S.1. Ep. 11 "And When the Sky Was Opened"

Rod Taylor plays Colonel Clegg Forbes and Jim Hutton plays Major William Gart, two men who were the first to fly into space on on the X-20 DynaSoar. During their test flight, they were lost off radar and crashed landed into a desert. Col. Forbes comes to the hospital after he was discharged earlier that morning to visit Major Gart. Nervous and shakey, Forbes asks Gart if he remembers Colonel Ed Harrington, played by Charles Aidman. Forbes shows Gart the newspaper and only the two of them on the front page.

Forbes begins to have flashbacks of the morning. Harrington and Forbes visit Gart in the hospital. Harrington picks up the newspaper and the three of them are on the cover. The two healthy men go out for a drink. Harrington drops his glass of beer and tells Forbes that he has a feeling that he doesn't belong. That none of them should have lived through the crash. Harrington goes to call his folks but they say they don't have a son. He calls Forbes over and tells him the shocking news. Harrington looks into the booth and Harrington is gone!

Forbes tries to prove and re-prove Harrington's existence but its no use. The scene returns to the hospital where Forbes tries make Gart remember Harrington. Suddenly, Forbes repeats what Harrington says at the bar. None of them should have made it through the crash. Forbes freaks out and runs from the run. Gart gets up to chase after him but there's no one there. He picks up the newspaper and on the cover is only himself!

Gart goes back into his bed and a nurse closes the door. The doctor asks the nurse if there's an available room. She replies yes and leads him to the room where Gart and the men stayed. She opens the door to reveal an empty room.

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I may not be a doctor but I am an experienced military brat. My dad served in the army for over two decades. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is serious business. For example, we can't watch firework shows because it reminds my dad of bombs exploding in Iraq. When the neighbors set them off, he hides in the basement.

PTSD can bring on flashbacks, vomiting, dizziness, hallucinations and nightmares. Soldiers sees some ridiculous and horrible things no human should ever possess the power to perform nor have to witness.

An article on MSNBC from late 2010 gave readers a look into the pain of a PTSD sufferer. Staff Sgt. Andrew Pogany was tried by the United States Army for "cowardly conduct as a result of fear" after only being in Iraq for a couple of days. He fought the case and retired with medical benefits.

Pogany saw a shredded body of an Iraqi soldier and began to vomit and hallucinate. The Army sent him back home for medical review and then tried to prosecute him for being a coward.

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I'm assuming he saw something twice as bad as this.

Poor dude.

If you have the guts to go to Iraq even for a day, you are NOTHING of a coward.

S.1. Ep. 10 "Judgement Night"

Nehemiah Persoff plays nervous Mr. Carl Lanser. He can't remember where he's from, how he got on the boat and why he can't shake the feeling the boat is going to sink. He talks to the captain and other people aboard the ship about his strange feelings. Inside his room, a fellow shipmate finds German naval officers cap. When Lanser flips the hat over, there is his name inside. The longer he stays on the ship, the more memories come back to him. He sits at the bar to have a drink and 1:15 a.m. sticks in his head. Suddenly, the engines stop. Lanser freaks out and begins to ramble about the U-boat coming. He runs about the ship screaming for everyone to leave. A group of people stand at the end of the hall and Lanser yells at them. Next thing he knows, they're all gone. The German U-boat begins to attack the S.S. Queen boat. A view of the German captain is shown and there is Lanser as the captain.

After the ship sinks, Lanser is at his desk. Another soldier walks in and asks Lanser if they are damned in the eyes of God because there were people on the S.S. Queen. They gave them no warning of attack. The soldier makes the comment that perhaps there's a special hell for them. A hell where they have to relive death a thousand times. As soon as the soldier finishes speaking, Mr. Lanser is back on the S.S. Queen except this time he knows how he got there.

Nazis deserve a special hell. Thank god for Call of Duty: World at War because it allows players to shoot zombie Nazis.

Or bullets to the head, like Neo-Nazi leader David Lynch. The Examiner published an article stating the nation's most notorious Neo-Nazi leader was found dead inside his California home on Wed. March, 2 but a press release wasn't made public until today in case of skinhead group repercussions.

Thing about racist groups like Neo-Nazis is that they're just like drug dealers. Top dog goes down, there's always someone waiting in the wings for the exact moment to take over.

Step Brothers Sleepwalking Scene (HD)

RBM is a disorder where you act out while you're asleep.

This is the best modern cinematic example of RBM.

S.1. Ep. 9 "Perchance to Sleep"

Richard Conte plays Edward Hall, a man afraid to sleep because he may never wake up. Hall walks into psychiatrist, Dr. Rathmman's office, played by John Larch. He lies down a second and jumps back up. Hall explains he has a paranoid, overactive imagination. He tells the doctor he dreams in sequences, in chapters. Then he tells the doctor he has a serious heart condition. A week prior to his visit, he began to have chapter dreams of a nightmarish circus carnival. There he meets a girl named Maya, played by Suzanne Lloyd. She begins to follow him and leads him into a fun house. He wakes up and his heart is pounding ridiculously. Hall believes Maya is trying to kill him. The following night the dream continues and Maya puts him on a roller coaster. He freaks out and Maya tells him to jump, jump, JUMP! Hall walks toward the door of the office when he sees the receptionist, its Maya! He jumps back into Dr. Rathmman's office and jumps through the window.

Maya's real name is Miss Thomas. Dr. Rathmman calls Miss Thomas into the office, feels Hall's pulse and declares him dead. Turns out when Edward Hall walked into Dr. Rathmman's office and sat down, he never woke up. The whole episode was a dream.

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Dreams are a strange thing. The mind in an unconscious state revealing twisted back thoughts from our subconscious. Thankfully we don't die in our dreams.

I've woke up dead from dreams more times than I have fingers or toes. I've been murdered, raped, drowned, thrown from a cliff, hanged, stabbed, died in a hurricane and died in a car crash.

I've also witnessed my mother be decapitated by a truck tire running her over. The icing on the cake, it was during a rain storm.

That was traumatically gut-wrenching.

New York Times' reporter, Robin Finn, interviewed REM behavior disorder (RBM) sufferer and comedian, Mike Birbiglia. REM is rapid-eye-movement. Mike sleepwalks and does other actions in his sleep, for example, he jumped out of a closed second story window while asleep. Now, Mike sleeps in a sleeping bag when he goes to bed in order to contain his actions.

I recommend reading Mike's interview. He makes the best of his disorder and uses it for comedic purposes.

S.1. Ep. 8 "Time Enough At Last"

Burgess Meredith plays the well known Twilight Zone character, simple, lackadaisical, Mr. Henry Bemis.

Mr. Bemis is a bank teller who only wants to read. His boss won't let him read. When he gets home, his wife tears up, throws out, hides or strikes through any piece of literature. Even nutrition facts on cereal boxes are cut out. One day at work, Bemis walks downstairs on his lunch break. He enters the vault with his brown-bagged lunch, book and morning newspaper. The headline on the paper:

Suddenly, his book whips open and his pocket watch cracks. Bemis creeps up the steps from the vault into the post-apocalyptic setting. Everything is destroyed. He gets desperate and fears that he can't do this loneliness. He finds a gun and contemplates his suicide. He puts the gun to his head when he sees he has been sitting across from the imploded library! After he sorts all the books by month and year. He sits down with his first novel. He notices he missed a book. He goes to pick up the delicious pages when his thick glasses fall from his face and crack.

Poor, terrible, ironic fate for Mr. Henry Bemis.

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I believe this episode represents the shift from paper to soft-copy we are currently experiencing. Kindles, Nooks, e-Books, Readers. Newspaper are becoming null-and-void. I don't need to post a link to explain the phenomenon. Reading is becoming more popular, I believe, in shorter, more brief segments. Hence the popularity of blogs, online newspapers and e-books. Even more essays are becoming electronic rather than printed copy. Handbooks aren't given out, the links to the handbooks are dispersed instead.

Since we are an audience exercised on proving statements with facts and sources, here. Click this. That is the link to an article on Engadget, a technology website, to support the rapid sales of e-books on Amazon.

Buy newspapers! Support local journalists and those aspiring to journalists!

(We need paying jobs!)

S.1. Ep. 7 "The Lonely"

Jack Warden and Jean Marsh play a new kind of couple. Warden plays James A. Corry, a man sentenced to 50 years in solitary confinement on the planet Ceres for homicide. Four times a year Allenby, played by John Dehner, comes to bring Corry things from Earth for him to survive on Ceres.

This particular visit, Allenby bring Corry a large crate. Corry watches his fellow humans abandon him and goes over to open the crate. Inside is a robot built as a woman. It has emotions and memories. It can reason, think and speak. In its entirety, its programmed to believe it is a human female named Alicia. At first, Corry is in denial of Alicia. He tries to belittle her and ignore her existence. Then she begins to cry. Corry realizes that she can feel. Corry analyzes his relationship because he doesn't know what he has with Alicia but he knows he's not lonely anymore.

One night, Alicia and Corry are star gazing when Alicia sees a moving star. Corry acknowledges that this star isn't a star, but its' Allenbys' ship! The following morning Allenby and his crew land on Ceres and tell Corry that he has been granted a pardon. They have to leave Ceres in 20 minutes and Corry can only take 15 lbs. of stuff. This is when he realizes that he can't take Alicia.

In denial, Corry tries to convince Allenby he isn't a robot but a real woman. Allenby does the only thing he can do to show Corry the truth. He shoots Alicias' face off to reveal all her wiring, nuts and bolts.

Corry accepts the situation and boards the spacecraft back to Earth.

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ROBOTS!

Yes, robots. As we build robots, we slowly become robots to the robots. Talk about full circle irony. We've watched Will Smith battle them in I-Robot and we've noticed the Japanese perfect them. They don't call them robots though, they call them androids like Aiko: The Female Android. For more information about Aiko, please visit http://www.projectaiko.com/.

Since 2008 when Aiko was built and put to the test, human-looking androids are going to the back burner and actual Transformer-looking androids are coming into the news. Last week, BBC published a story about the first robot full marathon. 26 full miles, making the robots complete 423 laps with a maximum speed of .77 km/h which equates to .48 mph.

Last week at CeBIT, the world's largest IT fair in Hanover, Germany, many robots were on display. A robot named 'Jazz' rolled about the fair. Jazz can display its users' face and project its users' voice. The French creating firm, Gostai, believes Jazz can make teleconferencing easier and less expensive.

Another at CeBIT was RoboThespian, the singing, educating and dancing robot. It can speak 20 languages and even knows the voice of C-3PO. Marcus Hold is the creator of RoboThespian. At the moment, there are 21 RobotThespian installed across the globe. You can have one for $90,000.

To stay on the lookout for more robot news, check out PhysOrg.com, the blog for all things science, up-to-date and most recent news blog content generator on the interwebs.

S.1. Ep. 6 "Escape Clause"

David Wayne, Mr. Bedeker, and Thomas Gomez, Mr. Cadwallader, play the infallible combination of the douche-bag hypochondriac and the Devil. Mr. Bedeker signs away his soul to the Devil for immortality. The only stipulation, an escape clause. If he wants to die, he can. Whenever he likes.

To test his deal, he jumps in front of a subway train and survives. He begins to create his own accidents, bus, train, fires, etc. just to get money out of it. After 14 accidents, Mr. Bedeker realizes there's no excitement in immortality. He mixes a highly toxic concoction and drinks it.

Next, he goes up 14 stories of his apartment building to jump off as his poor wife rushes after him begging him to reconsider. Suddenly, he pushes her down 14 stories. The heartless and soulless Mr. Bedeker calmly lights a cigarette, calls the police, admits to first-degree murder and says to himself, now let's try the electric chair. Unfortunately for Mr. Bedeker, his lawyer gets him life in prison instead of the chair. That's when he realizes, he's eternally screwed.

In prison, Mr. Cadwallader reminds him of his escape clause. Suddenly, Mr. Bedeker has a heart attack and drops dead.

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Our world has about seven billion people living in it today. That's a lot of people. Most causes to our growth is from new medications, advanced technologies, ways to live inside our homes and never come out and our lifespan has risen since the 1800s.

According to British online publication, The Guardian, the babies born tomorrow will live five to six hours longer than those born today. Another interesting statistic is the average life expectancy of a man in the UK is about 77 and a woman is about 81.

Recently, Time Magazine put immortality on the cover of their Feb. 21 edition.

Time believes man will become immortal by 2045. Here's an interesting timeline to see how we've advanced. Immortality is a movement called 'Singularity'. Time defines singularity as, “The moment when technological change becomes so rapid and profound, it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history.”

Ray Kurzweil is the leading figure of this movement. He is a futurist and believes in a super intelligence. I'm sure his name will begin to appear in the news more and more as we progress technologically and societally.

With new medicines, however, comes new diseases. Super diseases. Think influenza meets AIDS meets cancer meets whatever Natalie Portman contracts in the Black Swan movie on steroids. Soon enough, we won't die, we'll just become zombies that look like Natalie Portman Black Swan style.

And we'll all come out, kinda like this.
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