From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 1:38 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: Journal May 20, 2006
Kerry Burgess wrote:
In that movie Mission To Mars, there is that part where the second team arrive on Mars. The guy that survived for months there alone has lost it to some degree. The woman who lost her husband explains that extended periods of low-gravity can have that effect on the brain. As I write this, I almost feel like something is figuratively tugging at my mind. Anyway, if low-grav does have that effect, there needs to be a mechanism to help someone keep anchored in reality. Either by training them mentally or through artificial means of mind control. This adds weight to my hunch that I have some kind of device implanted in the back of my head. And it probably means it receives FM signals, although it could be any frequency, but FM would make more sense. Although it could be satellite too, really anything is possible without knowing the details. Although the possibilities are limited, I mean, this isn't Star Trek. I suspect the creators of this project conspired with people in the movie media to condition rational people to dismiss such theories so that no one would really consider the possibility of someone really being mind-controlled so that the project would not be jeopardized.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 20 May 2006 excerpt ends]
Pandemic (The Extinction Files Book 1)
A.G. Riddle
Chapter 40
The older scientist leaned back in his chair. "We could cut him loose and allow this to play out."
"Play out?"
Anderson nodded. "Hughes clearly has some sort of backup plan. It's tied to specific events or locations, or some signal that will activate his memories via the implant. So, what if we let him recover those memories? Then we collect him."
"That's a lot of assumptions, Doctor. The biggest being that we can simply 'collect' him when we're ready. Bagging him in the first place wasn't a walk in the park. When he recovers his memories - when he realizes what he's capable of - it'll be nearly impossible."
"Then I'm afraid that leaves us with no options."
"On the contrary. We have a very good option, gentlemen. And I'm going to take it."
Chapter 41
From 1/26/1996 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Outer Limits"::"I Hear You Calling" ) To 4/5/2017 is 7740 days
7740 = 3870 + 3870
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) 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 1/26/1996 ( premiere US film "Screamers" ) To 4/5/2017 is 7740 days
7740 = 3870 + 3870
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 3/21/2013 ( referenced below here in text by me ) To 4/5/2017 is 1476 days
1476 = 738 + 738
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/10/1967 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Metamorphosis" ) is 738 days
From 5/17/2006 ( referenced below here in text by me ) To 4/5/2017 is 3976 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/21/1976 ( premiere US TV series pilot "Baa Baa Black Sheep" ) is 3976 days
From 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 officially the United States Apache attack helicopter pilot ) To 4/5/2017 is 9575 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/20/1992 ( premiere US TV series episode "Major Dad"::"Three Angry Marines" ) is 9575 days
Other posts by me on this topic: https://hvom.blogspot.com/2019/07/looking-glass-tours.html
https://hvom.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-extinction-files.html
Future update possible
https://www.amazon.com/Pandemic-Extinction-Files-Book-1-ebook/dp/B06Y382BHS
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Pandemic (The Extinction Files Book 1) Kindle Edition
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From: Kerry Burgess
To: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 6:25:22 PM
Today I have been wondering if anything I remember about the past is real. Do I have a different past? Am I really who I think I am? The stuff I imagine happening to me sometimes, did that stuff really happen?
http://www.gateworld.net/universe/s1/transcripts/105.shtml
GateWorld
Stargate Universe - Light - season 1 episode 5 - Friday 23 October 2009
(from internet transcript)
(From the Observation Deck, the group watches as retros above the shuttle fire briefly to stop it from rising further, then the rear engines ignite and the shuttle heads away. Eli holds up his remote control, smiling.)
WALLACE: There it is.
(He shows the image to everyone. The Kino is drifting away to the rear of the ship. It has turned its camera backwards and is showing the ship receding behind it.)
ARMSTRONG (awestruck): That's the Destiny.
(Eli nods, smiling. Rush gazes at the image in amazement. The Kino drifts further away, revealing the shape of the entire ship just before the sun moves into the frame and its light obliterates everything on the screen. Eli lowers the remote and there's silence for a moment as everyone considers what they've just seen, then Rush nods appreciatively.)
RUSH: Thank you, Eli. I never thought I'd get the chance to see the ship from the outside.
YOUNG: You know what? I think I'm gonna go for a walk. (He turns to Greer.) How's that sound, Sergeant?
GREER: Sounds like a plan, sir.
RUSH: I shall be in my quarters for the duration. I have a hundred pages of a truly mediocre book to finish.
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 12/04/06 11:22 PM
That Microsoft building I worked at in Issaquah is at the intersection of 51st and 220th
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issaquah%2C_Washington
Famous natives/residents
Modest Mouse (Indie Band)
Posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 9:23 PM Monday, August 25, 2008
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19770085619_1977085619.pdf
NUCLEAR PULSE SPACE VEHICLE STUDY
Vol. III--CONCEPTUAL VEHICLE DESIGNS
AND OPERATIONAL SYSTEMS (U)
2. I. 7. Flight Control
Various methods of flight control during propulsion have been considered in previous nuclear-pulse-propulsion studies. One method of directional control was by fine adjustments of the position or attitude of the pulse units at detonation, which requires no auxiliary propellant. In this study, however, a chemical-rocket, lateral-thrust attitude control system is used. Its size is relatively small, since the basic propulsion system, for most over-all configurations at least, is stable and partially self-correcting for pulse misalignments that are within tolerances.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_%28nuclear_propulsion%29
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19770085619_1977085619.pdf
General Atomics, Nuclear Pulse Space Vehicle Study, Volume III -- Conceptual Vehicle Designs And Operational Systems, September 19, 1964
http://www.cswap.com/1995/Apollo_13/cap/en/25fps/a/00_51
Apollo 13
:51:12
Houston, we are venting
something out into space.
:51:17
I can see it outside
of window one right now.
:51:23
It's definitely, uh...
a gas of some sort.
:51:29
It's got to be the oxygen.
:51:48
Roger, Odyssey.
We copy your venting.
http://www.cswap.com/2000/Space_Cowboys/cap/en/25fps/a/01_49
Space Cowboys
1:49:16
Stop laughing.
You used up all your oxygen, dummy.
1:49:43
Frank's hot-wired it for you...
1:49:44
...but the trick is, those missiles
run out of fuel in 20,000 miles.
1:49:49
You launch them too soon...
1:49:51
...the warheads could find
their way back home to Earth.
1:49:54
Too late, they'd run out of fuel
and then you'd be stuck with them.
1:50:00
Is this gonna work?
1:50:04
I don't know.
1:50:06
All right, fellas...
1:50:08
...let's shoot this baby to the moon.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107048/quotes
Memorable quotes for
Groundhog Day (1993)
Phil: Well, what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today.
[Driving down the railroad tracks toward an approaching train]
Phil: I'm betting he's going to swerve first.
From 2/22/1976 ( I survived a catastrophic collision with a meteor and I decide to continue my mission as planned to divert Comet Lucifer in the outer solar system ) to 4/3/1998 ( premiere US movie "Lost In Space" ) is: 8076 days
From 3/3/1959 ( my birth date US ) to 4/12/1981 ( I was the commander aboard the STS-1 Columbia spacecraft ) is: 8076 days
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120738/
Lost in Space (1998)
Release Date: 3 April 1998 (USA)
[ excerpt ends Posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 9:23 PM Monday, August 25, 2008 ]
http://www.gateworld.net/universe/s1/transcripts/105.shtml
GateWorld
Stargate Universe - Light - season 1 episode 5 - Friday 23 October 2009
(from internet transcript)
GATEROOM. Groaning, Sergeant Spencer regains consciousness on the Gateroom floor. Putting his hand to his bruised mouth, he gets up onto one elbow and looks around the room, then slowly hauls himself to his feet. He stares around the empty room again and stumbles away.
(He makes his way along the corridors and eventually follows the sound of voices. He finds a group of people sitting around a table playing cards.)
SPENCER: Where is everybody?
VOLKER: All the fun people are here!
Posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 9:23 PM Monday, August 25, 2008
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0086993/quotes
Memorable quotes for
The Bounty (1984)
Bligh: Well gentlemen, between ourselves and home lies 2300 sea miles, the Endeavor Straits and the Great Barrier Reef. Now the crew is deeply demoralized and I must accept, as every captain must, the inevitable and theoretical responsibility for that. The actual and immediate responsibility, however, I place on you, my fellow officers who met this crisis with lethargy, impudence and flagrant defiance, publicly uttered. And perhaps for that I am also to blame. I counted on a strength of character which you do not possess. However, the cure for our predicament is discipline and I shall apply it with an even hand of course, but most where it is most required.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Solar
Solar System: Mon 1976 Jun 7
Saturn
Distance (AU)
9.797
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_slingshot
Gravity assist
In orbital mechanics and aerospace engineering, a gravitational slingshot, gravity assist or swing-by is the use of the relative movement and gravity of a planet or other celestial body to alter the path and speed of a spacecraft, typically in order to save fuel, time, and expense. Gravity assist can be used to decelerate a spacecraft
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerobraking
Aerobraking
Aerobraking is a spaceflight maneuver that reduces the high point of an elliptical orbit (apoapsis) by flying the vehicle through the atmosphere at the low point of the orbit (periapsis), using drag to slow the spacecraft. Aerobraking saves fuel, compared to the direct use of a rocket engine, when the spacecraft requires a low orbit after arriving at a body with an atmosphere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn
Saturn
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in the Solar System, after Jupiter.
Escape velocity 35.5 km/s
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Sat_Phoebe
Saturn: Moons: Phoebe
Phoebe (FEE-bee) is one of Saturn's most intriguing satellites, orbiting at a distance of 12,952,000 kilometers (8,049,668 miles) from the planet
http://www.navy.mil/management/photodb/photos/050621-N-8053S-024.jpg
050621-N-8053S-024 Atlantic Ocean (June 21, 2005) - Boatswain's Mate 1st Class Troitt L. Green directs the lowering of the “Captain's Gig” from amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1) for small boat exercises. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd Class D. Keith Simmons (RELEASED)
http://www.navy.mil/view_photos_top.asp
050621-N-8053S-024
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/duranduran/newmoononmonday.html
DURAN DURAN LYRICS
"New Moon On Monday"
I light my torch and wave it for the
New moon on Monday
And a firedance through the night
[ excerpt ends Posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 9:23 PM Monday, August 25, 2008 ]
http://www.gateworld.net/universe/s1/transcripts/105.shtml
GateWorld
Stargate Universe - Light - season 1 episode 5 - Friday 23 October 2009
(from internet transcript)
Perhaps a little surprisingly, Rush managed to get an iPhone and speakers into his personal effects which he brought from Icarus Base. Violin music plays from it as he sits on his bed, holding his broken glasses down to the book that he is reading.
Posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 9:23 PM Monday, August 25, 2008
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Sat_Phoebe
Saturn: Moons: Phoebe
Phoebe (FEE-bee) is one of Saturn's most intriguing satellites, orbiting at a distance of 12,952,000 kilometers (8,049,668 miles) from the planet
From 2/17/1965 ( I am active duty U.S. Navy SEAL ) to 6/7/1976 ( my first landing Saturn moon Phoebe and the Saturn moon Phoebe territory belongs to me ) is: 4128 days
From 6/7/1976 ( my first landing Saturn moon Phoebe and the Saturn moon Phoebe territory belongs to me ) to 9/26/1987 ( premiere US TV series "Star Trek: The Next Generation" ) is: 4128 days
From 11/8/1970 ( my first ascent to Mount Everest summit ) to 9/26/1987 ( premiere US TV series "Star Trek: The Next Generation" ) is: 6166 days
From 3/3/1959 ( my birth date US ) to 1/19/1976 ( congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 General of the Armies of the United States applies to me both personally and professionally ) is: 6166 days
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094030/
"Star Trek: The Next Generation"
Encounter at Farpoint (1987)
Original Air Date: 26 September 1987 (Season 1, Episode 1)
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/farthest
farthest
most distant or remote.
at or to the greatest distance.
at or to the most advanced point.
http://www.navy.mil/management/photodb/photos/070316-N-7130B-029.jpg
070316-N-7130B-029 PACIFIC OCEAN (March 16, 2007) - An SH-60F Seahawk, assigned to the “Black Knights” of Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron (HS) 4, prepares to touch down on the flight deck of USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group is underway in support of 7th Fleet operations. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Aaron Burden (RELEASED)
http://www.navy.mil/management/photodb/photos/040128-N-6278K-001.jpg
040128-N-6278K-001 Atlantic Ocean (Jan. 28, 2004) – USS George Washington (CVN 73) underway in the Atlantic Ocean. The Norfolk, Va.-based nuclear powered aircraft carrier and Carrier Air Wing Seven (CVW-7) recently departed on a scheduled deployment. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate Airman Joan Kretschmer. (RELEASED)
http://www.cswap.com/1998/Armageddon/cap/en/25fps/a/01_18
Armageddon
1:18:00
Radio contact terminated. We're out.
1:18:02
Nine and a half Gs for 11 minutes.
I'd start praying about right now.
1:18:12
So this is the part
where we're supposed to just...
1:18:14
hold on real tight and, uh,
hope we don't die.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_%28nuclear_propulsion%29
Project Orion (nuclear propulsion)
Project Orion was the first engineering design study of a spacecraft powered by nuclear pulse propulsion
Reaction mass for Orion would have been built into the bombs or dropped between 'pulses' to provide thrust.
http://www.cswap.com/1998/Deep_Impact/cap/en/2_Parts/a/00_39
Deep Impact
:39:53
Hefter: Messiah, Houston.
:39:54
Transfer trajectory is go.
:39:56
We'll cancel MCC-1 .
:39:58
You're go
to configure for coast.
:40:01
Roger, Houston, we're
looking good here.
http://www.cswap.com/1998/Deep_Impact/cap/en/2_Parts/a/00_42
Deep Impact
:42:19
Good evening.
:42:21
Sometime in the next hour,
:42:22
the Messiah mission will
enter its most critical phase:
:42:25
the interception
of Wolf-Biederman
:42:27
and the setting of
the nuclear devices
:42:29
that will deflect it off
its collision course with Earth.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0075148/quotes
Memorable quotes for
Rocky (1976)
Rocky: I can't do it.
Adrian: What?
Rocky: I can't beat him.
Adrian: Apollo?
Rocky: Yeah. I been out there walkin' around, thinkin'. I mean, who am I kiddin'? I ain't even in the guy's league.
Adrian: What are we gonna do?
Rocky: I don't know.
Adrian: You worked so hard.
Rocky: Yeah, that don't matter. 'Cause I was nobody before.
Adrian: Don't say that.
Rocky: Ah come on, Adrian, it's true. I was nobody. But that don't matter either, you know? 'Cause I was thinkin', it really don't matter if I lose this fight. It really don't matter if this guy opens my head, either. 'Cause all I wanna do is go the distance. Nobody's ever gone the distance with Creed, and if I can go that distance, you see, and that bell rings and I'm still standin', I'm gonna know for the first time in my life, see, that I weren't just another bum from the neighborhood.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0075148/quotes
Memorable quotes for
Rocky (1976)
Apollo's Trainer: Hey, champ, you oughta come and look at this boy you're gonna fight on TV. It looks like he means business.
Apollo Creed: Yeah, yeah. I mean business too.
http://www.cswap.com/1996/Happy_Gilmore/cap/en/25fps/a/01_11
Happy Gilmore
1:11:59
I knew Happy GiImore
was tough...
1:12:01
...but I can´t believe he´s playing
after being hit by a car.
1:12:05
Let´s hope it doesn´t affect
his game.
http://www.cswap.com/1976/Midway/cap/en/25fps/a/01_57
Midway
1:57:51
Larry, radio Enterprise:
We'll land there after our bomb run.
1:57:55
Yes, Sir.
Blue Leader to all planes...
http://www.cswap.com/1998/Deep_Impact/cap/en/2_Parts/a/00_42
Deep Impact
:42:32
But first,
Captain Spurgeon Tanner
:42:35
will have to guide
the spacecraft
:42:37
through the blizzard
of rocks, sand, and ice
:42:39
that make up
the comet's tail, or coma.
http://www.cswap.com/1998/Deep_Impact/cap/en/2_Parts/a/00_44
Deep Impact
:44:24
Baker: Look at these.
They're the size of houses.
:44:27
Yeah, I know.
[ excerpt ends Posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 9:23 PM Monday, August 25, 2008 ]
http://www.gateworld.net/universe/s1/transcripts/105.shtml
GateWorld
Stargate Universe - Light - season 1 episode 5 - Friday 23 October 2009
(from internet transcript)
(In the pilot's seat, Scott frowns at a screen on his console.)
SCOTT: Mr Brody, would you come up here for a second? I need you to confirm spectrographic analysis for me.
(Brody walks over and looks over his shoulder.)
BRODY: Oxygen, nitrogen, liquid water ... (He straightens up unhappily.) Only trace levels of CO2.
JOHANSEN (noticing his expression): What?
BRODY: It means there won't be much vegetation. Also means the thermometer won't be spending much time above zero, either.
SCOTT: But we can survive, right?
BRODY: Yeah. It'll be great.
(His face, however, says that they might not want to survive in such an environment. He turns and goes back to his seat.)
At the sun, Destiny is starting to burn. Young lies on his bed, awaiting his end. In his own room, Rush finishes his book. He folds his glasses and tosses the book across the room.
album: "This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About" (1996)
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/modestmouse/spacetravelisboring.html
AZ
MODEST MOUSE
"Space Travel Is Boring"
Won herself a pass to some far off moon
It was second class but what's to lose
And looking out her window she could more than assume
That you can't see air or time
She's the only rocketeer in the whole damn place
They gave her a mirror so she could talk to a face
She still got plenty lonely but that's just the case
With time, time, time
Started hearing voices sometime in June
She knew she could go crazy but didn't think that soon
Now she doesn't feel lonely but she'd just as soon
Try, try, try try
Man shot to the moon
I read a paperback and want to come home soon
I'm shot to the moon
Been there a half an hour, I want to come home soon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_a_Long_Drive_for_Someone_with_Nothing_to_Think_About
This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About is the debut studio album by American rock band Modest Mouse, released on April 16, 1996
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lonesome_Crowded_West
The Lonesome Crowded West
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Lonesome Crowded West is the second studio album by American rock band Modest Mouse, released on November 18, 1997
Critical reception
Blake Butler of AllMusic praised the album's diversity, noting the range of "quiet, brooding acoustics like 'Bankrupt on Selling' and dark and pounding thrashers like 'Cowboy Dan'", and called the album "indie rock at its very best."
Pitchfork ranked The Lonesome Crowded West at number 29 in their list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1990s, and the song "Trailer Trash" reached number 63 in their list of the 200 greatest songs of the decade. Spin ranked the album at number 59 in their list of the 100 greatest albums of 1985–2005, and Entertainment Weekly included the album in their list The Indie Rock 25. The A.V. Club has described The Lonesome Crowded West as the band's breakthrough recording. Sam Hockley-Smith, in a retrospective review for Stereogum, refers to The Lonesome Crowded West as "the album that made Modest Mouse a great band instead of just a good one" and writes that the primary theme of disillusionment in Brock's lyrics is "not pretty, but it's honest, and that honesty makes it beautiful, like Modest Mouse were desperately trying — and failing — to hold onto that last bit of naiveté."
album: "Good News For People Who Love Bad News" (2004)
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/modestmouse/floaton.html
AZ
MODEST MOUSE
"Float On"
I backed my car into a cop car the other day
Well he just drove off sometimes life's OK
I ran my mouth off a bit too much oh what did I say
Well you just laughed it off it was all OK
And we'll all float on OK
And we'll all float on OK
And we'll all float on OK
And we'll all float on any way well
Well, a fake Jamaican took every last dime with that scam
It was worth it just to learn from sleight-of-hand
Bad news comes don't you worry even when it lands
Good news will work its way to all them plans
We both got fired on exactly the same day
Well we'll float on good news is on the way
And we'll all float on OK
And we'll all float on OK
And we'll all float on OK
And we'll all float on alright
Already we'll all float on
Now don't you worry we'll all float on
Alright already we'll all float on
Alright don't worry we'll all float on
And we'll all float on alright
Already we'll all float on
Alright don't worry even if things end up a bit too heavy
We'll all float on alright
Already we'll all float on
Alright already we'll all float on
OK don't worry we'll all float on
Even if things get heavy we'll all float on
Alright already we'll all float on
Don't you worry we'll all float on
All float on
http://www.tv.com/shows/star-trek/metamorphosis-24923/
tv.com
Star Trek Season 2 Episode 9
Metamorphosis
Aired Nov 10, 1967 on NBC
When their shuttle is diverted to a planetoid, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy encounter Earth's Warp Drive pioneer, Zefram Cochrane, who appears to have survived there alone for 150 years.
AIRED: 11/10/67
http://hvom.blogspot.com/2013/03/time-after-time.html
Posted by Kerry Burgess at 10:25 AM
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Time After Time
1979 film "Time After Time" DVD video:
00:55:00
Amy Robbins: What about you? You married?
H.G. Wells: I wouldn't be here with you if I were.
Amy Robbins: Well, that's nice. A lot of guys - well, it's no big deal. I like that.
H.G. Wells: As a matter of fact, I'm also divorced, for similar reasons.
Amy Robbins: She wanted you to be a housewife?
H.G. Wells: She wanted me to be routine.
[ excerpt ends Posted by Kerry Burgess at 10:25 AM Thursday, March 21, 2013 ]
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114367/releaseinfo
IMDb
Screamers (1995)
Release Info
USA 26 January 1996
Screamers (1995)
Full Cast & Crew
Peter Weller ... Joe Hendricksson
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114367/quotes
IMDb
Screamers (1995)
Quotes
Ross: Once it gets inside, that's when the killin' starts.
From: Kerry Burgess
To: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 3:27:20 PM
Subject: Re: Journal May 23, 2006
I could have sworn that I passed Tom Clancy on the sidewalk the other day and he was looking at me as he walked by.
2016September17_Chloe55_DSC00738.jpg
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-outer-limits/i-hear-you-calling-21448/
tv.com
The Outer Limits Season 2 Episode 4
I Hear You Calling
Aired Friday 9:00 PM Jan 26, 1996 on Showtime
Episode Summary
Reporter Carter Jones is on her way to work when her cellular phone picks up a suspicious conversation about the "removal" of a controversial author. Her journalistic curiosity piqued, Carter investigates, despite the objections of her boss and the police. As a result, she finds herself in a deadly game of cat and mouse, involving a strange man with violet eyes, an ill-fated cruise and people who disappear leaving behind only a pile of purple ash. Can Carter get to the bottom of these mysterious disappearances? Or will she be the next to vanish?
AIRED: 1/26/96
Pandemic (The Extinction Files Book 1)
A.G. Riddle
Chapter 38
"There are three pieces," Desmond said, "Rook, Rendition, and Rapture."
"You remember?"
"No. The journalist told me." Desmond's mind flashed to the man, the fear on his face when he'd said, "They have my fiancee`. "What happened to him?"
Conner averted his eyes.
"I asked you a question."
"We sent him on an all-expenses paid trip to Disneyland, Desmond. What do you think happened to him?"
From 4/1/1948 ( Ralph Asher Alpher and George Gamow publish the Alpher–Bethe–Gamow paper "The Origin of Chemical Elements" ) To 10/1/2013 is 23924 days
23924 = 11962 + 11962
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 8/3/1998 ( Tom Clancy "Rainbow Six" ) is 11962 days
From 2/19/1997 ( 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 - the Hubble Space Telescope placed back into its own orbit of the planet Earth ) to 6/11/2005 ( for me personally as Kerry Burgess: Downtown Emergency Service Center - Seattle ) is 3034 days
From 6/11/2005 ( for me personally as Kerry Burgess: Downtown Emergency Service Center - Seattle ) to 10/1/2013 is 3034 days
From 2/6/2004 ( as Kerry Burgess in excellent standing and 100% my own personal initiative my final day full-time employment Microsoft Corporation in Seattle beginning 12/07/1998 ) To 10/1/2013 is 3525 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/28/1975 ( Rod Serling dead ) is 3525 days
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tom-Clancy
Encyclopædia Britannica
Tom Clancy
AMERICAN AUTHOR
Tom Clancy, in full Thomas Leo Clancy, Jr. (born April 12, 1947, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.—died October 1, 2013, Baltimore), American novelist who created the techno-thriller—a suspenseful novel that relies on extensive knowledge of military technology and espionage.
Clancy attended Loyola University in Baltimore (B.A. in English, 1969) and then worked as an insurance agent. His first novel was the surprise Cold War best seller The Hunt for Red October (1984; film 1990), which introduced his popular protagonist, CIA agent Jack Ryan, who was featured in a number of his later books. Red Storm Rising (1986), Patriot Games (1987; film 1992), Clear and Present Danger (1989; film 1994), The Sum of All Fears (1991; film 2002), Rainbow Six (1998), The Bear and the Dragon (2000), The Teeth of the Tiger (2003), Dead or Alive (2010), and Command Authority (2013) are subsequent novels.
https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200804/physicshistory.cfm
American Physical Society
APS physics
APS News
This Month in Physics History
April 1, 1948: The Origin of Chemical Elements
On April 1, 1948 a paper was published in the Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe, and Gamow, entitled “The Origin of Chemical Elements.” The authors’ names were a bit of a joke (Hans Bethe hadn’t really contributed to the work), but the paper contains a significant scientific discovery. Ralph Alpher and George Gamow explained how the extreme conditions shortly after the big bang could explain the observed abundances of the most common elements in the universe.
Physicist George Gamow was born in Odessa (now in Ukraine), in 1904. He grew dissatisfied with the Soviet Union, and after one failed attempt, he fled and immigrated to the United States in 1934. He took a position at George Washington University in Washington, DC.
In the early 1940s, Gamow was working on explaining the observed abundances of elements. It had already been shown that in the cores of stars, hydrogen nuclei fuse to form helium. But this process happens too slowly to account for the observed abundance of helium in the universe (about 1 atom of helium for every 10 atoms of hydrogen) and it didn’t account for the existence of elements much heavier than helium. Gamow wondered if the conditions of the very early universe could have produced the observed helium and other elements.
The research needed knowledge of nuclear physics, but most nuclear physicists in the US at the time had been recruited to the Manhattan project, so Gamow was essentially alone in working on the problem of nucleosynthesis.
He started making calculations, beginning by looking at the density of matter in the universe and essentially running the expansion of the universe backwards to get an estimate of what the early universe might have looked like. He then began trying to figure out the probabilities of nuclear reactions in early universe. As the universe expands, conditions constantly change, so the calculations were complicated. Not particularly adept at mathematical calculations himself, Gamow recruited PhD student Ralph Alpher to help.
They started by imagining the early stage of the universe as an extremely hot dense gas of neutrons, (which they called “ylem,” after a medieval word for matter). As the universe expanded, the hot compressed neutrons would decay into a mixture of protons and electrons and neutrinos. Then the protons would capture some of the remaining neutrons to form deuterium. Further neutron capture would build up heavier and heavier atomic nuclei. The process would continue as the universe expanded until it was too cool for further reactions to take place.
Alpher’s calculations of nuclear processes used some of the first electronic digital computers, which had been developed during World War II. He was also able to use new data on nuclear reaction cross sections that had become available after the war ended.
The calculations agreed with the known abundance of helium. Pleased with their result, Alpher and Gamow submitted a brief communication to the Physical Review, titled “The Origin of Chemical Elements.” They celebrated with a bottle of liqueur, which Gamow relabeled “ylem.”
Gamow, who was known for his sense of humor, saw that the paper they had submitted to Phys. Rev. was to appear on April 1, 1948. He added the name of his friend Hans Bethe, who was known for work on nuclear reactions in stars, among other things, to the paper, so the authors would be Alpher, Bethe, and Gamow, a pun on the first three letters of the Greek alphabet.
Alpher, as a PhD student struggling to make a name for himself, objected to the addition, fearing that the name of the famous Bethe would overshadow his own, reducing the credit he received for his crucial contribution to an important piece of research. But Gamow published it with Bethe’s name, despite Alpher’s objections.
The paper, still known as the alpha-beta-gamma paper, not only explained the origin of the most abundant elements in the universe, but also provided the first support for the big bang model since Hubble’s discovery in 1929 that distant galaxies are redshifted in proportion to their distance from us.
It later became clear that most elements actually cannot be produced by the successive neutron capture process Alpher and Gamow originally proposed because there is no stable nucleus with 5 nucleons. Another process was needed to bridge the gap to create heavier elements. The Alpher-Bethe-Gamow theory does, however, correctly explain the abundances of hydrogen and helium, which together account for more than 99 percent of the baryonic matter in the universe.
Following the publication, Alpher still had to complete his PhD. Scientists and the press heard about the Alpher-Bethe-Gamow result, and 300 people crowded in to hear Alpher’s thesis defense at George Washington University in the spring of 1948. The Washington Post, hearing Alpher’s statement that the creation of hydrogen and helium in the hot big bang took just 300 seconds, boldly reported that the “World Began in Five Minutes.”
Alpher was awarded his PhD, but his 15 minutes of fame soon ended. After finishing his PhD, he and Robert Herman (who resisted Gamow’s efforts to get him to change his name to Delter) continued work on the early universe. That research led them to predict the cosmic microwave background, but their prediction was ignored, and they were not given credit when the CMB was discovered in 1964.
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/oct/02/entertainment/la-et-jc-tom-clancy-an-appreciation-20131002
Los Angeles Times
Tom Clancy: An appreciation
October 02, 2013 By Hector Tobar
Tom Clancy, who died Tuesday at age 66, was an author who created imaginary stories from the raw material of a real world in conflict. His audience seemed to grow exponentially as he conquered one media platform after another.
In his 1984 debut, "The Hunt for Red October," he proved himself a master of the late Cold War espionage novel, with assorted Russian generals and commissars as his foils. But his fictional creations also took life in movies, television programs and even in a series of video games to which he lent his name.
Today, millions of young people who've never read his novels, and who weren't alive when the Soviet Union existed, storm Russian (and Mexican and Kazakh) cities in the virtual worlds of video games that bear Clancy's name. In recent years, the value of his film, book and game empire surpassed $100 million.
Rainbow Six (1998) - Tom Clancy
(from internet transcript)
CHAPTER 4
"You don't approve?"
"Restructuring DNA in plants and animals-no. Nature has evolved without our assistance for two billion years at least. I doubt that it needs help from us."
" `There are some things man is not meant to know'?" the senator asked with a chuckle. His professional background was in contracting, in gouging holes in the ground and erecting something that nature didn't want there, though his sensitivity on environmental issues, Dr. Brightling thought, had itself evolved from his love of Washington and his desire to remain here in a position of power. It was called Potomac Fever, a disease easily caught and less easily cured.
"The problem, Senator Hawking, is that nature is both complex and subtle. When we change things, we cannot easily predict the ramifications of the changes. It's called the Law of Unintended Consequences, something with which the Congress is familiar, isn't it?"
"You mean-"
"I mean that the reason we have a federal law about environmental impact statements is that it's far easier to mess things up than it is to get them right. In the case of recombinant DNA, we can more easily change the genetic code than we can evaluate the effects those changes will cause a century from now. That sort of power is one that should be used with the greatest possible care. Not everyone seems to grasp that simple fact."
Which point was difficult to argue with, the senator had to concede gracefully. Brightling would be making that case before his committee in another week. Had that been the thing that had broken up the marriage of John and Carol Brightling? How very sad. With that observation, the senator made his excuses and headed off to join his wife.
"There's nothing new in that point of view." John Brightling's doctorate in molecular biology came from the University of Virginia, along with his M.D. "It started with a guy named Ned Ludd a few centuries ago. He was afraid that the Industrial Revolution would put an end to the cottage-industry economy in England. And he was right. That economic model was wrecked. But what replaced it was better for the consumer, and that's why we call it progress!" Not surprisingly, John Brightling, a billionaire heading for number two, was holding court before a small crowd of admirers.
"But the complexity-" One of the audience started to object.
"Happens every day-every second, in fact. And so do the things we're trying to conquer. Cancer, for example. No, madam, are you willing to put an end to our work if it means no cure for breast cancer? That disease strikes five percent of the human population worldwide. Cancer is a genetic disease. The key to curing it is in the human genome. And my company is going to find that key! Aging is the same thing. Salk's team at La Jolla found the kill-me gene more than fifteen years ago. If we can find a way to turn it off, then human immortality can be real. Madam - does the idea of living forever in a body of twenty-five years' maturity appeal to you?"
"But what about overcrowding?" The congresswoman's objection was somewhat quieter than her first. It was too vast a thought, too surprisingly posed, to allow an immediate objection.
"One thing at a time. The invention of DDT killed off huge quantities of disease-bearing insects, and that increased populations all over the world, didn't it? Okay, we are a little more crowded now, but who wants to bring the anopheles mosquito back? Is malaria a reasonable method of population control? Nobody here wants to bring war back, right? We used to use that, too, to control populations. We got over it, didn't we? Hell, controlling populations is no big deal. It's called birth control, and the advanced countries have already learned how to do it, and the backward countries can, too, if they have a good reason for doing so. It might take a generation or so," John Brightling mused, "but is there anyone here who would not want to be twenty-five again-with all the things we've learned along the way, of course. It damned well appeals to me!" he went on with a warm smile. With sky-high salaries and promises of stock options, his company had assembled an incredible team of talent to look at that particular gene. The profits that would accrue from its control could hardly be estimated, and the U.S. patent was good for seventeen years! Human immortality, the new Holy Grail for the medical community-and for the first time it was something for serious investigation, not a topic of pulp science-fiction stories.
- posted by Kerry Burgess 12:10 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Saturday 27 July 2019
