Posted at 2:43 PM, UPDATED at 3:09 PM
I'm sure she will be okay.
There's another report that I've worked on a few hours yesterday and today that was going to be my next post here on my blog
But I haven't felt like posting it anytime soon. For one thing, at this writing, there's still more work I want to put into it, to try to understand *why*
So, scanning the news, I found this topic, which seems to be a companion for that next post, the blog-post I've worked on the past day and that *may be* the blog-post that follows this post.
Very possible I could come back at some point in the future and work more on this topic and make an update on this topic
From 11/21/1964 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Outer Limits"::"The Inheritors - Part 1" ) To 3/11/2021 ( The World Health Organization declares the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic ) is 20564 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/20/2022 ( ) is 20564 days
From 5/29/1971 ( the Magic Mountain amusement park in California opens to the public ) To 2/20/2022 ( TODAY, Sunday ) is 18530 days
18530 = 9265 + 9265
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 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 ) is 9265 days
From 3/2/1964 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Outer Limits"::"Second Chance" ) To 2/20/2022 ( ) is 21174 days
21174 = 10587 + 10587
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/28/1994 ( premiere US film "Stargate" ) is 10587 days
From 8/3/1998 ( "Rainbow Six" by Tom Clancy ) To 2/20/2022 ( ) is 8602 days
8602 = 4301 + 4301
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/12/1977 ( the first atmospheric free flight test of the United States space shuttle Enterprise ) is 4301 days
From 2/21/1997 ( the landing of the US space shuttle Discovery orbiter vehicle mission STS-82 includes me 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 ) To 2/20/2022 ( ) is 9130 days
9130 = 4565 + 4565
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/3/1978 ( premiere US film "Metamorphoses" ) is 4565 days
From 11/10/1967 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Metamorphosis" ) To 2/20/2022 ( ) is 19826 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/13/2020 ( from Inernational Space Station ) is 19826 days
https://qz.com/2130587/the-uks-queen-elizabeth-tests-positive-for-covid-19/?utm_source=YPL
Queen Elizabeth’s covid diagnosis could be a major blow to Brand UK
By Hasit Shah
News editor
Published 02/20/2022
Officials at Buckingham Palace announced today (Feb. 20) that Queen Elizabeth tested positive for covid, as a wave of the virus sweeps through the upper echelons of the British royal family, and within the Queen’s residence at Windsor Castle. Prince Charles, next in line to the throne, tested positive last week.
Queen Elizabeth, 95, is the longest-serving monarch in the world, and celebrates her platinum (70th) anniversary on the throne this year. She has, the palace says, “mild cold-like symptoms,” but her age is a concern. Her husband, Prince Philip, died last year at the age of 99.
As well as being a national and global institution, the Queen is also the figurehead for Brand UK, with her position at the head of the royal family worth billions to the British economy (pdf). Her responses to successive crises, some very recent, determine to a large extent the value of Britain’s brand.
Modern royal scandals
Queen Elizabeth has had a turbulent few years.
Her second-oldest son, Prince Andrew, last week agreed to an out-of-court settlement with an American woman, Virginia Giuffre, who accused him of sexual abuse when she was a teenager. Andrew’s relationship with the US financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein eventually led to his removal from British public life, and the stripping away of many of his royal titles, privileges, and sources of income.
One of her grandsons, Prince Harry, decided to walk away from his royal life, alongside his American wife Meghan. Harry and Meghan moved to California, signed big-money deals with Spotify and Netflix, and gave a lengthy interview to US TV host Oprah Winfrey in March 2021, in which they made several allegations of mistreatment by the royal family.
Meanwhile, her husband, Prince Philip, died at the age of 99 in April 2021. An image of the Queen mourning alone at Westminster Abbey, because of strict covid restrictions in force in the UK at the time, has become one of the central features of the recent backlash against prime minister Boris Johnson and his government. Downing Street was forced to apologize to the Queen for two boozy (and apparently unlawful) parties the night before, and she may even find herself playing an indirect—and unwitting—role in the fall of the government.
https://twitter.com/Astro_Jessica/status/1227996018568024064
Jessica Meir
@Astro_Jessica
So excited for the opportunity to share #TheJourney with my alma mater @BrownUniversity today! Join us for the live-stream here https://brow.nu/meir-live as I try to spot the Van Wickle gates from space! #BrownClassof99 #BrownToEarth #BrownBearsInSpace NASA and 3 others
8:40 AM Feb 13, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
So excited for the opportunity to share #TheJourney with my alma mater @BrownUniversity today! Join us for the live-stream here https://t.co/IDCKF47rsC as I try to spot the Van Wickle gates from space! #BrownClassof99 #BrownToEarth #BrownBearsInSpace pic.twitter.com/qp9Jg65J41
— Jessica Meir (@Astro_Jessica) February 13, 2020
posted by me, Kerry Burgess: 4:10 AM Feb 14, 2020
https://brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/Databases/Encyclopedia/search.php?serial=V0020
Van Wickle Gates
He also provided in his will for a gate and fence at Princeton University as a memorial
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Flags_Magic_Mountain
Six Flags Magic Mountain
From Wikipedia
Six Flags Magic Mountain, formerly known simply as Magic Mountain, is a 262-acre (106 ha) theme park located in Valencia, California, 35 miles (56 km) northwest of downtown Los Angeles. It opened on May 29, 1971
from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journal: 9/26/2006 4:54 PM
I do have a memory that could support an advanced education at an early age. After Theda married James Nevells, he re-joined the Marines. He was assigned to the El Toro base in California and we moved from Arkansas to live in Santa Ana. I started 2nd grade out there
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journal: August 18, 2006
I started trying to remember anything that could represent being on Mars. My first thought was of the Painted Desert. I forget which southwestern state that is located in. My mom mentioned it when the three of us were traveling in her VW "bug" from California back to Oklahoma. Then I remembered something about school in De Queen.
The Outer Limits (1963) s01e23
"Second Chance"
(from internet transcript)
When fear is too terrible, when reality is too agonising, we seek escape in manufactured danger, in the thrills and pleasures of pretending, in the amusement parks of our unamusing world. Here, in frantic pretending, man finds escape and temporary peace and goes home tired enough to sleep a short, deep sleep. But what happens when night comes, when pretending ends and reality begins?
The Outer Limits (1963) s01e23
"Second Chance"
(from internet transcript)
Our sun is one of the stars in the Milky Way, rotating with it like some chair on a great Ferris wheel.
Does life exist somewhere other than this Earth? There are a billion stars in the Milky Way, giving light and heat to as many planets.
And the possibility of discovering other beings is no longer fantasy.
Perhaps they will be even more intelligent than we are.
Perhaps we can learn from them not only the secret of our origin , but how to keep from destroying ourselves.
And now we reverse rockets and we're homeward bound on a true course to the Joyland space port.
- You positively mystify me.
- Why? Oh, philosophising about life on other planets for the benefit of one small boy.
Maybe young people are the only ones who really listen .
You can 't reach a closed mind.
Anyway, l get tired of making the same old speech.
You know, you don 't belong here.
l'm serious.
Who works in amusement parks? Drifters, ex-carnies and students during summer vacation .
- And lovely artists.
- Who can 't sell their paintings.
But l prefer this to waiting tables.
l belong wherever l happen to be.
l am a drifter.
We are re-entering the Earth's atmosphere.
Stand by for retro-rockets.
(whistling roar) There go the retro-rockets, breaking procedure as we reduce starspeed from a maximum 24,900 miles per hour to sub-orbital velocity.
Stand by for change-over and landing.
What are you drifting from? You have the occupational disease of all undiscovered artists: a hyperactive imagination and its by-product, snooping.
( laughs) Well, a man who reads Kant's Critique of P ure Reason does not belong where artists who can 't sell their paintings belong.
Or did l imagine you reading that? And in the original German .
Well, l'm a compulsive reader.
lt might be interesting to snoop into your life.
You can start the minute we get back to Earth, if you like.
l'm free for lunch.
There's California on the screen .
Now Los Angeles County and Joyland.
We're coming in ! And it's a perfect landing.
On behalf of Captain Crowell and myself, thank you for joining us.
We hope that you've enjoyed yourself and will travel with us soon again .
l know a little enchilada stand next to a roller-coaster.
lf we walk fast Well, that doesn 't sound too seductive.
l accept.
Hey, what is it? l feel as if something's wrong.
- How? - As if we were being watched.
From somewhere out there? From somewhere close.
From everywhere.
There aren 't enough people in this whole park to watch us from everywhere.
Maybe that's it.
An amusement park shouldn 't be as empty as this one.
lt wouldn 't be, if the management knew anything about management.
Shouldn 't we strike while the enchiladas are hot? Dave, l asked what you were drifting from.
l'd like to change that.
What are you drifting toward? We were going to have lunch so l could snoop into your life.
Are you looking for a wife, or a girlfriend? - l know what's watching you , Mara.
- You do? Mm-hm.
The eyes of your conscience.
Then l'm not in any real danger.
My conscience and l understand each other.
(decreasing whistle ) Final facets of conversion have been completed.
Accomplished without noticeable modifications.
Humans still see ship as amusement park ride.
Human subjects meeting specifications have been psycho-organised and will enter ship according to plan .
Will re-contact Empyria when ship is beyond Earth's atmosphere.
(steam organ music ) (banging ) Arjay? Of all the cheating, miserable contraptions! Arjay it's only a dime.
Help yourself, sonny boy.
Arjay, please! We came here for a good time.
l'm having all the fun in the world, l mean to tell you ! - (screams) - Don 't be frightened.
l'm as human as you .
You've taken jobs you didn 't want.
Haven 't you? Not ones that degrade me.
Does the job degrade the man ? Or is it the other way round? These are complimentary.
Tickets for the space ride.
l didn 't ask to go on any space ride.
l don 't even know why l'm in this ''amusement'' park.
Perhaps you were compelled to come here by some sleeping need for unreality.
An escape from reality is usually costly.
This one is free.
Please, take these.
Thank you very kindly, Mr? May you enjoy the journey.
lt was nice of him to pick us.
- Probably nobody wants to go on that ride.
- l do.
Supposing l don 't? - l'm sorry, Sueann .
- lt's all right.
l don 't mean to be sharp with you all the time.
One of these days l'll make it up to you .
One of these days.
There's plenty of opportunity out here for a man like me.
lf l could find that one little door and get my foot into it.
lt'll have to be a big door, Arjay.
You got awful big feet, you know.
Most big men do.
Come on , before l get too busy to notice you .
Let's go have a look at that universe.
Buddy, we ought to go.
Luncheon 's in his honour, Donise.
He can keep all them waiting.
- The luncheon 's for the whole team.
- Sure, but you are the whole team.
We'll get there in plenty of time.
How about taking these back? And buy us some more rides.
The Outer Limits (1963) s01e23
"Second Chance"
(from internet transcript)
The young lady will take your tickets.
l hope you enjoy your journey.
Let's wait inside.
We'll give it to her there.
Welcome aboard.
(echoing whistle ) (electronic growling ) Good afternoon .
This is your space stewardess, Miss Matthews.
Your tour officer is Captain Crowell.
He'll explain , in Space Age-ese, the wondrous sights you'll see on the visi-screen .
We wish you a pleasant journey and request that you all fasten your seat belts.
Did you hear that sound? From the radio unit upstairs.
A kind of voice.
You said my conscience was watching me.
Maybe yours is talking to you.
Maybo Ladies and gentlemen , welcome aboard our space flight.
Our ship is a single-stage vehicle using nuclear power rather than chemical propellants utilised in multi-stage rockets.
Our escape velocity will be 1 5,000 miles an hour.
We'll travel in a figure-eight orbit that will take us around the moon .
ln a few moments, after our equipment check, we'll be ready to blast off.
Stand by for countdown and launch.
(deep buzzing ) - (screams) - They put on a very realistic show.
l'm gravely sorry.
l did not intend to reveal myself until you needed me.
Horror is a luxury the desperate cannot afford.
Sit down , Miss Matthews.
Fasten your belt.
Would you be good enough to fasten your belt? - What's going on ? - There are rules in space flight.
Not this kind of space flight.
The Outer Limits (1963) s01e23
"Second Chance"
(from internet transcript)
l think you've made a disastrous mistake.
You need scientists, not discontented dreamers.
One scientist should be enough Doctor Crowell.
- When will the asteroid hit Empyria? - ln your timescale, 82 years.
Not a seco nd soonor o n ato r That isn 't enough time.
That's hardly a minute.
No, it would not be, if we used only the technology familiar to you .
But we have a four-century advance upon the scientists of Earth.
A mind of genius such as yours should be able to absorb that advance within Assuming such a mind wanted to absorb.
You stopped wanting to exploit that genius, Dr Crowell.
You did not stop wanting to expand it for good and noble purpose.
Sometimes l wonder.
They offered me prizes and honours and even moderate riches.
l just had to let them stand over my shoulder and make suggestions.
l didn 't want that.
l wanted to go off alone and unravel the mysteries l preferred.
The ones that mystify the heart, not not the Defence Department.
l didn 't know there was anything on Earth worth defending.
l'm giving you your chance to defend all of Earth.
Everything and everyone on it.
l'm giving that chance to all of you .
Why me? Why us? What have your troubles got to do with me? My troubles?
The Outer Limits (1963) s01e23
"Second Chance"
(from internet transcript)
- Just please take me home.
- l don 't know how.
Captain Crowell does.
He could take us back to Earth.
What can we do? None of us can fly this.
The Empyrian said Crowell could understand their machinery.
lt doesn 't mean he can pilot a spaceship, though.
- He looks like he wants to go.
- That's what they counted on .
Give him a chance to be a hero.
Boss us slaves around.
They knew that he'd bite.
They needed him.
But they missed one thing.
Take away Crowell and the rest of us wouldn 't be a bit of use to them.
The Outer Limits (1963) s01e23
"Second Chance"
(from internet transcript)
Some of us don 't believe in second chances.
The rest of us don 't want them.
Take them back.
They can 't be of any use to you .
l hope l can .
How does it feel to know what you're drifting toward, Dave? Well, a little like it felt when that shower of meteors passed.
We were holding onto each other.
Are you sure this is what you really want? No.
When you take them back, ask for volunteers.
l'm sure we'll start off again with a whole shipload of illogical human beings.
Eventually, others will join us.
Others who will come willingly.
l believe l can trust in that.
l'll reverse our course.
( man ) We now return control of your television set to you until next week at this same time when the control voice will take you to .
. The Outer Limits.
- posted by me, Kerry Burgess 2:43 PM Pacific-time USA Sunday 02/20/2022
