Peyote Vacation

[Otto]

The Crab-nebula (M1) in x-ray, optical, infrared and radio:
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/0052/index.html

M87
http://www.seds.org/messier/m/m087.html
http://www.seds.org/messier/more/m087_m1.html#m87noao2
http://www.seds.org/messier/browser/brm087.html


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Richard Romeo <richardromeo at hotmail.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 4:36 PM
Subject: Peyote Vacation


> read on, fellows and non-fellows:
> http://www.thing.net/eyebeam/msg00410.html
> 
> The Fissiaultian Paradigm - Yves & Mia in Exile
> 
> 
> Thus, in a scene when a space alien, for example, would be shot by a
> beam from a cosmic ray-gun, she would interject information on the
> physics of cosmic rays as in the movie, "It Came from the Ring Nebula"
> (1959)......
>             "No please, don't shoot that gentle creature from parallel
> universe CL49. It's like any being on any
> planet.....anywhere.....anywhen....that's trying to make whatever sense
> it can out of all the complexities that keep sprouting up all over the
> universe, including the fundamental abstract questions that obviously
> lurk behind the surface like, "Who are you and why are we here?"  Don't
> you dare fire that concentrated ray of photons from your wretched
> ray-gun with its monstrous force of the concentrated energy of the M87
> galaxy whose central "blue jet" is 2,500 light years long, bursting with
> the most powerful cosmic rays known whose light arrives 35% polarized in
> a unique bluish continuum, something like that of the Crab Nebula
> blasted forth by the supernova of AD 1054."
> 
> Her line was actually supposed to be, "No, please don't shoot."
>