Space 1999 - Season 2 Alternate Intro 1

Space 1999 - Season 2 Alternate Intro 1 - Dedicated to Gerry Anderson

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• Espacio
• cosmos
• spazio
• gerry
• anderson
• maya
• Sci-Fi
• moonbase

[RepublibotThreePoint]

@shmuli9: Prrrrrrrobably not appropriate subject matter for a Youtube comments section, since it's all kinds of gross, and not at all related to the video, or Space: 1999. But, yeah, funny story. I've got that one in an anthology around here somewhere...

[shmuli9]

(cont'd) if she got pregnant, the BABY would kick a hole in her uterus...

[shmuli9]

@RepublibotThreePoint Mine, too... I think I've read most of his books, except for the ones about "Grendel"... He had this hilrious non-fiction pieces called "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" about what would happen if Superman really were to have sex with Lois Lane, on how without her wearing a "Green Krypotonite Belt", his sperm would crete microholes in her uterus, of which she'd die of peritonitis, and barring that (they're MICROSCOPIC holes) (con't.d)

[RepublibotThreePoint]

@shmuli9 Niven, huh? One of my favorites.

[shmuli9]

@RepublibotThreePoint Indeed... And there's a film coming up about "a covert trip to the moon occuring in 1974" called "Apollo 18"... Even novelists who wrote goofy stories have admitted to it being goofy (like Stephen King regarding his "Jump" story). On the other hand, evne though the exact scienece wasn't right, it turns out LArry Niven was right about planets having large moons. They don't "skim off" excess atmosphere, but they DO prevent planets from "wobbling"...

[RepublibotThreePoint]

@shmuli9: True, but when has a TV show ever let science get in the way of a goofy fundamental concept? I mean, how many people *had* to be involved in the SGC? 30,000 or so, at least? And yet the secret never leaked out...

Anyway, the lunar farside is the one spot in the whole solar system that you can never see from earth. Ideal place to hide stuff.

[shmuli9]

@RepublibotThreePoint That's an interesting idea... Though with modern telescopes (actally, even ones available in the 1970s), unless the moon base was on the side of the moon facing AWAY from Earth, ameteur astronomers would SEE activity on the moon...

[RepublibotThreePoint]

@shmuli9 Nah, I'd set it in 1999, and just have it be like "Stargate," where it's all covert and no one knows about it. Incidentally, my website (Republibot-dot-com) interviewed Keith Young a few years ago. He briefly worked on an aborted Space:1999 revival attempt back in the '90s. Drop me a line and I'll give you the URL

[shmuli9]

@RepublibotThreePoint I think it's because a lot of people have "forgotten about it". (I'd LOVE to see a remake of this, set in 2099, or some other plausible date, with perhaps not so much silliness, like "being in a different star system every week and getting REALLY near to planets, yet not severely disrupting life there via groundquakes and tides")

[MrLazy27]

@shmuli9 government pork