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Mac: Goddamn! Shew. Buddy buddy-buddy-buddy-buddy. I've seen some bad-ass bush before, man, but nothin' like this.
Blain: I hear ya. This shit's somethin'. Makes Cambodia look like Kansas.
Mac: Hey, que pasa, amigo? Little taste of home.
Blain: You lose it here, you're in a world of hurt.
The Twelve: A Novel (Book Two of the Passage Trilogy) [2012]
Justin Cronin
Page 337 of 593 (Amazon Kindle Version)
And so it had begun. It was that very day, that very hour in fact, even as he'd watched Wilkes take his first disgusted sip, that Guilder had heard the Voice. As far as he could tell, he was still the only one; none of the other staffers gave so much as a hint of experiencing Zero's mental presence.
And as for the woman, who knew what was going on inside her head?
Now, the width of one and a half human lifetimes later, his grand design coming to fruition and the last of humanity having been gathered at his feet (the Kerrville thing, like the Sergio thing, being a small but significant irritant, a pea under the mattress of the Plan), here was Wilkes with his omnipresent clipboard and a facial expression, evidently, of not-good news.
"I just thought you should know the gathering party's back. What's, ah, left of it."
With this disconcerting introduction, Wilkes withdrew the top sheet of paper from his clipboard and placed it on Guilder's desk and backed away, as if he were happy to be rid of the thing.
Guilder scanned it quickly. "What the hell, Fred."
"I guess you could say things didn't go exactly as planned."
*Nobody*? Not one of them? What is *wrong* with these people?"
Wilkes gestured toward the paper. "The flow of oil had been at least temporarily disrupted. That's a plus. It opens a lot of doors."
But Guilder was beyond consolation. First Kearney, now this. There had been a time when scooping up survivors had proved a relatively clear-cut undertaking.
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Justin Cronin
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Since then, it had been one out-of-control bloodbath after another, starting with Roswell.
"Apparently there wasn't much of a negotiation phase. The convoy was pretty heavily armed."
"I don't care if they had a nuclear missile. We knew that going in.
The Twelve: A Novel (Book Two of the Passage Trilogy) [2012]
Justin Cronin
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"We're about to go on-line here, and this is what you tell me? We need bodies, Fred. Living, breathing bodies. Can't she control these things anymore?"
"We could go in the old-fashioned way. I said so from the start. We'd take some casualties, but if we keep hitting their oil supply, sooner or later their defenses will weaken."
"We *collect* people, Fred. We don't lose them. Have I failed to make myself clear? Can you not do the basic math? People are the *point*."
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Base value aside, can anyone top this? :)
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Predator (1987)
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USA 12 June 1987
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Predator (1987)
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Dutch: What's the matter? The CIA got you pushing too many pencils?
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Predator (1987)
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Dutch: Who's our backup?
Dillon: No such thing, ol' buddy. This is a one-way ticket. Once we cross that border, we're on our own.
Dutch: This is getting better by the minute.
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Predator (1987)
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Dutch: Yesterday, what did you see?
Dillon: You're wasting your time.
Dutch: No more games!
Anna: I don't know what it was. It...
[surprised look on Dillon's face]
Dutch: Go on.
Anna: It changed colours, like the chameleon, it uses the jungle.
Dillon: You saying that Blain and Hawkins were killed by a fucking lizard? That's a bullshit psyche job. There is two to three men out there at the most. Fucking lizard.
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Anna: When I was little, we found a man. He looked like - like, butchered. The old woman in the village crossed themselves... and whispered crazy things, strange things. "El Diablo cazador de hombres." Only in the hottest years this happens. And this year, it grows hot. We begin finding our men. We found them sometimes without their skins... and sometimes much, much worse. "El cazador trofeo de los hombres" means the demon who makes trophies of men.
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Dutch: Run! Get to the chopper!
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Rocket Blasts Satellite Toward a Proper Orbit : Space: The reboost is flawlessly accomplished. Two astronauts perform mission's last planned spacewalk.
May 15, 1992 ROBERT W. STEWART TIMES STAFF WRITER
HOUSTON — The stranded communications satellite rescued by three shuttle astronauts blasted toward its proper orbit Thursday, ending a dramatic effort that in the words of NASA's top official "brought the magic back to our space program."
The 23,000-pound rocket motor clamped to the marooned Intelsat 6 by the crew of space shuttle Endeavour fired flawlessly at 10:25 a.m. PDT while both were orbiting about 230 miles over Africa, said a spokesman for the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization. The 122-nation consortium, based in Washington, owns and operates the $150-million satellite.
The reboost capped a dramatic, four-day rescue effort in which astronauts were forced to discard a specially designed, $7-million tool that failed to snag the errant satellite, and instead literally reached up and grabbed the Intelsat with their gloved hands.
Wednesday's 8-hour, 29-minute spacewalk, which includes the time astronauts spent in the shuttle airlock, was the longest in the history of the American space program.
"It was a wonderful feat," said Daniel S. Goldin, the new administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The successful rescue, Goldin argued, is an endorsement of the nation's manned space program, which has come under attack by some in Congress because of its expense. The planned space station Freedom, for example, is expected to cost between $30 billion and $40 billion through the end of the decade.
In the last planned spacewalk of the mission Thursday, Air Force Lt. Col. Thomas D. Akers, 40, and physicist Kathryn C. Thornton, 39--only the second American woman to walk in space--ventured out of the shuttle at 2:07 p.m. PDT to practice techniques that will be used in building the space station.
Their task was to assemble a package of struts, some of which were used in Wednesday's satellite rescue, into a pyramid-like structure secured in the shuttle's open cargo bay. The structure then was lifted high over the bay by the shuttle's 50-foot robot arm.
After snagging Intelsat 6 Wednesday and attaching the new booster rocket, the shuttle crew released the satellite, which was allowed to drift away. The two were more than 400 miles apart by the time Intelsat 6's rocket motor was fired Thursday. After the fiery reboost, which was visible from the shuttle, the motor separated from the satellite at 11:51 a.m. PDT, and Intelsat 6 streaked into a temporary elliptical orbit that will take it as far as 45,000 nautical miles from the Earth. By next Wednesday, the satellite is expected to settle into its stationary, geosynchronous orbit 22,300 nautical miles over the Atlantic Ocean.
When it begins operating in mid-July, the satellite will be able to simultaneously transmit 120,000 telephone calls and three television feeds. It is expected to earn more than $750 million for Intelsat over its 10-year life.
Goldin offered lavish praise for the Intelsat rescue.
"What we have done," Goldin said, "is demonstrate that humans can and should operate in space." He spoke of "brilliance of the human mind, that's able to adapt and react and do the things that machines just can't do."
"In front of the eyes of the world, they performed the impossible. . . . Yesterday brought the magic back to our space program."
At Intelsat headquarters, consortium Vice President Pierre Madon said: "Clearly, this is a magnificent day for both Intelsat and NASA. . . . I offer my hearty congratulations to the crew of Endeavour and NASA for a job well done."
Even as Goldin was congratulating the seven Endeavour astronauts and flight controllers at the Johnson Space Center for the rescue, NASA engineers were searching for lessons in the trouble-plagued mission, which is to end Saturday with a scheduled 1:57 p.m. PDT landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
"One of the preliminary factors we're learning about is how to do better simulations on the ground," Goldin said Thursday.
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NASA Selectee's Unit at TRW Faces Fraud Suit : Aerospace: Daniel Goldin is not a defendant. A former employee accuses the unit of billing the government for the cost of correcting satellite design mistakes.
March 26, 1992 RALPH VARTABEDIAN TIMES STAFF WRITER
A TRW unit led by Daniel Goldin, nominated earlier this month to head the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, was served Wednesday with a whistle-blower lawsuit alleging that the firm made fraudulent claims for payments on government satellite contracts.
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, alleges that TRW's Space & Technology group in Redondo Beach used improper design standards for the spy, communications and scientific satellites, then billed the government for the cost of correcting the errors.
Goldin is not named as a defendant. The suit alleges that the former employee, Vitali Efros of Reseda, attempted unsuccessfully to contact Goldin before Efros' dismissal in June, 1989.
"Mr. Efros made a number of allegations while he was an employee at TRW, all of which were investigated and found to have no merit," said Julian Levine, a spokesman for TRW in Redondo Beach.
Goldin, a TRW group vice president, is facing confirmation hearings as early as Friday before the Senate subcommittee on science, technology and space, chaired by Sen. Albert Gore Jr. (D-Tenn.), a committee staffer said.
The Senate staff member said the allegations in the suit will be looked into. They will be considered important if they are borne out, the staffer said. Gore has previously said he wanted the confirmation hearings to go as quickly as possible.
Efros, whose job was "checker" of engineering drawings at TRW, asserted in an interview that he was fired by the aerospace firm after he protested to senior management that TRW was not using the design standards required under its Air Force contracts.
The suit does not cite specific damages resulting from the use of the improper standards, but Efros' attorney, William R. Ramsey of Valencia, said the costs to the government total millions of dollars.
The whistle-blower suit was filed in November, 1990, under the federal False Claims Act, which allows individuals to sue government contractors on behalf of the public and share in any damages awarded.
Under procedures typically followed in such cases, the TRW case was sealed while the Department of Justice weighed whether it wanted to join in the prosecution. Ramsey said Justice officials are still considering whether to join the case, adding that the matter is under investigation by the Air Force's Office of Special Investigations.
Justice Department and Air Force investigators could not be reached for comment.
Efros alleges in the suit that TRW, for the four years of his employment, either failed to use or improperly used design standards established by the American National Standards Institute in 1982. As a result, several hundred drawings for satellite parts had to be redone.
In the interview, Efros said he earned an engineering degree in the former Soviet Union and emigrated to the United States in 1974. He became a U.S. citizen and was granted clearances on top-secret military satellite programs.
In raising concerns about the drawings, he said, "my purpose was to build the best satellites possible to defeat those bastards in the Soviet Union."
Efros said he failed in repeated attempts to help clear up the problem through training other workers in the proper use of ANSI standards and by bringing the problem to the attention of upper management.
Ultimately, Efros says in the suit, he reported the technical problems to the Pentagon's fraud hot line. As a result, he gave a briefing to the Air Force Space Division in October, 1988, prompting the Air Force's investigation into the matter.
But the suit alleges that TRW officials fired him after learning that he triggered the investigation. On two occasions prior to his firing, Goldin, through his secretary, canceled appointments with Efros for unspecified reasons, he said in the interview.
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Time Enough at Last (1959)
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Henry Bemis: And the best thing, the very best thing of all, is there's time now... there's all the time I need and all the time I want. Time, time, time. There's time enough at last.
- posted by Kerry Burgess 2:01 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Sunday 04 November 2018
