This Is What I Think.
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
War of the Gods. All in the Family
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-twilight-zone/the-long-morrow-12720/trivia/
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The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 15
The Long Morrow
Aired Jan 10, 1964 on CBS
Quotes
(Closing Narration)
Narrator: Commander Douglas Stansfield, one of the forgotten pioneers of the space age. He's been pushed aside by the flow of progress and the passage of years--and the ferocious travesty of fate. Tonight's tale of the ionosphere and irony, delivered from--the Twilight Zone.
https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2019/08/trump-nuclear-bombs-and-hurricanes.html
Cliff Mass Weather and Climate Blog
This blog discusses current weather, weather prediction, climate issues, and other topics
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Trump, Nuclear Bombs and Hurricanes
Today, I received calls from two media outlets asking about Trump's supposed suggestion that the U.S. might weaken hurricanes by exploding nuclear weapons inside of them.
Now there is some debate on whether he said they in the first place: the story was released by Axios, some kind of media outlet, with President Trump denying he even said it. Many media folks see this as a great opportunity to embarrass the President, so perhaps some of the stories are not quite even handed.
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excerpt from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 03/22/07 3:26 PM
I have been, at the least, selected for Rear Admiral, at this point. I am either considered a Rear Admiral or I will wear the star of a RDML when I put back on the uniform, or both.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rear_admiral
From 6/21/1955 ( Dwight Eisenhower - Executive Order 10616 - Suspension of Certain Provisions of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947, as Amended, Which Relates to Officers of the Marine Corps of the Grade of Brigadier General ) To 11/7/1996 ( the successful launch of the United States NASA unmanned spacecraft Mars Global Surveyor ) is 15115 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/22/2007 is 15115 days
From 10/24/1994 ( premiere US film "Stargate" ) To 3/22/2007 is 4532 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/31/1978 ( The Spokesman-Review reporting referenced on 03/16/1978 "Writer on cloning attacks his critics" ) is 4532 days
From 1/14/1979 ( premiere US TV series episode "Battlestar Galactica"::"War of the Gods - Part 1" ) To 3/22/2007 is 10294 days
10294 = 5147 + 5147
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/6/1979 ( premiere US film "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" ) is 5147 days
From 1/18/1974 ( premiere US TV series "The Six Million Dollar Man" ) To 3/22/2007 is 12116 days
12116 = 6058 + 6058
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/4/1982 ( premiere US film "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" ) is 6058 days
From 10/2/1955 ( premiere US TV series "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" ) To 2/18/1997 ( 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 - extravehicular activity #5 completes the mission's servicing and refurbishment of the Hubble Space Telescope ) is 15115 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/22/2007 is 15115 days
From 2/12/1914 ( the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. ) To 11/18/1996 ( premiere US film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) is 30230 days
30230 = 15115 + 15115
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/22/2007 is 15115 days
From 6/27/1956 ( premiere US film "Moby Dick" ) To 3/22/2007 is 18530 days
18530 = 9265 + 9265
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 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
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 3/22/2007 is 5908 days
5908 = 2954 + 2954
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 12/4/1973 ( Richard Nixon - Toasts of the President and President Ceausescu of Romania ) is 2954 days
From 12/16/1948 ( referenced below here in text ) To 3/22/2007 is 21280 days
21280 = 10640 + 10640
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 12/20/1994 ( in non-aviator related duties on the ground in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) is 10640 days
From 2/12/1931 ( premiere US film "Dracula" ) To 7/1/1972 ( the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives formed as separate organization from the United States Internal Revenue Service ) is 15115 days
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 3/22/2007 is 15115 days
From 10/25/1929 ( The New York Times "Worst Stock Crash Stemmed By Banks; Leaders Confer, Find Conditions Sound" ) To 3/22/2007 is 28272 days
28272 = 14136 + 14136
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 7/16/2004 ( premiere US TV series "Stargate: Atlantis" ) is 14136 days
https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/archive/news/archive/07_News_Releases/070209a.html
U.S. Department of the Interior
February 9, 2007
On February 12, 1914, the 105th anniversary of Lincoln’s birth, the ground-breaking ceremony took place.
The Lincoln Memorial is a tribute to the 16th President of the United States
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https://www.raptisrarebooks.com/product/the-new-york-times-friday-october-25-1929-black-friday/
Raptist Rare Books
The New York Times Friday, October 25, 1929 Black Friday.
https://www.nytimes.com/1929/10/25/archives/wall-street-optimistic-after-stormy-day-clerical-work-may-force.html
The New York Times
Wall Street Optimistic After Stormy Day
Oct. 25, 1929
http://www.gateworld.net/atlantis/s1/transcripts/101.shtml
GateWorld
Stargate Atlantis - Rising - television series premiere episode part 1 and 2 - Friday 16 July 2004 (DVD extended version)
Episode Summary
The discovery of an outpost, left behind by the Ancients in the most unlikely of places, leads a new Stargate team to the distant Pegasus galaxy. Once there, they discover a planet of humans being decimated by a terrible alien race know as the Wraith.
(from internet transcript of incomplete dialog)
WRAITH HALL. The guards bring Sumner into a large hall. In the middle of the hall is a long dining table with food on it, though the food doesn't look very appetising. Sitting in a chair at one end is a skeletal, ancient-looking man. He looks like he's been dead for centuries. It's also clear that this is Toran. Sumner looks at him for a while, then walks away, looking around the room. The ceiling appears to be very high but is obscured by mist. Suddenly a female Wraith -- similar in appearance to the male Wraith but with long dark red hair and wearing a long white shift dress -- drops down out of nowhere and lands on the floor behind Sumner. He spins round to face her.
WRAITH Queen: You must feel hunger by now. (She snarls.)
WRAITH HALL.
WRAITH Queen: What do you call yourself?
SUMNER: Colonel Marshall Sumner, United States Marine Corps.
WRAITH Queen: So little fear. Is it valour ... or ignorance?
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The Spokesman-Review
March 16, 1978
front page
Writer on cloning attacks his critics
A letter written over the name of David M. Rorvik, author of a book alleging the first human cloning, attacks his critics as "pikers in the sour grapes sweepstakes," the San Francisco Examiner reported. (Page 3)
http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie2.html
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
(from internet transcript)
Captain TERRELL: I've never even met Admiral Kirk.
KHAN: Admiral? Admiral! Admiral...
https://books.google.com/books?id=hyqAatuBzJgC
Google Books
Human Rights: Commitment and Betrayal
M. G. Chitkara
APH Publishing, 1996 - Civil rights - 306 pages
https://books.google.com/books?id=hyqAatuBzJgC&pg=PA67
Google Books
Human Rights: Commitment and Betrayal
M. G. Chitkara
page 67
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations General Assembly vide its Resolution No. 217 (III) of December 16, 1948, contains 30 Articles guaranteeing 30 Human Rights considered sacrosanct for full development of one's personality. The right to the development is one of the most important facets of basic human rights. The right to self-interest is inherent in the right to life. Mahatma Gandi said : Every human being has a right to live and, therefore, to find wherewithal to feed himself.
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From 6/27/1901 ( Merle Tuve ) To 4/21/1926 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with and possibly caused by VA Hospital doctor medical drugs: my biological paternal grandmother Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II ) is 9064 days
9064 = 4532 + 4532
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/31/1978 is 4532 days
From 5/25/1977 ( premiere US film "Star Wars" ) To 3/31/1978 is 310 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/8/1966 ( premiere US TV series "Star Trek" ) is 310 days
From 3/3/1959 ( the birthdate in Hawaii of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 7/30/1971 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the United States Navy Commander circa 1971 was United States Apollo 15 Falcon spacecraft United States Navy astronaut landing and walking and driving on the planet Earth's moon ) is 4532 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/31/1978 is 4532 days
From 1/10/1964 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Twilight Zone"::"The Long Morrow" ) 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 and the Saturn moon Phoebe territory belongs to my brother Thomas Reagan ) is 4532 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/31/1978 is 4532 days
From 7/16/1963 ( Phoebe Cates the United States Army veteran and the Harvard University graduate medical doctor and the world-famous actress and the wife of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 3/31/1978 is 5372 days
5372 = 2686 + 2686
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/11/1973 ( premiere US TV series pilot "Harry O" ) is 2686 days
From 11/10/1967 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Metamorphosis" ) To 3/31/1978 is 3794 days
3794 = 1897 + 1897
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/12/1971 ( premiere US TV series "All in the Family" ) is 1897 days
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https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=0klj8wIChNAC&dat=19780316&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
The Spokesman-Review
March 16, 1978
page 3
Cloning author sees 'sour grapes'
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A letter written over the name of David M. Rorvik, author of a book alleging the first human cloning, attacks his critics as "pikers in the sour grapes sweepstakes," the San Francisco Examiner reported Wednesday.
The two-page letter, on Rorvik's personal stationery, was postmarked San Diego and reportedly was sent to an Examiner reporter who wrote an earlier story on Rorvik's book, "In His Image: The Cloning of a Man."
Controversy over the book started about two weeks ago when an advertisement for the novel appeared in a trade publication. Rorvik has not been available for comment. Requests to his publisher, the J.B. Lippincott Co., his agent and his mother for interviews with Rorvik have been turned down. Rorvik had been living in San Francisco, but his landlord said last week that Rorvik moved out of his apartment about a month ago.
The book, due for publication March 31, alleges that Rorvik helped an unidentified millionaire arrange to have a son through cloning, in which a being is genetically duplicated from an individual cell. Several scientists have said that human cloning is virtually impossible today.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/releaseinfo
IMDb
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
Release Info
USA 25 May 1977
http://www.tv.com/shows/star-trek/the-man-trap-24886/
tv.com
Star Trek Season 1 Episode 1
AIRED: 9/8/66
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Merle-Antony-Tuve
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Merle Antony Tuve
AMERICAN GEOPHYSICIST
Merle Antony Tuve, (born June 27, 1901, Canton, S.D., U.S.—died May 20, 1982, Bethesda, Md.), American research physicist and geophysicist who developed the radio-wave exploration method for the ionosphere. The observations he made provided the theoretical foundation for the development of radar.
With the American physicist Gregory Breit, Tuve in 1925 succeeded in measuring the height of the Earth’s ionosphere by bouncing short-pulse radio waves off its ionized layer of air and determining the amount of time taken by the echoes to return. In 1926 Tuve investigated long-range seismic refraction (change in the path through the Earth of a disturbance as it passes through material of varying composition). After receiving his doctorate in physics from Johns Hopkins University (1926), he joined the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington (Washington, D.C.), where he used high-voltage accelerators to define the structure of the atom. He verified the existence of the neutron, measured the bonding forces in atomic nuclei, produced beta and gamma radiation and high-velocity protons, and researched radioastronomy and artificial radioactivity.
Tuve served as director of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution from 1946 to 1966. In 1946 he was awarded the U.S. Presidential Medal of Merit and made a commander in the Order of the British Empire. He was knighted in 1948.
excerpt from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 03/22/07 3:13 PM
Goddamnit I am tired. I wish I could go back to sleep.
excerpt from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 03/22/07 6:09 PM
This episode gets funnier every time I see it:
The Simpsons (Repeat)
13 KCPQ: Thursday, March 22 6:00 PM
Sitcom, Animated
New Kids on the Blecch
Bart is recruited for a boy band; guests 'N Sync.
Original Air Date: Feb 25, 2001
excerpt from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 03/22/07 6:46 PM
"These BNs are all good. They're pros"
"I want a guy who really wants to fight."
Sammy tossed the magazine on the desk and laced his fingers together behind his head as he gazed at Jake speculatively. "Don't do anything crazy, Jake. Don't even think about it. You're the guy who figures out every damn angle before the chips are down."
"I'm tired of bombing trees, Sammy."
- posted by Kerry Burgess 02:46 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Wednesday 28 August 2019