excerpts, see also:
http://hvom.blogspot.com/2024/07/today-is-07132024-post-2.html
by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 5:15 PM
Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home
I am Kerry Burgess. This is what I think.
Saturday, July 13, 2024
Today is 07/13/2024, Post #2
by me, Kerry Burgess, 07/13/2024 4:48 PM Pacific-timezone USA
draft - in progress, future updates by me possible but not planned by me
Breaking News
[excerpts ends - by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 5:15 PM July 13, 2024]
From 1/18/1991 ( premiere USA film "Flight of the Intruder" ) To 7/13/2024 ( Today , Saturday ) is 12230 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/28/1999 ( ) is 12230 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Leonard_Schawlow
From 5/4/1984 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my Ashdown, Arkansas, High School Class of 1984 awards ceremony when I was awarded the Dekalb Agricultural Award ) To 7/13/2024 ( ) is 14680 days
14680 = 7340 + 7340
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/7/1985 ( as Kerry Burgess my official US Navy documents includes: Repair Locker Personnel Training, USS Taylor FFG-50, US Navy ) is 7340 days
From 12/9/2003 ( premiere USA TV miniseries finale episode "Battlestar Galactica" ) To 7/13/2024 ( Today , Saturday ) is 7522 days
7522 = 3761 + 3761
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/19/1976 ( Gerald Ford, 38th President of USA: Proclamation 4417 - An American Promise ) is 3761 days
Battlestar Galactica - tv miniseries - 12/08/2003, 12/09/2003
(from internet transcript)
(CIC)
Colonel Saul Tigh, second-in-command, interstellar-spaceship warship Battlestar Galactica: Report.
Chief Galen Tyrol: We've got structural buckling all along this line. We've gotta get those fires out!
Captain (in the USA, typically a commissioned-officer paygrade O-3 and is very junior to a US Navy Captain): I know! Fire suppressors are down, water main is down, I'm trying to fight this fire with hand-held gear.
Chief: We've got another decompression heading toward the port pod.
Captain: What are your orders, sir?
(Tigh says nothing, looks at Adama.)
Captain: Sir? (to Chief) All right listen, I need you to get the rest of your DC teams down from the landing bay, give them a-
Tigh: No time. Seal off everything forward of frame 30 and start an emergency vent of all compartments.
Chief: But wait, I've got over a hundred people trapped up behind frame 34, I just need a minute to get 'em out.
Tigh: We don't seal it off now, we're going to lose a lot more than a hundred men. Seal it off, now.
Chief: They just need a minute!
Tigh: We don't have a minute! The fire reaches the hangar pods, it'll ignite the fuel lines and we'll lose the ship. Do it!
Chief: (on intercom) All hands. Seal off... all bulkheads, 25 through 40. That's an order.
(We see people in the affected area, running, coughing, through the smoke. Tigh turns a key to vent the areas - bodies fly out, the fire extinguishes.)
Captain: Venting complete. Fires are out.
Tigh: If they remembered their training, then they had their suits on and they were braced for possible vent action.
Chief: There's a lot of rooks in there.
Tigh: No one's a rook anymore.
Battlestar Galactica - tv miniseries - 12/08/2003, 12/09/2003
(from internet transcript)
William Adama, commanding-officer, interstellar-spaceship warship Battlestar Galactica: (turning and walking in front of the crowd) So say we all.
Crowd: (a little less quietly) So say we all.
Adama: So say we all.
Crowd: (louder) So say we all.
Adama: So say we all!
Crowd: So say we all!
Adama: Are they the lucky ones? That's what you're thinking, isn't it? We're a long way from home. We've jumped way beyond the red line, into unchartered space. Limited supplies, limited fuel. No allies, and now, no hope? Maybe it would have been better for us to have died quickly, back on the Colonies with our families, instead of dying out here slowly, in the emptiness of dark space. Where shall we go? What shall we do? Life here began out there. Those are the first words of the sacred scrolls, and they were told to us by the Lords of Kobol, many countless centuries ago. And they made it perfectly clear that we are not alone in this universe. Elosha, there's a thirteenth colony of humankind, is there not?
Elosha: Yes. The scrolls tell us a thirteenth tribe left Kobol in the early days. They travelled far and made their home upon a planet called Earth, which circled a distant and unknown star.
Adama: It's not unknown. I know where it is! Earth. The most guarded secret we have. The location was only known by the senior commanders of the fleet, and we dare not share it with the public. Not while there was a Cylon threat upon us. For now we have a refuge to go to. A refuge the Cylons know nothing about. It won't be an easy journey. It'll be long, and arduous. But I promise you one thing: on the memory of those lying here before you, we shall find it, and Earth shall become our new home. So say we all!
Crowd: So say we all!
Adama: So say we all!
Crowd: So say we all!
Adama: So say we all!
Crowd: So say we all!
Adama: So say we all.
Elosha: So say we all.
Adama: Dismissed.
(People clap and cheer, some of them look disbelieving.)
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 6:51 PM Pacific-timezone USA Saturday 07/13/2024
