On Tue, 17 May 2011 12:04:56 -0700 (PDT)
Jesse Hochstadt<jesseh58@yahoo.com> wrote:
I never thought of a Hypno-coin. The MM back cover was always suggestive to me
of a time-lapse photograph of stars swirling around a fixed star in the center.
Can't you get that with the North Star, astronomer Joe Hartley?
If you point a camera at the celestial north pole (just -> <- this
far away from the north star) and open the camera for a very long exposure,
you indeed get star trails:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap961201.html
The back cover also resembles some spiral galaxies, like M81 in the Big Dipper:
http://geology.com/nasa/nasa-universe-pictures.shtml
But it also resembles rifling in a gun barrel, like you see at the start
of James Bond movies:
http://physics.info/rotational-kinematics/rifle-bond.jpg
I also see how it could be a moon reflected in a puddle:
http://www.123rf.com/photo_5384676_water-puddles-on-a-dark-night.html
I'm not necessarily inclined to take anything Tom says in an interview
as hard truth. I can see him saying stuff that just pops into his head
to make things more interesting.
I wonder if we can track down Billy Lobo, who did the back cover, and get
his take on this.