So, here's the thing.
You dullards will never understand any of this.
I don't know specifically any person who's reading my blogs and posts.
There are some specific people that I suspect are reading my posts but I understand how easily it is to spoof a person with social media so I am susceptible also to that same influence.
But none of those people are talking *directly* to me. So I know nothing for fact.
Mainly I am thinking of the people that think they know personally Kerry Burgess. Those are the only people who might take an interest in my posts. No one else finds any interest. Stargate Fans, and their caste, find nothing interesting unless they can talk about "themselves" and their pathetic and meaningless and pointless lives. Otherwise, I just remind them of why they hate their boss.
There are several theories I have that explain my existence since the year 2005.
The people I suspect are reading these posts have nothing close to the level of imagination to seriously consider the possibility I may be right about my theory.
The facts I declare about the Fantastic Kerry Burgess of the 1990s and later, the version of Kerry Burgess who diverged in July 1989, are simply thoughts in my mind.
Thoughts I don't really care about. This stuff is a lot of work. Sitting here every day, this desk is crippling me.
I can't let it go because I am certain that if I continue working at it then I will find the answers I need to explain everything.
Now, the people who think they knew Kerry Burgess are ambivalent to Astronaut Kerry Burgess and for several reasons I can imagine.
See, they were actively deceived during that time-frame. So there is some sort of psychological denial, confirmation bias, irrational primacy effect, in their minds, in their world of mediocrity.
Where it gets really unbelievable is my contradicting theory about my existence.
My theory that some sort of technology beyond human comprehension created me a few years ago and I exist now as some sort of replicant. A biological being replicated from human form.
So technically, that astronaut stuff, that 12/20/1994, all that other fantastic marvelous stuff I've described, was not *me*, not me the version of Kerry Burgess still sitting here at this stupid desk. Sitting here now, I'm just another version in a long string of replicants that have specific purpose.
The unimaginative have tuned out already and they are simply slack-jawed yokels reading this stuff as mindlessly as children sitting around all day watching cartoons on television.
I take seriously the *fact* that these thoughts are occurring to my conscious mind.
That would make sense. That would *have* to happen for me. I would have to know. I would have to suspect The Horrible Truth.
But the part that's really imaginative is my continued suspicion about reality.
That reality is being deceived actively.
I had no idea until a few hours ago about that airplane crash Gene Roddenberry supposedly survived in 1949, as noted in my recent blog posts here.
For me, that event never existed in reality until a few hours ago.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049223/quotes
IMDb
Forbidden Planet (1956)
Quotes
Dr. Morbius: In times long past, this planet was the home of a mighty, noble race of beings who called themselves the Krell. Ethically and technologically they were a million years ahead of humankind, for in unlocking the mysteries of nature they had conquered even their baser selves, and when in the course of eons they had abolished sickness and insanity, crime and all injustice, they turned, still in high benevolence, upwards towards space. Then, having reached the heights, this all-but-divine race perished in a single night, and nothing was preserved above ground.
https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1148714220525109248
NASA
Verified account
@NASA
3:03 PM - 9 Jul 2019
Every moment of video footage from Apollo 11 was transmitted to Earth, broadcast live to the world and then preserved. Recent reports of "lost" tapes have resurfaced, but here's the real story: https://go.nasa.gov/2NJvAnG #Apollo50th
posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 1:38 PM Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Crossroads
I have been undecided about describing my situation in a blog. Nothing else is working though, so I might as well.
[ excerpt ends posted by Kerry Burgess August 30, 2005 ]
http://www.simpsonsarchive.com/episodes/AABF22.txt
Brother's Little Helper [ The Simpsons ]
Original Airdate on FOX: 3-Oct-1999
Marge: .. so Bart?
Bart: Question.
Marge: How about getting out of the tank, eh? Maybe stopping your rampage, eh?
Posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 1:10 PM Sunday, July 22, 2007
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program_missing_tapes
The Apollo missing tapes are the missing original recordings of the transmissions broadcast during the Apollo 11 moonwalk. The tapes included Slow-scan television (SSTV) and telemetry data. Videotapes and kinescopes of the Apollo 11 moonwalk made after the scan conversion for viewing on conventional television are not missing
The video of the Apollo 11 moonwalk was transmitted in SSTV format (see Apollo TV camera). The SSTV signals were received by the radio telescopes at Parkes Observatory, the Goldstone tracking station, and Honeysuckle Creek tracking station.[2] This signal was split and sent to a data tape recorder and to equipment so it could be converted to standard TV format for viewing on conventional television and broadcast around the world. The crude real-time scan conversion for world-wide broadcast was not done electronically, but was done by using a conventional television camera pointed at a monitor displaying the SSTV images [3]. The scan conversion reduced the contrast and brightness and introduced noise into the pictures. The raw data was recorded onto fourteen-inch reels of one inch wide, fourteen-track analog magnetic data tapes at 120 inches per second [4].
The Apollo 11 moonwalk video after the scan conversion was recorded contemporaneously onto videotape and kinescope. These recordings exist and are available to the public. (High quality video from the other Project Apollo missions exists and is also available to the public.) If the SSTV tapes are found, modern technology would allow the production of higher quality television pictures of the Apollo 11 moonwalk than were seen by the public.
There are about 2612 boxes that might contain the tapes and whose location is unknown. It is estimated that about 13,000 original magnetic tapes are missing.[6] They might be at Goddard Space Flight Center or another location within the NASA archiving system.
On August 16, 2006 NASA announced its official search. "The original tapes may be at the Goddard Space Flight Center … or at another location within the NASA archiving system", "NASA engineers are hopeful that when the tapes are found they can use today's digital technology to provide a version of the moonwalk that is much better quality than what we have today."[7]
The news that the tapes were missing broke publicly on August 5, 2006 when the printed and online versions of The Sydney Morning Herald published the story with the title One giant blunder for mankind: how NASA lost moon pictures
From 3/3/1959 to 8/16/2006 is: 17333 days
From 3/3/1959 to 7/2/1976 is: 17 years, 121 days
365 * 0.333 = 121 days
From 3/3/1959 to 7/2/1976 is: 17.333 years
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=moontapes16&date=20060816
Nation & World: Wednesday, August 16, 2006
NASA to search attics for missing moon-walk tapes
By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Red-faced because the best pictures of its glory days are missing, NASA said Tuesday it was launching an official search for more than 13,000 original tapes of the historic Apollo moon missions.
What's missing are the never-before-broadcast, clear, original videos — not the grainy, converted pictures the world watched on television more than three decades ago.
The tapes aren't lost, says the NASA official in charge of the search. But he doesn't know where they are.
Most likely they are somewhere at the sprawling Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., which misplaced the tapes originally. But they also could be stored somewhere else.
The original video, taken directly from the moon and beamed to deep-space network observatories in Australia, has never been seen by the general public or even NASA officials.
[ excerpt ends Posted by Kerry Burgess July 22, 2007 ]
http://www.simpsonsarchive.com/episodes/AABF22.txt
Brother's Little Helper [ The Simpsons ]
Original Airdate on FOX: 3-Oct-1999
Pharm. 2: You said he was concerned about satellites?
Marge: And their beams.
Pharm. 2: Any other strange behavior?
Homer: He quit blinking. He says that's when they kill you.
Pharm. 2: I had a feeling that might happen. This carboxyl group sometimes causes problems. [indicates molecular model]
Homer: And we trusted you! [strangles model]
Marge: I think we should take him off the drug.
Pharm. 1: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! You can't just go off Focusyn.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/not-unsolved-mysteries-the-lost-apollo-11-tapes
NASA official
NASA History Apollo 11 on the moon
July 7, 2019
Not-Unsolved Mysteries: The “Lost” Apollo 11 Tapes
With the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing approaching, reports have resurfaced that NASA lost some precious video footage of that first moonwalk.
Before diving into the details of two distinct events that seem to have become conflated, it’s worth emphasizing three key points:
NASA searched for but could not locate some of the original Apollo 11 data tapes – “original” in the sense that they directly recorded data transmitted from the Moon. An intensive search of archives and records concluded that the most likely scenario was that the program managers determined there was no longer a need to keep the tapes — since all the video was recorded elsewhere — and they were erased and reused.
The data on those tapes, including video data, was relayed to the Manned Spacecraft Center (now the Johnson Space Center), during the mission. The video was recorded there and in other locations; there is no missing video footage from the Apollo 11 moonwalk.
The search discovered high-quality broadcast versions of the footage. NASA worked with Lowry Digital, a premier film restoration company, to process the video using techniques unavailable in 1969. The restored video was released in HD as part of the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11.
Further explanation means diving into the details of how Apollo sent data back to Earth and how NASA collected it.
Data from the Apollo 11 mission was sent from the spacecraft to three ground stations, one in California and two in Australia, which retransmitted it to the Manned Space Flight Center in Houston. The ground stations also recorded the data on special 1-inch, 14-track tapes, one track of which was for video. The video footage was recorded in "slow scan" — 10 video frames per second — which meant it couldn't be directly broadcast over commercial television. The video was converted for broadcast and uplinked to a satellite, then downlinked to Houston, from which it was sent out to the world.
In early 2005, responding to inquiries from NASA retirees and others, NASA began a search for the 14-track data tapes. Ultimately, the agency couldn’t find the tapes and determined that they had most likely been erased and used again, which was standard practice at the time. The search, led by NASA engineer Dick Nafzger, focused on finding the specific tapes, knowing the data had all been recorded and saved elsewhere.
"There was no video that came down slow scan that was not converted live, fed live, to Houston and fed live to the world," Nafzger said at press conference showing some of the restored footage in 2009. "So, just in case anyone thinks there is video out there that hasn’t been seen, that is not the case."
Video: July 16, 2009 press conference on the search for and restoration of the Apollo 11 video.
During the search, though, Nafzger's team came across video that had been converted to broadcast which was much higher quality than what they had been seeing.
“The team of people that I worked with, including myself obviously, was desperate to do something for history, if we could," said Nafzger. "We came across broadcast-converted tapes during this search that were much better than we had seen. . . . We had tapes recorded in Sydney, Australia, during the mission. (We) found kinescopes at the National Archives that had not been viewed in 36 years that were made in Houston. We went to CBS archives and we found tapes that had been fed directly from Houston to CBS . .. . the raw data as recorded and archived.”
Working with a California company, NASA restored portions of the video and enhanced it for viewing in high definition and released the HD Apollo 11 videos in July 2009.
In 2019, a one-time NASA intern is selling what he describes as videotapes of the Apollo 11 moonwalk that he bought at an auction of surplus government goods. If the tapes are as described in the sale material, they are 2-inch videotapes recorded in Houston from the video that had been converted to a format that could be broadcast over commercial television and contain no material that hasn't been preserved at NASA.
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: August 4, 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Angels
Today is a very special and memorable day in your military career that will remain with you throughout your lifetime. You have survived the ultimate test of your peers and have proven to be completely deserving to wear the crest of the U.S. Navy Blue Angels.
The prestige of wearing the Blue Angels uniform carries with it an extraordinary honor — one that reflects not only on you as an individual, but on your teammates and the entire squadron. To the crowds at the air shows and to the public at hospitals and schools nationwide, you are a symbol of the Navy and Marine Corps' finest. You bring pride, hope and a promise for tomorrow's Navy and Marine Corps in the smiles and handshakes of today's youth. Remember today as the day you became a Blue Angel; look around at your teammates and commit this special bond to memory. "Once a Blue Angel, always a Blue Angel," rings true for all those who wear the crest of the U.S. Navy Blue Angels. Welcome to the team.
From 5/14/1992 ( the Intelsat 6 successful rescue during US space shuttle Endeavour orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-49 pilot astronaut and my 1st official United States of America National Aeronautics and Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) To 8/5/2006 is 5196 days
5196 = 2598 + 2598
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/13/1972 ( the final Apollo 17 lunar EVA ) is 2598 days
From 12/12/1923 ( Bob Barker ) To 6/16/2005 ( as Kerry Burgess my official records United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital includes: Date of Admission, psychiatric unit ) is 29772 days
29772 = 14886 + 14886
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/5/2006 is 14886 days
From 9/4/1972 ( premiere US TV series "The Price Is Right" ) To 8/5/2006 is 12388 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/3/1999 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Simpsons"::"Brother's Little Helper" ) is 12388 days
From 12/20/1994 ( in non-aviator related duties boots 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 8/5/2006 is 4246 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/18/1977 ( the United States space shuttle Enterprise orbiter vehicle captive-active flight #1 ) is 4246 days
https://www.smh.com.au/national/one-giant-blunder-for-mankind-how-nasa-lost-moon-pictures-20060805-gdo42n.html
The Sydney Morning Herald
One giant blunder for mankind: how NASA lost moon pictures
By Richard Macey
August 5, 2006 — 10.00am
THE heart-stopping moments when Neil Armstrong took his first tentative steps onto another world are defining images of the 20th century: grainy, fuzzy, unforgettable.
But just 37 years after Apollo 11, it is feared the magnetic tapes that recorded the first moon walk - beamed to the world via three tracking stations, including Parkes's famous "Dish" - have gone missing at NASA's Goddard Space Centre in Maryland.
A desperate search has begun amid concerns the tapes will disintegrate to dust before they can be found.
It is not widely known that the Apollo 11 television broadcast from the moon was a high-quality transmission, far sharper than the blurry version relayed instantly to the world on that July day in 1969.
Among those battling to unscramble the mystery is John Sarkissian, a CSIRO scientist stationed at Parkes for a decade. "We are working on the assumption they still exist," Mr Sarkissian told the Herald.
"Your guess is a good as mine as to where they are."
Mr Sarkissian began researching the role of Parkes in Apollo 11's mission in 1997, before the movie The Dish was made. However, when he later contacted NASA colleagues to ask about the tapes, they could not be found.
"People may have thought 'we have tapes of the moon walk, we don't need these'," said the scientist who hopes a new, intensive hunt will locate them.
If they can be found, he proposes making digitalised copies to treat the world to a very different view of history.
But the searchers may be running out of time. The only known equipment on which the original analogue tapes can be decoded is at a Goddard centre set to close in October, raising fears that even if they are found before they deteriorate, copying them may be impossible.
"We want the public to see it the way the moon walk was meant to be seen," Mr Sarkissian said.
"There will only ever be one first moon walk."
Originally stored at Goddard, the tapes were moved in 1970 to the US National Archives. No one knows why, but in 1984 about 700 boxes of space flight tapes there were returned to Goddard.
"We have the documents to say they were withdrawn, but no one knows exactly where they went," Mr Sarkissian said.
Many people involved had retired or died.
Also among tapes feared missing are the original recordings of the other five Apollo moon landings. The format used by the original pictures beamed from the moon was not compatible with commercial technology used by television networks. So the images received at Parkes, and at tracking stations near Canberra and in California, were played on screens mounted in front of conventional television cameras.
"The quality of what you saw on TV at home was substantially degraded" in the process, Mr Sarkissian said, creating the ghostly images of Armstrong and Aldrin that strained the eyes of hundreds of millions of people watching around the world.
Even Polaroid photographs of the screen that showed the original images received by Parkes are significantly sharper than what the public saw. While the technique looks primitive today, Mr Sarkissian said it was the best solution that 1969 technology offered.
Among the few who saw the original high-quality broadcast was David Cooke, a Parkes control room engineer in 1969.
"I can still see the screen," Mr Cook, 74, said. "I was amazed, the quality was fairly good."
https://moon.nasa.gov/resources/240/view-of-earth-above-the-antenna-of-the-lunar-roving-vehicle-during-eva/
NASA
View of Earth Above the Antenna of the Lunar Roving Vehicle During EVA
Image Credit: NASA/JSC
Published: July 9, 2018
Historical Date: December 13, 1972
Earth appears in the far distant background above the hi-gain antenna of the Lunar Roving Vehicle in this photograph taken by scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt during the third Apollo 17 extravehicular activity (EVA) at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, Apollo 17 commander, stands beside the LRV. Schmitt is the mission's lunar module pilot. While Cernan and Schmitt descended in the lunar module "Challenger" to explore the moon, astronaut Ronald E. Evans, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules in lunar orbit.
https://phys.org/news/2011-12-thirty-ninth-anniversary-moonwalk.html
Phys.org
The thirty-ninth anniversary of the last moonwalk
December 14, 2011 By Amy Shira Teitel, Universe Today
On December 13, 1972, Apollo 17 Commander Eugene A. Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot (LMP) Harrison H. “Jack” Schmitt made the final lunar EVA or moonwalk of the final Apollo mission. Theirs was the longest stay on the Moon at just over three days and included over twenty-two hours spent exploring the lunar surface during which they collected over 250 pounds of lunar samples.
To commemorate the thirty-ninth anniversary of this last EVA, NASA posted a picture of Schmitt on the lunar surface as its ’Image of the Day.’
Apollo 17 launched on a Saturn V rocket on December 7, 1972. Four days later on December 11, Cernan and Schmitt moved into the Lunar Module Challenger and descended to a touchdown in the Taurus-Littrow valley. Command Module Pilot Ron Evans, meanwhile, stayed in orbit aboard the Command Module America.
The Taurus-Littrow valley was chosen as the best landing spot to take advantage of Apollo 17’s capabilities. It was a “J mission,” one designed for extended EVAs that would take the astronauts further from the LM than any previous missions using the Lunar Rover. It was also a geologically interesting area. Here, the astronauts would be able to reach and collect samples from the old lunar highlands as well as relatively young volcanic regions. For this latter goal, Apollo 17’s greatest tool was its LMP, Schmitt.
When NASA began looking for its first group of astronauts in 1959, candidates had to be affiliated with the military, trained engineers, and have logged at least 1,500 hours of flying time in jets. The same basic criteria were applied to the second and third group of astronauts selected in 1962 and 1963 respectively.
From 10/7/1928 ( ) To 7/20/1969 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the United States Navy Commander circa 1969 was United States Apollo 11 Eagle spacecraft United States Navy astronaut landing and walking on the planet Earth's moon ) is 14896 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/15/2006 is 14896 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 8/15/2006 is 5631 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/3/1981 ( the debut of the Osborne 1 portable microcomputer by Osborne Computer Corporation ) is 5631 days
From 10/28/1994 ( premiere US film "Stargate" ) To 8/15/2006 is 4309 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/20/1977 ( the United States Voyager 2 spacecraft launch ) is 4309 days
From 5/3/1956 ( premiere US film "Forbidden Planet" ) To 2/13/1997 ( as 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 I begin repairing the US Hubble Telescope while in space and orbit of the planet Earth ) is 14896 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/15/2006 is 14896 days
From 5/14/1992 ( the Intelsat 6 successful rescue during US space shuttle Endeavour orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-49 pilot astronaut and my 1st official United States of America National Aeronautics and Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) To 8/15/2006 is 5206 days
5206 = 2603 + 2603
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/18/1972 ( The New York Times "Astronaut Steps Outside Apollo to Retrieve Film" ) is 2603 days
From 5/14/1992 ( the Intelsat 6 successful rescue during US space shuttle Endeavour orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-49 pilot astronaut and my 1st official United States of America National Aeronautics and Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) To 8/15/2006 is 5206 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/3/1980 ( premiere US TV series episode "Galactica 1980"::"Galactica Discovers Earth - Part 2" ) is 5206 days
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20060816&slug=moontapes16
The Seattle Times
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
NASA to search attics for missing moon-walk tapes
By Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Red-faced because the best pictures of its glory days are missing, NASA said Tuesday it was launching an official search for more than 13,000 original tapes of the historic Apollo moon missions.
What's missing are the never-before-broadcast, clear, original videos — not the grainy, converted pictures the world watched on television more than three decades ago.
The tapes aren't lost, says the NASA official in charge of the search. But he doesn't know where they are.
Most likely they are somewhere at the sprawling Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., which misplaced the tapes originally. But they also could be stored somewhere else.
The original video, taken directly from the moon and beamed to deep-space network observatories in Australia, has never been seen by the general public or even NASA officials.
The entire world watched fuzzy, ghostlike images of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon. But only a handful of technicians saw the good stuff live, sharp enough to see Armstrong's reflection in Aldrin's faceplate, said Stan Lebar, the retired Apollo television-camera manager.
"The quality ... is two, three or four times better than we ever saw," said Richard Nafzger, a senior engineer at Goddard who on Tuesday was put in charge of the search effort.
The original tapes played 10 frames per second in Australia, Nafzger said. But television needed 60 frames per second, so each picture was repeated six times and "you'd see ghosting," he said.
Until Tuesday, the search for the tapes was a spare-time deal and retirement hobby for Nafzger and the 81-year-old Lebar — not anything organized. Now, with news reports of the lost tapes and NASA wanting data for its new lunar missions, the agency ordered a search of its cosmic attics.
The tapes, each of which lasts 15 minutes, are stored in more than 2,000 boxes. Everything from all 11 missions — from launch to splashdown — is on the videos, Lebar said.
Starting in 1970, the tapes were shipped to the National Archives' massive record center in Suitland, Md. Lebar had hoped he hit pay dirt when he went to the record center, which he compared to the massive warehouse of long-forgotten boxes seen in the final scene of the movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark."
But when Lebar got to the area where the boxes were supposed to be, he found empty shelves. Later, he and Nafzger determined all the boxes were returned to Goddard.
"They're not lost," Lebar said, "it's just we haven't gotten to the next step yet."
hp-lovecraft_randolph-carter_1.jpg
https://www.academia.edu/35660227/Nietzsches_Flowers_-_Beau_Deurwaarder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_1928
October 1928
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The following events occurred in October 1928:
October 7, 1928 (Sunday)
The fictional character, Randolph Carter, from the works of H.P. Lovecraft disappears in the story "Through the Gates of the Silver Key".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through_the_Gates_of_the_Silver_Key
Through the Gates of the Silver Key
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Through the Gates of the Silver Key" is a short story co-written by American writers H. P. Lovecraft and E. Hoffmann Price between October 1932 and April 1933. A sequel to Lovecraft's "The Silver Key", and part of a sequence of stories focusing on Randolph Carter
At a gathering to decide the fate of Randolph Carter's estate (which has been held in trust since his disappearance) the mysterious Swami Chandraputra, who wears curious mittens and enveloping robes, tells Carter's acquaintances of his ultimate fate. He explains that the key took Carter to a type of higher dimension. There, Carter, on an ill-defined mission (or out of sheer curiosity), travelled strange sections of the cosmos by first meeting with 'Umr at-Tawil, a dangerous being warned of in the Necronomicon, saying those who deal with it never return. 'Umr at-Tawil offers Carter a chance to plunge deeper into the cosmos; Carter thus perceives the true nature of the universe before passing through the "Ultimate Gate."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_2
Voyager 2
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Voyager 2 is a space probe launched by NASA on August 20, 1977, to study the outer planets. Part of the Voyager program, it was launched 16 days before its twin, Voyager 1
Interstellar mission
Once its planetary mission was over, Voyager 2 was described as working on an interstellar mission, which NASA is using to find out what the Solar System is like beyond the heliosphere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_Compass
Grid Compass
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Grid Compass (written GRiD by its manufacturer GRiD Systems Corporation) was one of the first laptop computers.
The main buyer was the U.S. government. NASA used it on the Space Shuttle during the early 1980s
Competitors
The portable Osborne 1 computer sold at around the same time as the GRiD, was more affordable and more popular, and ran the popular CP/M operating system. But, unlike the Compass, the Osborne was not a laptop and lacked the Compass's refinement and small size.
Astronaut John Creighton posing with a Grid Compass aboard a Space Shuttle Discovery mission in 1985.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect
Osborne effect
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Osborne effect is a social phenomenon of customers canceling or deferring orders for the current soon-to-be-obsolete product as an unexpected drawback of a company's announcing a future product prematurely.
The term was coined after the Osborne Computer Corporation, a company that took more than a year to make its next product available, and eventually went bankrupt in 1985.
Description
The Osborne Effect states that prematurely discussing future, unavailable products damages sales of existing products. The name comes from the planned replacement of the Osborne 1, an early personal computer first sold by the Osborne Computer Corporation in 1981. In 1983, founder Adam Osborne pre-announced several next-generation computer models (the "Osborne Executive" and "Osborne Vixen"), which had not yet been built, highlighting the fact that they would outperform the existing model. A widely held belief was that sales of the Osborne 1 fell sharply as customers anticipated those more advanced systems, leading to a sales decline from which Osborne Computer was unable to recover. This belief appeared in the media almost immediately after the company's September 1983 bankruptcy:
To give the jazzy $2495 Osborne Executive a running start, Adam began orchestrating publicity early in 1983. We, along with many other magazines, were shown the machine in locked hotel rooms. We were required not to have anything in print about it until the planned release date in mid-April. As far as we know, nothing did appear in print, but dealers heard about the plans and cancelled orders for the Osborne 1 in droves.
In early April, Osborne told dealers he would be showing them the machine on a one-week tour the week of 17 April, and emphasized that the new machine was not a competitor for the Osborne 1. But dealers didn't react the way Osborne expected; said Osborne, "All of them just cancelled their orders for the Osborne 1."
http://www.tv.com/shows/galactica-1980/galactica-discovers-earth-2-15038/trivia/
tv.com
Galactica 1980 Season 1 Episode 2
Galactica Discovers Earth (2)
Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Feb 03, 1980 on ABC
Quotes
Dillon : ( driving Mortensen's car) I don't suppose it flies, does it?
Jamie : Flies? What's he on?
Mortensen : It's a simple internal combustion engine that turns a driveshaft that rotates wheels.
Dillon : Talk about primitive. Haven't you people ever heard of anti gravity?
- posted by Kerry Burgess 12:21 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Wednesday 10 July 2019
