Hey firefighter friends,

It's on again!  Saturday, Discovery Channel, 6:00 p.m. PDT -- according to
my TV scedule.

And -- I have posted this on my webpage.  Unfortunately, I will miss  Ali's
"Seismic Central" party (1999) to be held on Labor Day week-end.  (B{(>

Take care,
Bob Fryer  (retired TVFR)
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About "A Sense of Disaster" on The Discovery Channel

"A Sense of Disaster," a documentary about earthquake prediction sciences
outside of the seismological straitjacket, has been rebroadcast on The
Discovery Channel.  Taped by Granada TV in 1998, the producers covered a
wide range of events and efforts that could be described as 'hidden
science.'

The program tells the story of "earthquake sensitive" people and animals,
discusses the electromagnetic basis for the phenomenon, and reports on the
successful use of the related sciences to predict earthquakes in China.

Some of the most interesting experiments on the electromagnetics are being
conducted by Prof. Motoji Ikeya, a physicist at Osaka University.  Ikeya is
determining whether there is basis-in-fact for many previously unverified
earthquake precursor legends.  Professor Ikeya was kind enough to send me a
list of these projects, early last year.  Unfortunately for me, most of his
material is published in Japanese.

The archaic "not invented here, so it doesn't exist" bias of the
seismological community was brought into focus by the pathetic obfuscations
of Dr. Robert Geller, at the University of Tokyo, and Dr. Allan Lindh of
the US Geologic Survey, Menlo Park, California.

Five important areas neglected in the program were: Charlotte King's
experience, the basic physics of stressed rocks, the work of the VAN group
in Greece, the hidden military technology, and the successful Landers,
California prediction in June, 1992.  Perhaps it should have been a
two-hour program.

The average viewer may express some wonderment at the "earthquake
sensitive" people video-taped at the 'Fourth Annual Seismic Central Party'
(1998) held at Ali Rhoden's home on the San Andreas fault, in the
California desert.  I can assure you that these are real people,
experiencing a real phenomenon, while carrying on with their otherwise
ordinary lives.  I have enjoyed the generous hospitality of Ali and Steve
Rhoden, and their daughter Ashley, for many weeks over the past four years.

My own investigations into 'paranormal' perception began in 1965, and
focused on earthquake prediction in 1982, after I obtained the full story
of Charlotte King who gave a 12-hour warning for the eruption of Mount
Saint Helens in 1980.  These activities were essentially concurrent with my
Fire Department career (1960-1995) in Washington County, Oregon, where I
was a Fire & Rescue dispatcher (1966-1985) before transferring to the Fire
Marshal's Office.
Additional information on "earthquake sensitivity" will be presented on
this webpage.

Thank you,
Bob Fryer

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