BACKSTORY 004: SpaceX
by me, Kerry Burgess, 06/19/2025 02:11 AM
This is not SpaceX's backstory.
I do not know any of those people. Never have known any of them. Never have I communicated with them in any form, direct or indirect. I have communicated nothing - directly or indirectly - with anyone about SpaceX
If there is one thing Elon Musk is an expert at then it is only at wasting billions of corporate dollars just to blow up spaceships, in his ridiculous, child-like (stupid) aspirations about planet Mars.
*His* spacecraft explosions just keeping bigger and more impressive!
Elon Musk, you are truly a better Wastefulnaut than Jeff Bezos and his low-Earth space joyrider William Fatner!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk
Elon Musk
From Wikipedia
Elon Reeve Musk (born June 28, 1971)
Born to a wealthy family in Pretoria, South Africa, Musk emigrated in 1989 to Canada.
In 2002, Musk founded the space technology company SpaceX, becoming its CEO and chief engineer
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1907/michelson/facts/
From 3/3/1959 ( the birthdate in Hawaii of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 5/6/2002 ( ) is 15770 days
15770 = 7885 + 7885
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/5/1987 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Earned NEC 1189 - Based on graduation from the Terrier Mk 152 Guided-missiles Fire Control Computer Complex course - Naval Guided Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia Beach, Virginia, US Navy - leading to permanent assignment until 1990 to CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance), USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2) ) is 7885 days
From 7/26/1912 ( the first radio communication between US Navy airplane and US Navy ship at sea ) To 7/31/1985 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Personnel Advancement Requirements - FTM3 [US Navy enlisted-occupation Fire Control Technician (Missiles), superseded by FC3], USS Taylor FFG-50, US Navy ) is 26668 days
26668 = 13334 + 13334
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/6/2002 ( ) is 13334 days
From 5/9/1931 ( biographical - Albert Michelson dead ) To 11/10/1967 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Metamorphosis" ) is 13334 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/6/2002 ( ) is 13334 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/3/1984 ( Dr. John Buster announces the first embryo transfer from one woman to another resulting in a live birth ) is 6667 days
From 2/3/1984 ( launch of USA NASA STS-41B space shuttle Challenger mission featuring the first untethered space activity ) To 5/6/2002 ( ) is 6667 days
From 6/8/1993 ( commencement, Princeton University Class of 1993 ) To 5/6/2002 ( ) is 3254 days
3254 = 1627 + 1627
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/17/1970 ( Richard Nixon, 37th President USA: Statement Following the Safe Return of the Apollo 13 Astronauts ) is 1627 days
From 11/15/1966 ( the United States Gemini 12 spacecraft splashdown and - disguised - my biological brother Thomas Reagan the US Navy officer and astronaut was United States Gemini 12 spacecraft US Navy astronaut - preceding his 6 planet Earth-moon Luna lunar-landings with USA Project Apollo, strictly in planning and preparation for his personal activities in deep-space 1975-1977 ) To 5/6/2002 ( ) is 12956 days
12956 = 6478 + 6478
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/29/1983 ( premiere USA film "Private School" ) is 6478 days
From 1/17/1990 ( United States NASA announces the selection of the Group 13 Astronauts ) To 5/6/2002 ( ) is 4492 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/19/1978 ( premiere USA TV series "Project U.F.O." ) is 4492 days
From 1/14/1943 ( the Casablanca Conference begins during World War II ) To 5/6/2002 ( ) is 21662 days
21662 = 10831 + 10831
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 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 ) is 10831 days
From 12/7/1998 ( as Kerry Burgess my first day as full-time employee of Microsoft Corporation in Seattle until 02/06/2004 as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and the active duty United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel circa 1998 ) To 5/6/2002 ( ) is 1246 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/1/1969 ( NASA director of engineering and development at the Manned Spacecraft Center Maxime Faget proposes design of the space shuttle ) is 1246 days
From 9/17/1965 ( premiere USA TV series "Hogan's Heroes" ) To 5/6/2002 ( ) is 13380 days
13380 = 6690 + 6690
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/26/1984 ( premiere USA TV movie "Lace" ) is 6690 days
[ original work by me, Kerry Burgess - draft ]
https://businesssearch.sos.ca.gov/CBS/Detail
California Secretary of State Business Search - Entity Detail
C2414622 SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP. Registration Date: 05/06/2002
Entity Address: 1 ROCKET ROAD
HAWTHORNE CA 90250
Entity Mailing Address: 1 ROCKET ROAD
HAWTHORNE CA 90250
IMDb
Idiocracy (2006)
Quotes
[first lines]
Narrator: As the twenty-first century began, human evolution was at a turning point. Natural selection, the process by which the strongest, the smartest, the fastest reproduced in greater numbers than the rest, a process which had once favored the noblest traits of man, now began to favor different traits. Most science fiction of the day predicted a future that was more civilized and more intelligent. But, as time went on, things seemed to be heading in the opposite direction. A dumbing down
https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-rails-against-unelected-232243890.html
Yahoo! News
The Telegraph
Musk lashes out at ‘unelected’ officials in Oval Office – while son X picks his nose
Connor Stringer
Tue, February 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM PST
Elon Musk railed against “unelected” officials as he was grilled by the press for the first time since becoming the US government’s efficiency tsar.
Donald Trump hauled the tech billionaire in front of journalists in the Oval Office to fend off questions about his newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (Doge).
But attention was drawn away from Mr Musk by his son
From 11/9/1954 ( {Superstition-bunker-in-chief} Dwight Eisenhower, 34th President of USA federal government 1953-1961: Remarks to the First National Conference on the Spiritual [ Superstition ] Foundations [ untrue ] of American Democracy ) To 2/11/2025 ( Tuesday ) is 25662 days
25662 = 12831 + 12831
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/19/2000 ( premiere USA film "O Brother, Where Art Thou" ) is 12831 days
From 8/3/1998 ( "Rainbow Six" by Tom Clancy ) To 2/11/2025 ( ) is 9689 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/13/1992 ( 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 9689 days
From 12/17/2020 ( premiere CBS adaption of Stephen King's "The Stand" ) To 2/11/2025 ( ) is 1517 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/28/1969 ( Linus Torvalds ) is 1517 days
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/trump-musk-take-questions-white-house/
CBS News
Trump, Musk take questions at White House
President Trump and Elon Musk took questions at the White House on Tuesday after Mr. Trump signed an executive order telling federal agencies to cooperate with the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett joins with analysis.
Feb 11, 2025
The Stand - complete edition, by Stephen King
(from internet transcript)
excerpts, Chapter 3
“But it ain’t cholera. And don’t you go scarin people sayin it is. There’ll be an autopsy and you can read about it in the paper.”
Miserable little pissant, Norm thought, slowly dressing himself in yesterday’s clothes. His headache was turning into a real blinder. Those kids had better be quiet or they were going to have a pair of broken arms to mouth off about. Why the hell couldn’t they have school the whole year round?
He considered tucking his shirt into his pants, decided the President probably wouldn’t be stopping by that day, and shuffled out into the kitchen in his sock feet. The bright sunlight coming in the east windows made him squint.
The cracked Philco radio over the stove sang:
But bay-yay-yaby you can tell me if anyone can,
Baby, can you dig your man?
He’s a righteous man,
Tell me baby, can you dig your man?
Things had come to a pretty pass when they had to play nigger rock and roll music like that on the local country music station. Norm turned it off before it could split his head. There was a note by the radio and he picked it up, narrowing his eyes to read it.
Dear Norm,
Sally Hodges says she needs somebody to sit her kids this morning and says shell give me a dolar. Ill be back for luntch. Theres sassage if you want it. I love you honey.
Lila.
Norm put the note back and just stood there for a moment, thinking it over and trying to get the sense of it in his mind. It was goddam hard to think past the headache. Babysitting… a dollar. For Ralph Hodges’s wife.
The three elements slowly came together in his mind. Lila had gone off to sit Sally Hodges’s three kids to earn a lousy dollar and had stuck him with Luke and Bobby. By God it was hard times when a man had to sit home and wipe his kids’ noses so his wife could go and scratch out a lousy buck that wouldn’t even buy them a gallon of gas. That was hard fucking times.
Dull anger came to him, making his head ache even worse. He shuffled slowly to the Frigidaire, bought when he had been making good overtime, and opened it. Most of the shelves were empty, except for leftovers Lila had put up in refrigerator dishes. He hated those little plastic Tupperware dishes. Old beans, old corn, a leftover dab of chili… nothing a man liked to eat. Nothing in there but little Tupperware dishes and three little old sausages done up in Handi-Wrap. He bent, looking at them, the familiar helpless anger now compounded by the dull throb in his head. Those sausages looked like somebody had cut the cocks off’n three of those pygmies they had down in Africa or South America or wherever the fuck it was they had them. He didn’t feel like eating anyway. He felt damn sick, when you got right down to it.
He went over to the stove, scratched a match on the piece of sandpaper nailed to the wall beside it, lit the front gas ring, and put on the coffee. Then he sat down and waited dully for it to boil. Just before it did, he had to scramble his snotrag out of his back pocket to catch a big wet sneeze. Coming down with a cold, he thought. Isn’t that something nice on top of everything else? But it never occurred to him to think of the phlegm that had been running out of that fellow Campion’s pump the night before.
IMDb
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Quotes
Ulysses Everett McGill: The treasure is still there boys, believe me.
Delmar O'Donnell: But how'd he know about the treasure?
Ulysses Everett McGill: I don't know Delmar. The blind are reputed to possess sensitivities compensating for their lack of sight, even to the point of developing paranormal psychic powers. Now, clearly seeing into the future would fall into neatly into that category; its not so surprising then that an organism deprived of its earthly vision...
Pete: He said we wouldn't get get it. He said we wouldn't get the treasure we seek on account of our ob-stac-les.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Well what the hell does he know, he's just an ignorant old man?
The Stand - complete edition, by Stephen King
(from internet transcript)
excerpts, Chapter 17
Starkey was standing in front of monitor 2, keeping a close eye on Tech 2nd Class Frank D. Bruce. When we last saw Bruce, he was facedown in a bowl of Chunky Sirloin Soup. No change except for the positive ID. Situation normal, all fucked up.
Thoughtfully, hands locked behind his back like a general reviewing troops, like General Black Jack Pershing, his boyhood idol, Starkey moved down to monitor 4, where the situation had changed for the better. Dr. Emmanual Ezwick still lay dead on the floor, but the centrifuge had stopped. At 1940 hours last night, the centrifuge had begun to emit fine tendrils of smoke. At 1995 hours the sound pickups in Ezwick’s lab had transmitted a whunga-whunga-whunga sort of sound that deepened into a fuller, richer, and more satisfying ronk! ronk! ronk! At 2107 hours the centrifuge had ronked its last ronk and had slowly come to rest. Was it Newton who had said that somewhere, beyond the farthest star, there may be a body perfectly at rest? Newton had been right about everything but the distance, Starkey thought. You didn’t have to go far at all. Project Blue was perfectly at rest. Starkey was very glad. The centrifuge had been the last illusion of life, and the problem he’d had Steffens run through the main computer bank (Steffens had looked at him as though he were crazy, and yes, Starkey thought he might be) was: How long could that centrifuge be expected to run? The answer, which had come back in 6.6 seconds, was: ± 3 YEARS PROBABLE MALFUNCTION NEXT TWO WEEKS .009% AREAS OF PROBABLE MALFUNCTION BEARINGS 38% MAIN MOTOR 16% ALL OTHER 54%. That was a smart computer.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 03:07 AM Pacific-timezone USA Thursday 06/18/2025
