Just after I finished all the content for this note and as I am putting the finishing touches on the formatting, that weirdo-sounding "disc-jockey" on one of the local FM-radio stations I switch around to came on the air
He was blathering away in profound awe over how tomorrow is 2-2-2-2-2 and it strikes me as equally profound as to how my genius is so wasted here
Abaddon's Gate (The Expanse, Book 3, by James Corey, Kindle Edition)
Chapter 22: Holden
Ahead in the middle of that starless black, the blue sphere waited.
It had waited for two billion years for someone to come through his particular gate, if the researchers were right about how long ago Phoebe had been captured by Saturn. But lately the strangeness surrounding the protomolecule and the Ring left Holden with the disquieting feeling that maybe all the assumptions they'd made about its origins and purpose were wrong.
Protogen had named the protomolecule and decided it was a tool that could redefine what it meant to be human. Jules-Pierre Mao had treated it like a weapon. It killed humans, therefore it was a weapon. But radiation killed humans, and a medical X-ray machine wasn't intended as a weapon. Holden was starting to feel like they were all monkeys playing with a microwave. Push a button, a light comes on inside, so it's a light. Push a different button and stick your hand inside and it burns you, so it's a weapon. Learn to open and close the door, it's a place to hide things. Never grasping what it actually did, and maybe not even having the framework necessary to figure it out. No monkey ever reheated a frozen burrito.
So there the monkeys were, poking the shiny box and making guesses about what it did. Holden could tell himself that in his case the box was asking to be poked, but even that was making a lot of assumptions. Miller looked human, had *been* human once, so it was easy to think of him as having human motivations. Miller wanted to communicate. He wanted Holden to know or do something. But it was just as likely - more likely, maybe - that Holden was anthropomorphizing something far stranger.
He imagined himself landing on the station, and Miller saying, James Holden, you and only you in the whole universe have the correct chemical composition to make a perfect wormhole fuel! then stuffing him into a machine to be processed.
"Everything okay?" Naomi asked in response to his chuckle.
by me, Kerry Burgess: March 12, 2021
You know, is VERY POSSIBLE that I have just recently discovered - on my own personal initiative - The Explanation
As I've been searching these past decades, since my experience - conveniently - with the VA psych. hospital in Seattle
The fact is, whatever forces, reasons, causes, required *me* to be a person sitting here at this stupid desk day-after-day WHILE as a human-being-cloned from another human-being, well, that certainly must have began well BEFORE I was actually born to surrogate
"The Inheritors" first broadcast only 1 year earlier
THE MESSAGE it possibly represents must have existed well before then, unknown to more than 99% of those associated with that tv-production
As for the precise details we must anticipate for the future, that part certainly is not clear in my conscious-mind
by me, Kerry Burgess: March 12, 2021
The Outer Limits (TV Series)
The Inheritors: Part II (1964)
Quotes
Lieutenant Minns: There's nothing I can do about it.
Adam Ballard: You can fight it! [Angrily]
Lieutenant Minns: Not any more than you can fight me.
From 11/21/1964 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Outer Limits"::"The Inheritors - Part 1" ) To 3/12/2021 ( by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts ) is 20565 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/21/2022 ( Today, Monday ) is 20565 days
From 6/6/2018 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Expanse"::"Intransigence" ) To 2/21/2022 ( Today, Monday ) is 1356 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/20/1969 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the United States Navy Commander circa 1969 was United States Apollo 11 Eagle spacecraft United States Navy astronaut landing and walking on the planet Earth's moon ) is 1356 days
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6665336/
IMDb
The Expanse
Intransigence
Episode aired Jun 6, 2018
S3 E9
Top cast
Steven Strait as Jim Holden
The Expanse
"Intransigence"
S3 E9
(from internet transcript)
Miller: What are you slowing down for? You were doing fine.
Holden: Where the hell have you been?!
Miller: Come on, we gotta get to the crime scene. We gotta check out the clues.
Holden: No, no more crime stories. I wanna know exactly what you know.
Miller: Oh. So you wanna talk about the non-local quantum hologram, the phase-conjugate adaptive waves resonating in micro-tubules in the brain, which of course requires some closed-timeline curves and Lorentzian manifold, and... You catch up, I'll wait.
Holden: So, a crime scene?
Miller: Crime scene. We gotta go. Come on, to the station, to the nucleus.
Holden: That thing in the middle of the place that grabbed the ship and the torpedoes?
Miller: I got a case to solve, and you want the truth.
Holden: You seem different.
Miller: Oh, um... The signal's pretty good inside the Ring. It's, uh... It's really good. So you coming or not?
posted by me, Kerry Burgess, December 16, 2017
I haven't been to downtown Spokane's Riverfront Park very often. The first time I can specifically recall being there was the first day of Autumn in 2015 and I traveled there specifically to see the Rotary Fountain
posted online by me, Kerry Burgess, 3:54 AM 24 Feb 2019
I randomly chose ONE HELL OF A CALENDAR DAY to make my first visit to downtown Spokane, I am now just this minute discovering for myself.
http://edn.com/electronics-blogs/edn-moments/4401906/Einstein-paper-outlines-E-mc2--November-21--1905
EDN NETWORK
Einstein paper outlines E=mc2, November 21, 1905
From 11/21/1905 ( "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy-Content?" by Albert Einstein, published by Annalen der Physik ) To 9/1/2005 ( the government of the City of Spokane officially dedicates the Riverfront Park Fountain ) is 36444 days
36444 = 18222 + 18222
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/23/2015 ( purely at random, for me as Kerry Burgess, my first venture into downtown Spokane and Riverfront Park ) is 18222 days
From 2/16/1865 ( The New England Journal of Medicine: Gun-Shot Wounds, Particularly Those Caused by Newly-Invented Missiles ) To 11/28/1964 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Outer Limits"::"The Inheritors - Part 2" ) is 36444 days
36444 = 18222 + 18222
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/23/2015 ( ) is 18222 days
From 12/7/1944 ( the Convention on International Civil Aviation ) To 10/28/1994 ( premiere US film "Stargate" ) is 18222 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/23/2015 ( ) is 18222 days
From 7/27/1997 ( premiere US TV series "Stargate SG-1"::series premiere episode "Children of the Gods" ) To 9/23/2015 ( ) is 6632 days
6632 = 3316 + 3316
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/1/1974 ( premiere US TV series episode "Nova"::"Inside the Golden Gate" ) is 3316 days
From 9/20/1990 ( premiere US TV series pilot "The Flash" ) To 9/23/2015 ( ) is 9134 days
9134 = 4567 + 4567
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/5/1978 ( Jimmy Carter, 39th President of USA: Spokane, Washington Remarks at Dedication Ceremonies for Riverfront Park ) is 4567 days
From 11/18/1996 ( premiere US film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) To 9/23/2015 ( ) is 6883 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/6/1984 ( premiere US film "Amadeus" ) is 6883 days
From 3/16/1991 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate and possibly the date of the secret, doctorate-degree credential from Princeton University, I can only theorize, struggling to understand ) To 9/23/2015 ( ) is 8957 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/12/1990 ( George Bush, 41st President of USA: Remarks at the University of South Carolina Commencement Ceremony in Columbia ) is 8957 days
From 11/10/1967 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Metamorphosis" ) To 9/23/2015 ( ) is 17484 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/15/2013 ( text by me, previously referenced ) is 17484 days
From: Extended Stay America Reservation ExtendedStay@crosslandstudios.com
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To: Kerry Burgess
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Star Trek - "Metamorphosis" - television series Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired Nov 10, 1967 on NBC
Episode Summary
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.
(from internet transcript)
Captain James T. KIRK: You say you can communicate with it. Perhaps you can find out what we're doing here.
Zefram COCHRANE: I already know.
KIRK: You wouldn't mind telling us?
COCHRANE: You won't like it.
KIRK: I already don't like it.
From 9/20/1955 ( premiere US TV series "Navy Log" ) To 10/28/1994 ( premiere US film "Stargate" ) is 14283 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/10/2004 ( ) is 14283 days
From 10/28/1994 ( premiere US film "Stargate" ) To 12/10/2004 ( ) is 3696 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/16/1975 ( Gerald Ford, 38th President of USA: Letter to Vice President Rockefeller on Receiving the Report of the President's Panel on Federal Compensation ) is 3696 days
From 10/28/1994 ( premiere US film "Stargate" ) To 12/10/2004 ( ) is 3696 days
3696 = 1848 + 1848
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/24/1970 ( Richard Nixon, 37th President of USA: Remarks Introducing James F. Oates, Jr., Chairman, Jobs for Veterans Program ) is 1848 days
From 11/28/1964 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Outer Limits"::"The Inheritors - Part 2" ) To 12/10/2004 ( ) is 14622 days
14622 = 7311 + 7311
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/8/1985 ( as Kerry Burgess, from my official enlisted United States Navy documents: Navy Occupation/Training and Awards History: EMERGENCY CLOSURE/BOUNDARY ISOLATION, USS Taylor FFG-50, United States Navy ) is 7311 days
From 11/28/1964 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Outer Limits"::"The Inheritors - Part 2" ) To 12/10/2004 ( ) is 14622 days 14622 = 7311 + 7311
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/8/1985 ( United States 40th President Ronald Reagan and United States Public Law 99-145 authorizes the United States Prisoner of War Medal for United States of America military forces ) is 7311 days
From 6/21/1985 ( premiere US film "Cocoon" ) To 12/10/2004 ( ) is 7112 days
7112 = 3556 + 3556
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/29/1975 ( Gerald Ford, 38th President of USA: Remarks in Krakow at the Pediatric Institute of the Nicholas Copernicus Medical Academy ) is 3556 days
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2004/dec/11/rotary-breaks-ground-on-park-fountain/
The Spokesman-Review
SATURDAY, DEC. 11, 2004
Rotary breaks ground on park fountain
By Hilary Kraus
The seed was planted nearly 30 years ago, but it wasn’t until Friday that city and Rotary Club officials broke ground on the Rotary Fountain in Riverfront Park.
Beneath an intermittent drizzle, the group gathered on a three-quarter-acre site that will be transformed into a $1.25 million interactive water fountain and plaza. It is scheduled to open in late May 2005, in time for the Northwest district Rotary conference.
Project designer Bob Perron was among those who watched as the first holes were dug into the cold, wet ground by Mayor Jim West, Dan Cadagan, Rotary Foundation project committee chairman, and other dignitaries. Perron, designer of Riverfront Park, had the vision of an elaborate entrance fountain in 1975.”There was not enough money in the budget then,” Perron said.
Perron, a resident of Portland and architect of that city’s Salmon Street Spring, said the idea resurfaced about 2½ years ago. The Rotary Club wanted to make a major contribution to the city.
The fountain and plaza are being funded by a public-private partnership between the Spokane Park Board and the Downtown Spokane Rotary Club 21. The fundraising has reached 96 percent of the needed amount, thanks to 415 donors, including 31 who each gave more than $5,000.
“This is by far the most significant project we have ever taken on,” Nancy Kennedy, Club 21 president said during the formal ceremony.
The fountain and plaza will bring a radically different look to the entrance of the park. It will cover an area from the Spokane River to Spokane Falls Boulevard on the south border and from the carousel to the “Christmas tree” on the west edge.
Harold Balazs, commissioned as the sculptor, has designed a work that will tell the story of the Spokane Falls and its relationship to native people.
“We were interested in a fountain that reflected in the history of the community,” said Perron, who has worked with Balazs on other architectural projects.
But unlike Perron’s original idea – sculptured children holding hands in water – the flat-deck Rotary Fountain will be run by computer and will be constantly changing. It will have about 140 water jets, sprays, misters, ground hugging fog and other features. It will stand on five stainless columns that are 24 feet high.
The fountain will be open for anyone who wants to play in the water, and will operate from 6 a.m. until midnight from mid-spring to mid-fall, temperature permitting. The fountain may be operated in winter with the mist creating ice formations.
Annual maintenance is estimated between $20,000 and $25,000, Cadagan said. Power alone would cost about $12,000 a year.
Perron said most of the construction is underground piping, which can be done in winter.
“This is going to be one of those things that brings ‘Wow!’ to the city,” West said.
- posted by me, Kerry Burgess 3:32 PM Pacific-time USA Monday 02/21/2022
