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I am greatly excited- all I have had for UFO viewing is about 16 of
the 26 episodes that were poorly dubbed VHSs- but Santa has the DVD
complete box set coming. ACK!

Question;
How is it that Sky1 could blast off from Skydiver and not have the
Diver part get torched by the blast?


Why is it the Interceptors only had one missle, and no lazers or
anything? Couldn't the aliens just send ten saucers at once? Ten
saucers--three missles. You do the math.


Couldn't the aliens ever decided to shoot SID? Wouldn't have that
been a tactical advantage for them? Didn't SID show up on radar on
Earth? And can't Moonbase be detected from Earth?

Anyway, that's it.

To answer your questions. 1. I never figured that one out myself but one of our tech guys or gals will get back to you. 2. Gerry Anderson once said that the missile was supposed to be composed of several smaller missiles sort of like a fragment grenade. You see one missile go but several hits are made. 3. The Aliens did shoot down SID one time. The Man Who Came BAck was the title of the episode. Moonbase was not as secret as it should have been. I cant remember the name of the episode but another research group was on the moon once and one time a moon mobile from Russia was on a collision course with Moonbase because the astronauts running it were suffering from oxygen deprivation. I think it was called the Dalotek Affair. But you also have to realise that just knowing about a moonbase doesn't mean it would be easy to find it. All of this is from memory so I could be wrong. People in this club dont hesitate to correct . I just got the New Avengers on DVD with Purdey
and Gambit. The actor who played Dr Jackson was the villain. He could control birds through music. Very cool episode.

Brinke <[hidden email]> wrote:


I am greatly excited- all I have had for UFO viewing is about 16 of
the 26 episodes that were poorly dubbed VHSs- but Santa has the DVD
complete box set coming. ACK!

Question;
How is it that Sky1 could blast off from Skydiver and not have the
Diver part get torched by the blast?


Why is it the Interceptors only had one missle, and no lazers or
anything? Couldn't the aliens just send ten saucers at once? Ten
saucers--three missles. You do the math.


Couldn't the aliens ever decided to shoot SID? Wouldn't have that
been a tactical advantage for them? Didn't SID show up on radar on
Earth? And can't Moonbase be detected from Earth?

Anyway, that's it.









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--- Brinke <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Question;
> How is it that Sky1 could blast off from Skydiver
> and not have the
> Diver part get torched by the blast?

Aircraft carriers have a hinge that absorbs the prop
blast of jets that are about to take off. In the world
of UFO, maybe the material and the concept is similar.



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From: "Brinke" <[hidden email]>
To: <[hidden email]>
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 10:05 PM
Subject: [SHADO] Various


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Even more interesting, is how we see smoke from the rockets drifting
lazily about underwater, and no appearent bubbles of rocket exhaust gasses
roiling up to the surface afterwards....

Dave H.

Good point. Although I suppose there was no way to address the "lazy smoke" anomaly without actually shooting the launch underwater back in 1970. No computer generated effects back in the stone age. How times have changed...

Jeff

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From: "Brinke"

To:
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 10:05 PM
Subject: [SHADO] Various


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Even more interesting, is how we see smoke from the rockets drifting
lazily about underwater, and no appearent bubbles of rocket exhaust gasses
roiling up to the surface afterwards....

Dave H.







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The rockets that propel Sky1 from Diver most likely Diver would have to have
some type of pressure relief system. The rockets would ignite and build up
thrust and pressure. When the pressure reaches a certain level bulkheads
would open and allow the force to travel thru a passage or tunnel thru Diver
while Sky1 was contuning to accelerate and gain momention to travel under
water and gain enough speed to jump into the air and have the engines ignite
and continue flying.

Steve Christensen


Question;
> > How is it that Sky1 could blast off from Skydiver and not have the
> > Diver part get torched by the blast?
> >

--- In [hidden email], "Brinke" <brinkeguthrie@y...> wrote:
> Question;
> How is it that Sky1 could blast off from Skydiver and not have the
> Diver part get torched by the blast?

That's been covered in other posts, I won't add to that discussion
here.
>
> Why is it the Interceptors only had one missle, and no lazers or
> anything? Couldn't the aliens just send ten saucers at once? Ten
> saucers--three missles. You do the math.

According to the production notes, the missile was designed to split
into 10 mini missiles which would explode and cover a wide area.
One of the ideas Anderson and co. had was that in space the speeds
of the UFO's would be so great a directed weapon such as lasers and
cannon wouldn't be much use. In the show, Moonbase would track the
trajectory and speed of the UFO and compute a firing range and time
for the missiles. The missiles would home in on a area where the
UFO is predicted to be and then explode, covering a wide area and
hopefully engulfing the alien. Only in "Cat With 10 Lives" do we
see an interceptor missile directly hitting a UFO (the hint being
that it was almost a point blank shot) and in "ESP" we see how a UFO
on a wildly erratic course evades the Interceptor missiles. The
interceptors are not designed for dogfighting; that's what Sky 1 is
for.
>
> Couldn't the aliens ever decided to shoot SID? Wouldn't have that
> been a tactical advantage for them? Didn't SID show up on radar on
> Earth? And can't Moonbase be detected from Earth?

On the first point, that's a perfectly valid tactic that the aliens
don't use in the show, but no doubt a piece of fan fiction would
have that scenario happen. However, SID picks up information from
probes at the edge of the solar system (see "Reflections in the
Water") and helps Moonbase to predict UFO trajectory. If SID was
seen to be the target of an attack, it would predict this and the
UFO's would still have to avoid the Interceptors. We have no
information as to whether SID itself has its own defences. SID
might show up on Earth radar, but civilian radar might just think
it's another satellite or space station and the governments of the
world know all about SHADO anyway. Likewise, most civilians working
on the Moon know about Moonbase, but think it's just a UN military
base (see "Dalotek Affair" and "The Responsibility Seat" for more
information). Moonbase has a 50 mile exclusion zone around it where
civilian mining concerns can't enter.

I hope these bits of information are of some help.

Nick

> Brinke <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Question;
> How is it that Sky1 could blast off from Skydiver and not have the
> Diver part get torched by the blast?
> Why is it the Interceptors only had one missle, and no lazers or
> anything? Couldn't the aliens just send ten saucers at once? Ten
> saucers--three missles. You do the math.
> Couldn't the aliens ever decided to shoot SID? Wouldn't have that
> been a tactical advantage for them? Didn't SID show up on radar on
> Earth? And can't Moonbase be detected from Earth?

I suspect we may never know the answers to your questions but I will hazard
a guess.

In order: it's only a TV series, it's only a TV series, it's only a TV
series, it's only a TV series, it's only a TV series, it's only a TV series,
it's only a TV series.

:)

Things I've always wanted to know: how did the interceptors turn round? why
did the SkyDiver crew wear string vests? why did SHADO vehicles have
"SHADO" written on them when it was supposed to be a secret organisation?
How could there be a SHADO but no ADO? why didn't the male moon operatives
wear purple wigs? why did the UFOs make a noise in space? as alien
technology was clearly vastly superior to earth technology how could we be
so successful in repelling them (surely death rays would easily have
defeated missiles)?

I suspect the answer to all of these will also be it's only a TV series...

Nick