I always remember the first time I saw the space shuttle launching.
That was the year 1984.
Could not have been 1986. I was in Portland, Maine, watching on television the Challenger launch and thinking "That doesn't look right" as the SRB's scattered above their smoky trails.
I was back in Orlando a few weeks later for the first time since 1984 and because of Challenger on 1/28/1986 they didn't have any shuttle launches again until 1988.
But 1984 I remember.
I was in Basic Electricity and Electronics school.
I was an enlisted E-3 United States Navy sailor in the Electronic Technician (ET) occupational rating course of instruction, with BE&E the first course before ET-A school in Great Lakes, which I never made it to.
So that would have been the year 1984 I first saw the space shuttle launch.
I had taken a break at one point during the day of my self-paced course of instruction and went outside for 15-minutes of fresh air.
Standing there on the patio reserved for the cigarette smokers, another sailor pointed to the east where I observed the space shuttle climbing on its pillars of fire up from the surface of the planet Earth towards orbit.
We were about maybe 50 miles to the west of Cape Canaveral but the sight was unmistakable even from that distance.
I don't know which would be more strange: that I walked out there at precisely the right moment. Or that people lurking in the shadows around me *there* reported to someone over there to launch at a time I would see it. I saw it only because some person pointed it out.
*You* have no reason to believe such occurrence could happen to *you* other than *PURE* coincidence. Because *your* life is pointless and pathetic and meaningless. So shut the hell up and stop spewing your ridiculous and meaningless opinions about anything that happens in the world. Because *YOU* are a moron.
From the list of space shuttle launches in the year 1984 there is only 1 that is the most likely to have happened at a time when I would have seen it. That was the *first* launch ever of the space shuttle Discovery. The launch that followed is also potentially the one I could have seen but I am not certain. That one was the sixth launch of the space shuttle Challenger and during that flight Kathryn Sullivan conducted the first American EVA involving a woman. My guess is that I saw the first flight of Discovery. There was a third space shuttle launch before I was transferred out of Orlando and unceremoniously dumped onto the fleet but I don't think I was still attending classes during that third launch potentially visible by me.
1984 film "2010" DVD video:
Tanya Kirbuk: Dr. Floyd? Dr. Floyd?
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2010 (1984)
Quotes
Dr. Heywood Floyd: [Looks around the table to see the cosmonauts all nervous and edgy; sighs, takes off glasses] All right, what's going on here?
Tanya Kirbuk, Soviet Union spacecraft commander: What do you mean?
Dr. Heywood Floyd: Well, I may not be the swiftest guy in the world, even when I'm not hung over, but I do seem to remember a process where you people ask me questions and I give you answers and then I ask questions and you give me answers and that's the way we find out things. I think I read that in a manual somewhere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Discovery
Space Shuttle Discovery
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Discovery became the third operational orbiter to enter service
From 4/4/1968 ( premiere US film "2001: A Space Odyssey" ) To 8/30/1984 is 5992 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/30/1982 ( return to Earth of United States space shuttle STS-3 ) is 5992 days
From 4/4/1968 ( premiere US film "2001: A Space Odyssey" ) To 8/30/1984 is 5992 days
5992 = 2996 + 2996
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/15/1974 ( premiere US TV series "Happy Days" ) is 2996 days
From 2/22/1974 ( premiere US TV series "Good Times" ) To 8/30/1984 is 3842 days
3842 = 1921 + 1921
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/5/1971 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the United States Navy Commander circa 1971 was the United States Apollo 14 Antares command astronaut landing and walking on the planet Earth's moon ) is 1921 days
From 7/13/1962 ( the Telstar satellite performs the first two-way telephone conversation ) To 8/30/1984 is 8084 days
8084 = 4042 + 4042
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/26/1976 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in solar system deep space in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship this day makes his first landing the Jupiter moon Callisto ) is 4042 days
From 11/10/1967 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Metamorphosis" ) To 8/30/1984 is 6138 days
6138 = 3069 + 3069
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/29/1974 ( Richard Nixon - Message Following Successful Flight of Mariner 10 ) is 3069 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-41-D
STS-41-D
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
STS-41-D was the 12th flight of NASA's Space Shuttle program, and the first mission of Space Shuttle Discovery. It was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 30 August 1984, and landed at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on 5 September. Three commercial communications satellites were deployed into orbit during the six-day mission, and a number of scientific experiments were conducted.
Mission summary
STS-41-D finally launched on 8:41 am EDT on 30 August after a six-minute, 50-second delay when a private aircraft flew into the restricted airspace near the launch pad. It was the fourth launch attempt for Discovery.
1984 film "2001: A Space Odyssey" DVD video:
00:04:25
Dimitri Moisevitch: Neatness! It's a good quality. You'll make someone a fine wife! You are Dr. Heywood Floyd?
Dr. Heywood Floyd: Who the hell are you?
Dimitri Moisevitch: I'm Moisevitch. I'm here to talk to you about your problem.
Dr. Heywood Floyd: Really? What problem's that?
Dimitri Moisevitch: You were chairman of the National Council on Astronautics. Now you are a schoolteacher. This was by your own choice?
Dr. Heywood Floyd: Chancellor of the university. It pays better.
1984 film "2001: A Space Odyssey" DVD video:
00:04:27
Dimitri Moisevitch: You were responsible for the Discovery mission. It was a failure. Someone had to be blamed, so it was you.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/releaseinfo
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Release Info
USA 2 April 1968 (Washington, D.C.) (premiere)
USA 3 April 1968 (New York City, New York) (premiere)
USA 3 April 1968 (limited)
USA 4 April 1968 (Los Angeles, California) (premiere)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086837/quotes
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2010 (1984)
Quotes
[last lines]
Dr. Heywood Floyd: I think it's many things. An embassy for an intelligence beyond ours.
From 5/4/1974 ( Richard Nixon - Remarks Opening Expo '74, Spokane, Washington ) To 12/7/1984 is 3870 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/7/1976 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in deep space of the solar system in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship this day was his first landing the Saturn moon Phoebe ) is 3870 days
From 5/30/1936 ( Keir Dullea ) To 8/9/1974 ( Richard Nixon surrenders and abandons his illegal presence in the United States of America federal White House ) is 13950 days
13950 = 6975 + 6975
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/7/1984 is 6975 days
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086837/releaseinfo
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2010 (1984)
Release Info
USA 7 December 1984
2010 (1984)
Full Cast & Crew
Roy Scheider ... Dr. Heywood Floyd
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086837/quotes
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2010 (1984)
Quotes
HAL 9000: The answer is, "I am aware of these facts. Nevertheless you must leave within two days."
Heywood Floyd: HAL, who the hell is sending this?
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-3.html
NASA
Space Shuttle
STS-3
Mission: Third Shuttle Mission/Office of Space Science-1(OSS-1)
Space Shuttle: Columbia
Launched: March 22, 1982 at 11:00:00 a.m. EST
Landing: March 30, 1982 at 9:04:46 a.m. MST
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_14
Apollo 14
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Apollo 14 was the eighth crewed mission in the United States Apollo program, the third to land on the Moon
EVA 1
Start: February 5, 1971, 14:42:13 UTC
Shepard – EVA 1
Stepped onto Moon: 14:54 UTC
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1963NASSP..32.1561H/0001561.000.html
SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Title: Results of the Telstar System Communications Tests
Authors: Hatch, R. W., Bennett, S. B., & Kinzer, J. P.
Journal: Telstar I. NASA SP-32 2373 pages, published by NASA, Washington, D.C., 1963, p.1561
Bibliographic Code: 1963NASSP..32.1561H
page 1613
During pass 33 on July 13, 1962, the first demonstration of two-way telephony took place
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2010 (1984)
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Tanya Kirbuk: You have been drinking your whiskey from Kentucky!
1984 film "2001: A Space Odyssey" DVD video:
00:04:26
Dimitri Moisevitch: You like being a teacher?
Dr. Heywood Floyd: I don't think I like you.
Ringworld
Larry Niven
CHAPTER 16 -- The Map Room
The map room was at the very top of the castle, as befitted its importance. Louis was blowing hard from the climb. He had had a time keeping up. The kzin did not run, but he walked faster than a man could walk.
Louis reached the landing as Speaker pushed through a double door ahead of him.
Through that gap Louis saw a horizontal band of jet black, eight inches broad and three feet off the ground. He looked beyond it, looked for a similar strip of baby blue chocked with midnight blue rectangles; and he found it.
Jackpot.
Louis stood in the doorway, taking in details. The miniature Ringworld was almost as large as the room, which was circular and perhaps a hundred and twenty feet across. At the hub of the circular map was a rectangular screen, heavily mounted, facing away from the doorway but built to turn.
High on the walls were ten turning globes. They varied in size, and they turned at different rates; but each was the characteristic color, rich blue with swirled white frosting, of an Earthlike world. There was a conic-section map below each globe.
"I spent the night here, working," said Speaker. He was standing behind the screen. "I have many things to show you. Come here."
Louis almost ducked under the Ring. A thought stopped him. The hawk-featured man who ruled the banquet hall would never have stooped so, not even to enter this holy of holies. Louis walked at the Ring, and through it, and found it was a holo projection.
Ringworld
Larry Niven
CHAPTER 16 -- The Map Room
"Tapes. Tanjit! We're watching old tapes. I thought they must be live transmissions." For one glorious moment it had seemed that their search was over -- lighted, bustling cities, pinpointed on a map for them ... but these pictures must be ages old, civilizations old.
"I thought so also, for many hours last night. I did not suspect the truth until I failed to find the thousands of miles of meteor crater slashed by the Liar's landing."
Louis, speechless, thwacked the kzin on his nude pink- and-lavender shoulder. It was as high as he could reach.
The kztn ignored the liberty. "After I had located the castle, things proceeded quickly.
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Posted by Kerry Burgess at 1:44 PM
Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
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From 5/19/1957 ( premiere US TV series episode "General Electric Theater"::"The Man Who Inherited Everything" ) To 5/9/2015 is 21174 days
21174 = 10587 + 10587
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/28/1994 ( premiere US film "Stargate" ) is 10587 days
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Tomorrowland (2015)
Release Info
USA 9 May 2015 (Anaheim, California) (premiere)
[ excerpt ends Posted by Kerry Burgess at 1:44 PM Wednesday, July 17, 2019 ]
Tomorrowland (2015)
(from internet transcript)
You have something to show me, Frank?
Show me.
Pick a place.
What?
A location anywhere in the world.
Pick one.
Canaveral.
Cape Canaveral.
Easy, easy.
The interface is oriented from your hands to the center of the Earth.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got it.
You trained her obviously.
I just met her yesterday.
Ringworld
Larry Niven
CHAPTER 16 -- The Map Room
"The tape is looped," said Speaker. "I watched it for some time last night. The passengers seem to walk directly into the rim wall, as if a kind of osmosis process were being used."
"Yeah." Louis was badly depressed. The spaceport ledge was far to spinward of them -- a distance to dwarf the distance they had already traveled.
"I watched a ship take off. They did not use the linear accelerator. They use it only for landings, to match the velocity of the ship to that of the spaceport. For takeoffs they simply tumble the ship off into space.
"It was as the leaf-eater guessed, Louis. Remember the trap door arrangement? The Ringworld spins easily fast enough for a ramscoop field to operate. Louis, are you listening?"
Louis shook himself. "Sorry. All I can think about is that this adds about seven hundred thousand miles to our trip."
"It may be possible to use the main transport system, the small linear accelerator at the top of the rim wall."
"Not a chance. It's probably wrecked. Civilization tends to spread, if there's a transport system to spread it. And even if we can got it working, we aren't moving toward an elevator shaft."
"That is true," said the kzin. "I looked for one."
In the rectangular screen, the ship was down. Floating trucks ran a jointed tube to the ship's main lock. Passengers spilled into the tube.
"Shall we change our goal?"
"We can't. The spaceport is still our best chance."
"Is it?"
"Yes, tanjit! Big as it is, the Ringworld is a colony world. Civilization always centers around the spaceport on a colony world."
"Because craft come from the home world, carrying news of technological innovations. We surmise that the Ringworlders have abandoned their home world."
"But the ships can still come in," Louis said doggedly. "From the abandoned worlds! From centuries ago! Ramships are subject to relativity, to time dilation."
"You hope to find old spacemen trying to teach the old skills to savages who have forgotten them.
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- posted by Kerry Burgess 9:22 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Sunday 21 July 2019
