The Twelve: A Novel (Book Two of the Passage Trilogy) [2012]
Justin Cronin
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Chapter 37
This Sergio thing: it had simply gone on too long.
Not that there hadn't been uprisings before. The year 31, wasn't it? And again in 68? Not to mention the hundred little brushfires of defiance put down over the years. And wasn't it true that the problem inevitably boiled down to a single individual, a lone renegade, who simply failed to get the *point*? That when this man was taken care of (it was always a man), the flames of resistance, deprived of their essential oxygen, would extinguish of their own accord?
And yet this Sergio: he didn't feel like the others. Standing in the window at the base of the cupola, his gaze directed over the grimy stain of the flatland and the colorless, winter fields beyond, Director Horace Guilder took stock.
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The Twelve: A Novel (Book Two of the Passage Trilogy) [2012]
Justin Cronin
Page 336 of 593 (Amazon Kindle Version)
Hence the major problem with immortality, apart from the peculiar diet: everything began to bore you.
At such moments, the only thing that cheered him was taking stock of his accomplishments. Which were not inconsiderable; they had constructed a city literally from nothing. What excitement he'd felt in the early days. The ceaseless ring of hammers. The trucks returning from their journeys across an unmanned continent, bursting with the abandoned treasures of the old world. The hundreds of tactical decisions made daily, and the buzzing energy of the staff - men handpicked from among the survivors for their expertise. They had, in short, built a veritable brain trust from the human leavings of catastrophe. Chemists. Engineers. City planners. Ag scientists. Even an astronomer (who had come in surprisingly handy)
From 10/16/1959 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Twilight Zone"::"Mr. Denton on Doomsday" ) To 10/16/2012 ( Justin Cronin "The Twelve: A Novel" Book Two of The Passage Trilogy ) is 19359 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 11/3/2018 is 19359 days
From 3/25/1956 ( premiere US TV series episode "Omnibus"::"Role of the University in American Life" ) To 11/3/2018 is 22868 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 2/21/1997 ( the landing of the US space shuttle Discovery orbiter vehicle mission STS-82 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-82 pilot astronaut and my 4th official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 11434 days
From 3/25/1956 ( premiere US film "Indestructible Man" ) To 11/3/2018 is 22868 days
22868 = 11434 + 11434
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 2/21/1997 ( the landing of the US space shuttle Discovery orbiter vehicle mission STS-82 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-82 pilot astronaut and my 4th official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 11434 days
From 3/25/1956 ( premiere US film "World Without End" ) To 11/3/2018 is 22868 days
22868 = 11434 + 11434
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 2/21/1997 ( the landing of the US space shuttle Discovery orbiter vehicle mission STS-82 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-82 pilot astronaut and my 4th official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 11434 days
From 10/2/2009 ( premiere US TV series "Stargate Universe"::series premiere episode "Air" ) To 11/3/2018 is 3319 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 12/4/1974 ( premiere US TV series episode "Cannon"::"The Sounds of Silence" ) is 3319 days
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2:52 AM - 3 Nov 2018 (Pacific Time USA)
When you're at the biggest telescope in the world but the weather's awful so you can't do any actual #astronomy, what better way to pass the time than conquering the stars? @StellarisGame
https://hvom.blogspot.com/2018/11/but-theyre-pretty-good-company.html
Posted by Kerry Burgess at 12:11 PM
Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home
I am Kerry Burgess. This is what I think.
Friday, November 02, 2018
"But they're pretty good company"
album: "Finding It Hard to Smile" (2018)
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AZ
Lovelytheband
"These Are My Friends"
These are my friends
I love them, I love them
These are my friends
I love them, I love them
I wish I was a little more loved
Tryna find a way to fix that
So many people inside my head
Momma taught me not to talk back
But they're pretty good company
They cheer me up when I feel bad
Is it my insecurities
That keep me going?
These are my friends
I love them, I love them
These are my friends
I love them, I love them
And they don't care who you are
They don't care what you do, no
These are my friends
I love them, I love them
My heart and I don't get along
It's something that I'm sad about
Everybody needs a pick me up
But I should prolly slow it down
But it's pretty good company
It cheers me up when I feel bad
These are my insecurities
That keep me going
These are my friends
I love them, I love them
These are my friends
I love them, I love them
And they don't care who you are
They don't care what you do, no
These are my friends
I love them, I love them
We are the weirdos
Inflated egos
The filthy misbehave
The ones you dream of
The ones you can't shake
Living in your brain
These are my friends
I love them, I love them
These are my friends
I love them, I love them
And they don't care who you are
They don't care what you do, no
These are my friends
I love them, I love them
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from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: year 2006
Something keeps tugging at me about "screendoors" but I can't quite grasp it yet.
So they blanked my memory.....I started trying to build my life effectivly over again, finding a woman I loved and could go home to every day, and the kind of work that I thought would have a global impact on improving peace.
Ah, one night, Randy Cole and I, and another guy named Eddie I think, were running through a neighbors backyard. One of our friends had a trampoline and we would go over and jump on it sometimes. This particular night we were going through that yard and we heard a screen door slam. Eddy and Randy ran one way, I ran the other way. As it turned out, I ran the wrong way. This huge dude hopped down off some kind of embankment wall brandishing a big knife and asking why I was in their yard.
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.
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From 7/18/1952 ( premiere US TV series episode "Schlitz Playhouse of Stars"::"Early Space Conquerors" ) To 2/21/1997 ( the landing of the US space shuttle Discovery orbiter vehicle mission STS-82 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-82 pilot astronaut and my 4th official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 16289 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 6/8/2010 is 16289 days
From 10/18/1993 ( the launch of the US space shuttle Columbia orbiter vehicle mission STS-58 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-58 pilot astronaut and my 2nd official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) To 6/8/2010 is 6077 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 6/23/1982 ( Ronald Reagan - Remarks on Signing the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982 ) is 6077 days
From 10/24/1994 ( premiere US film "Stargate" ) To 6/8/2010 is 5706 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 6/17/1981 ( premiere US TV series episode "Charlie's Angels"::"Mr. Galaxy" ) is 5706 days
Other posts by me on this topic includes: https://hvom.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-immortal.html
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You purchased this item on October 23, 2018.
The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy) Kindle Edition
by Justin Cronin (Author)
Publication Date: June 8, 2010
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 10/16/2012 is 7885 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 6/5/1987 ( 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 7/13/1954 ( premiere US film "Victory at Sea" ) To 10/16/2012 is 21280 days
21280 = 10640 + 10640
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 12/20/1994 ( in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) is 10640 days
Other posts by me on this topic includes: https://hvom.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-astronaut.html
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The Twelve (Book Two of The Passage Trilogy): A Novel (Book Two of The Passage Trilogy) Kindle Edition
by Justin Cronin (Author)
Publication Date: October 16, 2012
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/update-on-the-hubble-space-telescope-safe-mode
NASA
Hubble
Oct. 12, 2018 - Update on the Hubble Space Telescope Safe Mode
NASA continues to work toward resuming science operations of the Hubble Space Telescope after the spacecraft entered safe mode due to a failed gyroscope (gyro) on Friday, Oct. 5.
Following the gyro failure, the Hubble operations team turned on a backup gyro on the spacecraft. However, that gyro did not perform as expected, reporting rotation rates that are orders of magnitude higher than they actually are. This past week, tests were conducted to assess the condition of that backup gyro. The tests showed that the gyro is properly tracking Hubble’s movement, but the rates reported are consistently higher than the true rates. This is similar to a speedometer on your car continuously showing that your speed is 100 miles per hour faster than it actually is; it properly shows when your car speeds up or slows down, and by how much, but the actual speed is inaccurate.
When the spacecraft turns across the sky from one target to the next, the gyro is put into a coarser (high) mode. In this high mode it may be possible to subtract out a consistent large offset to get an accurate reading. However, after the large turns are over, the spacecraft attempts to lock onto a target and stay very still. For this activity, the gyro goes into a precision (low) mode to measure very small movements. The extremely high rates currently being reported exceed the upper limit of the gyro in this low mode, preventing the gyro from reporting the spacecraft’s small movements.
An anomaly review board that consists of professionals experienced in the manufacturing of such gyros, Hubble operations personnel, flight software engineers and other experts was formed earlier this week to identify the cause of this behavior and determine what solutions can be implemented from the ground to correct or compensate for it.
If the team is successful in solving the problem, Hubble will return to normal, three-gyro operations. If it is not, the spacecraft will be configured for one-gyro operations, which will still provide excellent science well into the 2020s, enabling it to work alongside the James Webb Space Telescope and continue groundbreaking science.
Safe mode places the telescope into a stable configuration that suspends science observations and orients the spacecraft’s solar panels toward the Sun to ensure Hubble’s power requirements are met. The spacecraft remains in this configuration until ground control can correct or compensate for the issue. The rest of the spacecraft and its instruments are still fully functional and are expected to produce excellent science for years to come.
A gyro is a device that measures the speed at which the spacecraft is turning, and is needed to help Hubble turn and lock on to new targets. To meet the stringent pointing requirements necessary to study far-off astronomical objects and obtain groundbreaking science data, Hubble’s gyros are extremely accurate. Hubble preferably uses three gyros at any given time to make the observatory as efficient as possible, and would work at slightly lower efficiency on only one gyro.
During Servicing Mission 4 in 2009, astronauts installed six new gyros on Hubble. Three gyros have since failed after achieving or exceeding the average runtime for a Hubble gyro. When fewer than three operational gyros remain, Hubble will continue to make scientific observations in a previously developed and tested mode that uses just one gyro in order to maximize the observatory’s lifetime.
Originally required to last 15 years, Hubble has now been operating for more than 28. The final servicing mission in 2009, expected to extend Hubble’s lifetime an additional 5 years, has now produced more than 9 years of science observations.
Hubble is managed and operated at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
For more information about Hubble, visit:
www.nasa.gov/hubble
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-twilight-zone/mr-denton-on-doomsday-12587/trivia/
tv.com
The Twilight Zone Season 1 Episode 3
Mr. Denton on Doomsday
Aired Oct 16, 1959 on CBS
Quotes
Liz: Al, I think everything's gonna be all right now, understand? Charlie says you're as good with a gun now as you ever were.
Denton: That's what Charlie says? I was good. I was real good. I was so good that once a day someone would ride into town to make me prove it
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-twilight-zone/mr-denton-on-doomsday-12587/
tv.com
The Twilight Zone Season 1 Episode 3
Mr. Denton on Doomsday
Aired Oct 16, 1959 on CBS
A has-been, drunk gunslinger finds his fast-draw abilities magically restored.
AIRED: 10/16/59
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Posted by Kerry Burgess
STARGATE WIKI
1.01 "Children Of The Gods Part 1" [ Stargate SG-1 (1997) ]
TECHNICIAN
Chevron Six encoded.
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Posted by Kerry Burgess
SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 2012
My mind.
A fairly new development are the mental images I have started to visualize.
I mean, sure, everyone, as is my understanding, most every human being has that capability.
The new development is comparable to when my so-called "foreign dreams" were plaguing my mind back in early 2006 and before that.
The clarity is the image is what's striking. And there doesn't seem to be any explanation. The sense is not unlike, I think as I sit here at my desk and write this sentence, my sleeping mind.
I feel that I have a very strong grip on reality. I think that some kind of ultranormal power of mind would require a strong sense of reality before it could develop in my mind.
I don't like fantasy, so that would probably explain why. I like the idea of getting to take a vacation and escape somewhere but the fact is, and I think this notion applies to most human beings, paradise gets boring after a while.
- posted by Kerry Burgess 10:13 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Sunday 04 November 2018
