Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ncoast.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!cwruecmp!atvax!ncoast!bsa From: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery (the tame hacker on the North Coast)) Newsgroups: net.tv,net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Space: 1999 Message-ID: <548@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Sat, 19-Jan-85 18:16:25 EST Article-I.D.: ncoast.548 Posted: Sat Jan 19 18:16:25 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 22-Jan-85 05:21:57 EST References: <173@tekred.UUCP> <113@entropy.UUCP><225@calmasd.UUCP> <625@voder.UUCP> Reply-To: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery (the tame hacker on the North Coast)) Organization: The North Coast Xenix System, Cleveland Lines: 53 Xref: watmath net.tv:2317 net.sf-lovers:5720 Summary: > Article <625@voder.UUCP>, from kevin@voder.UUCP (The Last Bugfighter) +---------------- | The only thing I really had a hard time with, other than the fact the | moon must have been traveling at hyper-speed or falling into space warps | right and left) As I remember it, spacewarps played a large part in quite a few episodes. They went through one just before they got to Psychon (see below); they passed through a black hole as (I think) the third episode, surviving because they had a super gravity warp they devised as a result of their being blasted away in the first place (don't you just *love* it); they went through one while leaving some people behind inspecting an alien vessel (which just happened to have a spacewarp detector in it), et cetera. They also went through one just prior to returning to Earth every time they did return (but I'm not certain of that). Time was thrown off by these spacewarps, I believe. +---------------- | was the alien women character in the second season who | could change her shape into anything. I can't remember her name (something | like Myra) but she was played by Catherine Schnell. I just cannot accept Maia, played by Catherine SCHELL. | that a 110-120 pound person can change into a 200lb panther and then into | an insect! Something about conservation of mass and energy. If mass and | energy are truly the same then a 300lb monster would have no energy left and | a tiny fly would have so much it probally couldn't contain it. I can (barely) see the massiveness question; although how a 120 lb insect could move, I know not... but what really threw me was the fact that she could transmute in the first place. How did she hold 120 lbs = 4.889e25 ergs (thank you, "units" :-) of energy together without turning herself (and the moon) into a mushroom cloud? Or were her shape changes reminiscent of a Tleilaxu Face Dancer? | I did like the designs of the Eagle Transporters and the Hawk attack ships, | I thought they looked quite realistic and the concept of the cargo modules | made sense, although you probally had to be carefull about fancy manouvers | if you wern't carrying a cargo section as it must have strengthend the | entire framework. Eccept that they always flew with SOME kind of module; the cargo module (plain), or the bomb module (red striped), or *something*. (Amazing what you can remember of rotten shows; it just proves the saying about bad news vs. good news...) --bsa -- Brandon Allbery @ decvax!cwruecmp!ncoast!bsa (..ncoast!tdi1!bsa business) 6504 Chestnut Road, Independence, Ohio 44131 +1 216 524 1416 (or what have you) Who said you had to be (a) a poor programmer or (b) a security hazard to be a hacker?