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URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/Fragility-of-alien-craft-and-kit-tp1495267p1495280.html

--- In SHADO@y..., "memorymetropolis" <memorymetropolis@w...> wrote:
> ... and I suppose you mean "A Question of Priorities".

Sorry.

> ... Furthermore I don't remember another episode with a fast ageing
> Alien. ...

Perhaps partway rhrough the stories the aliens' local command changed
the setting so that they could last longer on Earth atmosphere if
they were stranded and had to wait to be picked up by another UFO and
had to go to atmosphere to avoid using up their life support pack's
duration. Or perhaps the alien in "Identified" activated a suicide
mechanism. Or perhaps the injection of ?truth drug? that he was
given, interacted with something and did the mischief.

> I am also not a fan of the idea of disappearing UFOs

It would be a self-destruct mechanism.

> I would like to know how solid the glass of a real spacehelmet is.

I have had some quite hard skidding falls on my motorcycle helmet's
ordinary Earth-made polycarbonate visor, and it did not break. A
space helmet faceplate would likeliest be not glass but polycarbonate
or something like that.