by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: March 01, 2017 8:08 pm
Kerry Burgess updated his status.
First Blood (1982)
Quotes
Rambo: In town you're the law, out here it's me. Don't push it! Don't push it or I'll give you a war you won't believe. Let it go. Let it go!
The Expanse
"Paradigm Shift"
TV-series season 2, episode 6, 03/01/2017
Chrisjen Avasarala, UN Secretary-General: You have a different theory about Eros?
Dr. Michael Iturbi: Different, yeah. More like radical.
Avasarala: This is not a time to keep these things to yourself.
Iturbi: The problem with Colonel Janus, as a scientist, I mean, his personality disorders are obvious, but his problem is that he lacks imagination.
Avasarala: [Chuckles.]
Iturbi: It's true. He can only conceive the world in terms of things he's already seen.
Avasarala: His job is to explain science to politicians. In that regard, it's a useful skill.
Iturbi: But it's of no use here. Eros Station was under quarantine, the result of a mysterious bio-weapon unleashed by Mars, which Mars believes was unleashed by us, which we did not. Did we?
Avasarala: We did not.
Iturbi: Ah, I never doubted that for a moment. Suddenly, Eros, the entire asteroid, moves - In a way that practically defies every single known law of physics. Now, Janus thinks that means there's a new Martian weapon, some staggering breakthrough on an incredible scale of a technology they've been pursuing utterly unsuccessfully for years. But ask yourself this question Does it make any sense at all that Mars would want to test their ground-breaking technology in a bio-hazard zone, that they themselves created?
Avasarala: I suppose not.
Iturbi: So what if this bio-weapon isn't a bio-weapon after all? What if it is responsible in some way we can't yet fully understand, for Eros moving? I believe Eros was infected by an entirely new order of technology, something from somewhere else, somewhere beyond the reach of our species. I believe the Eros incident was our first contact with alien life.
Chrisjen Avasarala, UN Secretary-General: I have a file with 900 pages of analyses and contingency plans for war with Mars, including 14 different scenarios about what to do if they develop an unexpected new technology. My file for what to do if an advanced alien species comes calling. It's 3 pages long, and it begins with "Step one: find God".
From 9/29/1969 ( ) To 1/26/2021 ( ) is 18747 days
From 11/2/1965 ( me ) To 3/1/2017 ( ) is 18747 days
Astro_Spook @Kerry_W_Burgess 12:43 AM January 26, 2021
Another observation happens just now, on the tv next to my desk the weeknight rebroadcast of The Twilight Zone
A woman I saw was gravely weary from lack of sleep
I was at a restaurant, vivid conversation with real astronaut
Then that tired woman showed up
Astro_Spook @Kerry_W_Burgess 11:49 PM January 25, 2021
Perhaps most compelling is the thoughts formed in my conscious mind a few hours ago, as I tried to fall asleep.
Completely unrelated - except for one detail - I first saw that image of her a few hours later, just now, sitting here at this desk with a Perry Mason rebroadcast seen
A demonstration of my power, that I wanted no other person - except a real astronaut - to know about
Because common people possibly couldn't psychologically-cope with the revelation.
From 9/29/1969 ( the USA Congressional Space Medal of Honor established ) To 3/1/2017 ( ) is 17320 days
17320 = 8660 + 8660
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash in Sioux City Iowa and from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the end of Kerry Burgess - *me* - the natural human being cloned from another human being {Thomas Reagan} ) is 8660 days
From 5/8/2009 ( premiere USA film "Star Trek" ) To 3/1/2017 ( ) is 2854 days
2854 = 1427 + 1427
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/29/1969 ( the USA Congressional Space Medal of Honor established ) is 1427 days
From 11/10/1967 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Metamorphosis" ) To 3/1/2017 ( ) is 18009 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/22/2015 ( ) is 18009 days
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5625512/
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The Expanse
S2.E6
Paradigm Shift
Episode aired Mar 1, 2017
Earth is planning an expedition to the point of Eros impact. Chrisjen conflicts with Sadavir about Jules-Pierre Mao. Col. Frederick Lucius Johnson improves his position in unexpected way. New battleground is opening.
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: 02/22/2015
Social Network, The (2010)
He developed the site in 1 night and he did it while he was drunk.
Twenty-two thousand
How do you know he was drunk
He was blogging, while doing this.
"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.
From 3/23/1986 ( ) To 6/9/1997 ( Bill Clinton, {puppet-in-chief} 42nd President of USA: Remarks Announcing Proposed Human Cloning Prohibition Legislation ) is 4096 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/19/1977 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Nova"::"What Price Coal?" ) is 4096 days
From 3/23/1986 ( ) To 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash in Sioux City Iowa and from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the end of Kerry Burgess - *me* - the natural human being cloned from another human being {Thomas Reagan} ) is 1214 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/28/1969 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"The Cloud Minders" ) is 1214 days
From 3/23/1986 ( ) To 6/8/1993 ( commencement, Princeton University Class of 1993 ) is 2634 days
2634 = 1317 + 1317
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/11/1969 ( premiere USA film "True Grit" ) is 1317 days
From 3/3/1959 ( the birthdate in Hawaii of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 12/10/1999 ( from Wikipedia: Franjo Tudman dead ) is 14892 days
14892 = 7446 + 7446
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/23/1986 ( ) is 7446 days
From 1/30/1960 ( premiere USA TV series "Man from Interpol" ) To 3/23/1986 ( ) is 9549 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/25/1991 ( in non-aviator related duties boots on the ground as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) is 9549 days
From 3/23/1986 ( ) To 8/3/1998 ( "Rainbow Six" by Tom Clancy ) is 4516 days
4516 = 2258 + 2258
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/8/1972 ( premiere USA TV movie "The Astronaut" ) is 2258 days
From 3/23/1986 ( ) To 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 ) is 2244 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/25/1971 ( George W. Bush the purveyor of illegal drugs strictly for his personal profit including the trafficking of massive amounts of cocaine into the United States confined lawfully to federal prison in Mexico for illegally smuggling narcotics in Mexico ) is 2244 days
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The Expanse (2015-2022) as James Holden
The Expanse - Paradigm Shift - Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired Tuesday 10:00 PM Mar 01, 2017 on Syfy
My name's Solomon Epstein. And I changed everything.
The Expanse - Paradigm Shift - Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired Tuesday 10:00 PM Mar 01, 2017 on Syfy
Solomon Epstein: Because with my drive, the Epstein Drive, Mars would be able to move outward. Mine the asteroids. Colonize the Belt. And remake the Solar System. My drive would give us the edge we needed to finally break free from Earth. And build a new world for ourselves. That's the wonderful and terrible thing about technology. It changes everything.
The Expanse - Paradigm Shift - Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired Tuesday 10:00 PM Mar 01, 2017 on Syfy
Solomon Epstein: Fuel efficiency was through the roof. A hundred times better than anyone had even thought possible. A once-in-a-generation breakthrough. And that was the whole problem.
The Expanse - Paradigm Shift - Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired Tuesday 10:00 PM Mar 01, 2017 on Syfy
(from internet transcript)
Solomon Epstein: A once-in-a-generation breakthrough. And that was the whole problem. See, a high-G burn hurts like hell. I felt like someone was standing on my chest. It was getting harder for me to breathe or talk. [Grunts] [Gasping] Shut down main drive. [Rapid beeping] Not that talking would have made any difference. [Panting, straining] The acceleration was making my body so damn heavy, it was getting hard to even move. [Straining] [Groans] Oh, that was bad enough, but it wasn't the worst part. Because the most dangerous thing about being in a high-G burn is that if it goes on too long, it'll kill you.
The Expanse - Paradigm Shift - Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired Tuesday 10:00 PM Mar 01, 2017 on Syfy
SOLOMON: Mars had been a colony for a long time, and it was filled with the best scientists and technologists humanity had to offer.
We were ready to govern ourselves and start a new nation of our own, but everything we built, or mined or made, was still the property of old Mother Earth.
I was a fusion-drive engineer.
My wife, Caty, wanted to start having babies, like all good Martians do, but I convinced her that we should buy a second-hand yacht for me to tinker around with instead.
She liked to indulge me.
I'd been modifying the engine to boost fuel efficiency.
I wasn't expecting much, maybe four percent better, tops, and I was taking it out for a test run.
Commence pre-flight check.
Commence pre-flight check! The voice interface had been problematic from the start.
The original owner was Chinese, so I turned the damn thing off.
[Beeps] The rest, I guess, is history.
[Beeps] Okay.
Let's see what you can do.
- [Whirring] - [Grunts] [Rapid beeping] [Chuckles] My name's Solomon Epstein.
And I changed everything.
Stargate SG-1 - "Children of the Gods" - tv series premiere Season 1 Episode 1 - 07/27/1997
(from internet transcript)
JACKSON: Did you see? Did you see?
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 08:03 AM Pacific-timezone USA Friday 04/18/2025
