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From: Alfred Lehmberg <Lehmberg@snowhill.com> Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 04:56:46 -0500 Fwd Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 08:25:27 -0400 Subject: Alfred's Odd Ode #247 Apology to MW #247 (For May 13, 1998) 12 billion years ago, however it is measured, a galaxy exploded -- flared out like a match head! It's explosion was titanic, and we barely see a remnant of the violence expended before our sun was just an infant! . . . Ten million super novas, and pack them tightly in a can. Light them off, then, all at once (!), . . .we can't begin to understand! This was no mere explosion; it's not classed with detonation! This was a vast dissilience, disunion --disintegration! It was a stellar deconstruction, a cosmic cloud of desolation! Shredding space and time apart it burned an awful conflagration! It was a boom beyond mere strident sound, it transcended idle loudness. It redefined a devastation in a storm at its profoundest. It's a carnage; it's a shambles; it's a scene of revolution; it hurts to hold it in my head, this stellar ebullition!! More! Take the Drake equation using numbers too conservative, and you wonder for the folks therein, and how _they_ took the purgative. Did some hold on to fellows while the burst consumed their stars? Some would burrow in -- to ride it out if not too hard? Some would cut, and run away in ships of space they built . . . where are they now . . . twelve billion years (<_-*-_>) . . . what fates were then fulfilled? Did some of them, then, come _this_ way with the physics that they found? Are these the ones that vex us with their manner, most profound? Are these the ships that fill our skies in enigmatic ways! Are these the folk abandoned all their homes that awful day? Did they flee like clouds of locusts from a forest fire burn? Did they kill themselves escaping? What was new they had to learn? Did they suffer cataclysm with a stoic silent prayer? Did they fall on bloody swords? Did they give up to despair? Could a galaxy be empty -- devoid of any life? A deadness in eternity, nothing subject to its strife. Whatever is the answer, I still feel the need to mourn. It's death writ huge . . . mortality . . . it's God himself suborned. Lehmberg@snowhill.com Yeah -- I know it's likely a natural process, but that doesn't count for much when you're throwing canned food in the trunk of your car, and heading for the disintegrating hills. It's hard enough to run from a hurricane, or an asteroid, but how does one run from an overnight explosion of everything that was, is, and could be. Vernichtung, the death of all hope! Megadeath. Restore John Ford! -- Explore the Alien View? http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/arecibo/46/ "I cleave the heavens, and soar to the infinite. What others see from afar, I leave far behind me." - Giordano Bruno, while burning at the fundamentalist's stake.
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