Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home: Environment & Energy

September 11, 2001 as a Cultural Trauma: A Case Study through Popular Culture

Springer, Jan 20, 2017

Battlestar Galactica premiered as a regularly scheduled sci-fi series

Ever since, popular press and academic criticism has consistently regarded the series as a thought-provoking exposition of the social and political concerns dominating American life in the wake of September 11

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Posted by Kerry Burgess at 11:33 AM

Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home

Thursday, June 06, 2019

Ragnar Anchorage

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Doral: What kind of people are you?

From 11/10/1961 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Twilight Zone"::"Deaths-Head Revisited" ) To 12/16/1999 ( ) is 13915 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) To 12/8/2003 is 13915 days

From 12/8/2003 ( premiere US TV miniseries "Battlestar Galactica" ) To 2/6/2004 ( as Kerry Burgess my final day full-time employment Microsoft Corporation in Seattle ) is 60 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) To 1/1/1966 ( Ivica Dacic ) is 60 days

From 12/8/2003 ( premiere US TV miniseries "Battlestar Galactica" ) To 2/6/2004 ( as Kerry Burgess my final day full-time employment Microsoft Corporation in Seattle ) is 60 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) To 1/1/1966 ( the United States Military Airlift Command established ) is 60 days

From 6/14/1951 ( the Univac dedication by the United States Census Bureau ) To 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash in Sioux City Iowa and the end of Kerry Burgess the natural human being cloned from another human being ) is 13915 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) To 12/8/2003 is 13915 days

From 12/25/1991 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind: in non-aviator related duties on the ground as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) To 12/8/2003 is 4366 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) To 10/16/1977 ( premiere US TV series episode "On Our Own"::"Honesty Is Not the Best Policy" ) is 4366 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 12/8/2003 is 4650 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) To 7/27/1978 ( premiere US film "Animal House" ) is 4650 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 12/8/2003 is 4650 days

4650 = 2325 + 2325

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) To 3/15/1972 ( premiere US film "Slaughterhouse-Five" ) is 2325 days

From 10/21/1974 ( premiere US TV series episode "Gunsmoke"::"The Iron Men" ) To 12/8/2003 is 10640 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) To 12/20/1994 ( in non-aviator related duties 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 ) is 10640 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 12/8/2003 is 10018 days

10018 = 5009 + 5009

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) To 7/21/1979 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan and my sister-in-law Phoebe Cates are lawfully married in the state of Vermont ) is 5009 days

From 6/5/1987 ( as Kerry Burgess my official United States Navy documents includes: Earned NEC 1189 - Based on graduation from the Terrier Mk 152 Guided-missiles Fire Control Computer Complex course - Naval Guided Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia Beach, Virginia ) To 12/8/2003 is 6030 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) To 5/7/1982 ( premiere US film "Paradise" ) is 6030 days

From 10/4/1960 ( premiere US film "Children of the Sun" ) To 12/8/2003 is 15770 days

15770 = 7885 + 7885

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) 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 Guided-missiles Fire Control Computer Complex course - Naval Guided Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia Beach, Virginia ) is 7885 days

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tv.com

Battlestar Galactica Episode 1

Battlestar Galactica:The Mini-Series

AIRED: 12/8/03

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Paradise (1982)

Release Info

USA 7 May 1982

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084469/fullcredits

IMDb

Paradise (1982)

Full Cast & Crew

Phoebe Cates ... Sarah

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Children of the Sun (1960)

Release Info

USA 4 October 1960 (New York City, New York)

https://spokanehistorical.org/items/show/68#&gid=1&pid=6

https://spokanehistorical.org/items/show/68

Spokane Historical

Steam Plant

Battlestar Galactica - tv miniseries - 12/08/2003, 12/9/2003

(internet transcript)

Billy: Ahh, the captain of the Astral Queen wants you to know that he's got nearly five hundred convicted criminals under heavy guard in his cargo hold. They were being transported to a penal station when the attack happened.

Roslin: Oh, great.

Billy: He wants to know what to do with them.

Roslin: What to do with them?

Billy: Well, with food and medical supplies being what they are, I think he's considering just...

Roslin: No, no. No, we're not gonna start that. They're still human beings. Tell the captain I expect daily reports on the wellbeing of his prisoners, and if there's any mysterious deaths, the Astral Queen may find herself on her own without the Galactica's protection.

Billy: Yes, Madame President.

Roslin: Thank you, Billy. (He leaves.) You planning to stage a military coup?

Adama: What?

Roslin: Do you plan to declare martial law? Take over the government?

Adama: Of course not.

Roslin: Then you do acknowledge my position as president as duly constituted under the articles of colonization.

Adama: Miss Roslin, my primary objective at the present time is to repair the Galactica and continue to fight.

Roslin: What we do know at this moment is that there are fifty thousand civilian refugees out there who don't stand a chance without your ship to protect them.

Adama: We're aware of the tactical situation, and I'm sure that you'll all be safe here on Ragnar after we leave.

Roslin: After you leave? Where are you going?

Adama: To find the enemy. We're at war, and that's my mission.

Roslin: I honestly don't know why I have to keep telling you this, but the war is over.

Adama: It hasn't begun yet.

Roslin: That's insane.

Adama: You would rather that we run?

Roslin: Yes, absolutely. That is the only sane thing to do here, exactly that: run. We leave this solar system, and we don't look back.

Adama: And we go where?

Roslin: I don't know. Another star system, another planet, somewhere where the Cylons won't find us.

Adama: You can run if you like. This ship will stand, and it will fight.

Roslin: I'm gonna be straight with you here. The human race is about to be wiped out. We have fifty thousand people left, and that's it. Now, if we are even going to survive as a species, then we need to get the hell out of here

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Spokane

Time Line

{18th - 21st century}

1700

Spokane is a Native American word meaning "Children of the Sun."

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1699276/

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Battlestar Galactica (2003)

Episode #1.2

Episode aired 9 December 2003

Season 1 Episode 2

Battlestar Galactica (miniseries)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Battlestar Galactica is a three-hour miniseries

Part 2

Baltar has Doral arrested and fakes creating a test that has pointed to Doral being a Cylon. Despite Doral's protests and the fact that he is displaying no symptoms as Leoben did, he is abandoned on Ragnar Anchorage

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Deaths-Head Revisited

AIRED: 11/10/61

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Potash

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Battlestar Galactica Wiki

Ragnar Anchorage

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Battlestar Galactica - tv miniseries - 12/08/2003, 12/9/2003

(internet transcript)

(Tigh, Apollo and Baltar are gathered around a table.)

Tigh: Ship's doctors say that at first glance, everything in Leoben's body appears human. Internal organs, lymphatic system, the works.

Baltar: Right, well the tissue sample yielded unique chemical compounds during the cremation that reveal the nature of the sample to be synthetic. (He feigns surprise.) So he was a Cylon?

http://www.tv.com/shows/on-our-own-1977/honesty-is-not-the-best-policy-1041589/

tv.com

On Our Own (1977) Season 1 Episode 2

Honesty is Not the Best Policy

AIRED: 10/16/77

From 12/6/1978 ( Jimmy Carter - Proclamation 4628 - Knoxville International Energy Exposition of 1982 ) To 12/9/2003 is 9134 days

9134 = 4567 + 4567

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) To 5/5/1978 ( Jimmy Carter - Spokane, Washington Remarks at Dedication Ceremonies for Riverfront Park ) is 4567 days

From 2/26/1984 ( premiere US TV movie "Lace" ) To 12/9/2003 is 7226 days

7226 = 3613 + 3613

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) To 9/24/1975 ( premiere US film "Three Days of the Condor" ) is 3613 days

From 9/18/1947 ( the United States National Security Act of 1947 & the United States Central Intelligence Agency established ) To 10/24/1985 ( László József Bíró dead ) is 13916 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) To 12/9/2003 is 13916 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 12/9/2003 is 4651 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) To 7/28/1978 ( premiere US film "Animal House" ) is 4651 days

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IMDb

Battlestar Galactica (2003)

Episode #1.2

Episode aired 9 December 2003

Season 1 Episode 2

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087583/releaseinfo

IMDb

Lace (1984 TV Mini-Series)

Release Info

USA 26 February 1984

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087583/fullcredits

IMDb

Lace (1984 TV Movie)

Full Cast & Crew

Phoebe Cates ... Lili

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Laszlo-Biro

Encyclopaedia Britannica

László Bíró

HUNGARIAN INVENTOR

László Bíró, in full László József Bíró, also called Biró Ladislao, (born September 29, 1899, Budapest, Hungary—died October 24, 1985, Buenos Aires, Argentina), Hungarian inventor of the easy-to-use writing implement generally known as the biro in Britain and the ballpoint pen in the United States.

Battlestar Galactica - tv miniseries - 12/08/2003, 12/9/2003

(internet transcript)

Six (her presence detectable only by Gaius Baltar ): And just like that, Dr. Baltar invents the amazing Cylon detector.

Doral: Look, gentlemen, I understand your concerns here. This is a very difficult situation, but I think you need to take a step back, take a deep breath, and really look at what you're doing here.

Tigh: I want everyone aboard this ship screened. No exceptions.

Baltar: I promise.

Doral: (He stands up, the guards point their guns at him.) Whoa, whoa, whoa. I don't know about anybody else, but I can tell you that I'm human. I'm, I'm from Oasis, you know it? It's a hamlet a couple stops out of Caprica City. I grew up on the South Side. I went to school at the Kobol Colleges on, on Geminon and I studied public relations!

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/univac-computer-dedicated

History

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

JUNE 14 1951

UNIVAC computer dedicated

On June 14, 1951, the U.S. Census Bureau dedicates UNIVAC, the world’s first commercially produced electronic digital computer. UNIVAC, which stood for Universal Automatic Computer, was developed by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, makers of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer.

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The Man with My Face (1951)

Release Info

USA 14 June 1951 (New York City, New York)

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https://www.census.gov/history/www/innovations/technology/univac_i.html

The United States Census Bureau

Census Bureau officials attended the dedication of UNIVAC I at the Eckert-Mauchly Laboratory in Philadelphia, PA, on June 14, 1951.

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Belknap class cruiser

The Belknap class cruiser was a class of single-ended guided missile cruisers

When commissioned, the main armament of the Belknap class was a 5 inch/54-caliber Mk. 42 gun on the quarterdeck and a twin-rail RIM-2 Terrier Mk 10 Missile Launcher on the foredeck.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIVAC_418

UNIVAC 418

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The UNIVAC 418 was a transistorized, 18-bit word core memory machine made by Sperry Univac.

The militarized version was called the UNIVAC 1219 (known as the "Mk 152 Fire Control Computer.") It was part of the Navy's Mk 76 missile fire control system, used to control the AN/SPG-55 radar system.

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Battlestar Galactica - tv miniseries - 12/08/2003, 12/9/2003

(internet transcript)

Doral: Don't. I'm, I'm begging you. Don't do this! I'm not a Cylon.

Colonel Tigh: Maybe, but we just can't take that chance.

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http://www.tv.com/shows/the-twilight-zone/deaths-head-revisited-12659/trivia/

tv.com

The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 9

Deaths-Head Revisited

Aired Nov 10, 1961

Quotes

Becker: They just heard you offer the apology for all the monsters of our times. "We did as we were told. We functioned as orders. We merely carried out directives from our superiors."

http://www.tv.com/shows/the-twilight-zone/deaths-head-revisited-12659/trivia/

tv.com

The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 9

Deaths-Head Revisited

Aired Nov 10, 1961

Quotes

Doctor: (looking around at the ruins of the camp) Dachau...why does it still stand? Why do we keep it standing?