> paul foster wrote:
>
> >I do find it very perplexing ., in regard the
> distance
> >involved in the prolonged flight of the aliens .,
> in order to
> >reach the Earth. How does this rather small craft
> manage to
> >get to us in seemingly a not too long time ....i.e.
> - not
> >hundreds of years.Also ., the nearest habitable
> planets are
> >light years away., and ., as far as i know ... they
> do not
> >originate inside our own solar system. Any ideas.
>
> As Steven said, there are several mentions in the
> series
> that they have some form of faster than light
> propulsion.
> It's generally accepted that "SOL", as mentioned by
> SID
> and Moonbase operatives when an incoming UFO is
> detected,
> is an acronym for Speed Of Light, so when SID says:
> "SOL 8", the UFO is travelling at 8 times the speed
> of
> light. One can presume that the Utronic detection
> system
> has limited range and only detects UFOs when they
> enter
> the Solar system, so the UFO may in fact (well,
> fiction! :)
> be travelling at much higher speeds than that, as
> incoming
> UFOs already seem to be decelerating once detected,
> if you
> listen to the dialogue (eg SOL8, SOL4, SOL decimal 8
>
> (presumably 0.8) etc.
>
> HTH,
> --
> Rob
>