PRODUCTIONS PROUDLY PRESENTS : THE LEVYSHOEMAKER9 INTRO-94 AS YOU ALL PROBABLY HAVE NOTICED, JUPITER WAS SHORT TIME AGO HIT BY FRAGMENTS OF THE LEVY-SHOEMAKER-9 -COMET SINCE ALMOST ALL MEMBERS OF ORBITAL ARE QUITE INTERESTED IN POPULAR-SCIENCE WE THOUGTH IT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA TO WRITE AN INFORMATION-INTRO TO ENLIGHTEN THE WORLD OF THIS HAPPENING. BUT, BEFORE THE INFORMATION, SOME CREDITS, AND INFO ABOUT ORBITAL... INTRO CODING,IDEA, DESIGN(?) BY: NEUROMANCER ADDITIONAL CODING BY: DIG-IT AND ORGIN MUSIC BY: NEUROMANCER THE TUNE YOU ARE LISTENING TO IS THE LONGEST PIECE OF DATA IN THIS INTRO, WHICH EXPLAINS ITS LENGTH... ALL SAMPLES WERE TAKEN FROM : KAWAI K4 YAMAHA DX7II ENSONIQ EPS16+ THE VOICE-SOUNDS WERE PROCESSED USING THE ENSONIQ EPS. NOW, SOME INFO ABOUT THE COMETCRASH. MOST OF THIS INFORMATION IS TAKEN FROM A NEWS BULLETIN BY THE SWEDISH SPACE SOCIETY AND IS FREELY REWRITTEN BY ME (NEUROMANCER) -------------------------------------- A RESEARCH TEAM AT JPL HAS CREATED A COMPUTERMODEL OF THE CRASH, AND THE CALCULATIONS SUGGEST THAT AFTER COMET-FRAGMENTS BETWEEN 0.4-10Km PIERCE THE DENSE JUPITER-ATMOSPHERE IT WILL HEAT THE COMPRESSED HYDROGEN- CLOUDS TO TEMPERATURES ALMOST LIKE THE SURFACE OF THE SUN THE PLUMES CREATED (LIKE H-BOMB-ONES) WILL BE (AND HAS BEEN) SEEN FROM EARTH. SCIENTISTS BELIEVE THAT THE CLOUDS FROM THE EXPLOSIONS WILL RAISE THE BRIGHTNES OF JUPITER BY A FACTOR TWO. THE FLASHES OF THE IMPACTS WILL ALSO PROVIDE THE SPECTRAL ANALYZERS SOME GOOD OPPORTUNITIES TO EXAMINE THE CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS OF JUPITERS ATMOSPHERE. THE FIRST FRAGMENTS OF THE COMET STRUCK JUPITER ON THE 16th OF JULY AND THE LAST ONE SMASHED IN ON THE 22nd OF JULY... -------------------------------------- WELL THAT WAS SOME INFO FOR THE ASTRONOMY-INTERESTED PEOPLE OUT THERE. PICTURES SHOULD BE (I HAVENT CHECKED) AVAILABLE AT ALOT OF FTP-SITES I THINK. FINALLY, BEFORE THE BULLSHITTALK, RUMORS AND STUFF, I WOULD ONLY LIKE TO SAY THAT IT IS TRULY SAD, THAT AN EVENT LIKE THIS GETS LESS ATTENTION THAN A BLOODY W.C. IN FOOTBALL..... NOW FOR SOME INTERESTING BULLSHIT . . . SOME FACTS ABOUT ORBITAL: WE ARE NOT DEAD. ITS A PITY WE HAVE TO MENTION THIS EVERYTIME WE RELEASE A PRODUCT (EVENTUALLY...) ...BUT LAZY IS OUR GAME.... IT HAS ALSO REACHED OUR EARS, THAT THERE MIGHT BE ANOTHER -ORBITAL- GROUP AROUND IN SWEDEN... AND WE ONLY HAVE ONE THING TO SAY TO THEM: SORRY, BUT WE WERE FIRST! (EXCEPT FOR THE UK ORBITAL TECHNO-GROUP) --------------------------------------- SOME MEANINGLESS FACTS BOUT THIS INTRO: THE OBJECT WAS DRAWN BY DIG-IT, USING HIS PENCIL AND RULER.. (NOT THE WHITE PENCIL, BUT THE YELLOW LESS EXPENSIVE ONE...) YOU SHOULD ALSO KNOW THAT IT WAS A LIVING HELL TO FIND ALL THE BUGS IN THE FOUR-YEAR OLD VECTOR-SOURCES . . . ... AND THE SAME GOES FOR THE FOUR HOUR OLD TEXT-ROUTINE. . . . WE ALSO HAVE A CHARITY-DIVISION CALLED -REDDA JOPPE-, SO PLEASE HELP US BY SENDING US MONEY AND/OR BOOZE AND/NOT 4000/040:s AND/XOR YOUR 18-20 YEAR OLD SISTERS... ... ... BEFORE ENTERING THE TIME WARP TO RESTART TEXT (IT WONT HURT), WE WONT GIVE YOU OUR MEMBERLIST SINCE.. EH.. PATRIK, VILKA MEDLEMMAR HAR VI??????... EH, VI RINGER RUNT OCH KOLLAR IMORRN... IF YOU STILL WANT TO CONTACT US TRY CALLING DIG-IT: 0660-49279 OR SOMETHING... - NOT/AND/XOR - NEUROMANCER: 0660-14390 OR SOMETHING... ASK FOR -DATAKILLEN- IN BOTH CASES.. HEJSNA TILL PHANTOM, (GOOD GFX!!!!!) AND HEJSNA TO .. EH SKITSAMMA... VICKEN JEVEL LESER SAHER LONGT... TIME TO W A R P !!!