Here at Happiness, we don't just go to TV for entertainment, we also go for learnin'.

Which is why today's giveaway is from the History Channel. It's "The Universe: The Complete Season Four."

On four discs, for more than 9 hours, and in 12 episodes the show explores our solar system and "the bizarre far-flung reaches of the cosmos." Episodes include segments on what elements of sci-fi movies could really exist; how the universe is awash in strange liquids (like iron rain!); expert cooking up 10 ways to destory the Earth; and pulsars & quasars.

It uses HD graphics and bonus features are un-aired segments on meteors and comets.

You know the drill by now, don't you? Email me by 11 tonight (12/5) with your address in the body. We'll have a random drawing and pick a winner.
 

One of the hardest-working bands around is Drive-By Truckers, and they've spent enough years on the road to have had some pretty crazy things happen. Like the time a few years back when they had a near-miss from a meteor.

"It happened when we were all asleep," Patterson Hood said in a recent phone chat. "Our driver back then was a retired Marine Vietnam veteran, really cool and unshakeable. But we woke up in Idaho one morning and he was all shaken up: 'Hope I didn't jolt anybody too bad. We almost got hit by a meteor!' 'What?!' There'd been a meteor shower and a piece of space rock landed in the median right next to the bus. And it was even on the news that day, that there'd been a shower of debris -- and we were in the middle of it. 'God,' I thought, 'after all we've been through, wouldn't that be the craziest way to get taken out?' We're so fatalistic, we were going, 'Great -- they couldn't stop us any other way, so now they're throwing space dust at us.' I'm glad nothing happened, but what a crazy way to go if something had happened. 'Oh yeah? I'll see your plane crash and raise you a meteor!'"

For lots more, including details on the Truckers' shows in Raleigh this weekend, see the story in Friday's paper.