Re: UFO Space Suit question
Posted by
Rob Hemmings-2 on
Jan 24, 2001; 12:02am
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/UFO-Space-Suit-question-tp1491104p1491113.html
Teresa wrote:
>Where is the air supply for the space suits used in UFO (and also
>Doppelganger)?
>
>I was watching "The Dalotek Affair" and was struck be the fact that
>there are no backpacks on any of the space suits worn by wither SHADO
>or Dalotek personnel. There are a few mall boxes on the chest and left
>shoulder, but none seem large enough to hold a bottle containing more
>than a few minutes worth of air. Even considering a pure O-2 mix at 5
>PSI (or even a very efficient rebreather), the suits do not appear to
>have the necessary resources for long forays on the lunar surface, in
>which the Dalotek crew was obviously engaged.
>
>Was this an oversight on the part of the production crew, or is there
>some technology of which I am unaware?
Very good question! In reality, possibly an oversight, but I
think it was more likely a matter of cinematographic style.
Most (although definitely not all) of SHADO's hardware looks..
well.. sleek (even by today's sci-fi standards).
There's at least one other possibility:
We know that in those 26 episodes, SHADO *never* captured a UFO
- it was almost always Straker's priority. However.. We *do*
know that SHADO captured several Aliens (some alive.. for a while..),
complete with their (liquid-breathing) suits. Maybe, SHADO
used/adapted some of that technology, in it's (ie SHADO's) early days?
(and I know a few doctors who may have been able to do it; (Jackson and
Schroeder, for a start!)
BFN
--
Rob