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From: "Marc Martin" <
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Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 8:24 PM
Subject: [SHADO] Re: How big is SHADO Moonbase?
> > Uhm, try again. According to my computer the link goes nowhere.
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> Multiple-line links are always difficult, because people's email
> programs usually insert a line break after 72 characters (or so).
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> Hopefully this one will work:
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http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/shado/vwp?.dir=/&.src=gr&.dnm=UFO+Shado+MoonBase+Size.jpg
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Wow! From one extreme to the other!
The first pics (w/the guy in the suit) the base was way too small, even
compared to the inadequate size depicted in the show. The moonbase spheres
looked to be only about twice as high as the person was.
In the photo with the moonmobile; the base is very large. Picture the
crew sitting in the cabin of the moonmobile, and then how a crowd of them
would look standing next to the moonbase sphere. Using a CAD program makes
this painfully obvious. In this photo, the base spheres look to be large
enough to have 6 or 7 floors inside them. The show, I believe, suggests only
one floor per sphere, (pay attention to the curvatures of the set walls and
such, and I'm sure you'll eventually agree) with the exception of the
sphere containing the interceptors ready room - that seems to have two
floors.
The problem with the show in general, is that none of these sizes seem
to mesh properly - the windows in the base spheres suggest a size that is
much too small. Interior scenes taking place in both the control/command
sphere sets and interceptor's ready room sets back up this inadequate size.
Look at the base from the outside, and certain features suggesting a
much larger size are evident, like what appears to be vehicle garages and
hangers, and a flat landing pad. But look at these features side by side,
and it's like the show's model makers for the two different features were
working out of touch with each other. These vehicle hangers appear made for
midget vehicles with midget crews. The scale of the base is all botched up.
In my personal opinion, the base would need to have 40 foot diameter
spheres, with three floors in each, to be a viable long term living facility
capable of housing the number of people needed, and performing all the
operations suggested of such a base depicted by the show. This would give
the base an overall square surface footprint of about 180 to 200 feet per
each side.
Just my humble O.....
Dave H.
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