-ceremony-2009/
THE ORWELL PRIZE
Awards Ceremony 2009
Wednesday 22 April, 2009
7:00pm
Foreign Press Association
11 Carlton House Terrace, London
SW1Y 5AJ
Jack Night wins Special Prize for Blogs for NightJack – An English Detective
The winners of the Orwell Prize 2009 were announced on Wednesday 22nd April 2009 from 7pm at a ceremony
excerpt ends Posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 11:24 AM Thursday, February 09, 2012
From 12/20/1994 ( on the ground in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) To 5/21/2006 is 4170 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 4/3/1977 ( premiere US TV miniseries "Jesus of Nazareth" ) is 4170 days
From 12/21/1955 ( premiere US film "The Indian Fighter" ) To 5/21/2006 is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
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 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 officially the United States Apache attack helicopter pilot ) is 9207 days
From 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate ) To 5/21/2006 is 5545 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 1/7/1981 ( Clair Farrand dead ) is 5545 days
From 2/5/1954 ( premiere US TV series episode "Topper"::"Astrology" ) To 5/21/2006 is 19098 days
19098 = 9549 + 9549
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 12/25/1991 ( as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) is 9549 days
From 7/27/1997 ( premiere US TV series "Stargate SG-1"::series premiere episode "Children of the Gods" ) To 5/21/2006 is 3220 days
3220 = 1610 + 1610
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 Earth's atmosphere ) is 1610 days
From 5/13/1953 ( premiere US film "Law and Order" ) To 5/21/2006 is 19366 days
19366 = 9683 + 9683
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 5/7/1992 ( the first launch of the United States 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 of America National Aeronautics and Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 9683 days
From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 11:04 AM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: Journal May 21, 2006
Kerry Burgess wrote:
I think it was my first thought after waking up this morning that I used to date Julia Roberts a long time ago.
I also have these unexplained thoughts that I was a fighter pilot in the U.S. military, although I'm not sure which service, but I may have been in two different branches over time. I am also confused about thoughts that I may have been a helicopter pilot. What's next? A space shuttle pilot? Seems like a lot for someone that is only 40. And, while I am not sure when this divergence happened, I am reasonably certain it was before I turned 33. So I must have been a pretty busy guy. Especially because I have thoughts that I was some kind of mathmetician too. I have these thoughts too that I was captured by enemy forces at some point and tortured while in captivity.
Stargate SG-1 - Children of the Gods - television series premiere Season 1 Episode 1 - Sunday 27 July 1997
Episode Summary
The System Lord Apophis launches an attack through the Stargate, tucked away by the military after the events of the movie, and the SGC program is reactivated and given a new objective - seek out and find the alien invaders and defeat them. Jack O'Neill is called out of retirement and sent to locate Daniel Jackson on Abydos.
(from internet transcript of incomplete dialog)
United States Air Force major general HAMMOND: You violated direct orders! Why?
United States Air Force colonel Jack O'NEILL: Because the people of Abydos are no threat to us. They deserve to be left alone.
HAMMOND: That's not up to you.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045991/releaseinfo
IMDb
Law and Order (1953)
Release Info
USA 13 May 1953
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045991/fullcredits
IMDb
Law and Order (1953)
Full Cast & Crew
Ronald Reagan ... Frame Johnson
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/explorer/explorer-overview.html
NASA
Explorer 1 Overview
Explorer 1 was the first satellite launched by the United States when it was sent into space on January 31, 1958. Following the launch of the Soviet Union's Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957, the U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency was directed to launch a satellite using its Jupiter C rocket developed under the direction of Dr. Wernher von Braun. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory received the assignment to design, build and operate the artificial satellite that would serve as the rocket's payload. JPL completed this job in less than three months.
The primary science instrument on Explorer 1 was a cosmic ray detector designed to measure the radiation environment in Earth orbit. Once in space this experiment, provided by Dr. James Van Allen of the University of Iowa, revealed a much lower cosmic ray count than expected. Van Allen theorized that the instrument may have been saturated by very strong radiation from a belt of charged particles trapped in space by Earth's magnetic field. The existence of these radiation belts was confirmed by another U.S. satellite launched two months later, and they became known as the Van Allen Belts in honor of their discoverer.
Explorer 1 revolved around Earth in a looping orbit that took it as close as 354 kilometers (220 miles) to Earth and as far as 2,515 kilometers (1,563 miles). It made one orbit every 114.8 minutes, or a total of 12.54 orbits per day. The satellite itself was 203 centimeters (80 inches) long and 15.9 centimeters (6.25 inches) in diameter. Explorer 1 made its final transmission on May 23, 1958. It entered Earth's atmosphere and burned up on March 31, 1970, after more than 58,000 orbits.
Stargate SG-1 - Children of the Gods - television series premiere Season 1 Episode 1 - Sunday 27 July 1997
(from internet transcript of incomplete dialog)
Cut to the sky above the Stargate, as a Goa'uld transport vessel glides down to hover directly over the Gate, a hatch in its belly opening.
Cut back to the path. O'Neill is slightly ahead, checking things out at the top of a rise. He sees what's going on, and turns back to the refugees.
O'NEILL: All right, come on, people, let's go. Let's move!
At his order, the group of people start moving again, this time running for the Stargate. Teal'c stops as he reaches O'Neill.
TEAL'C: The boy you seek is no longer who he was.
O'NEILL: I don't want to hear that.
From 3/7/1963 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Twilight Zone"::"No Time Like the Past" ) To 5/21/2006 ( referenced in text above here: Kerry Burgess - Re: Journal May 21, 2006 ) is 15781 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 1/16/2009 is 15781 days
Other post by me on this topic:https://hvom.blogspot.com/2018/10/keeping-faith.html
http://www.tv.com/shows/battlestar-galactica/sometimes-a-great-notion-1220671/
tv.com
Battlestar Galactica Season 4 Episode 11
Sometimes a Great Notion
Aired Friday 10:00 PM Jan 16, 2009 on Syfy
Episode Summary
Both the humans of the Colonial fleet and their Cylon allies fight against the emotion of overwhelming despair as they try to understand what happened to the 13th Tribe. Dee reconciles with her husband Lee Adama despite being devastated about the discovery of Earth. Kara finds a puzzling and disturbing clue regarding her identity.
AIRED: 1/16/09
http://www.tv.com/shows/jesus-of-nazareth/part-i-1039426/
tv.com
Jesus of Nazareth Season 1 Episode 1
Part I
Aired Apr 03, 1977 on NBC
In Roman-occupied Palestine, a baby boy is born in the town of Bethlehem and is spirited away to Egypt to avoid an edict that directs soldiers to kill all infant males aged two and younger. Given the name of Jesus, he grows up to become an extraordinary but controversial Rabbi, gathering together followers while preaching new interpretations of scripture. He eventually captures the attention of the local religious leaders after allegedly performing miracles and proclaiming to be the messiah.
AIRED: 4/3/77
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_myth_theory
Christ myth theory
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Christ myth theory (also known as the Jesus myth theory, Jesus mythicism or simply mythicism) is the hypothesis that Jesus of Nazareth never existed; or if he did, that he had virtually nothing to do with the founding of Christianity and the accounts in the gospels. The Christ myth theory contradicts the mainstream view in historical Jesus research, which accepts that there are events described in the gospels that are not historical but which still assumes that the gospels are founded on a basic historical core.
Different proponents espouse slightly different versions of the Christ myth theory, but many proponents of the theory use a three-fold argument first developed in the 19th century:
that the New Testament has no historical value
that there are no non-Christian references to Jesus Christ dating back to the first century
that Christianity had pagan or mythical roots.
Notable proponents
20th century
During the early 20th century, several writers published arguments against Jesus' historicity, often drawing on the work of liberal theologians, who tended to deny any value to sources for Jesus outside the New Testament, and limited their attention to Mark and the hypothetical Q source. They also made use of the growing field of religious history which found sources for Christian ideas in Greek and Oriental mystery cults, rather than Judaism. Joseph Klausner wrote that biblical scholars "tried their hardest to find in the historic Jesus something which is not Judaism; but in his actual history they have found nothing of this whatever, since this history is reduced almost to zero. It is therefore no wonder that at the beginning of this century there has been a revival of the eighteenth and nineteenth century view that Jesus never existed."
The work of social anthropologist Sir James George Frazer has had an influence on various myth theorists, although Frazer himself believed that Jesus existed. In 1890 he published the first edition of The Golden Bough which attempted to define the shared elements of religious belief. This work became the basis of many later authors who argued that the story of Jesus was a fiction created by Christians. After a number of people claimed that he was a myth theorist, in the 1913 expanded edition of The Golden Bough Frazer expressly stated that his theory assumed a historical Jesus.
In 1900, Scottish MP John Mackinnon Robertson argued that Jesus never existed but was an invention by a first-century messianic cult. In Robertson's view, religious groups invent new gods to fit the needs of the society of the time.
Posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 9:51 AM Thursday, February 09, 2012
"the first-ever"
http://theorwellprize.co.uk/shortlists/jack-night/
THE ORWELL PRIZE
Jack Night
NightJack - An English Detective
The blog of a pseudonymous English detective.
After winning the first-ever Orwell Prize for Blogs, Jack Night was revealed to be Richard Horton by The Times following a landmark High Court ruling, The Author of a Blog vs Times Newspapers Limited.
excerpt ends Posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 9:51 AM Thursday, February 09, 2012
Posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 5:42 AM Thursday, February 09, 2012
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/shortcuts/2012/feb/08/police-blogger-night-jack-fair-cop?INTCMP=SRCH
theguardian
For police blogger NightJack, it wasn't a fair cop
He won an Orwell prize for his writing. But since being identified against his wishes as NightJack, detective constable Richard Horton hasn't penned another word
Patrick Kingsley
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 8 February 2012 15.00 EST
Detective constable Richard Horton – the blogger formerly known as NightJack – is an unlucky man. In 2009, after winning an Orwell prize for his anonymous chronicle of life as a Lancashire police officer, his identity was disclosed against his wishes by the Times – a discovery that was revealed this week to have been made through the hacking of his email.
excerpt ends Posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 11:24 AM Thursday, February 09, 2012
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