by me, Kerry Burgess, 04/07/2024 11:58 PM
I knew next to nothing about "The Maze Runner" before today - this calendar-day 04/07/2024 - when I decided to watch it for the first time. Well, the sequel to the first movie, which I haven't seen and probably never will. Was aware of it, but it's a kid's show and I didn't find it interesting enough to look closer. I'm just past the 30 minute point and not sure how much more I will watch of it
I find myself thinking: variations on a theme
I find two or more stories that I discover about the same time and I often think of how strange that is and today I'm thinking: variations on a theme. The familiar elements are because it is contained in wildly disparate sources but they are based on a completely non-obvious common source.
What that does not explain is the thoughts again in my conscious mind
When I watched yesterday that final episode of the streaming-video series I've been referencing, I read the summary about how Joel objects to their surgery on Ellie. I didn't know any details about the surgery until yesterday when I watched the episode. But BEFORE I watched the episode, thoughts in my mind, after reading the summary, was that they were going to amputate one of her arms. That didn't happen, of course, but if you are paying attention then you understand my conundrum.
Watching more of it makes me think certainly there is an element from the code-pattern that is more likely
Still doesn't explain that sense of certainty in my mind about the plot element about the surgery. Nothing can explain that part. That's another instance of prescient thought that I have thought was something I should try to reproduce. When now I'm thinking is meant to cause confidence in my mind, a spooky means of external influence that is not because I am some sort of wishful-thinking lameoid as are so many of you -thumpers and -bunkers
But it's strange that I am about 38 minutes into that title from 2015 and I am seeing a major plot poing that is clearly similar to an episode I watched yesterday from a series from last year
Plausible that they did that on purpose. What is less understandable is why I chose to watch it now.
There is nothing in the newest tv-series that would CAUSE any person to immediately THINK of "Maze Runner" - when you have no previous knowledge
That one thing does not lead to that other thing
The developers of that video-game could tell you WHY they modeled if after that 2015 production - assuming that's what they would or have said - but what they won't tell you is about how the idea began in the first place. And they won't necessarily tell you the truth even if you did ask them. Because they don't have to tell you the truth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maze_Runner_(book_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_with_All_the_Gifts
The Girl with All the Gifts
From Wikipedia
The Girl with All the Gifts is a science fiction book by M. R. Carey, published in June 2014
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_with_All_the_Gifts_(film)
The Girl with All the Gifts (film)
From Wikipedia
The Girl with All the Gifts is a 2016 British post-apocalyptic adventure film
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis
Ophiocordyceps unilateralis
From Wikipedia
Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, commonly known as zombie-ant fungus, is an insect-pathogenic fungus, discovered by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace in 1859, and currently found predominantly in tropical forest ecosystems. O. unilateralis infects ants of the tribe Camponotini, with the full pathogenesis being characterized by alteration of the behavioral patterns of the infected ant.
Morphology
Typical morphology
The zombie-ant fungus is easily identifiable when its reproductive structure becomes apparent on its dead host, usually a carpenter ant. At the end of its life cycle, O. unilateralis typically generates a single, wiry yet pliant, darkly pigmented stroma which arises from the dorsal pronotum region of the ant once it is dead. Moreover, perithecia, the spore-bearing sexual structure, can be observed on the stalk, just below its tip. This complex forms the fungus' fruiting body.
The changes in the behavior of the infected ants are very specific, giving rise to the popular term "zombie ants." Behaviors are tuned for the benefit of the fungus in terms of its growth and its transmission, thereby increasing its fitness. The ant climbs up the stem of a plant and uses its mandibles with abnormal force to secure itself to a leaf vein, leaving dumbbell-shaped marks on it. The ants generally clamp to a leaf's vein at a height of 26 cm above the forest floor, on the northern side of the plant, in an environment with 94–95% humidity and temperatures between 20 and 30 °C (68 and 86 °F). Infections may lead to 20 to 30 dead ants per square meter. When the dead ants are moved to other places and positions, further vegetative growth and sporulation either fails to occur or results in undersized and abnormal reproductive structures. In temperate forests, the typical behavior of zombie ants is to attach themselves to the lower side of twigs, not leaves.
A search of plant-fossil databases revealed similar marks on a fossil leaf from the Messel Pit, which is 48 million years old. Once the mandibles of the ant are secured to the leaf vein, atrophy quickly sets in, destroying the sarcomere connections in the muscle fibers and reducing the mitochondria and sarcoplasmic reticular. The ant is no longer able to control the muscles of the mandible and remains fixed in place, hanging upside-down on the leaf. This lockjaw trait is popularly known as the death grip and is essential in the fungus's lifecycle. A study led in Thailand revealed that there is a synchronization of this manipulated biting behavior at solar noon.
The fungus then kills the ant and continues to grow as its hyphae invade more soft tissues and structurally fortify the ant's exoskeleton. More mycelia then sprout out of the ant, securely anchoring it to the plant substrate while secreting antimicrobials to ward off competition. When the fungus is ready to reproduce, its fruiting bodies grow from the ant's head and rupture, releasing the spores. This process takes 4–10 days. Dead ants are found in areas termed "graveyards" which contain high densities of dead ants previously infected by the same fungus.
O. unilateralis' life cycle includes and depends on the infection and the manipulation of a carpenter ant, principally C. leonardi. The behavioral manipulation of the ant, which gives rise to the name "zombie-ant", is an extended phenotype of the fungus. It first affects the ant's behavior through convulsions that make it fall from its high canopy nest onto the forest floor. This is followed by the fungus controlling the climbing of the ant and the locking of its jaw (and subsequent death) onto a leaf around 25 centimetres above the ground, which is thought to be the optimal height for fungal spore growth and dispersion.
Throughout the lifecycle, unique challenges must be met by equally unique metabolic activities. The fungal pathogen must attach securely to the arthropod exoskeleton and penetrate it—avoiding or suppressing host defenses—then, control the behavior of the host before killing it; and finally, it must protect the carcass from microbial and scavenger attack.
The behavioral manipulation of the ant would not be possible without the presence of huge fungal cell populations beside the host's brain and within muscles because these lead to the secretion of various metabolites known to have important behavioral consequences. During the infection the parasite comes across an array of environments such as different host tissues or the immune response. Studies have shown that O. unilateralis reacts heterogeneously by secreting different metabolites according to the host tissue it encounters and whether they are live or dead. The identification of these natural products is important in order to understand which aspects of the ants are under control and consequently how O. unilateralis manipulates the ant.
In fact, studies suggest that the short viability of the fungal spores lead to the need of somatic investment (growth/survival) by the parasite in order to sustain the growth of the fungus' fruiting body on its host, thereby enabling successive reproduction. To do so, O. unilateralis fortifies the ant cadaver to prevent its decay, which consequently ensures the growth of the fruiting body.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6002356/
National Library of Medicine
Stud Mycol. 2018 Jun; 90: 119–160.
Published online 2018 Jan 2. doi: 10.1016/j.simyco.2017.12.002
PMCID: PMC6002356
PMID: 29910522
Zombie-ant fungi across continents: 15 new species and new combinations within Ophiocordyceps. I. Myrmecophilous hirsutelloid species
The fact that diseased ants are found in the litter and understorey layers indicates a dramatic behavioural change following infection.
infection behaviour is different with the latter species always found 1.5–2 m above the ground biting into branches and leaves of understorey shrubs
This suggests that infected ants move away from their arboreal nests among the epiphytes on upperstorey trees and die biting onto palm vegetation
Etymology: Named after Kim Fleming, a naturalist, who has made a significant contribution to the studies between this fungus and Camponotus species in the USA. An image posted by Kim Fleming on the photosharing site Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/) alerted Hughes to the widespread occurrence of this system in temperate woods in South Carolina. Kim has subsequently taken thousands of images and recordings of the phenology of Ophiocordyceps in South Carolina.
Habitat: South Carolina (USA), temperate deciduous forest. Found biting underside of twigs, never leaves. Dying in elevated position, ranging from 0.5 m up to 1.5 m in height; forming patches, or graveyards, of infected ants where the species is found.
Habitat: Missouri (USA), temperate forest. Found biting inside logs. The log-biting behaviour is highly unusual and is also found in samples from Michigan Herbaria. The host ant, Camponotus cf. chromaiodes, nests in wood and the position of the ant inside logs suggests that manipulation involves nest desertion and dying in logs where spores are distributed. Although evidence is still lacking, we suggest log-biting as an adaptation to very low temperatures and exposure on twigs
Habitat: Japan, temperate forest. Biting evergreen plants only in a deciduous forest where leaf fall occurs. This behaviour suggests that the ants are manipulated to choose leaves that remain on the trees.
Behaviour manipulation
All myrmecophilous hirsutelloid species (O. unilateralis core clade + O. oecophyllae + O. kniphofioides sub-clade) are known to alter the behaviour of their hosts. This phenomenon is called extended phenotype. The term was coined by Dawkins (1982) to describe the relationship between hosts and parasites, where the parasite genotype is expressed in any aspect of the host morphology or behaviour (phenotype).
https://hgic.clemson.edu/a-fascinating-discovery/
A FASCINATING DISCOVERY
Feb 3, 2022
Nature is always intriguing, often beautiful, but occasionally it is rather creepy and somewhat gruesome.
We found this little insect body under a tree on the Natural Heritage Trail at the South Carolina Botanical Garden. We’d never seen anything like it before and couldn’t figure out what it might be. Luckily, we have connections in the Entomology Department. Mike Ferro, the collections manager of the Clemson University Arthropod Museum, excitedly informed us it was a grasshopper infected with a Cordyceps fungus.
I’d never heard of such a thing, so I started investigating. I learned that Cordyceps is a parasitic fungus; its hosts are insects and arthropods. The spores from a fruiting fungus body infect the insect as it passes by. The mycelium (branching, thread-like structures) grows inside the body, ultimately killing the host. The forms we see here sprouting from the grasshopper are the fruiting bodies of the fungus preparing to start the cycle again.
There are several hundred species of this fungus, many concentrated in the humid regions of the world. One of the most infamous is Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, the “zombie-ant” fungus of the tropics. Once the ant is infected, the fungus hijacks its body and mind. The ant is forced to climb a stem to the perfect height for the fungus to develop. Once there, it bites the plant stem and is immobilized until death. The fungus’ fruiting body sprouts from the back of the ant’s head and showers spores on the ground below, ready for another victim.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140825142124.htm
Zombie ant fungi 'know' brains of their hosts
Date: August 25, 2014
Source: Penn State
"But whatever the precise blend and tempo of chemical secretion," she said, "it is impressive that these fungi seem to 'know' when they are beside the brain of their regular host and behave accordingly."
Noted Hughes, "This is one of the most complex examples of parasites controlling animal behavior because it is a microbe controlling an animal -- the one without the brain controls the one with the brain. By employing metabolomics and controlled laboratory infections, we can now begin to understand how the fungi pull off this impressive trick."
The research also is notable, the scientists contend, because it is the first extensive study of zombie ants in North America. Typically assumed to be a tropical phenomenon, they exist in temperate habitats but can be hard to find.
https://www.nybg.org/planttalk/the-unsettling-lifecycle-of-a-zombified-ant/
The Unsettling Lifecycle of a Zombified Ant
Posted in Plant Science on October 29, 2021, by João Araújo
João Araújo, Ph.D., is Assistant Curator of Mycology in the Institute of Systematic Botany at The New York Botanical Garden.
Ants are ubiquitous organisms, commonly found throughout tropical forests worldwide. They make colonies that range from a few individuals up to millions. And although they make up roughly 2% of nearly a million species of insects described, ants are estimated to comprise four times the biomass of all vertebrates on Earth combined. Such dominance, not surprisingly, exposes the ants to a broad range of pathogens—especially fungal parasites.
Among those are Ophiocordyceps, the intriguing “zombie-ant fungi.” These “zombie-maker” fungi are currently comprised of approximately 35 species occurring abundantly in Tropical forests, but some of those are also found in Temperate ecosystems. They have the ability to penetrate through the ant’s cuticle and overcome its immune system, which is achieved about a week or two after infection. Further, once the fungus has established inside the ant’s body, it multiplies as single yeast-like cells that spread throughout the insect. When the poor ant is heavily colonized by the fungal cells, it starts to behave oddly.
The zombification has started.
The following hours are followed by dramatic changes in the ant’s behavior, including the desertion of its nest to seek out a higher location in the forest. The moribund ant is led by the fungus to climb up onto plant parts such as leaves and spines, where it will spend its last hours while the fungus consumes its organs. Once the ant has reached a proper location for the fungal development, the parasite will finally command the ant to bite tightly onto the plant that will serve as the ant’s grave. That same location will be the platform from which the fungus soon shoots its spores.
Once the ant is fixed to the plant substrate and dies, the yeast-like fungal cells start connecting to form chains, similar to a necklace of pearls, that will later become fungal filaments. This new arrangement serves as highways that will transport all resources drained from the ant’s organs toward the back of the ant’s head, where the fungal fruiting body finally erupts. It can take from a few weeks for Amazonian species to a whole year for South Carolina species before the fungus is fully developed and ready to shoot the spores that will infect other ants passing by down on the forest floor. The zombification of new ants then proceeds.
A dead ant clings to a leaf, fungus emerging from its bodyNYBG is now the headquarters for discoveries of new species of “zombie-ant” fungi and how they have evolved on a global scale. I myself first started working on these fascinating fungi back in 2010 during my Master’s research in the Brazilian Amazon, which continued through my Ph.D. studies on a cross-continental scale. Since then, I have described 27 new species and a new lineage that infects and controls the behavior of ants in Brazil, Colombia, the U.S., Ghana, Ethiopia, China, Australia, and Japan. We are now starting to understand how these intriguing parasites evolved, as well as how they diversified–but we are still far from understanding its full global diversity.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/11/how-the-zombie-fungus-takes-over-ants-bodies-to-control-their-minds/545864/
How the Zombie Fungus Takes Over Ants’ Bodies to Control Their Minds
The infamous parasite’s methods are more complex and more sinister than anyone suspected.
By Ed Yong
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
So what we have here is a hostile takeover of a uniquely malevolent kind. Enemy forces invading a host’s body and using that body like a walkie-talkie to communicate with each other and influence the brain from afar. Hughes thinks the fungus might also exert more direct control over the ant’s muscles, literally controlling them “as a puppeteer controls as a marionette doll.” Once an infection is underway, he says, the neurons in the ant’s body—the ones that give its brain control over its muscles—start to die. Hughes suspects that the fungus takes over. It effectively cuts the ant’s limbs off from its brain and inserts itself in place, releasing chemicals that force the muscles there to contract. If this is right, then the ant ends its life as a prisoner in its own body. Its brain is still in the driver’s seat, but the fungus has the wheel.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8546595/
National Library of Medicine
Published online 2021 Oct 5.
Mechanisms behind the Madness: How Do Zombie-Making Fungal Entomopathogens Affect Host Behavior To Increase Transmission?
ABSTRACT
Transmission is a crucial step in all pathogen life cycles. As such, certain species have evolved complex traits that increase their chances to find and invade new hosts. Fungal species that hijack insect behaviors are evident examples. Many of these “zombie-making” entomopathogens cause their hosts to exhibit heightened activity, seek out elevated positions, and display body postures that promote spore dispersal, all with specific circadian timing. Answering how fungal entomopathogens manipulate their hosts will increase our understanding of molecular aspects underlying fungus-insect interactions, pathogen-host coevolution, and the regulation of animal behavior.
Considering that behavior is a complex phenotype with multiple underlying mechanisms, the ability to induce a stereotypical set of behaviors at the right time such that it consistently benefits the pathogen’s life cycle is unlikely to evolve quickly. The ability to produce a complex cocktail of compounds that changes behavioral outputs of the brain with exquisite precision requires a long, tight coevolutionary history with the host’s nervous system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War
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 ) To 12/24/1979 ( ) is 1123 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/29/1968 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Wink of an Eye" ) is 1123 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War
Soviet–Afghan War
From Wikipedia
Date 24 December 1979 – 15 February 1989 (9 years, 1 month, 3 weeks and 1 day)
Combat took place throughout the 1980s, mostly in the Afghan countryside. The war resulted in the deaths of approximately 3,000,000 Afghans
"Wink Of An Eye" [ Star Trek ]
Original Airdate: 29 Nov, 1968
(from internet transcript)
Captain KIRK: What have you done?
DEELA: Changed you. So you are like me now. Your crew cannot see you or any of us because of the acceleration. We move in the wink of an eye. Oh, there is a scientific explanation for it, but all that really matters is that you can see me and talk to me, and we can go on from there.
KIRK: Why?
DEELA: Because I like you. Didn't you guess? Or are you so accustomed to being kissed by invisible women?
(She kisses him again, but he doesn't respond.)
KIRK: Deela. Is this why you sabotaged my ship?
DEELA: Oh, but it has not been sabotaged. We we had to make some changes in it to adjust it to us.
From 11/26/1976 ( ) To 1/17/1991 ( ) is 5165 days
From 11/2/1965 ( ) To 12/24/1979 ( ) is 5165 days
by me, Kerry Burgess, Feb 18, 2023
Carefully documented in my journal, the one that was private, was that this all started for me on May 10, 2006
The fantastic stuff I've described all these years never existed in my mind before that day
NASA, USMC, Princeton, Thomas Reagan, the Phoebe Cates you don't know
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five
Publication date March 31, 1969
Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death is a 1969 semi-autobiographic science fiction-infused anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut. It follows the life experiences of Billy Pilgrim, from his early years, to his time as an American soldier and chaplain's assistant during World War II, to the post-war years. Throughout the novel, Billy frequently travels back and forth through time. The protagonist deals with a temporal crisis as a result of his post-war psychological trauma. The text centers on Billy's capture by the German Army and his survival of the Allied firebombing of Dresden as a prisoner of war, an experience that Vonnegut endured as an American serviceman. The work has been called an example of "unmatched moral clarity" and "one of the most enduring anti-war novels of all time".
Plot
The novel's first chapter begins with "All this happened, more or less"; this introduction implies an unreliable narrator tells the story. Vonnegut utilizes a non-linear, non-chronological description of events to reflect Billy Pilgrim's psychological state. Events become clear through flashbacks and descriptions of time travel experiences. In the first chapter, the narrator describes his writing of the book, his experiences as a University of Chicago anthropology student and a Chicago City News Bureau correspondent, his research on the Children's Crusade and the history of Dresden, and his visit to Cold War-era Europe with his wartime friend Bernard V. O'Hare. In the second chapter, Vonnegut introduces Billy Pilgrim, an American man from the fictional town of Ilium, New York. Billy believes that an extraterrestrial species from the planet Tralfamadore held him captive in an alien zoo and that he has experienced time travel.
From 5/10/2006 ( referenced in text here: Kerry Burgess - journal, Wednesday, May 10, 2006 ) To 10/6/2009 ( ) is 1245 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/31/1969 ( "Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death" by Kurt Vonnegut ) is 1245 days
From 7/27/1997 ( premiere USA TV series "Stargate SG-1"::series premiere episode "Children of the Gods" ) To 10/6/2009 ( ) is 4454 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/12/1978 ( premiere US TV series episode "In Search of..."::"Astrology" ) is 4454 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maze_Runner
The Maze Runner
From Wikipedia
Published October 6, 2009
The Maze Runner is a 2009 dystopian novel by American author James Dashner. It takes place in a world suffering from a coronal mass ejection and whose surviving civilians fight to avoid an apocalyptic illness called the Flare. It is written from the perspective of Thomas, a 16-year-old boy who wakes up with no memories inside an artificially produced maze but who is also the key to his friends’ salvation. An organization called WICKED controls the world politically and seeks a cure to the Flare and uses the youngest generation of civilians who have been found to be immune as test subjects.
The book received critical acclaim from major reviewers and authors. It won the All Library Association Young Adult Library Services Association Best Fiction for Young Adults Book award in 2011, is a #1 NYT Bestselling series and was on the #1 NYT Bestseller list for 148 weeks, and a Kirkus Reviews Teen Book of the Year. Moreover, The Maze Runner is a popular pick of educators teaching middle-age readers in schools.
Plot
Thomas wakes up in a metal elevator that brings him to the Glade. He has no memory of who he is or how he got there, except for his name. He gradually discovers that the Glade is run by two boys: Alby, the leader, and Newt, the second-in-charge, who maintain order by enforcing simple but effective rules. The elevator box surfaces from under the ground once every week and brings supplies of food, tools, clothes, medicine, and sometimes weapons. Every month, a new boy with no memory of anything but his first name also appears in the box.
The Glade is enclosed by a square of concrete walls several hundred feet high. The walls have openings in them, which slide shut every night. Outside the walls is the Maze, a labyrinth of high concrete walls covered in ivy that changes every night. The Maze houses strange, lethal creatures known as Grievers. All that is known about Grievers is that they are a combination of metal and flesh. The Gladers try to stay alive as well as "solve" the Maze by appointing "Runners" to run through it as fast as they can while they track movements of the walls and try to find an exit to escape.
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)
0:26:36
Teresa: Thomas?
From 7/7/1980 ( Michelle Kwan ) To 9/15/2015 ( ) is 12853 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/10/2001 ( premiere USA TV "Dodson's Journey" ) is 12853 days
From 8/24/1945 ( premiere USA film "Pride of the Marines" ) To 7/7/1995 ( return to Earth landing of the United States space shuttle Atlantis orbiter vehicle mission STS-71 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps commissioned-officer and United States STS-71 pilot astronaut and my 3rd official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 18214 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/15/2015 ( ) is 18214 days
From 8/10/2008 ( premiere USA "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" ) To 9/15/2015 ( ) is 2592 days
2592 = 1296 + 1296
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/21/1969 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the Princeton University doctor of medicine degree graduation of my biological brother Dr Thomas Reagan MD and in 1973 the law-doctorate graduate of University of Oxford, England ) is 1296 days
From 8/22/1926 ( biographical - from Wikipedia: Charles William Eliot dead ) To 7/4/1976 ( at extreme personal risk to himself my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship successfully intercepts the comet nicknamed "Lucifer" - threatening extinction by death and destruction of all life on this planet Earth - in the outer solar system beyond planet Saturn and diverts it away from our planet Earth ) is 18214 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/15/2015 ( ) is 18214 days
From 2/26/1984 ( premiere USA TV movie "Lace" ) To 9/15/2015 ( ) is 11524 days
11524 = 5762 + 5762
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/12/1981 ( the Microsoft and IBM Personal Computer 5150 ) is 5762 days
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4046784/releaseinfo/
IMDb
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
Release info
United States September 15, 2015 (New York City, premiere)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0253071/releaseinfo/
IMDb
Dodson's Journey
Release info
United States January 10, 2001
Full Cast & Crew
David James Elliott ... James Dodson
A man takes his young daughter on a cross-country fly-fishing trip
by me, Kerry Burgess, 03/23/09 3:21 AM
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=42616&st=&st1=
Toasts of the President and Queen Elizabeth II at a Dinner Honoring the President at Windsor Castle in England
June 8, 1982
The Queen. Mr. President, I'm so glad to welcome you and Mrs. Reagan to Britain.
by me, Kerry Burgess, 03/23/09 3:24 AM
Episode 4 - 10/15/1995 "Space: Above And Beyond"
Sorry -
I'm sorry.
1LT Cooper Hawkes: What would you know about sorrow?
Lt. Colonel T.C. McQueen: I know this much.
I never had the... courage to look for my family.
Not because I was afraid of what I might find...
but because I was afraid of what I might feel.
by me, Kerry Burgess, 04/06/2024 8:18 PM
Another of those rare instances I know I wrote more about this somewhere
Can't find it now
Doesn't seem as important unless I find a past reference to it and what I remember clearly visualizing in my conscious mind of past activity
IMDb
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Quotes
Padme: It must be difficult having sworn your life to the Jedi... not being able to visit the places you like... or do the things you like.
Anakin Skywalker: Or be with the people I love.
Padme: Are you allowed to love? I thought that was forbidden for a Jedi.
12/22/09 11:57 PM
In one dream I woke up from there was a lot of scenes I can still visualize but that I cannot being to articulate. I seemed to be in some kind of urban setting. I think I had been kidnapped and the setting was something to do with the people who captured me and we seemed to be traveling somewhere. There was some gunfire at certain points but I can only remember seeing it in one scene because I was in a small car in the passenger seat and there was a person in the seat behind firing at people in front of the car who was also firing. There might have been kevlar on the dashboard and I remember trying to lean over to my left so I could use that kevlar as protection from the gunfire. It seemed to work because the next part I remember is that I seemed to be walking away from that car and I am aware that might have been in a narrow alley and I think my hands were also restrained as though by ropes or tie-raps. I am aware of people in front of me and coming up behind me and it is the people behind me with the weapons that were a source of concern. I can't really remember what happened but there was a lot of concern in my mind. I also have this lingering sense that the bad guys were literally zombies but I do not think that was the literal case because this was an actual memory and maybe they just seemed that way or something.
04/12/10 1:06 PM
Goddamnit I wake up feeling a hundred times worse than when I went to sleep.
04/12/10 8:46 PM
I was going to note after watching the 2004 film "The Day After Tomorrow" on television the other day my observation about the actor Perry King and that woman who also had a role in that film and about how that made me think of that "The Outer Limits" episode the two of them starred in. Perry King was a Senator who was injured in a car wreck and the woman was the doctor who examined him and who determined he was not human. I think about it again now because I saw Perry King in a dream just before I awoke from an extended nap and I have been thinking about that dream. I cannot remember other details that lead up to the scenes I remember but I seem to be flying through the sky at night and I might have actually been wearing a "Superman" outfit in the dream but I did not see any details in the dream that suggest I was wearing that clothing. I do have the sense from the dream that I was wearing clothing similar to "Superman" though. I was flying through the sky and I was looking down and I seemed to be looking for something. I think I was using my X-ray vision to see if I could see the thermal energy from a person in a house I had just left and I am aware of looking down at trees and I could see some kind of thermal visuals down below me on the ground. I saw something else too and I was trying to figure out what it was and that was in another location from where I had been first looking. I was looking at something that was similar to that thermal image from my X-ray vision but at another time the visual seemed to be a silver bar in the shape of a rectangle, where the previous X-ray thermal image was a reddish rectangle bar. Then I was on the ground and the details are vague but the object I had seen might have been below the ground. I had also seen Perry King standing around there and that first observation is vague now but I think I saw him standing nearing that site on the ground and then he left in one direction and then I landed on the ground and then he showed up from another direction and I am left with the sense I grabbed him by the neck or I did and then quickly let go of his neck as though I had recognized him and I then let go of his neck. The details are growing vague now but I think I had him get a shovel to start digging to find out what I saw underground and I am not certain if I dreamed that part or if that was a line of thought immediately after I woke up. I think I might have forgotten other details after I started writing this. I have also had the certain sense that Michelle Kwan was communicating with me and there was something about how she suggested that I not trust people around me right now.
From 2/14/1986 ( premiere USA film "The Delta Force" ) To 5/12/2002 ( ) is 5931 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/28/1982 ( James Dozier is rescued ) is 5931 days
From 7/11/1922 ( Warren Harding, 29th President of USA: Proclamation - Interference With Interstate Transportation and the Carrying of the United States Mails ) To 7/28/1995 ( premiere USA film "Waterworld" ) is 26680 days
26680 = 13340 + 13340
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/12/2002 ( ) is 13340 days
From 12/12/1997 ( premiere USA film "The Postman" ) To 5/12/2002 ( ) is 1612 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/2/1970 ( premiere USA film "Patton" ) is 1612 days
From 4/3/1922 ( On Vladimir Lenin's designation of a successor, Joseph Stalin was made the new General Secretary of the Communist Party in Soviet Russia ) To 10/11/1958 ( premiere USA TV series "U.S. Marshal"::series premiere episode "The Fugitives" ) is 13340 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/12/2002 ( ) is 13340 days
From 6/29/1995 ( the Mir space station docking of the United States space shuttle Atlantis orbiter vehicle mission STS-71 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps commissioned-officer and United States STS-71 pilot astronaut and my 3rd official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) To 5/12/2002 ( ) is 2509 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/15/1972 ( premiere USA TV series "Ghost Story" ) is 2509 days
From 12/3/1921 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: THE REVIVAL OF DEBATING ) To 12/20/1994 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: in non-aviator related duties boots on the ground in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my US Navy Cross medal date of record ) is 26680 days
26680 = 13340 + 13340
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/12/2002 ( ) is 13340 days
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0121765/releaseinfo/
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Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Release info
United States May 12, 2002 (Los Angeles, California, premiere)
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Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Quotes
Anakin: When I got to them we got into aggressive negotiations.
Padme: Aggressive negotiations? What's that?
Anakin: Ah, well, it's negotiations with a lightsaber.
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Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Quotes
Anakin Skywalker: My mother...
Watto: Oh, yeah. Shmi... she's not mine no more. I sold her.
Anakin Skywalker: Sold her?
Watto: Years ago. Sorry, Annie, but you know, business is business. Sold her to a moisture farmer named Lars. Least I think it was Lars. Believe it or not, I heard he freed her and married her. Can ya beat that?
Anakin Skywalker: Do you know where they are?
Watto: Long way from here... someplace over on the other side of Mos Eisley, I think...
Anakin Skywalker: I'd like to know.
Watto: Yeah... sure... absolutely. Let's go look in my records.
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Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Quotes
[Cliegg Lars is telling Anakin about what happened to Shmi]
Cliegg Lars: It was just before dawn. They came out of nowhere. A hunting party of Tusken Raiders. Your mother had gone out early, like she always did, to pick mushrooms that grow on the vaporators. From the tracks, she was about halfway home when they took her. Those Tuskens walk like men, but they're vicious, mindless monsters. Thirty of us went out after her. Four of us came back. I'd be with them, only... after I lost my leg I just couldn't ride any more... until I heal. I don't want to give up on her, but she's been gone a month. There's little hope she's lasted this long.
[Anakin gets up from the table]
Owen Lars: Where are you going?
Anakin: To find my mother.
Cliegg Lars: Your mother's dead, son. Accept it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/28/newsid_4202000/4202723.stm
BBC
ON THIS DAY 28 January
1982: US general rescued from Red Brigade
Italian police have rescued US Brigadier General James Dozier without firing a single shot after storming a flat in Padua where he was being held by Red Brigade guerrillas.
The 50-year-old general and deputy Chief of Staff at Nato's Southern European land forces headquarters at Verona, emerged after 42 days in captivity unharmed, but thinner and with a beard.
Police had been watching the flat in Padua for three days. The decision was taken to go in this morning at 1136 local time.
A squad of specially-trained officers broke down the door of the five-room apartment and confronted the five terrorists, including a woman, who surrendered immediately.
Posing as plumbers
The general was gagged, barefoot and wearing a tracksuit. He was inside a tent. One of the terrorists, who was standing pointing a gun at the general's head, was quickly overpowered.
The general's first words are reported to have been: "Thanks, thanks, marvellous, ok, police."
He was allowed to telephone his wife, who is in West Germany and the US Ambassador in Rome before being taken to an American military base near Verona.
His Red Brigade kidnappers are said to include the Venice leader, Antonio Savasta, and his partner, Emilia Libera. A third suspect was identified as Cesare Leonardo. The other two remain unidentified.
The left-wing Red Brigade was set up in the 1970s following the failure of the New Left government.
It has sought to highlight its cause by kidnapping and murdering prominent Italian politicians and other senior figures, including former prime minister Aldo Moro in 1978.
Courageous soldier
Police seized a number of guns, hand grenades, explosives and ammunition from the flat.
The general's wife, Judith, and 24-year-old daughter Cheryl, are being flown from West Germany to be reunited with him.
US President Ronald Reagan has hailed the general as a "courageous soldier whose life has been dedicated to the defence of liberty" and said his rescue was "a happy ending, the prayers of millions of Americans have been answered."
The general was captured in December. Members of the Red Brigade posing as plumbers called at his flat on the sixth floor of an apartment block in Verona.
He tried to fight off the intruders, but was hit on the head with a pistol and forced into a trunk, which was loaded into the boot of a car.
He was the first foreigner to be captured by the Red Brigade. There were rumours a ransom had been demanded of up to £4.5m.
In Context
A week later Brigadier General James Dozier was flown back to the United States, where he received a hero's welcome.
At his first news conference after his release, General Dozier admitted he had been warned about the possibility of a kidnap attempt but he had been "too busy" to take any notice of the threats.
August 10, 2006
has some bearing on that Stargazer incident, where I imagine I was lost for several days back in 1994. Maybe I had been spending time with Michelle Kwan around that time, especially considering the shuttle flights in 1995 and 1996. I wonder if she thought I was her uncle or her father.
Posted by H.V.O.M at 9:30 AM October 19, 2010
STS-71 Atlantis was when I saved the bunny rabbit with me in space for my other daughter Michelle.
From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 1:38 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: Journal May 20, 2006
Kerry Burgess wrote:
In that movie Mission To Mars, there is that part where the second team arrive on Mars. The guy that survived for months there alone has lost it to some degree. The woman who lost her husband explains that extended periods of low-gravity can have that effect on the brain. As I write this, I almost feel like something is figuratively tugging at my mind. Anyway, if low-grav does have that effect, there needs to be a mechanism to help someone keep anchored in reality. Either by training them mentally or through artificial means of mind control. This adds weight to my hunch that I have some kind of device implanted in the back of my head. And it probably means it receives FM signals, although it could be any frequency, but FM would make more sense. Although it could be satellite too, really anything is possible without knowing the details. Although the possibilities are limited, I mean, this isn't Star Trek. I suspect the creators of this project conspired with people in the movie media to condition rational people to dismiss such theories so that no one would really consider the possibility of someone really being mind-controlled so that the project would not be jeopardized.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 6:16 PM Pacific-time USA Monday 04/08/2024
