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Kerry Endacotte on
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Bruce and All
Okay, a first line of defence based on the moon might have problems, and this is one of the reason of a fleet of Skydivers was to fill in that gap. 5 in number with the one destroy'd in 'The Psycobombs presumably being replaced! Presumably when the moon offered less of a defence platform Skydiver's area of opperations saw the craft sail to the other side of the world?
Further a space station orbiting the Earth could possibly be seen by too many hobby astronmars..particularly if of an advance design, to cause too many questions? I'm told there are some who go space craft watching from satilights to actual human space craft, with telescopes! There are also some whom go listerning to satilight or space craft identification signal's particular to each design that are part of the process used by 'standard authories' to check and locate that particular craft! An advance design might cause far too many questions even for SHADO's amnesia drug to work as it might have to be used repeatly.
Putting a base on the moon would mean it much more likely it would remain hidden? Further a Moonbase has a firm base on which to build on that can't be easily destroy'd, that a space station could and an explosion seen on Earth would again cause to many unanswered questions? I'm not certain which American General, coin'd the expression during WWII with the build up to D-Day...he refered to England/Great Britian..as 'The unsinkable aircraft carrier' the moon fill's that role very well!!
Further the crew of Dalatex largly just accept the millitary have a base on the moon and that's it much like I live in a military city of Plymouth UK, I see military uniforms warship's, miltary vicheal's on the road all the time ~BUT do I think they are up to secret mischief...NO..there just here!!
Always
Kerry(Spacesuit_UK)
Also one of the interesting aspects of UFO, is SHADO and human technology is more primative to that of the aliens...so Straker, Henderson might like a perment orbiting space station but know , reluctatantly the limitations of human technology to be able to achive this
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> But like Straker often mentioned, the best defense was earth's atmosphere. While out in deep space, they could go Sol 8, they would have to go sub light before hitting the atmosphere, perfect speed to be shot at. And I am sure they cant stop on a dime either.
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> ok, i admit i dont know a lot of this. but here i try.......
> the moon is 1/6 g and off the moon is even less, so you have to change those battle specs.
> and the computers tracked the UFOs at speed of light 8, really hard to slow down or turn at if you dont want to miss your target, so the interceptors were like anti-missles that shot missles at a computer generated vector to explode or impact in the path of the UFOs.
> so they didnt really need to turn much at high speeds.
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> I didn't have a problem with tha aspect as it is much easier to get the interceptors spaceborne in a low G, zero atmosphere enviorment. The big problem I saw with the interceptors is that in order to intercept the UFO's that were traveling at SOL speeds, they would have to be traveling at a sizeable percentage of light speed themselves. In combat you can easily pull nine G's at 400 knots. A tight turn at relvistic velocities would turn the pilot into toothpaste and tear the spacecraft apart unless the ship was equiped with a antigravity field to protect the ship and pilot.
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> I have to speculate that some of the technology SHADO used was based on captured alien technology that had been reverse engineered. Can you say Area 51? *grin*
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> Matt :)
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> > Some of the basic premise ideas are a bit ill-conceived, as well. For
> > example - it doesn't really make sense to have the first line of
> > defence based on Earth's natural satellite, because there'll always
> > be a line of attack from which it's BEHIND Earth.
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