"Eureka!"

Well, it's probably not polite to talk about another SciFi TV series, on another network, here on my Fox TV show blog, but after seeing the first episode of the third season of "Eureka" last night, I've decided that I really want to live in a town like that. I need to live in a town like that! Seriously, what could be more fun than to live in a community where everyone has a purpose? A scientific purpose. Where the entire town supports a top secret vanguard technical industry where geniuses live and work -- a town where logic rules, and nutty, fringe-y, science-y things happen all...the...time! Sigh. Ayn Rand described it best in her essay "Apollo 11" in 1969, after attending the launch as a guest of NASA:

"Our room was the home of an engineer employed at the Space Center...one might have said a typical small-town family, except for one thing: a quality of cheerful openness, directness, almost innocence -- the benevolent, unselfconsciously self-confident quality of those who live in the clean, strict, reality-oriented atmosphere of science."

It doesn't get any better than that. So if you think that you would like to live in that kind of town (with a kooky twist), check out "Eureka" on the SciFi Channel on Tuesday nights if you haven't already discovered it.

http://www.scifi.com/eureka/
http://www.spacecast.com/eureka/

"Bad Vibrations"

"For two years now, the Ehrfurths have been enduring an annoying, persistent noise in their home — a low, motor-like rumble accompanied by a vibration. They can't figure out what's causing it, and it's been a challenge getting others to believe them because the problem starts and stops. "Imagine putting your pillow on the hood of a running car — you can't sleep through that,' Leona Ehrfurth said. 'You get this pressure in your ear. Sometimes I have to get out of the house, because I can't take it anymore.'"

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080723/GPG0101/807230687/1207/GPG01

This is similar to the X-Files episode (S6-E2) where the government was performing an ELF communications system application near a housing area in Nevada. The low-level noise was causing the inner ears of humans and animals to explode. Annoying ELF noise has been reported for decades in various areas of the United States, including Taos, NM.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_low_frequency

"Outre' Science"

Be sure to keep an eye on the updates at: http://fringetv.blogspot.com/.

Wiki: Fringe science is scientific inquiry in an established field of study, which departs significantly from mainstream or orthodox theories but which can be classified in the "fringes" of a credible mainstream academic discipline...many fringe science ideas are advanced by individuals either from outside the field of science, or by scientists outside the mainstream of their own disciplines. Another use of the term is in describing fields of knowledge which are not, for lack of evidence or confirmability, recognized as bona fide sciences.

"Ptolemy created a universe that lasted a thousand years. Copernicus created a universe that lasted four hundred years. Einstein has created a universe, and I can't tell you how long it will last." -- George Bernard Shaw