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utah 1485-177-007f.jpg, Kerry Wayne Burgess, competitor number 758, Provo, Utah, 06/08/2002
From 8/15/1999 ( in New York the *first* Ironman triathlon in the continental United States ) to 9/11/2001 is 758 days
kerry burgess ironman coeur dalene idaho 6-27-2004 .jpg
From 9/11/2001 to 2/6/2004 ( as Kerry Burgess my final day full-time employment Microsoft Corporation in Seattle beginning 12/07/1998 ) is 878 days
Pines (The Wayward Pines Trilogy, Book 1)
Blake Crouch
Amazon Kindle Version (08/21/2012)
Chapter 18
"Let me ask you something," Jenkins said. "When you think of the greatest breakthrough discovery in history, what comes to mind?"
Ethan shrugged.
"Come on, humor me."
"Space travel, theory of relativity, I don't - "
"No. The greatest discovery in the history of mankind was learning how man would become extinct."
"As a species?"
"Precisely. In 1971, a young geneticist named David Pilcher made a startling discovery. Keep in mind this was before RNA splicing, before DNA polymorphism. He realized the human genome, which is essentially the entirety of our heredity information, which programs cell growth, was changing, becoming corrupted."
"By what?"
"By what?" Jenkins laughed. "By everything. By what we'd already done to the earth, and by all that we would do in the coming centuries. Mammal extinction. Deforestation. Loss of polar sea ice. Ozone. Increased carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. Acid rain. Ocean dead zones. Overfishing. Offshore oil drilling. Wars. The creation of a billion gasoline-burning automobiles. The nuclear disasters - Fukushima, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl. The two-thousand-plus intentional nuclear bomb detonations in the name of weapons testing. Toxic waste dumping. Exxon-Valdez. BP's Gulf oil spill. All the poisons we put into our food and water every day.
"Since the Industrial Revolution, we've treated our world like it was a hotel room and we were rock stars. But we aren't rock stars. In the scheme of evolutionary forces, we are a weak, fragile species. Our genome is corruptible, and we so abused this planet that we ultimately corrupted that precious DNA blueprint that makes us human.
From 10/15/1951 ( premiere US TV series "I Love Lucy"::series premiere episode "The Girls Want to Go to the Nightclub" ) To 8/3/1998 ( Tom Clancy "Rainbow Six" ) is 17094 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/21/2012 ( ) is 17094 days
From 7/9/1994 ( premiere US TV series episode "Cops"::"Little Rock, AR" ) To 8/21/2012 ( ) is 6618 days
6618 = 3309 + 3309
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/24/1974 ( the discovery of "Lucy" ) is 3309 days
From 6/16/2005 ( as Kerry Burgess my official records United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital includes: Date of Admission, psychiatric unit ) To 8/21/2012 ( ) is 2623 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/7/1973 ( premiere US TV series episode "Mannix"::"The Man Who Wasn't There" ) is 2623 days
From 3/2/1948 ( Abraham Arden Brill dead ) To 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 ) is 17094 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/21/2012 ( ) is 17094 days
From 3/23/1962 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Twilight Zone"::"Person or Persons Unknown" ) To 8/21/2012 is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 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 ) is 9207 days
From 8/21/2012 To 3/16/2013 ( the untimely demise, or something, of Kerry Burgess 2005 and previous versions originally Kerry Burgess 1965 the human cloned from a natural human being and I exist today as Kerry Burgess 2013 ) is 207 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/28/1966 ( the Disneyland Park attraction "It's a Small World" opens to the public ) is 207 days
Other posts by me, Kerry Burgess: https://hvom.blogspot.com/2019/10/private-first-class-harold-keller.html
https://hvom.blogspot.com/2019/10/its-small-world-after-all.html
https://www.amazon.com/Pines-Wayward-Trilogy-Book-ebook/dp/B007FG9LIE
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Disney - It's a small world
it's a world of laughter, a world or tears
its a world of hopes, its a world of fear
theres so much that we share
that its time we're aware
its a small world after all
CHORUS:
its a small world after all
its a small world after all
its a small world after all
its a small, small world
There is just one moon and one golden sun
And a smile means friendship to everyone.
Though the mountains divide
And the oceans are wide
It's a small small world
Rainbow Six (1998) - Tom Clancy
(from internet transcript)
CHAPTER 17
"Look, you know the science as well as I do - maybe better. We're doing things like-like the Alvarez Event that took the dinosaurs out, except we're doing it willfully. It took how long for the planet to recover from that?"
"Alvarez? The planet didn't recover, Kevin," Carol Brightling pointed out. "It jump-started mammals-us, remember? The preexisting ecological order never returned. Something new happened, and that took a couple of million years just to stabilize." Must have been something to see, she told herself. To watch something like that in progress, what a scientific and personal blessing it must have been, but there'd probably been nobody back then to appreciate it. Unlike today.
"Well, in a few more years we'll get to see the first part of it, won't we? How many more species will we kill of this year, and if the ozone situation keeps getting worse - my God, Carol, why don't people get it? Don't they see what's happening? Don't they care?"
"Kevin, no, they don't see, and, no, they don't care. Look around." The restaurant was filled with important people wearing important-looking clothes, doubtless discussing important things over their important dinners, none of which had a thing to do with the planetary crisis that hung quite literally over all their heads. If the ozone layer really evaporated, as it might, well, they'd start using sunblock just to walk the streets, and maybe that would protect them enough… but what of the natural species. the birds, the lizards, all the creatures on the planet who had no such option? The studies suggested that their eyes would be seared by the unblocked ultraviolet radiation, which would kill them off, and so the entire global ecosystem would rapidly come apart. "Do you think any of these people know about it-or give a damn if they do?"
"I suppose not." He sipped down some more of his white wine. "Well, we keep plugging away, don't we?"
"It's funny," she went on. "Not too long ago we fought wars, which kept the population down enough that we couldn't damage the planet all that much- but now peace is breaking out all over, and we're advancing our industrial capacity, and so, peace is destroying us a lot more efficiently than war ever did. Ironic, isn't it?"
"And modern medicine. The anopheles mosquito was pretty good at keeping the numbers down-you know that Washington was once a malarial swamp, diplomats deemed it a hazardous-duty post! So then we invented DDT. Good for controlling mosquitoes, but tough on the peregrine falcon. We never get it right. Never," Mayflower concluded.
"What if?…" she asked wistfully.
"What if what, Carol?"
"What if nature came up with something to knock the human population back?"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy
Lucy
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lucy is an English and French feminine given name derived from Latin masculine given name Lucius with the meaning as of light (born at dawn or daylight, maybe also shiny, or of light complexion).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_(Australopithecus)
Lucy (Australopithecus)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The team returned for the second field season the following year and found hominin jaws. Then, on the morning of 24 November 1974, near the Awash River, Johanson abandoned a plan to update his field notes and joined graduate student Tom Gray to search Locality 162 for bone fossils.
By Johanson's later (published) accounts, both he and Tom Gray spent two hours on the increasingly hot and arid plain, surveying the dusty terrain. On a hunch, Johanson decided to look at the bottom of a small gully that had been checked at least twice before by other workers. At first view nothing was immediately visible, but as they turned to leave a fossil caught Johanson's eye; an arm bone fragment was lying on the slope. Near it lay a fragment from the back of a small skull. They noticed part of a femur (thigh bone) a few feet (about one meter) away. As they explored further, they found more and more bones on the slope, including vertebrae, part of a pelvis, ribs, and pieces of jaw. They marked the spot and returned to camp, excited at finding so many pieces apparently from one individual hominin.
In the afternoon, all members of the expedition returned to the gully to section off the site and prepare it for careful excavation and collection, which eventually took three weeks. That first evening they celebrated at the camp; at some stage during the evening they named fossil AL 288-1 "Lucy"
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1551058/
IMDb
Cops (1989– )
Little Rock, AR 4
TV-14 30min Action, Crime, Reality-TV Episode aired 9 July 1994
Season 6 Episode 41
Release Date: 9 July 1994 (USA)
Kerry Burgess, April 20, 2018 3:33 pm
Every time I read back through those documents I think about the obvious errors in those official United States Navy documents.
Last night I was thinking again the errors and I was trying to remember if I ever said anything about it.
I don't recall saying anything.
I might have said something but I don't recall.
Best I can recall is that one of the chief petty officers in my division presented the document to me, I signed it and that was it.
One of those details I was thinking of last night is about how my name was typed by some person on line 50.
Some person typed my name as: Burgess, K. W. L.
That's an obvious error because my name has never included the "L".
I've wonder about possible reasons for the error.
One of the likeliest of two possible explanations in in the context of those days.
There was a time when I had a nickname for everyone.
I didn't have different nicknames for everyone.
I had *one* nickname for every person I talked to.
Every person I talked to I would call them by the name "Leroy".
Kerry Burgess, March 14, 2018 7:36 pm
Kerry Burgess updated his status.
This was me in the early 1980s.
Not that in my youthful mind I saw myself as some Daniel Boone figure.
Rather, I saw myself as free.
I would stomp around the summers in the snake-infested swamps of the Little River in southwest Arkansas to the point of heat exhaustion.
I couldn't help but walk miles deep into those woods and always looking for something, something new I hadn't seen yet, discovered yet.
That place was really the only thing that brought me back to Arkansas after I joined the US Navy.
kerry wayne burgess dd214 usn 1984 1990.jpg, Kerry Burgess
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_River_County,_Arkansas
Little River County, Arkansas
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Little River County is a county located on the southwest border of the U.S. state of Arkansas, bordering a corner with Texas and Louisiana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 13,171. The county seat is Ashdown.
https://hvom.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-horrible-truth.html
Posted by Kerry Burgess at 5:58 AM
Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home
I am Kerry Burgess. This is what I think.
Thursday, August 01, 2019
The Horrible Truth
Because you're a dullard dim-wit, you're incapable of imagination.
You're incapable of imagining the vast and deep history of this ancient planet Earth that has been cranking out life-forms for billions of years.
You're incapable of comprehending a time-span of billion years because your dullard dim-wit brain can hardly comprehend anything beyond a few days at best.
Your lack of imagination prevents you from trying to predict anything about the future that doesn't concern you personally.
That's why all the religions are still fervently popular in the world and all the hypocrites here in the United States of America.
All religion is just a get-out-of-jail-for-free for all of you, all you cowards and your terror of mortality.
The only thing you can predict for certain about the future is your own mortality. And you have no control over it. Or anything else. So you thump your bible. Because all you have to protect you from the scary Real World is your superstition.
Your lack of imagination prevents you from understanding the feeble attempts by your dullard mind to predict the future is because your monkey ancestors, in their constant bid for survival of the fittest in the cruel, unfair jungle, developed a sense of danger.
They imagined the dangers of the other creatures slithering around with them in the dark on the desert floor or from the predators flying above, the descendants of the dinosaurs.
Your monkey ancestors learned that safety existed in the trees so, because of the stresses of the environment, or perhaps simply because again their DNA was mutated from solar radiation and ultraviolet radiation from beyond, they developed hands and feet for climbing. Because of stress. The stress of real events happening to them and stress of dangers witnessed occurring to others they associated with personally and because of the stress of dangers imagined in their feeble brains.
Millions of years later, you're not much different than your monkey ancestors covering the surface of this planet with crap.
- posted by Kerry Burgess 4:36 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Sunday 10/27/2019
