> But they'd have had to get certain stuff up there first. Water for  
> example. And set up the mining complex. But the mining complex is a  
> point.I always thought that Moonbase and indeed SHado HQ should  
> have been many times larger than we were actually shown.Moonbase  
> would have had to have some underground places, and HQ - the one  
> time we saw a blueprint looked ridculously small!
> It could be fun writing our own 'bible' for UFO - unless Marc has  
> already done that!! We could put together known facts for  
> characters with evidence from episodes..until of course there is  
> contradictory evidence!
> LtCdr
>
> --- In [hidden email], Mario Butter <mario.butter@...> wrote:
> >
> > They could be built / repaired on site. Given an adequate energy  
> source,
> > most materials needed could be mined on the moon itself. Possibly  
> Moonbase
> > is sitting on top of a very large underground mining /  
> manufacturing complex
> > that is never shown in the series. It would certainly be easier  
> to launch
> > something as large as SID from the moon's surface rather than  
> Earth's
> > surface, for example.
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Marc Martin <marc@...> wrote:
> >
> > > Certainly the series seems to imply that the Lunar Shuttles are  
> the only
> > >
> > > craft to regularly visit Moonbase. But they must use something  
> larger
> > > than that on occasion -- what do they use to bring up their  
> "replacement
> > > Interceptors" ?
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Mario
> >
> > http://mario.silent-tower.org/
> >
> >
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> >
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