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[hidden email], "Hemmings, R.K." <rkh@...> wrote:
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> paul foster wrote:
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> >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.
>
Actually, I'm less perplexed by the Aliens method of propulsion, which
from my viewpoint can remaining mysterious and menacing, than by
SHADO's methods of getting to the alien panet using the probe in
'Closeup'. I've not watched the episode for a year or so, but recall
that on screen the elapsed time between following the UFO out of the
solar system to receiving the (uncalibrated) photos back was meant to
be only a few weeks, months at tops. Although it looked as though the
probe used conventional rocket technology, in reality SHADO would have
had to have mastered faster than light propulsion themselves, even to
have got the probe to the nearest star!