power source output, zero-zero-niner. multi-stage axial compressor latched. fuel pressure, 1800 torrs. oxygenation. inertial control positive. t minus seven zero and resume counting. point of no return. five, four, three, two. approaching thirty seconds downrange three zero. course steady. speed three one seven nautical-four hundred. buckaroo, do you read? he said, "this bud's for you, professor." what does that mean? banzai! buckaroo! did you seem them? did you? the creatures? they attacked you? they tried to possess you? not for sale. almost ready, dr. lizardo. almost. not so fast. buckaroo, i've done an advanced spectrograph analysis on the specimen you pulled off the jet car drive shaft. i ran it through the centrifuge, but i came up blank. it's definitely dead now, although it still conducts electricity even better than copper does. yes, perfect tommy, in a way. however. . notice. although certain components resist identification, it corresponds very closely to an ordinary praying mantis. rawhide tells me dr. lizardo escaped. one and the same. we at the banzai institute have at last found that way: an alternating gradient synchronizer that softens solid matter by attenuating its electroweak forces! in 1942, a u.s. navy frigate, number 7541, disappeared on a clear day in the north atlantic. long thought to have been torpedoed, these pictures of 7541 were taken yesterday in the eighth dimension. next transparency, please. let me ask you to imagine the oscillation overthruster as a sophisticated rifle accelerator firing a steady stream of protons at a target-in this case a mountain-and the jet car as a giant super- conducting magnet. buckaroo! what the sam hill! what? you can see them? it's your hand, buckaroo. antidote to what? whose disguises? planet 10? buckaroo, the formula-- take it, young lady! grab it! she has the overthruster! programmable! electric brainwashing. ten minutes more. buckaroo's orders. emilio!