Sunday, July 21, 2019
Human mission to Mars
I totally guessed up that calendar date 7/4/2033. Took me only a couple minutes.
I was looking for anything 39 years after 1994.
I saw February 1990 start to show up in my first guess. From that I searched for a match with 2/27/1990. Then I looked at the Ringworld date. I don't know the original publication of that book by Larry Niven. All I have now is that date from 1976 in what I guess is a reprint of the original version.
I want to read more of it, and I will later, but for now I know it's just going to turn into more work for me and I've already got a lot of stuff queued up.
http://www.stargate-sg1-solutions.com/wiki/Stargate:_The_Movie_Transcript
STARGATE WIKI
Stargate: The Movie (1994)
(from internet transcript)
Doctor Daniel Jackson
The point is not who built them; the point is when they were built. I mean—we all know new geological evidence dates the Sphinx back to a much earlier period. And knowing this, I think, we have to begin to reevaluate everything we've come to accept about...
I-I mean, I've been able to show a fully developed writing systems appeared in the first two dynasties, you know, which you know, almost as if it was based on an even earlier prototype.
https://hvom.blogspot.com/2019/07/july-4-2033.html
Posted by Kerry Burgess at 1:38 PM
Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home
Sunday, July 14, 2019
July 4, 2033
[ excerpt ends Posted by Kerry Burgess at 1:38 PM Sunday, July 14, 2019 ]
Ringworld
Larry Niven
CHAPTER 9 -- Shadow Squares
"Anything new?"
Yes, considerable. Let me show you."
The puppeteer did things to the scope screen controls. He must have studied kzinti symbology, somewhere.
The view in the scope screen was like Earth seen from a great height. Mountains, lakes. valleys, rivers, large bare spots that might be desert.
"Desert?"
"So it would seem, Louis. Speaker took temperature and humidity spectra. Evidence accumulates that the Ringworld has reverted to savagery
Ringworld
Larry Niven
CHAPTER 11 -- The Arch of Heaven
Four flycycles rose in a diamond cluster through waning daylight. The exposed ring flooring dropped away.
Nessus had shown them how to use the slave circuits. Now each of the other 'cycles was programmed to imitate whatever Louis's did. Louis was steering for them all. In a contoured seat like a masseur couch without the masseur attachments, he guided his 'cycle with pedals and a joystick.
Four transparent miniature heads hovered like hallucinations above his dashboard. These included a lovely raven-haired siren, a ferocious quasi-tiger with eyes that were too aware, and a pair of silly-looking one-eyed pythons. The intercom hookup was working perfectly, with results comparable to delirium tremens.
As the flycycles rose above the black lava slopes, Louis watched the others for their expressions.
Teela reacted first. Her eyes scainned the middle distance, and rose, and found infinity where they had always before found limits. They went big and round, and Teela's face lit like sunlight breaking through storm clouds. "Oh, Louis!"
"What an extraordinarily large mountain!" Speaker said.
Ringworld
Larry Niven
CHAPTER 12 -- Fist-of-God
"We call the mountain Fist-of-God." He was pointing directly starboard. "Why? Why not, if it please you, engineer?" He must have meant the big mountain, the one they had left behind with the ship. By now it was entirely concealed by haze and distance.
Louis listened and learned. The autopilot made a dandy translator. Gradually a picture built up, a picture of a farming village living in the ruins of what had once been a mighty city...
Ringworld
Larry Niven
CHAPTER 13 -- Starseed Lure
"They should have been kneeling," Louis complained. "That's what fooled me. And the translation kept saying 'builder' when it should have been saying 'god'."
"God?"
"They've made gods of the Ringworld engineers. I should have noticed the silence. Tanjit, nobody but the priest was making a sound! They all acted like they were listening to some old litany. Except that I kept giving the wrong responses."
Ringworld
Larry Niven
CHAPTER 13 -- Starseed Lure
I shouldn't have laughed, Louis told himself. It took me long enough to grasp the scale of this ... artifact. Why should I expect the natives to be more sophisticated?
From 3/9/2009 ( premiere US film "Knowing" ) To 7/4/2033 ( --- ) is 8883 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/27/1990 ( as Kerry Burgess my official United States Navy documents includes: "TRAN 90FEB27" - while inport at anchor Monaco my permanent transfer from US Navy warship USS Wainwright CG 28 to Naval Station Charleston South Carolina for active duty separation processing and Honorable Discharge from active duty United States Navy ) is 8883 days
From 11/18/1976 ( Larry Niven "Ringworld" ) To 7/4/2033 ( --- ) is 20682 days
20682 = 10341 + 10341
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/24/1994 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Simpsons"::"Deep Space Homer" ) is 10341 days
From 10/10/1982 ( premiere US TV series "Nature" ) To 7/4/2033 ( --- ) is 18530 days
18530 = 9265 + 9265
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate ) is 9265 days
https://www.yahoo.com/news/crew-capsule-designed-us-astronauts-222826276.html
Yahoo News!
Crew capsule designed to take US astronauts back to moon completed
The Independent July 20, 2019
A space capsule designed to carry US astronauts back to the moon in five years’ time is ready, vice-president Mike Pence has revealed on the 50th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 landing.
NASA’s new Artemis lunar operation is aimed at returning humans to Earth's satellite, following in the footsteps of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin in 1969 – but this time to set up camp, rather than just pay a flying visit.
The new mission, scheduled for 2024, is itself designed as a springboard for a subsequent crewed spaceship to be sent to Mars for the first time.
NASA said in a statement that Artemis 1 would launch its Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System (SLS) rocket around the moon in an initial test phase, after which a crew containing at least one female astronaut would touch down on the surface to establish a lunar base.
“Thanks to the hard work of the men and women of NASA, and of American industry, the Orion crew vehicle for the Artemis 1 mission is complete and ready to begin preparations for its historic first flight,” Vice-President Pence told the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine, standing alongside Mr Pence with Aldrin and Armstrong’s son Rick, said: “Similar to the 1960s, we too have an opportunity to take a giant leap forward for all of humanity.
“NASA is calling this the Artemis program in honour of Apollo’s twin sister in Greek mythology, the goddess of the moon. And we are well on our way to getting this done.”
A module manufactured by Airbus in Bremen, Germany, that will power Orion during the mission, is in the process of being attached ready for a September flight to test its spaceworthiness.
Mr Pence announced in March that NASA should return astronauts to the moon by 2024, halving the agency’s previous deadline to get there by 2028, and requested an extra $1.6bn funding from Congress.
However, President Donald Trump on Friday indicated he was not interested in a mission going back to the moon.
Mr Trump instead repeated his interest in a NASA mission that would take astronauts directly to Mars, a vastly more challenging and costly endeavour.
“To get to Mars, you have to land on the moon, they say. Any way of going directly without landing on the moon? Is that a possibility?” the president asked Mr Bridenstine during an event in the Oval Office.
Mr Bridenstine responded: ”Well, we need to use the moon as a proving ground, because when we go to Mars, we’re going to have to be there for a long period of time, so we need to learn how to live and work on another world.”
The Artemis program’s objective is to conduct a series of manned and unmanned missions to the moon, using its surface as a proving ground for technologies that could lay the groundwork for the longer and more complex missions to Mars as soon as 2033, Mr Bridenstine has said.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mission_to_Mars
Human mission to Mars
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Funding
The largest limiting factor for sending humans to Mars is funding. The estimated cost is roughly 500 billion U.S. dollars, though the actual costs are likely to be more.
Medical
Main article: Space medicine
There are several key physical challenges for human missions to Mars:
Health threat from cosmic rays and other ionizing radiation. In May 2013, NASA scientists reported that a possible mission to Mars may involve great radiation risk based on energetic particle radiation measured by the RAD on the Mars Science Laboratory while traveling from the Earth to Mars in 2011–2012. The calculated radiation dose was 0.66 sieverts round-trip. The agency's career radiation limit for astronauts is 1 sievert. In mid-September 2017, NASA reported temporarily doubled radiation levels on the surface of Mars, with an aurora 25 times brighter than any observed earlier, due to a massive unexpected solar storm.
Artistic vision of spacecraft providing artificial gravity by spinning. (see also Centrifugal force)
Adverse health effects of prolonged weightlessness, including eyesight impairment. (Depends on mission and spacecraft design.)
Psychological effects of isolation from Earth and, by extension, the lack of community[clarification needed] due to lack of a real-time connection with Earth. (Compare Hermit.)
Social effects of several humans living under cramped conditions for more than one Earth year, possibly two or three years. (Depends on spacecraft and mission design).
Lack of medical facilities.
Potential failure of propulsion or life-support equipment.
Some of these issues were estimated statistically in the HUMEX study. Ehlmann and others have reviewed political and economic concerns, as well as technological and biological feasibility aspects. While fuel for roundtrip travel could be a challenge, methane and oxygen can be produced using Martian H2O (preferably as water ice instead of liquid water) and atmospheric CO2 with mature technology.
- posted by Kerry Burgess 1:04 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Sunday 21 July 2019
