"Cibola Burn" by James Corey, "The Expanse" series of novels, Book 4
Chapter 29: Holden
"How do we protect everyone? The entire colony?" Holden said
I'm thinking the ruins."
Murtry leaned back in his chair, frowning. "What makes you think those'll hold up to three-hundred-kilometer-an-hour winds?"
"Honestly? I have no good reason to believe that," Holden said. "But they've been there a very long time. That's what I've got. Hope that if they made it this far, they can make it through what's coming."
"Better'n those huts you guys are living in," Amos added with a beefy shrug. "I can kick down any building in this town in ten minutes."
"Cibola Burn" by James Corey, "The Expanse" series of novels, Book 4
Chapter 29: Holden
It took longer to move the colonists than Holden had hoped. Each person told had to express shock and disbelief. Then they had to have a conversation about their surprise. Then they had to have a conversation about what items they'd bring with them. Some argued about bringing personal items, each one sure that their personal case was unique. Every time Holden heard it happen, he wanted to start shouting.
It was the blue sky and gentle breeze. The disaster just wasn't real to them. Not when they could look out across the sky and see nothing but wisps of cloud.
"The Menagerie", part 1 [ Star Trek ]
Original Airdate: 17 Nov, 1966
(from internet transcript)
[Mendez' office]
KIRK: (watching Pike on monitor) He keeps blinking no. No to what?
MCCOY: They've tried questioning him. He's almost agitated himself into a coma.
KIRK: How long will he live?
MCCOY: As long as any of us. Blast medicine anyway. We've learned to tie into every human organ in the body except one. The brain. The brain is what life is all about. Now, that man can think any thought that we can, and love, hope,
From 8/30/2005 ( as Kerry Burgess the debut of my current and public blog Homeless Veteran of Microsoft - since renamed ) To 3/31/2022 ( Today, Thursday ) is 6057 days
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From 5/5/1961 ( Alan Shepard United States Navy becomes the first United States astronaut in space ) To 10/1/2017 ( premiere US TV series "Extinct" ) is 20603 days
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From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/31/2022 ( Today, Wednesday ) is 20603 days
https://www.space.com/asteroid-threat-planetary-defense-nasa-chief.html
Space (dot) com
It's Time to Get Serious About Asteroid Threats, NASA Chief Says
By Meghan Bartels published April 29, 2019
"The Paradise Syndrome" [ Star Trek ]
Original Airdate: Oct 4, 1968
(from internet transcript)
ELDER: (bursting in) Kirok! Kirok!
SALISH: Why are you not at the temple, Kirok? Soon the ground will begin to tremble. The people need your help.
"The Paradise Syndrome" [ Star Trek ]
Original Airdate: Oct 4, 1968
(from internet transcript)
KIRK: It's only the wind and the thunder.
MIRAMANEE: I act like a stupid child. I have nothing to fear. You are here. (she looks outside) It is time.
KIRK: Time?
MIRAMANEE: To go to the temple. The people will be waiting.
KIRK: Why?
MIRAMANEE: To save them.
KIRK: But it's only the wind. The wind can't harm them.
MIRAMANEE: The wind is only the beginning. Soon the sky will darken, the lake will go wild, and the earth will tremble. Only you can save us.
KIRK: But I can't do anything about the wind or the sky.
MIRAMANEE: If we don't go now, it will be too late. You must go inside the temple and make the blue flame come out.
KIRK: I don't know how to get inside the temple.
MIRAMANEE: But you are a god.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukrainian-president-says-defense-turning-040551547.html
Yahoo! News
NEBI QENA and YURAS KARMANAU
Wed, March 30, 2022, 9:05 PM
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian troops handed control of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant back to the Ukrainians and began leaving the heavily contaminated site more than a month after taking it over, authorities said Thursday, as fighting raged on the outskirts of Kyiv and other fronts.
Ukraine's state power company, Energoatom, said the pullout at Chernobyl came after soldiers received “significant doses" of radiation from digging trenches in the forest in the exclusion zone around the closed plant. But there was no independent confirmation of that.
The withdrawal took place amid growing indications the Kremlin is using talk of de-escalation in Ukraine as cover while regrouping, resupplying its forces and redeploying them for a stepped-up offensive in the eastern part of the country.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine is seeing “a buildup of Russian forces for new strikes on the Donbas, and we are preparing for that.”
Meanwhile, a convoy of buses headed to Mariupol in another bid to evacuate people from the besieged port city after the Russian military agreed to a limited cease-fire in the area. And a new round of talks was scheduled for Friday, five weeks into the war that has left thousands dead and driven 4 million Ukrainians from the country.
The International Atomic Energy Agency said it had been informed by Ukraine that the Russian forces at the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster had transferred control of it in writing to the Ukrainians.
Ukraine reported that three convoys of Russian forces had left toward Belarus, while the remaining troops were apparently planning to leave too, the agency said.
Energoatom gave no details on the condition of the soldiers it said were exposed to radiation and did not say how many were affected. There was no immediate comment from the Kremlin, and the IAEA said it had not been able to confirm the reports of Russian troops receiving high doses. It said it was seeking more information.
Russian forces seized the Chernobyl site in the opening stages of the Feb. 24 invasion, raising fears that they would cause damage or disruption that could spread radiation. The workforce at the site oversees the safe storage of spent fuel rods and the concrete-entombed ruins of the reactor that exploded in 1986.
Edwin Lyman, a nuclear expert with the U.S.-based Union of Concerned Scientists, said it “seems unlikely" a large number of troops would develop severe radiation illness, but it was impossible to know for sure without more details.
posted by me, Kerry Burgess, February 01 2020 00:08:13
Short-sighted, is what that so-called poet makes me think
For countless thousands of years, you human monkeys looked "up there" and the sky was a ceiling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star
Star
From Wikipedia
Observation history
Many ancient astronomers believed that the stars were permanently affixed to a heavenly sphere
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_spheres
Celestial spheres
From Wikipedia
The celestial spheres, or celestial orbs, were the fundamental entities of the cosmological models developed by Plato, Eudoxus, Aristotle, Ptolemy, Copernicus, and others. In these celestial models, the apparent motions of the fixed stars and planets are accounted for by treating them as embedded in rotating spheres made of an aetherial, transparent fifth element (quintessence), like jewels set in orbs. Since it was believed that the fixed stars did not change their positions relative to one another, it was argued that they must be on the surface of a single starry sphere.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1937/ceremony-speech/
The Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1937
Albert Szent-Györgyi
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor E. Hammarsten, member of the Staff of Professors of the Royal Caroline Institute, on December 10, 1937
Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen.
The Staff of Professors of the Caroline Institute, pursuant to the task devolving upon them by the terms of the will of Alfred Nobel, have awarded the Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the year 1937 to Professor Albert von Szent-Györgyi, in recognition of his discoveries concerning the biological combustion processes with especial reference to vitamin C
From 2/6/1911 ( Ronald Reagan - from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: my biological maternal genetic grandfather ) To 9/7/1927 ( Philo Farnsworth made his first successful electronic television transmission ) is 6057 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/3/1982 ( ) is 6057 days
http://focus.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/82002602
National Park Service
U.S. Department of the Interior
Significant Names: Reagan,Ronald
Date Published: 6/3/1982
Parks: National Register of Historic Places
Locations: State: Illinois
County: Whiteside County
Tampico ; S. Main St.
ILLINOIS ; Whiteside ; Tampico
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthplace_of_Ronald_Reagan
Birthplace of Ronald Reagan
From Wikipedia
The Birthplace of Ronald Reagan, also known as the Graham Building, is located in an apartment on the second floor of a late 19th-century commercial building in Tampico, Illinois, United States. The building was built in 1896 and housed a tavern from that time until 1915. On February 6, 1911 the future 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, was born in the apartment there, the family moving into a house in Tampico a few months later.
Architecturally, the two story brick building is similar to its neighbors, all of which are part of a historic district added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1982
Part of Tampico Main Street Historic District (#82002602)
Added to NRHP June 3, 1982
https://www.npr.org/2022/03/31/1089965768/bruce-willis-aphasia-career-die-hard-moonlighting-sixth-sense
March 31, 20222:38 PM ET
Bruce Willis' family announced on Wednesday that he would be stepping away from acting after developing aphasia, a condition that makes it increasingly harder to use and understand language. This news brings an apparent end to a career in film and television
Armageddon (1998)
(from internet transcript)
Dan Truman, NASA: Not a soul on Earth can hide from it.
Harry Stamper: I take it you're not alerting everyone like this.
Dan Truman, NASA: Nobody knows. That's the way it stays.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon
Gideon
From Wikipedia
Gideon also named Jerubbaal and Jerubbesheth, was a military leader, judge and prophet whose calling and victory over the Midianites are recounted in Judges 6-8 of the Book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible.
Gideon was the son of Joash, from the Abiezrite clan in the tribe of Manasseh and lived in Ephra (Ophrah). As a leader of the Israelites, he won a decisive victory over a Midianite army despite a vast numerical disadvantage, leading a troop of 300 "valiant" men. Archaeologists in southern Israel have found a 3,100-year-old fragment of a jug with five letters written in ink that appear to represent the name Jerubbaal, or Yeruba'al.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenon
Parthenon
From Wikipedia
The Parthenon is a former temple on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, dedicated to the goddess Athena, whom the people of Athens considered their patroness. Construction started in 447 BC when the Delian League was at the peak of its power. It was completed in 438 BC, although decoration of the building continued until 432 BC. It is the most important surviving building of Classical Greece, generally considered the zenith of the Doric order.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_mythology
Greek mythology
From Wikipedia
Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of Ancient Greek folklore. These stories concern the origin and nature of the world, the lives and activities of deities, heroes, and mythological creatures, and the origins and significance of the ancient Greeks' own cult and ritual practices. Modern scholars study the myths to shed light on the religious and political institutions of ancient Greece, and to better understand the nature of myth-making itself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity
Christianity
From Wikipedia
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. It is the world's largest religion, with about 2.5 billion followers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth
Myth
From Wikipedia
Myth is a folklore genre consisting of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society, such as foundational tales or origin myths. Since the term myth is widely used to imply that a story is not objectively true, the identification of a narrative as a myth can be highly controversial: many adherents of religions view their own religion's stories as true, and therefore object to those stories being characterized as myths, while seeing the stories of other religions as being myth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_mythology
Greek mythology
From Wikipedia
The Greek myths were initially propagated in an oral-poetic tradition most likely by Minoan and Mycenaean singers starting in the 18th century BC; eventually the myths of the heroes of the Trojan War and its aftermath became part of the oral tradition of Homer's epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey. Two poems by Homer's near contemporary Hesiod, the Theogony and the Works and Days, contain accounts of the genesis of the world, the succession of divine rulers, the succession of human ages, the origin of human woes, and the origin of sacrificial practices.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon
Gideon
From Wikipedia
Biblical narrative
Christian reception
In the New Testament, Gideon is mentioned in chapter 11 of the Epistle to the Hebrews as an example of a man of faith, one of several "heroes of faith" mentioned there:
Time would fail me to tell of Gideon [and others] who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
by me, Kerry Burgess, September 24, 2019
Religious scholars are experts only in circular reasoning.
I keep watch for the so-called "religious professor" - notable graduates of the clown-colleges infesting the United States of America - for those intelligent persons who learn enough about the subject to finally figure out that monkeys invented their god. Bible-thumpers are too weak- and lazy-minded to ever put in any serious effort at understanding *why* the human psyche *needs* a god.
So in their delusions they read such news article about discoveries and in their idiocy they think that somehow equates to proof of their delusions.
by me, Kerry Burgess: January 12, 2022
The scam-artists co-opted "faith" into a mindless marketing buzzword
They're used-car salesmen posing as preachers, reverends, whatever terms they use to evoke credibility in their scam to convince cowardly people of their ridiculous "spirituality" crap
- posted by me, Kerry Burgess 3:48 PM Pacific-time USA Thursday 03/31/2022
