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I loved Brian Johnson's model work done on series. I was too young to see 2001: A Space Odyssey yet, so I was completely blown away at how authentic looking Moonbase:Alpha and the workhorse Eagle ships looked.

I can't beleive no one else has mentioned the commlocks fro Space 1999.
http://www.space1999.net/catacombs/main/cguide/umcomlock.html

At this point in time, I'd question whether they would fund anti matter weapons research. Tactically, do we really need a bigger boom than a nuke?

How else are they going to blow up the moon?!

Don't knock it - we were supposed to have all this in one device by 1999!

http://www.space1999.net/moonbase99/tech2.htm

'...it functions as a security key (restricting access to sensitive and command areas), a transponder (instantly pinpointing the position of its carrier), an audio/visual communications unit, and a programmable computer.'

Ah, "Moonbase Alpha". What could possibly go wrong?

I had been hoping that all the promises about going to the moon would have involved actually going there, but I'll take what I can get.

Moon,, nuclear explosion:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_1999

Hell, I even had the toy:

http://www.space1999.net/catacombs/main/merc/vmmemattel.html

In case you haven't seen these.... these are craft i wish we could build and use here... imagine their use in the hi-rise construction industry (if fuel were not ... astronomically expensive, hehehe)

(HEHEHE WARNING: these might distract you from work for the rest of the day....)

Craft/vessels
http://www.space1999.net/eagle/

audio sound tracks
http://www.space1999.net/catacombs/main/links.html

http://www.space1999.net/catacombs/main/links.html#Multimedia

http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/catalog/soundtrackdetail.php?movieid=36893

In case you haven't seen these.... these are craft i wish we could build and use here... imagine their use in the hi-rise construction industry (if fuel were not ... astronomically expensive, hehehe)

(HEHEHE WARNING: these might distract you from work for the rest of the day....)

Craft/vessels
http://www.space1999.net/eagle/

audio sound tracks
http://www.space1999.net/catacombs/main/links.html

http://www.space1999.net/catacombs/main/links.html#Multimedia

http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/catalog/soundtrackdetail.php?movieid=36893

In case you haven't seen these.... these are craft i wish we could build and use here... imagine their use in the hi-rise construction industry (if fuel were not ... astronomically expensive, hehehe)

(HEHEHE WARNING: these might distract you from work for the rest of the day....)

Craft/vessels
http://www.space1999.net/eagle/

audio sound tracks
http://www.space1999.net/catacombs/main/links.html

http://www.space1999.net/catacombs/main/links.html#Multimedia

http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/catalog/soundtrackdetail.php?movieid=36893

http://www.space1999.net/eagle/

Probably more than any Star Trek space craft, we could technically see Space Eagles/Transporter Eagles & Mark IX Hawks if ion engines and compact chem thrusters can be economically built. As a kid, I used to own a copy of the blueprints sold in Starlog.

I bet Gerry & Sylvia Anderson, Brian Johnson, et al would be THRILLED to get royalties if their craft were honored as a model for Earth-Moon shuttles. If this could survive exit/re-entry through our atmosphere, this design could probably serve NASA well. Looks a HELLUVA lot sexier than the Space Shuttle, too.

Oh, and guess what? The blueprints are on sale again!

Or it ends up, due to a faulty queller drive, devastating a whole planet of intelligent beings.. making them angry against humanity when Space:1999's moon meets the voyager space probe..

Paul: "Signal from Voyager One"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0706356/
http://www.space1999.net/~cosmos1999/12/tivrvsact4 .10.html

It may take more than one device to either deflect or destroy the object. Although there are no explosives of the yield of Ivy Mike (10.4 Mt) in the present stockpile, consider the crater that was formed by reason of just sitting there. There may be required a cluster of five to ten devices on one side of the body. Detonation should occur when the group of charges would be on the antisunward (night) side for maximum deflection (~90 degrees) towards the Sun. The intention is that the Sun would capture the fragment(s) and/or eject them from the solar system in hyperbolic orbits. Perhaps what may be needed is a Deep Impact delivery system with Tsar Bomba equipped impactors (mother of all bunker busters). I know many here would groan at the mention of this http://www.space1999.net/~moonbase99/collision.htm / but it was my inspiration to write this (This episode featured an array of lay-down charges to destroy an oncoming asteroid).

All your moonbase alpha are belongs to space:1999.

It's even apropriate : the premise of the series was that the moon was no longer in orbit around earth.

Moonbase Alpha

I say just blow up the moon, that little bastard is just slowing us down.

It'll happen soon enough, once we have moonbase alpha there...

Damn right there'd be more interest! It'll also serve as the ideal place to store all of our nuclear waste!

2040 days since leaving earth orbit

Bah - Maya would be a much better reason to go to the moon. Nonethless, I find you arguments strangely convincing nonetheless.

I had a Space1999 stun gun/water pistol - such a brilliant sci-fi show. They just don't make sci-fi and space babes the way they used to.

We should be actually living on the moon by now.

I completely disagree. The only reason I would consider going to the moon is if Dr. Helena Russell was there on Moonbase Alpha.

Needless to say she is not. Ergo, there is absolutely no reason to go to the moon, as all the hot chics are here on earth.

BTW the only thing I wish is that I saved all my toy Star Trek/Space1999 sci-fi toy crap because I could have sold it on ebay now and retired.

We should be actually living on the moon by now.

I completely disagree. The only reason I would consider going to the moon is if Dr. Helena Russell was there on Moonbase Alpha.

Needless to say she is not. Ergo, there is absolutely no reason to go to the moon, as all the hot chics are here on earth.

BTW the only thing I wish is that I saved all my toy Star Trek/Space1999 sci-fi toy crap because I could have sold it on ebay now and retired.

1976 Mattel Space 1999 Eagle 1 - http://www.space1999.net/~catacombs/main/merc/eagl e/mattel_big_eagle_small_writeup.htm

That, combined with the Six Million Dollar Man "rocket" and the Star Trek Bridge playset and the Space 1999 Moonbase Alpha playset would entertain me for hours.

And I think my parents kept all that stuff as well.

no no no, read what the guy wrote:

Actually, tidal friction slows the rotation of the earth and raises the orbit of the moon. Extracting tidal power will increase the friction and thus the rate at which this happens.

so the moon will get further away.

so its a secret alien plot to bring back 70s TV shows about rogue moonbases flung out to the stars.

If we could turn a station on the moon into a pseudo-colony, I think that would have some nice potential for space travel and perhaps even more affordable space tourism.

Yeah, "if". But what if it can't be done? There is no chance to make an Antarctic colony, where the conditions still are much more friendly than on Moon. I doubt if there is any chance to make anything colony-like on Moon - there is no serious plan how to make water and oxygen on the lunar desert (not to mention food or anything useful). All we hear are Star Trek-like hypothetical scenarios, that maybe there could be some frozen water. Well, what if there isn't? The comparison of the Lunar colonies and the New World colonies of XVI-XVII century is fundamentally flawed - Columbus did not have to carry oxygen from Spain. Heck, he could even repair his ships from the wood found on the new continent. He arrived into a land where human beings can sustain their own living - it was far from uninhabitable desert that we have on the Moon or Mars. We can't have an underwater colony somewhere in the middle of an ocean. We can't have a colony on Antarctic. What makes anybody think we can have a colony on Moon? Is it just because once there was a TV series about one?

I agree with just about everything you say, except that I think establishing a permanent moon base first should be a priority

Yeah, but then the MoonBase explodes because we use nucular energy to power it and it spins like totally out of control and fucks up the tides and leads to UFOs hiding behind it. But I think a lot of cool liquid-breathing aliens and neato, sexy alien babes might be involved.

Don't you guys remember back in 1999 when the moon blasted out of earth's orbit? That would probably explain the change.

We could do like Moon Base Alpha! But then, it would be a nuclear disposal site, and would knock the moon out of orbit when a weird electrical storm overtook the disposal site.

September 13th, 1999

A nuclear accident at a lunar-based waste disposal site propels our moon out of Earth orbit and into deep space. The 311 residents of Moonbase Alpha find themselves adrift in space with no way to control their course through the interstellar void.

At least it's not a lame "CHA.." scratched into the surface.

At least now I (and many like me) won't have to pay any money just to dabble with Maya.

So, Tony was pimpin' her out, eh? Figures. Beer-brewing freak. You can take the boy out of the Mafia . . .

I'd be careful "dabbling" with Maya, though. When she turns herself into one of these and rips your gonads off, you'll think "personal use".

The capsule system was inherently "modular" thus the inspiration for this bit of classic SF. The only irony I find in all this is how accurate SF may have once again proven to be.

Just don't tell anyone in Hollywood. After seeing what they did with Lost In space, I don't want even a chance of them getting hold of my fave SF series for one of their ticky-tacky plotless rehashes.

The writers and producers of the science-fiction classic, "Space 1999", were off the mark by about 25 years. "Space 1999" was broadcast by NBC in 1975 and dealt with the lives of colonists on a moonbase called "Alpha". The series began with an episode where a nuclear explosion hurls the moon out of the earth's orbit. Each succeeding episode of the series descibes the dangers that the colonists face in space.

Well, maybe because the moon broke away from orbit in September.

• Col. Wilma Deering Buck Rogers in the 25th century
• Lt. Gay Ellis UFO
• Diana V
• Dr. Helena Russell Space:1999
• Lt. Uhura Star Trek

Exactly! The British managed to send it out of the solar system. Surely the Americans can coax it into a closer orbit.

On Moonbase Alpha, we call these things, "Travel Tubes".

Oh, wait... already been tried. Well, so much for that idea.

Much easier is to put a lot of nukes on the Moon, and beam microwave energy back to Earth. If the occasional reator blows up, it is no big deal on the Moon.

Didn't they have TV where you grew up? Or are you one of those whipper-snappers who is too young to remember?

BG and B5 though cute and clever, repsectiviely, don't hold a candle to Space: 1999 which is /so/ close to reality (in some ways) to be frightening.

I only know that I used to think "weird, they always have those communicators, imagine us having communicators?", back in the olden dayez.

And now everyone (at least here in YTSA) has the communicator!

So the question is, when will our communicators have video too? 2002, 2003, 2004? Anyone into placing bets? I'll setup a pool.cgi if there is _any_ response :>

Long live Space: 1999!

Google Category is /rich/ and the Cyber Museum is a beauty .

I'm not surprised that I didn't really get a chance to watch it since it was only on for like two years.

As for its characters they do seem to have had Martin Landau and Barbara Bain. I do believe that they are married so that is probably good enough reason for them to be costarring in Mission Impossible as well as Space 1999.

An interesting index of Space 1999 sites:

www.space1999.net

Who wouldn't get the Space 1999 reference?

BTW, Martin Landau rules... (He was the captain/leader on Space 1999) even if he hasn't aged very well...

Not sure it's been shown much outside the UK :)

Basic premise is a nuclear waste dump on the far side of the moon explodes taking the moon out of Earth orbit and off into deep space - carrying with it 'Moonbase Alpha' and crew.

Excellent wobbly BBC sets and some of the best space ships (Eagles) ever in a sc-fi ever at all ever.

Did I say the space ships were cool?

troc

>can anyone name the event in SciFi history that took place to day?

Would that be the day that the moon was knocked out of earth's orbit and Martin Landau and Barbra Bain got stuck on Moonbase Alpha with a bunch of other third-rate actors and some cheesy special effects?