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The Twilight Zone
S3.E28
The Little People
Episode aired Mar 30, 1962
On a desolate planet, two astronauts discover an entire society populated by incredibly small beings. One of the astronauts decides to rule the society as a god.
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The Twilight Zone (1959) s03e28
"The Little People"
(from internet transcript)
Your water hasn't been touched in 24 hours. Now, you couldn't have discovered any mountain stream up there and kept it all for your lonesome?
Why don't you talk sense
why don't you?!
For the last two days you've been taking off on safari every morning when that double sun comes up.Where do you go, craig, and what do you find wherever it is you do go? I'll tell you what let's you and me make that trek together, huh?
Thanks, but no thanks. I'm tired.
Look, craig where'd you find this?
Uh, i i i told you- i've been looking around.
It's wet. You found water, didn't you? Where?
About a mile ahead it's just a crummy little stream
but enough for you to drink out of!
Aw, come on, fletch, i was going to show it to you. As a matter of fact, i've been testing it. I just found out it was pure a little bit ago.
You know, i underrated you, mister. I knew you were a grousing malcontent, but i didn't know you were a cheat!
It's just a variety of lichen you don't mind if i look at it through the magnifier, do you? Or have you done that already?
Trees.
Yes, that's what they are trees.I might as well go the whole route now. They were alongside of a stream it runs about 100 feet.
It's about
If you think that's something look at this.Look at it! Then the voices? You want to see more, fletch?
Yeah yeah, i sure do.
Come on.
It's fantastic.
To us, that stream is just a stream. That clump of little green weeds is so much moss.
But they are trees, and that stream is a river, and if you look closely- i mean, really close- you'll see a couple of items that aren't par for the course.
It's incredible.
It's a whole race of people no bigger than ants.
Yeah, a whole race of people.
And while you were preoccupying yourself with gluing together an engine i was making contact.
In their language?
I don't know it yet, and they don't know ours, but they know mathematics. That's the language i've used- symbols, equations, number progressions. And they're bright, they learn fast. And cooperative, fletch! You wouldn't believe how cooperative they are! I've told them all my wants. They've shown me where the edible plants are. Last night, i ate up one of their forests.
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[opening narration]
Narrator: The time is the space age, the place is a barren landscape of a rock-walled canyon that lies millions of miles from the planet Earth. The cast of characters? You've met them: William Fletcher, commander of the spaceship; his co-pilot, Peter Craig. The other characters who inhabit this place you may never see, but they're there, as these two gentlemen will soon find out. Because they're about to partake in a little exploration into that gray, shaded area in space and time that's known as The Twilight Zone.
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Cmdr. William Fletcher: [upon seeing the little people's monument to Craig] ... They sure picked themselves a corker of a deity. Too bad they don't know more about who they're breaking their backs for.
Navigator Peter Craig: Meaning...?
Cmdr. William Fletcher: Meaning they're worshiping an ill-bred bully, whose insides are made out of the same stuff as that statue! Oh, it's a good likeness, all right; and, after we blast off, they can sell it for junk! Who knows? Somewhere down the line, when they realize I'm the one who rid them of you, they might even build a monument to me...!
[he notices that Craig has pulled a gun on him]
Navigator Peter Craig: This one you'll have to navigate on your own, Mister Fletcher.
Cmdr. William Fletcher: Looks like I didn't give you enough credit, Mister Craig.
From 5/1/1949 ( the discovery of the planet Neptune moon Nereid by Gerard Kuiper ) To 10/1/1978 ( Jimmy Carter, 39th President of USA: Kennedy Space Center, Florida ; Remarks at the Congressional Space Medal of Honor Awards Ceremony ) is 10745 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/4/1995 ( ) is 10745 days
From 5/14/1992 ( the Intelsat 6 successful rescue during US space shuttle Endeavour orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps commissioned-officer and United States STS-49 pilot astronaut and my 1st official United States of America National Aeronautics and Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) To 4/4/1995 ( ) is 1055 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/22/1968 ( premiere USA TV series "Land of the Giants" ) is 1055 days
From 3/30/1962 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Twilight Zone"::"The Little People" ) To 4/4/1995 ( ) is 12058 days
12058 = 6029 + 6029
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/6/1982 ( from Princeton University, The Woman's Newspaper Of Princeton: What My Mother Never Told Me ; DIVORCE ) is 6029 days
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/statement-the-buyout-program-for-federal-employees
The American Presidency Project
WILLIAM J. CLINTON
42nd President of the United States: 1993 - 2001
Statement on the Buyout Program for Federal Employees
April 04, 1995
More than 2 years ago, I promised to fix the Federal Government. I was firmly convinced that we could do more with less, that we could create a Government that was leaner but not meaner, and that we could make Government our partner rather than a problem.
I established the National Performance Review and put Vice President Gore in charge. He and his team have helped to transform Government, to cut bureaucracy and redtape, and to find ways to give the American people the service they deserve. At the same time, my economic plan is bringing down the deficit by more than $600 billion, and we are proposing another $81 billion in deficit reduction in the budget I recently sent to Congress.
A major element of my strategy was my commitment to streamline and cut the Federal work force. For too long in Washington, we have had too many layers of bureaucracy, too many workers whose main job was to check on the work of other workers rather than to perform useful work themselves. As the National Performance Review noted, we had good people trapped in bad systems. I promised to cut the work force, and that's what I'm doing. Through our efforts, we have already cut the work force by 102,000 positions and we are on track to cut it by a total of 272,900 positions, bringing it to its smallest size since John Kennedy was President.
While committed to cutting the work force, we want to do it in a humane way. We faced the same dilemma that confronted many private companies; they needed to downsize but wanted to avoid firing large numbers of loyal employees. Many of them have given people an incentive to leave by offering "buyouts." We wanted to do the same.
Early last year, Congress approved my request to allow non-Defense agencies to offer buyouts of up to $25,000 a person. The Defense Department and a few other agencies already could offer buyouts under existing law. Because normal attrition will help us downsize in the future, we offered buyouts only until March 31, 1995, which was last Friday.
Looking back, I can safely say that our buyout program has been a huge success. It achieved what we had hoped: to help us cut the work force in a fiscally responsible and humane way.
To reduce the work force by 102,000 positions by the end of fiscal 1994, we offered about 70,000 buyouts. Several non-DOD agencies have offered deferred buyouts that will take place between now and March 1997. Defense will be using buyouts as it continues to downsize through 1999. Counting those, we expect to buy out another 84,000 workers through 1997 as we reduce the work force by a total of 272,900 positions.
The buyouts were not offered in a random fashion, however. We targeted them to reduce the layers of bureaucracy and micro-management that were tying Government in knots. We made sure that departments and agencies tied their buyout strategies to their overall plans to streamline their bureaucracies. As a result, almost 70 percent of our buyouts in the non-Defense agencies have gone to people at higher grade levels, such as managers.
I'm proud that our buyout program was so successful. It shows that we can, in fact, create a Government that works better and costs less.
From 5/1/1949 ( the discovery of the planet Neptune moon Nereid by Gerard Kuiper ) To 3/30/1962 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Twilight Zone"::"The Little People" ) is 4716 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/1/1978 ( ) is 4716 days
From 11/26/1976 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in solar system deep space in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship this day makes his first landing the Jupiter moon Callisto - 145 days after he successfully intercepted the Comet "Lucifer" - threatening extinction by death and destruction of all life on this planet Earth - in the outer solar system and diverts it away from this planet Earth ) To 10/1/1978 ( ) is 674 days
674 = 337 + 337
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/5/1966 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: Science Group Examines Data From Aerobee ) is 337 days
From 7/21/1969 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan {born 3/3/1959} 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 ) To 10/1/1978 ( ) is 3359 days
excerpts
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/kennedy-space-center-florida-remarks-the-congressional-space-medal-honor-awards-ceremony
The American Presidency Project
JIMMY CARTER
39th President of the United States: 1977 - 1981
Kennedy Space Center, Florida Remarks at the Congressional Space Medal of Honor Awards Ceremony
October 01, 1978
And it is, of course, fitting that they take place here, where the ships that took men to the Moon were launched and where we will take our next great step into space
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 journals: 03/02/08 5:12 AM
I still have that craving for crunch vegetables, especially lettuce, since I was thinking of that 1972 movie yesterday.
Thoughts occured to me that I created some kind of method for growing vegetables in zero gravity before I launched into deep space in 1976 but I am not certain if it worked. I think I am remembering my recovery period after 4/14/1977 and while trying to, painfully, return to Earth's gravity and I had a serious craving for vegetables because I had not had any fresh produce for almost 1.5 years.
From 5/1/1949 ( the discovery of the planet Neptune moon Nereid by Gerard Kuiper ) To 3/2/2008 ( ) is 21490 days
21490 = 10745 + 10745
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/4/1995 ( {puppet-in-chief} Bill Clinton, 42nd President of USA: Statement on the Buyout Program for Federal Employees ) is 10745 days
From 3/30/1962 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Twilight Zone"::"The Little People" ) To 3/2/2008 ( ) is 16774 days
16774 = 8387 + 8387
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/19/1988 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: Unsafe At Any Speed ) is 8387 days
From 11/18/1996 ( premiere USA film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) To 3/2/2008 ( ) is 4122 days
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From 2/19/1997 ( as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps commissioned-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 I begin repairing the US Hubble Telescope while in space and orbit of the planet Earth - the Hubble Space Telescope placed back into its own orbit of the planet Earth ) To 3/2/2008 ( ) is 4029 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/13/1976 ( premiere USA TV series "Cousteau: Oasis in Space") is 4029 days
From 2/8/1951 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: College Courses Not Necessary In Marine And Navy Programs ) To 6/8/1993 ( commencement, Princeton University Class of 1993 ) is 15461 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/2/2008 ( ) is 15461 days
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[seeing the two giant astronauts approaching]
Peter Craig: GO AWAY! YOU CAN'T STAY HERE! GO AWAY! DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND? I'M THE GOD! I'M THE GOD, DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND? I'M THE GOD!
From 11/21/1957 ( ) To 12/14/2015 ( premiere USA TV series "The Expanse" ) is 21207 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/25/2023 ( ) is 21207 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_1957
November 1957
From Wikipedia
November 21, 1957
The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) established a Special Committee on Space Technology to study and delineate problem areas that must be solved to make space flight a practical reality and to consider and recommend means for attacking these problems. Dr. H. Guyford Stever of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was named chairman.
The Rocket and Satellite Research Panel recommended the creation of a National Space Establishment in the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government. According to the proposal, activities of this agency would be under civilian leadership, and the organization would be charged with formulating and supervising a space research program. An annual budget of $1 billion for a period of 10 years was recommended.
Over one-half of the NACA Propulsion Conference on November 21 and 22 was devoted to the discussion of possible space propulsion systems. Three particular systems appeared to afford excellent choices for such purposes. These were: the chemical rocket, the nuclear rocket, and the nuclear electric rocket. It was the considered opinion of the conference members that the chemical rocket would be quite adequate for a round trip to the Moon.
"Leviathan Wakes" by James Corey, "The Expanse" series of novels, book 1
Chapter 1: Holden
[first lines]
A hundred and fifty years before, when the parochial disagreements between Earth and Mars had been on the verge of war, the Belt had been a far horizon of tremendous mineral wealth beyond viable economic reach, and the outer planets had been beyond even the most unrealistic corporate dream. Then Solomon Epstein had built his little modified fusion drive, popped it on the back of his three-man yacht, and turned it on. With a good scope, you could still see his ship going at a marginal percentage of the speed of light, heading out into the big empty. The best, longest funeral in the history of mankind. Fortunately, he'd left his plans on his home computer. The Epstein Drive hadn't given humanity the stars, but it had delivered the planets.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 03:12 AM Pacific-time USA Sunday 11/26/2023
