"MK Ultra wrote page one in the sacred book of Dallas/Denton cosmic rock." -The Dallas Observer
Influences
The Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, Spacemen 3, Syd Barrett, Jane's Addiction, The Butthole Surfers, Sonic Youth, Spiritualized, 13th Floor Elevators, Spectrum, My Bloody Valentine, Gong, Ween, Led Zeppelin, Hawkwind, Polvo, Tortoise,David Bowie, Pink Floyd in the colosseum at Pompeii.
Gamma-ray bursts are short-lived bursts of gamma-ray photons, the most energetic form of light. At least some of them are associated with a special type of supernovae, the explosions marking the deaths of especially massive stars.
Lasting anywhere from a few milliseconds to several minutes, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) shine hundreds of times brighter than a typical supernova and about a million trillion times as bright as the Sun, making them briefly the brightest source of cosmic gamma-ray photons in the observable Universe. GRBs are detected roughly once per day from wholly random directions of the sky.
As recently as the early 1990s, astronomers didn't even know if GRBs originated at the edge of our solar system, in our Milky Way Galaxy or incredibly far away near the edge of the observable Universe. (That is, they didn't know how far away GRBs were to within a factor of a few billion light years!) But now a slew of satellite observations, follow-up ground-based observations, and theoretical work have allowed astronomers to link GRBs to supernovae in distant galaxies.
