Stealing science for a story

So the other week I was listening to the radio, and up came a story about a new theory about how homing pigeons may use 'sound maps' to navigate. This is going right into the Big Bang -- I'd already thought the angels use infrasound to communicate over long distances, but the idea that they use the sounds created by seismic energy from deflected deep ocean sounds to orientate themselves is just too fun to resist.

Yeah, I'm such a nerd.

Otoh, this explains how angels communicate, and it will also explain how the traditionalist/isolationist communities of angels hide themselves. They simply sing at wavelengths that don't travel as far as other angels, so they've limited the distance their communications travels. Of course, the research centers probably have listening stations in those areas specifically to pick up the infrasound, but it probably takes the researchers a lot of time to go through and translate the songs, even with the help of the friendly angels, so they're behind on what's going on in the isolationist communities.

Also, I'll have to remember this because it might eventually be a neat thing to put in an original SF story...

Well, maybe I won't be reading Les Miserables any time soon after all...

Why is the Lee Fahnestock and Norman MacAfee translation of Les Miserables not available as an e-book? I checked on Amazon, and the version for Kindle is listed as the Hapgood translation, which I'm pretty sure I can get for free off of Gutenberg, thank you anyway Amazon...

Brain, I don't have time for this...

I'm working on my Big Bang, and my brain suddenly wants to write the hob story all of the sudden. I don't really have time to go off on a tangent right now. I'm trying to get a story finished! No matter how much fun it would be to let Gabriel be really whimsical (because of fairies) and Castiel to be a complete spacetoaster.

I think the happy-ish ending of the latest episode -- Dean and Sam have the library, no one on their side died horribly and tragically, so that's a happy ending for SPN -- is making my brain want to go to the really goofy AU place, instead of the serious domestic drama of the story I have been working on. aaaaaaa!