SHADO deep space tracking facility

[hidden email] wrote (Subject: [SHADO] Digest Number 253):-
> Yeah. We have to breathe liquid when we're launched via lightcraft to
> the SHADO deep space tracking facility. No picnic. Of course, our
> fluid breathing technology has come a long way from the alien green
> stuff... :^)
> Maj. Carole Miller
> Commander, SHADO deep space tracking facility

Is rhere a WWW site about this "SHADO deep space tracking facility"? Where (in
space in the fictional world) is it assumed to be, etc?

> (ask about our new 25 petawatt laser)

That is 25e15 watts = 25 thousand million million watts.

Surely alien liquid-breathing technology would have advanced as far as
possible long ago? Perhaps it needed adapting to make it the best for humans.

--- In SHADO@y..., "Anthony Appleyard" <MCLSSAA2@f...> wrote:

> Is rhere a WWW site about this "SHADO deep space tracking facility"?
Not yet.

> Where (in space in the fictional world) is it assumed to be, etc?

Nominally it is at the L3 point, covering the "blind spot" opposite
Earth from Moonbase, but it can be moved if necessary. This is often
desirable as the L3 point is unstable and requires a fair amount of
propellant for station keeping. We do not have interceptor launch
capability, hence our laser. We access the facility by laser
lightcraft capable of tens of g's of acceleration hence the need for
our liquid breathing system. (Otherwise one's chest would collapse!)

>
> > (ask about our new 25 petawatt laser)
>
> That is 25e15 watts = 25 thousand million million watts.

Yes it is based on petawatt laser technology developed in the US for
the fusion program. However we have significantly greater energy
resources so our pulses are correspondingly longer, dumping a lot more
energy into the UFO. We have taken out up 3 UFO's in a single pulse.

>
> Surely alien liquid-breathing technology would have advanced as far
> as possible long ago?

Not really. We have better medical technology than the aliens. Our
current state of the art fluid has the lowest viscosity to
incompressibility ratio of any oxygenated emulsion. Gas exchange is
optimized, requiring one to breathe only 3-4 times per minute. At that
rate, breating our fluid requires little more effort than breating
air. Also our fluid is spiked with a selective topical anesthetic to
deaden gag reflexes for the duration of immersion, eliminating the
need for those pesky injections and their attendant side effects.

> Perhaps it needed adapting to make it the best for humans.

No. The original LiquiVent[tm] (as used in hospitals) was better than
the alien technology from the start.


Teresa
a.k.a
Major Carole Miller, Commander
SHADO deep space tracking facility

> > Surely alien liquid-breathing technology would have advanced
as far
> > as possible long ago?
>
> Not really. We have better medical technology than the aliens.
Our
> current state of the art fluid has the lowest viscosity to
> incompressibility ratio of any oxygenated emulsion. Gas exchange
is
> optimized, requiring one to breathe only 3-4 times per minute.
At that
> rate, breating our fluid requires little more effort than
breating
> air. Also our fluid is spiked with a selective topical
anesthetic to
> deaden gag reflexes for the duration of immersion, eliminating
the
> need for those pesky injections and their attendant side
effects.
>
> > Perhaps it needed adapting to make it the best for humans.
>
> No. The original LiquiVent[tm] (as used in hospitals) was better
than
> the alien technology from the start.
>
>
> Teresa

Liquid breathing, with a (broken) link to one of Marc's old pages:

http://www.scienceweb.org/movies/abyss.html

Paul

Major Carole Miller wrote:
> Nominally it is at the L3 point, covering the "blind spot" opposite
> Earth from Moonbase, but it can be moved if necessary. This is often
> desirable as the L3 point is unstable and requires a fair amount of
> propellant for station keeping. We do not have interceptor launch
> capability, hence our laser.

Yes. I'm impressed. It's quite powerful. I was out there inspecting the new
antenna array when they burst off a laser pulse, and I got very
OVER-EXPOSED. When I asked about why I wasn't warned in time, they said it
was all a QUESTION OF PRIORITIES. Now I'm pretty brown on the face, but at
least I have a 94% chance of SURVIVAL according to SID.

> Not really. We have better medical technology than the aliens. Our
> current state of the art fluid has the lowest viscosity to
> incompressibility ratio of any oxygenated emulsion. Gas exchange is
> optimized, requiring one to breathe only 3-4 times per minute. At that
> rate, breating our fluid requires little more effort than breating
> air. Also our fluid is spiked with a selective topical anesthetic to
> deaden gag reflexes for the duration of immersion, eliminating the
> need for those pesky injections and their attendant side effects.

Yeah true but Yukk. You didn't mention that the flavouring in the liquid
tastes foul. Sort of a cross between Alec's cigars and peppermint choc
biscuit. After a few weeks you do get used to it, but give me Marsbase air
anytime!

> No. The original LiquiVent[tm] (as used in hospitals) was better than
> the alien technology from the start.

I must say I have been impressed by Carole's explanation of the technology
up here.

Lt. John D'Alton
Space Communications Officer, Marsbase
temporary: [hidden email]

Lt. John D'Alton wrote:
> Major Carole Miller wrote:

> Yes. I'm impressed. It's quite powerful. I was out there inspecting
> the new antenna array when they burst off a laser pulse, and I got
> very OVER-EXPOSED. When I asked about why I wasn't warned in time,
> they said it was all a QUESTION OF PRIORITIES. Now I'm pretty brown
> on the face, but at least I have a 94% chance of SURVIVAL according
> to SID.

Yes, your FLIGHT PATH caused you to be IDENTIFIED as a UFO, but to
abort the firing sequence would have caused a CONFLICT with the other
systems. The commander was touring the facility, so we didn't want to
do anything that might KILL STRAKER. That would have resulted in a
COURT MARTIAL for everyone involved.

> Yeah true but Yukk. You didn't mention that the flavouring in the
> liquid tastes foul. Sort of a cross between Alec's cigars and
> peppermint choc biscuit. After a few weeks you do get used to it,
> but give me Marsbase air anytime!

Well obviously you haven't sampled our new cherry flavor breathing
fluid. If it's good enough for Vick's and Robitussin...

> I must say I have been impressed by Carole's explanation of the
> technology up here.

Well, like Cmdr. Straker I did spend 2 years at MIT :-)


Cheers,
Teresa

aka
Major Carole Miller, Commander
SHADO Deep Space Tracking Facility