https://www.dictionary.com/browse/mosaic
mosaic
of or relating to Moses or the writings, laws, and principles attributed to him: Mosaic ethics.
https://theprince.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=WeeklyBulletin19930614-01.2.3&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------
Princeton Weekly Bulletin, Volume 82, Number 29, 14 June 1993
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_myth
Origin myth
From Wikipedia
An origin myth is a myth that describes the origin of some feature of the natural or social world. One type of origin myth is the creation or cosmogonic myth, one that describes the creation of the world. However, many cultures have stories set after the cosmogonic myth, which describe the origin of natural phenomena and human institutions within a preexisting universe.
Founding myths unite people and tend to include mystical events along the way to make "founders" seem more desirable and heroic. Ruling monarchs or aristocracies may allege descent from mythical founders/gods/heroes in order to legitimate their control.
Stargate SG-1 (tv series)
"CAMELOT"
Season 9 episode 20
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 03.10.06
(from internet transcript)
ODYSSEY - BRIDGE.
MARKS: Sir, we're receiving a message from one of the Ori ships -- text only.
EMERSON: What does it say?
MARKS: "And those who are prideful and refuse to bow down shall be laid low and made onto dust."
They gaze out of the window, the tension palpable.
KOROLEV - BRIDGE.
CHEKOV: Is that all it says?
MITCHELL: Yeah, that's it.
DANIEL: Open a channel.
DANIEL: (into radio) "Then did Tileus say to the people of the low plains: 'seek not wickedness amongst your neighbors lest it find purchase in your own house.'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Tafler_Shapiro
Harold Tafler Shapiro
From Wikipedia
Harold Tafler Shapiro (born June 8, 1935)
the President of Princeton University from 1988 to 2001.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082971/quotes
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Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Quotes
Major Eaton: Now what does this Ark look like?
Indiana: Uh... there's a picture of it right here.
[opens a book on the table]
Indiana: That's it.
[they all look at an illustration of the Hebrews devastating their enemy with the Ark]
Major Eaton: Good God!
Brody: Yes, that's just what the Hebrews thought.
Colonel Musgrove: [pointing to a beam of light] Uh, now what's that supposed to be coming out of there?
Indiana: Lightning. Fire. Power of God or something.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Live
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Quotes
Brody: Oh, yes. The Bible speaks of the Ark leveling mountains and laying waste to entire regions. An army which carries the Ark before it... is invincible.
From 1/4/1941 ( Maureen Reagan ) To 11/21/1964 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Outer Limits"::"The Inheritors - Part 1" ) is 8722 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/19/1989 ( ) is 8722 days
from my public 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:
Posted by me, Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 12:03 PM Tuesday, December 16, 2008
From 5/21/1969 ( I am Princeton University Medical Doctor degree graduate as Dr. Thomas Reagan M.D. ) to 7/21/1979 ( my wife Phoebe and I are married ) is: 3713 days
From 7/21/1979 ( my wife Phoebe and I are married ) to 9/19/1989 ( premiere US TV series "Doogie Howser, M.D." ) is: 3713 days
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doogie_Howser
Doogie Howser, M.D.
Original run September 19, 1989 – March 24, 1993
Doogie Howser, M.D. (1989–1993), is a television comedy-drama starring Neil Patrick Harris as a brilliant teenage doctor who was also faced with the problems of being a normal teenager, despite having graduated from Princeton University at age 10.
excerpt ends Posted by me, Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 12:03 PM Tuesday, December 16, 2008
From 9/19/1989 ( ) To 4/25/2017 ( illustrations - impulsively coincidental? - by me, Kerry Burgess ) is 10080 days
From 11/2/1965 ( ) To 6/8/1993 ( ) is 10080 days
Stargate SG-1
Season 2 Episode 15
The Fifth Race
This episode marks the first direct reference to the Ancients, the builders of the Stargates, on the series.
Stargate SG-1 - The Fifth Race - television series Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired Jan 22, 1999
(from internet transcript)
United States Air Force captain, Doctor Samantha CARTER
Who are the Ancients?
Doctor Daniel Jackson
Well, I think they could be the teachers of roads. See, the Romans were the first real road builders. They spoke Latin and they learned to build roads from the gods, known as the Ancient ones.
CARTER
I'm still not following you.
DANIEL
Roads. Stargates. The Gate builders. What if these Ancients were the alien race who invented the Stargate?
CARTER
You're still just speculating, right?
DANIEL
Well, that would certainly explain why Jack knew about Stargates that the Goa'uld haven't even discovered yet.
CARTER
I don't know, Daniel. Why would they invent a device that would do this?
DANIEL
'The place of our legacy'
Stargate SG-1 - The Fifth Race - tv series Season 2 Episode 15 - 01/22/1999
(from internet transcript)
O'NEILL
"Noo ani anqueetas. Hic qua videeum."
[Daniel goes over to the monitor and then looks back at O'Neill.]
DANIEL
Jack, are you reading this?
[He points to the monitor screen.]
O'NEILL
(irritably)
I don't know, you tell me.
DANIEL
Well, I…I don't know, I haven't even been able to associate sounds to the symbols. Do you know what this means?
O'NEILL
(rubbing his eyes)
No! I'm just looking at it and the words just pop right into my fron.
[Daniel just stares at him. O'Neill shakes his head wearily.]
O'NEILL
Does anybody think this is odd?
[Daniel, Teal'c and O'Neill exchange glances.]
INT—SGC—CORRIDOR
[Daniel and Carter are walking. Daniel has a very large, antique-looking book in his arm.]
DANIEL
The language he's speaking has similar sounds to Medieval Latin but it's still quite different.
CARTER
So he's in the infirmary now?
[They enter Daniel's office.]
DANIEL
Yes, but before we took him there, he picked up a chalk and did this in about thirty seconds flat.
[He shows Carter a blackboard full of numbers and unfamiliar symbols.]
DANIEL
Do you have any idea what this means?
[Carter stares at it.]
CARTER
No. I mean, even the simple equations don't make any sense. No, this is like no math I've every seen.
The Final Countdown (1980)
US Navy chief petty officer: It's a code.
US Navy commander Dan Thurman - USS Nimitz CVN 68 executive officer: Can you break it, Chief?
CPO: I think someone's putting us on.
Dan Thurman: Why?
CPO: Because I learned this code at Great Lakes. It's ancient!
From 12/29/1926 ( Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of USA: Address at the 150th Anniversary of the Battles of Trenton and Princeton, Trenton, N.J. ) To 6/8/1993 ( commencement, Princeton University Class of 1993 ) is 24268 days
24268 = 12134 + 12134
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/22/1999 ( ) is 12134 days
From 1/28/1955 ( premiere US film "Carolina Cannonball" ) To 4/18/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Petty Officer Second Class Fire Controlman (FC2), from my official enlisted United States Navy records: during USA Armed Forces Expeditionary Operation Earnest Will with my personal participation and commendation - CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computer Complex (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance) - aboard the USS Wainwright CG-28 US Navy the United States Operation Praying Mantis ) is 12134 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/22/1999 ( ) is 12134 days
From 1/28/1955 ( premiere US TV series episode "Dear Phoebe"::"Out of My Mind" ) To 4/18/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Petty Officer Second Class Fire Controlman (FC2), from my official enlisted United States Navy records: during USA Armed Forces Expeditionary Operation Earnest Will with my personal participation and commendation - CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computer Complex (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance) - aboard the USS Wainwright CG-28 US Navy the United States Operation Praying Mantis ) is 12134 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/22/1999 ( ) is 12134 days
From 5/13/1947 ( premiere US film "Sarge Goes to College" ) To 8/1/1980 ( premiere US film "The Final Countdown" ) is 12134 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/22/1999 ( ) is 12134 days
From 12/25/1957 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Millionaire"::"The Regina Wainwright Story" ) 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 12134 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/22/1999 ( ) is 12134 days
From 8/15/1972 ( Richard Nixon, 37th President of USA: Message to the Congress on Plans for an International Exposition on the Environment To Be Held in Spokane, Washington ) To 1/22/1999 ( ) is 9656 days
9656 = 4828 + 4828
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/21/1979 ( premiere US TV series episode "Battlestar Galactica"::"War of the Gods - Part 2" ) is 4828 days
From 2/17/1953 ( premiere US film "Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe" ) To 5/9/1986 ( premiere US film "Short Circuit" & as Kerry Burgess my official United States Navy documents includes: Fire Control Technician Class "A" - Great Lakes, Illinois - Date Enrolled - occupational rating for US Navy fleet warship weapons systems control ) is 12134 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/22/1999 ( ) is 12134 days
From 10/5/1958 ( premiere US TV series "Lawman"::series premiere episode "The Deputy" ) To 12/25/1991 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind: in non-aviator related duties on the ground as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) is 12134 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/22/1999 ( ) is 12134 days
From 9/17/1965 ( premiere US TV series "Hogan's Heroes" & premiere US TV series "The Wild Wild West" ) To 12/7/1998 ( as Kerry Burgess my first day full-time employment Microsoft Corporation in Seattle until 02/06/2004 ) is 12134 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/22/1999 ( ) is 12134 days
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0709187/
IMDb
Stargate SG-1
Season 2, Episode 15
The Fifth Race (22 Jan. 1999)
Richard Dean Anderson ... Colonel Jack O'Neill
SG1 travels to a Stargate where O'Neill looks into a strange device that downloads information into his brain. Back on Earth, he starts to speak using a strange language. Carter and Teal'c try to find a solution and become trapped on a burning hot planet, when the Stargate fails to dial out. O'Neill solves the problem by designing a solution, but then he designs a device. But for what purpose?
Release Date: 22 January 1999 (USA)
Stargate SG-1 - The Fifth Race - television series Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired Jan 22, 1999
(from internet transcript)
INT—SGC—CONTROL ROOM
[O'Neill is working on a computer. Cut to Teal'c leading the Hammond, Carter, Daniel and Fraiser down the stairs.]
HAMMOND
(To Teal'c)
What's he doing?
[They all cross the room to where O'Neill is busily typing away.]
TEAL'C
I do not know.
[Carter heads straight for a computer.]
HAMMOND
Captain Carter?
CARTER
Main system's down, Sir. I'm locked out.
HAMMOND
Colonel.
O'NEILL
(Typing)
Yes, Sir.
HAMMOND
What are you doing?
O'NEILL
I don't know, Sir. You know me and computers.
HAMMOND
Colonel, I'm ordering you to stop.
O'NEILL
I'd love to, Sir, but I can't.
HAMMOND
(To Teal'c)
Stop him.
[Teal'c pulls O'Neill away from the computer.]
O'NEILL
No! No, not yet! I'm not fargus!
DANIEL
Sir, I think he wants to finish what he's doing.
CARTER
I can't reboot, Sir.
[All the computers switch off.]
CARTER
Uh-oh.
HAMMOND
Captain?
[The numbers O'Neill entered come up on the computer screen.]
CARTER
Sir, this is machine code.
https://books.google.com/books?id=V0G9f35dK6AC
Google Books
The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran
David Crist
Penguin, Jul 19, 2012 - History - 656 pages
Tensions mounted both on board the Wainwright and up the chain of command. The Wainwright's weapons officer, Marty Drake, could not understand why they did not fire. "Sir," he cautioned, "he's got the last remaining Harpoon." But Chandler still had it in his mind that he needed to warn her away, and he maintained this even when the Joshan locked on with its fire control radar. Listening in over the net back on the Coronado and in Tampa, Less and Crist grew increasingly concerned. Less liked the idea of giving the Iranians a warning in hopes of sparing lives, but after repeated warnings he wondered why Chandler had not opened fire. General Crist turned to a senior staff officer sitting next to him and asked apprehensively, "Why doesn't he just blow him out of the water?"
Finally, with only thirteen miles separating the two forces - close enough for the Joshan's captain to see the Wainwright's mast peeking just above the horizon - Chandler issued his fourth and final warning to the Joshan - "Stop and abandon ship. I intend to sink you."
With this Mallek decided to act. If the Americans were going to attack him, he would not take the first hit.
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1989/may/surface-view-operation-praying-mantis
U.S. NAVAL INSTITUTE
The Surface View: Operation Praying Mantis
By Captain J. B. Perkins III, U. S. Navy
May 1989 Proceedings Vol. 115/5/1,035
With the primary mission accomplished, SAG Charlie patrolled the area. About three hours later, they detected the approach of an Iranian Kaman patrol boat, which the Bagley's LAMPS-I identified as the Joshan. As the patrol boat closed, the SAG commander repeatedly warned the Iranian that he was standing into danger and advised him to alter course and depart the area. When his direction was ignored, the U. S. commander requested and was granted "weapons free" by CJTFME. He then advised the Joshan:
"Stop your engines and abandon ship; I intend to sink you."
After thinking this communication over, the Joshan's CO apparently decided to go out firing and launched his only remaining Harpoon. The three SAG Charlie ships, now in a line abreast at 26,000 yards, and the Bagley's LAMPS simultaneously detected the launch and maneuvered and launched chaff. The Harpoon passed down the Wainwright's starboard side close aboard (the seeker may not have activated) and was answered by a volley of SM-1 missiles from the Simpson and the Wainwright. Four missiles fired; four hits.
http://www.jacksonsun.com/story/news/local/2015/05/19/unshakeable-ties-built-uss-wainwright/27566957/
The Jackson Sun
Unshakeable ties on the USS Wainwright
AJ MORRIS, The Jackson Sun 11:16 p.m. CDT May 18, 2015
On April 18, 1988, Petty Officer Second Class Robert Bennett was deep in the engine room of the USS Wainwright when an emergency message came through the radio.
Operating in the Persian Gulf, the Wainwright was part of a surface action group supporting Operation Praying Mantis — an offensive to neutralize Iranian naval assets in retaliation for their mining of international waters that had damaged the USS Samuel B. Roberts.
Operating a switchboard, Bennett shared a communication line with fire control, who had just informed him an anti-ship missile was headed straight at the Wainwright.
"We didn't have any idea what was going on, but we shared a radio circuit with gun plot, and I heard gun plot say 'Missile inbound, brace for shock,'" Bennett said. "So I grabbed hold of the switchboard and yelled out to everyone in the engine room, 'Missile inbound, brace for shock!' And we just held on and waited."
The ship's countermeasures activated, sending clouds of super-heated aluminum shards around the outside of the vessel to confuse the incoming missile. As a result, the missile missed the Wainwright.
"We heard the chaff going off and we just stood there and waited — and I really thought I was going to die," Bennett said.
"Nobody ever told us the missile missed, but all of a sudden we heard this tremendous woosh sound and we knew that we had fired a missile, and the whole ship erupted in cheers — it was really something."
The Wainwright destroyed three Iranian ships and two aircraft while assisting in the neutralization of Iranian intelligence and facilities in the largest naval surface battle since the end of World War II.
For Bennett, it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
"It's something that just doesn't happen," Bennett said.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belknap_class_cruiser
Belknap class cruiser
The Belknap class cruiser was a class of single-ended guided missile cruisers
When commissioned, the main armament of the Belknap class was a 5 inch/54-caliber Mk. 42 gun on the quarterdeck and a twin-rail RIM-2 Terrier Mk 10 Missile Launcher on the foredeck. During the NTU program in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the class had its Terrier systems upgraded to utilize standard missiles, the 3 inch guns were replaced with two Harpoon missile launchers, and two Phalanx CIWS systems were installed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIVAC_418
UNIVAC 418
From Wikipedia
The UNIVAC 418 was a transistorized, 18-bit word core memory machine made by Sperry Univac. The name came from its 4 microsecond memory cycle time and 18-bit word.
Architecture
Numbers were represented in ones' complement, single and double precision. The TRIM assembly source code used octal numbers as opposed to more common hexadecimal because the 18-bit words are evenly divisible by 3, but not by 4.
UNIVAC 418-II
The first UNIVAC 418-II was delivered in November 1964. It was available with 4,096 to 65,536 (18-bit) words of memory. Memory cycle time was reduced to 2 microseconds. The militarized version was called the UNIVAC 1219 (known as the "Mk 152 Fire Control Computer.") It was part of the Navy's Mk 76 missile fire control system, used to control the AN/SPG-55 radar system.
Stargate SG-1 - "The Fifth Race" - television series Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired Jan 22, 1999
(from internet transcript)
Colonel O'NEILL
So where am I?
ASGARD #1
This is the Asgard planet, Othala, in the galaxy of Ida.
O'NEILL
Why did I come here?
ASGARD #2
The Ancients moved on from our region of space long ago, but your sub-conscious mind used their knowledge to find us here, where you could get help.
ASGARD #1
Very impressive.
O'NEILL
Well, you know…
Stargate SG-1 - "The Fifth Race" - television series Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired Jan 22, 1999
(from internet transcript)
INT—ASGARD PLANET—STARGATE
ASGARD #2
You looked into the archive that stores all the Ancients' knowledge.
O'NEILL
Apparently.
ASGARD #2
It was not meant for you.
O'NEILL
What? This was all an accident?
ASGARD #1
Human physiology has not advanced to the point where your brain could handle that technology.
O'NEILL
Oh.
- posted by me, Kerry Burgess 9:50 PM Pacific-time USA Wednesday 03/02/2022
