From 3/27/1948 ( premiere USA film "Fort Apache" ) To 12/6/2006 ( premiere USA TV series episode "National Geographic Explorer"::"Attack of the Killer Bees" ) is 21438 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/13/2024 ( ) is 21438 days
From 11/21/1964 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Outer Limits"::"The Inheritors - Part 1" ) To 8/2/2023 ( ) is 21438 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/13/2024 ( ) is 21438 days
11:43 PM August 2, 2023 Kerry Wayne Burgess @hvom2022
by me, Kerry Burgess, 08/02/2023
Lots of officer's kicked back in the Admiral and General officer's club right now and having a long, big laugh at you parrots
Rainbow Six (1998) - by Tom Clancy, author
excerpt, Chapter 33
Colonel Wilson Gearing was in his hotel room only a few floors above the Rainbow troops. His large bags were in the closet, and his clothing hung. The maids and other staff who serviced his room hadn't touched anything, merely checked the closet and proceeded to make up the beds and scrub the bathroom. They hadn't checked inside the bags-Gearing had telltales on them to make sure of that-inside one of which was a plastic canister with "Chlorine" painted on it. It was outwardly identical with the one on the fogging system at the Olympic stadium it had, in fact, been purchased from the same company that had installed the fogging system, cleaned out and refilled with the nano-capsules. He also had the tools he needed to swap one out, and had practiced the skill in Kansas, where an identical installation was to be found. He could close his eyes and see himself doing it, time and again, to keep the downtime for the fogging system to a minimum. He thought about the contents of the container. Never had so much potential death been so tightly contained. Far more so than in a nuclear device, because unlike one of those, the danger here could replicate it, many times instead of merely detonating once. The way the fogging system worked, it would take about thirty minutes for the nanocapsules to get into the entire fogging system. Both computer models and actual mechanical tests proved that the capsules would get everywhere the pipes, and spray out the fogging nozzles, invisible in the gentle, cooling mist. People walking through the tunnels leading to the stadium proper and in the concourse would breathe it in, an average of two hundred or so nano-capsules in four minutes of breathing, and that was well above the calculated mean lethal dose. The capsules would enter through the lungs, be transported into the blood, and there the capsules would dissolve, releasing the Shiva. The engineered virus strands would travel in the bloodstream of the spectators and the athletes, soon find the liver and kidneys, the organs for which they had the greatest affinity, and begin the slow process of multiplication. All this had been established at Binghamton Lab on the 'normal' test subjects. Then it was just a matter of weeks until the Shiva had multiplied enough to do its work. Along the way, people would pass on the Shiva through kisses and sexual contact, through coughs and sneezes. This, to had been proven at the Binghamton Lab. Starting in about four weeks, people would think themselves mildly ill. Some would see their personal physicians, and be diagnosed as flu victims, told to take aspirin, drink fluids, and rest in front of the TV. They would do this, and feel better-because seeing a doctor usually did that to people-for a day or so. But they would not be getting better. Sooner or later, they'd develop the internal bleeds that Shiva ultimately caused, and then, about five weeks after the initial release of the nano-capsules, some doctor would run an antibody test and be aghast to learn that something like the famous and feared Ebola fever was back. A good epidemiology program might identify the Sydney Olympics as the focal center, but tens of thousands people would have come and gone. This was a perfect avenue for distributing Shiva, something the Project's senior members had determined years before-even before the attempted plague launched by Iran against America, which had predictably failed because the virus hadn't been the right one, and the method of delivery too haphazard. No, this plan was perfection itself. Every nation on earth sent athletes and judges to the Olympic games, and all of them would walk through the cooling fog in this hot stadium, lingering there to shed excess body heat, breathe deeply, and relax in this cool place. Then they'd all return to their homes, from America to Argentina, from Russia to Rwanda, there to spread the Shiva and start the initial panic.
by me, Kerry Burgess: 9/18/2006 4:35 PM
Aha. Maybe this is why I mentioned something about France's Maginot Line that day to someone at work
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maginot_Line
Maginot Line
From Wikipedia
The Maginot Line is a line of concrete fortifications, obstacles and weapon installations built by France in the 1930s.
Named after the French Minister of War André Maginot, it was constructed on the French side of its borders with Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Luxembourg and Belgium. The line was to deter invasion by Nazi Germany and force them to move around the fortifications through Belgium. It was impervious to most forms of attack, but in 1940 the Germans invaded through the Belgian Ardennes, immediately to the north, just beyond the end of the main line of fortifications.
Based on France's experience with trench warfare during World War I, the massive Maginot Line was built before the Second World War, after the Locarno Conference in 1925 gave rise to a fanciful and optimistic "Locarno spirit". French military experts believed the line would deter German aggression because it would slow an invasion force long enough for French forces to mobilise and counter-attack.
The psychological factor of the Maginot Line has also been discussed. Its construction created a false sense of security, which was widely believed in by the French population. Kaufmann and Kaufmann comment that it was an unintended consequence of André Maginot's efforts to "focus the public's attention on the work being done, emphasising the role and nature of the line". That resulted in "the media exaggerating their descriptions by turning the line into an impregnable fortified position that would seal the frontier". The false sense of security contributed "to the development of the "Maginot mentality".
From 7/5/1937 ( debut of Hormel's Spam product ) To 3/15/1996 ( premiere USA film "Executive Decision" ) is 21438 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/13/2024 ( ) is 21438 days
Executive Decision (1996)
Senator, I--
Shut up!
Do you want to get us killed?
I think we're being presented with
an incredible opportunity here.
For what?
We always wanted to have
a war record for you.
Some edge with the media
that would put you over the top.
Remember the mileage
Jesse Jackson got. . .
From 11/10/1967 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Metamorphosis" ) To 7/13/2024 ( ) is 20700 days
20700 = 10350 + 10350
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/5/1994 ( premiere USA TV series "Weird Science"::series premiere "She's Alive" ) is 10350 days
Star Trek - "Metamorphosis" - tv-series Season 2 Episode 9, 11/10/1967
Episode Summary
When their shuttle is diverted to a planetoid, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy encounter Earth's Warp Drive pioneer, Zefram Cochrane, who appears to have survived there alone for 150 years.
(from internet transcript)
KIRK: How do you fight a thing like that? I've got a ship up there somewhere, responsibility for four lives here, one of them dying because of me.
MCCOY: It isn't your fault.
KIRK: I'm in command, Bones. It makes it my fault. How do you fight a thing like that?
MCCOY: Maybe you're a soldier so often that you forget you're also trained to be a diplomat. Why not try a carrot instead of a stick?
KIRK: Spock.
SPOCK: Yes, Captain?
KIRK: The universal translator on the shuttlecraft. We can try that, talk to that thing.
SPOCK: The translator is for use with more congruent life forms.
KIRK: Adjust it, change it. The trouble with immortality is it's boring. Adjusting the translator will give you something to do.
SPOCK: It is possible. If I could widen its pattern of reception
From 9/16/1963 ( premiere USA TV series "The Outer Limits"::series premiere "The Galaxy Being" ) To 5/27/2022 ( premiere Disney streaming-video serial "Obi Wan Kenobi" ) is 21438 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/13/2024 ( ) is 21438 days
IMDb
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Part I
Quotes
Nari: I thought I saw you in town, but I wasn't sure. I didn't think you'd survived.
Obi-Wan Kenobi: You're making some kind of mistake.
Nari: I'm sorry, my name is Nari.
[taking out a lightsaber]
Nari: Um, there's no mistake.
Obi-Wan Kenobi: You're looking for somebody else.
Nari: What are you doing here, Obi-Wan?
Obi-Wan Kenobi: My name is Ben.
Nari: Come on, please. Please. You have no idea what I've been through.
Obi-Wan Kenobi: You must leave. You'll draw too much attention.
Nari: But I have nowhere to go. They're hunting me. You have to help me.
Obi-Wan Kenobi: You want my help?
[indicating Nari's lightsaber]
Obi-Wan Kenobi: Take this. Walk into the middle of the desert and bury it in the ground. Stay hidden. Live a normal life.
Nari: What about the people that need us? What about the fight?
Obi-Wan Kenobi: The fight is done. We lost.
Nari: What happened to you? You were once a great Jedi.
Obi-Wan Kenobi: The time of the Jedi is over. Go back to the town. Let it go.
From 7/1/1991 ( premiere USA film "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" ) To 7/13/2024 ( ) is 12066 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/15/1998 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Simpsons"::"D'oh-in' in the Wind" ) is 12066 days
IMDb
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Quotes
The Terminator: He'll live.
IMDb
The Simpsons
D'oh-in' in the Wind
Quotes
Bart Simpson: Hey, what the heck is your middle name, anyway?
Homer Simpson: You know, I have no idea! Hey, Dad, what does the "J" stand for?
Grampa Simpson: How should I know? It was your mother's job to name you, and love you and such. I was mainly in it for the spanking.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 1:28 PM Pacific-timezone USA Sunday 11/08/2026
