https://hvom.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-blue-astro-angel-on-trial.html
Posted by Kerry Burgess at 11:06 AM
Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home
I am Kerry Burgess. This is what I think.
Thursday, December 05, 2019
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/70000-tons-battleship-terror-how-biggest-battleship-ever-committed-suicide-102097
The National Interest
December 5, 2019
70,000 Tons of Battleship Terror: How the Biggest Battleship Ever Committed Suicide
The Japanese Yamato had well-earned esteem.
by Kyle Mizokami
The decision sealed the fate of the battleship Yamato and its crew
It and its sister, Musashi
The destruction of Yamato was inevitable even as far back as the attack on Pearl Harbor. It was clear that the age of the aircraft carrier had already superseded the battleship, but the insistence of battleship-minded general officers to cling to obsolete military technology undermined Japan’s conduct of the war and sent thousands of Japanese sailors needlessly to their deaths. The story of the Yamato is a warning to all armed forces that the march of war technology is merciless and unsentimental.
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: July 29, 2006
When Tavener showed me that video back in July 2002, I told Vince later that I wanted to kick his ass but it would as easy as beating up a little girl and I didn't find any thing comforting about that.
http://hvom.blogspot.com/2018/10/la-tango-de-la-muerte.html
Posted by Kerry Burgess at 12:58 AM
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 05, 2018
La Tango de la Muerte!
She's sad because she knows that only the homosexuals of the United States Navy refer to It as having a gender. It's the only female they like.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Sterett_(CG-31)
USS Sterett (CG-31)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
USS Sterett (DLG/CG-31) was a Belknap-class destroyer leader / cruiser.
[ excerpt ends Posted by Kerry Burgess at 12:58 AM FRIDAY, OCTOBER 05, 2018 ]
https://www.yahoo.com/news/acting-navy-secretary-promises-hell-143044402.html
Yahoo! News
The acting Navy secretary promises he'll fix the Ford aircraft carrier because he's tired of it being a 'whipping boy for why the Navy can't do anything right'
Business Insider
Business Insider December 7, 2019
Kerry Burgess, excerpt from my private journal: 11/20/2006 2:31 PM
I wrote a while back that it may have actually been me that did this first EVA from the space shuttle. The flight also ended on February 11th, which may represent the November 2nd launch I made in 1975 to plant the B41 thermonuclear bombs on the comet in the outer solar system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-41-B
Mission name: STS-41-B
Shuttle: Challenger
Launch: February 3, 1984, 8:00:00 a.m. EST
Landing: February 11, 1984, 7:15:55 a.m. EST
This flight marked the first untethered space walks by McCandless and Stewart, using the manned maneuvering unit.
From 7/4/1976 ( at extreme personal risk to himself my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship successfully intercepts the Comet Lucifer in the outer solar system and diverts it away from the planet Earth ) To 7/22/2017 ( ) is 14993 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/20/2006 ( ) is 14993 days
From 2/22/1976 ( The Point Of No Return - my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship survived a catastrophic collision with a meteor and at extreme personal risk to himself he continues the mission as planned to intercept and divert the Comet Lucifer in the outer solar system ) To 7/22/2017 ( ) is 15126 days
15126 = 7563 + 7563
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/18/1986 ( premiere US film "Aliens" ) is 7563 days
Future updates possible by me, Kerry Burgess, on this topic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Gerald_R._Ford
USS Gerald R. Ford
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) is the lead ship of her class of United States Navy aircraft carriers. The ship is named after the 38th President of the United States, Gerald Ford, whose World War II naval service included combat duty aboard the light aircraft carrier Monterey in the Pacific Theater.
Construction began on 11 August 2005, when Northrop Grumman held a ceremonial steel cut for a 15-ton plate that forms part of a side shell unit of the carrier. The keel of Gerald R. Ford was laid down on 13 November 2009. She was christened on 9 November 2013. Gerald R. Ford entered the fleet replacing the decommissioned USS Enterprise (CVN-65), which ended her 51 years of active service in December 2012. Originally scheduled for delivery in 2015, Gerald R. Ford was delivered to the Navy on 31 May 2017 and formally commissioned by President Donald Trump on 22 July 2017.
Posted by me, Kerry Burgess, H.V.O.M at 12:30 PM Saturday, September 05, 2009
From 10/11/1968 ( date hijacked from me:I was Apollo 7 spacecraft astronaut in orbit of planet Earth ) To 10/20/1980 ( U2 "Boy" and International Terrorist against the U.S. federal government that is Bono and U2 actively instigate insurrection and subversive activity against the U.S. federal government ) is 4392 days
4392 = 2196 + 2196
From 7/16/1963 ( another threat sent to me against my wife ) To 7/20/1969 ( date hijacked from me:I was Apollo 11 Eagle astronaut landing on Earth's moon ) is 2196 days
http://www.u2.com/discography/index/album/albumId/4003/tagName/studio_albums
U2.com
Discography > Studio Albums > Boy
Boy
Release Date: 20 October 1980
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_(album)
Boy (album)
Studio album by U2
Released October 20, 1980
Boy is the debut album from Irish rock band U2, released October 20, 1980.
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.
The smallest 4000 ton model planned for ground launch from Jackass Flats, Nevada had each blast add 30 mph (50 km/h) to the craft's velocity. A graphite based oil was to be sprayed on the pusher plate before each explosion to prevent ablation of the pusher plate. This sequence would be repeated thousands of times, like an atomic pogo stick.
Orion's potential performance was stunning, at least compared to today's chemical or even other nuclear designs. Jerry Pournelle, who is acquainted with the project and its ex-team leader Freeman Dyson, has been quoted as saying that a single mission could have provided us with a large permanent moon base.[citation needed] Alternatively an Orion could reach Pluto and return to Earth inside of a year. Single stage to Mars and back also seemed to be possible.[citation needed]
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=5353&st=&st1=
653 - Remarks on Arrival at Jacksonville Naval Air Station, Florida.
November 2nd, 1975
Admiral Green, Captain Bernstein, Mayor Tanzler, Senator Chiles, Congress. man Burke, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen:
First, I am deeply grateful for the warm welcome by Admiral Green and all of you from the Jacksonville Naval Air Station. I am most appreciative, on behalf of Mrs. Ford and myself, that so many of you have come out on a Sunday on this occasion.
As all of you know, I am in the process of having further very important meetings with President Sadat of Egypt. It is quite interesting, in my judgment, that I am meeting this afternoon with a man who represents a country whose history goes back literally centuries and centuries and centuries.
And at the same time, I am in a part of our country where we have some contrast between the old and the new. Jacksonville is a relatively modern city, historically, and certainly a very progressive city in our development of our great country.
But not far from here we have the oldest city in the United States--St. Augustine. So, in a relatively small part of this great country, we have a history that goes back from the very beginning and a community that represents. progress and tremendous enthusiasm and drive.
I believe this shows the diversity of America. And this diversity in this great country is one of our strengths as we meet the challenges both at home and abroad.
But we cannot, in this country, solve our problems at home or meet our commitments internationally if we don't have a strong national defense program. It is vitally important for peace that we have a national defense program second to none.
All of you at the naval air station in Jacksonville perform a great service in that regard. I know of the missions and responsibilities that you have here. You have the helicopter antisubmarine warfare unit that does a tremendous job. You have the long-range naval capability in the antisubmarine warfare area. You have nuclear-powered naval vessels.
This naval air station is a vital part of our total national security capability, and what you do here protects 214 million Americans. And on behalf of them, I thank you for your contribution.
A long, long time ago, I was a part of the Navy. I was very proud of that association for some 47 months. I learned a lot. I hope I contributed a little. But I know from firsthand experiences the trials and tribulations of serving in our uniformed services.
The men and women who serve do a superb job. But the wives and the children of men in service--Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard-are likewise making a great contribution, because I know of the sacrifices they make over the years in performing their part of this service. And' I thank them for what I know they do.
Let me say, in conclusion, that the meetings that I am having today and the ones that I had earlier in the week with President Sadat relate to a better and more peaceful world. But I can go and have these discussions, these talks from a position of strength, and all of you are a very vital and important part of that strength.
So, it makes my job easier, it makes our country more secure to know that we have people like you serving in our national security forces.
Thank you very, very much.
Note: The President spoke at 11:25 a.m. In his opening remarks, he referred to Rear Adm. Norman Green, USN, commander of the Jacksonville Naval bases, and Capt. Karl Bernstein, USN, commanding officer of Jacksonville Naval Air Station.
[ excerpt ends Posted by me, Kerry Burgess, H.V.O.M at 12:30 PM Saturday, September 05, 2009 ]
Sphere (1998)
(from internet transcript)
You might as well helicopter me back...because the damage is done to the survivors already.
Hold on. We'll get to that.
I don't even know who you are.
I know who you are.
Who are you? Navy? Military? What are you?
US Navy Captain Barnes: You ever hear of the OSSA? They don't know who I am. That should reassure you.
Posted by me, Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 9:33 PM Friday, December 11, 2009
I made those four flights in and out of the comet but the first trip out ended in disaster because I was almost free and clear and then I jinked away from one speeding rock and slammed right into another speeding rock. My ship was completely destroyed. I was knocked out again and I drifted there for a while before I finally came back to consciousness. I had no idea how I was going to get back to the mother ship. I could see it far off in the distance but I had no way of getting back to it. Among the rubble of my destroyed small spaceship I found a fire extinquisher and I used that to kick me back to the larger ship and I cannot begin to describe how lucky I was to make it back to the ship. I had a spare small spaceship and loaded up again with the bombs and I made three successful trips in and out of the comet. I got back to my large spaceship and traveled away from the comet for over a day and then I remotely detonated the bombs on 7/4/1976. The rest is history.
[ excerpt ends Posted by me, Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 9:33 PM Friday, December 11, 2009 ]
Kerry Burgess, excerpt from my private journal: 10/19/2006 12:43 PM
I feel as though there are more details trying to surface in my mind about the trip to Saturn. I think the basis of the event is based on some thoughts I was having a few months ago. It was when I was still thinking Mars was in my future instead of actually in my past. I was having thoughts of a problem with my spacecraft and I was not going to make it back to Earth because I was going to run out of oxygen sometime between the time I left Mars to return to Earth. I was thinking that the situation was so hopeless by the time I got to Mars that ground control and I weren’t even talking that much anymore. But on Mars, I figured out how to extract oxygen from the ice and I was able to replenish my tanks. Over the past few days, I keep thinking about that scene from “The Abyss” where he is diving to find that nuclear bomb and disarm it. My thoughts suggest that some micro-meteroids hit my ship, not unlike in “Mission To Mars,” while I was outbound to intercept the comet that threatened the inner planets. I fixed the leak, reminiscent of me helping George Campbell fix a cooling system component of the search radar but which kept leaking for a long time because the welder couldn’t get the hole patched, but I lost a lot of oxygen before I got it fixed. Ground control told me to turn around and they had an alternate plan to try again. I rejected that plan because I was already out there and with that comet getting closer every day, there was no guarantee that a second attempt would fare any better. I might have told them that I was lucky to even have any oxygen left at that point and what if on the second trip, something even worse happens. They brought in my family, reminiscent of the scenes from “The Abyss” and “Deep Impact” to say goodbye and even to try to talk me into returning but I wasn’t coming back. I have thoughts that I even disabled the electronics that would allow ground control to automatically control the ship.
From 5/4/1927 ( the official Articles of Incorporation were filed for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ) To 11/3/1966 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Dagger of the Mind" ) is 14428 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/4/2005 is 14428 days
Other posts by me, Kerry Burgess, on this topic:https://hvom.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-texan.html
cocoon_00h39m54s.jpg
cocoon_00h40m05s.jpg
From 7/5/1956 ( premiere US film "Somebody Up There Likes Me" ) To 2/22/1976 ( The Point Of No Return - my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship survived a catastrophic collision with a meteor and at extreme personal risk to himself he continues the mission as planned to intercept and divert the Comet Lucifer in the outer solar system ) is 7171 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/21/1985 ( ) is 7171 days
From 5/26/1961 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Twilight Zone"::"Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?" ) To 6/21/1985 ( ) is 8792 days
8792 = 4396 + 4396
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/15/1977 ( premiere US film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" ) is 4396 days
From 11/10/1967 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Metamorphosis" ) To 6/21/1985 is 6433 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/14/1983 ( The Washington Post "Toward the Stars" ) is 6433 days
From 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 ) To 6/21/1985 is 3301 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/16/1974 ( the Arecibo radio telescope message beamed into space ) is 3301 days
From 9/26/1964 ( premiere US TV series "Gilligan's Island" ) To 5/15/1984 ( as Kerry Wayne Burgess I began active service for an enlistment period of six years as a United States Navy enlisted sailor and United States of America military service continued to Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps general ) is 7171 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/21/1985 is 7171 days
From 5/4/1974 ( Richard Nixon - Remarks Opening Expo '74, Spokane, Washington ) To 6/21/1985 is 4066 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/20/1976 ( premiere US TV movie "The Loneliest Runner" ) is 4066 days
From 9/16/1958 ( premiere US TV movie "The Fountain of Youth" ) To 5/5/1978 ( Jimmy Carter - Spokane, Washington Remarks at Dedication Ceremonies for Riverfront Park ) is 7171 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/21/1985 is 7171 days
Other posts by me, Kerry Burgess, on this topic: https://hvom.blogspot.com/2019/09/monkey-see-monkey-do-law-of.html
https://hvom.blogspot.com/2019/12/where-streets-have-no-name.html
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088933/releaseinfo
IMDb
Cocoon (1985)
Release Info
USA 21 June 1985
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166198/releaseinfo
IMDb
The Fountain of Youth (1958 TV Short)
Release Info
USA 16 September 1958
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-the-nation-announcing-decision-resign-the-office-president-the-united-states
The American Presidency Project
Richard Nixon
XXXVII President of the United States: 1969-1974
244 - Address to the Nation Announcing Decision To Resign the Office of President of the United States
August 8, 1974
Richard Nixon: I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. But as President, I must put the interests of America first.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074814/releaseinfo
IMDb
The Loneliest Runner (1976 TV Movie)
Release Info
USA 20 December 1976
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090605/quotes
IMDb
Aliens (1986)
Quotes
Ripley: You know, Burke, I don't know which species is worse. You don't see them fucking each other over for a goddamn percentage.
From 2/22/1976 ( The Point Of No Return - my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship survived a catastrophic collision with a meteor and at extreme personal risk to himself he continues the mission as planned to intercept and divert the Comet Lucifer in the outer solar system ) To 7/14/1986 ( ) is 3795 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/24/1976 ( Gerald Ford - Special Message to the Congress on the Federal Civilian and Military Retirement Systems ) is 3795 days
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090605/releaseinfo
IMDb
Aliens (1986)
Release Info
USA 14 July 1986 (Westwood, California) (premiere)
USA 18 July 1986
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090605/quotes
IMDb
Aliens (1986)
Quotes
Private Hudson: We're on an express elevator to hell, going down!
DSCN8761.jpg, Kerry Burgess 12/06/2019 Spokane
https://hvom.blogspot.com/2019/12/excursion-12062019-spokane-part-3.html
Posted by Kerry Burgess at 8:19 AM
Saturday, December 07, 2019
Excursion 12/06/2019, Spokane, Part #3
DSCN8761.jpg, Kerry Burgess 12/06/2019 Spokane
Future updates by me, Kerry Burgess, in progress on this calendar day topic
[ excerpt ends Posted by Kerry Burgess at 8:19 AM Saturday, December 07, 2019 ]
- posted by Kerry Burgess 3:00 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Saturday 12/07/2019
