You are strange and off-putting.
Red Dwarf's Holly 
Posted on 09/20/2004 5:39:43 PM PDT by wagglebee
In the days of the Cold War, Soviet commanders and their best scientists were working on a project to build military headquarters on the moon, the Novaya Gazeta weekly reports.
The paper writes that the lunar base project was developed 30 years ago and was abolished only because of its enormous cost.
The newspaper cited Aleksandr Yegorov, deputy general designer of the General Machine Building Design Bureau (the name of the bureau suggests that it deals with top secret military projects) as saying that he personally took part in the development of the lunar base project.
Soviet scientists considered the moon to be a very good place for a strategic headquarters as nuclear strikes on its surface would lose most of their destructive force. As the moon has no atmosphere, no shockwave could spread there and the radioactive dust would immediately fall out back on the surface without an atmosphere to carry it.
The designer also said that the USA had also developed a lunar base project and the Soviet scientists had been aware of these plans.
Yegorov said that the Soviet Union had planned to put two spaceships into orbit and assemble them into a single station that would fly to the moon. At first the lunar settlers were to live in moving shelters and later a stationary base was to be built.
Crews of four cosmonauts were to spend up to one year on the moon. To make the base habitable it would have been furnished with water and air purification systems and even a special space greenhouse.
The project was abolished only due to its enormous cost, Yegorov said. According to him, the Soviet project was "tens of times” more expensive than the Apollo project of the United States, which cost $34 billion.
The moonbase girls remind me of Holly, the ship's computer's "face" on the BBC comedy "Red Dwarf."
Ah, but you see in "Space: 1999" the moon was no longer in orbit about the Earth.
"Kirk to Enterprise... Send down Yeoman Rand and a six-pack"
You are strange and off-putting.
Red Dwarf's Holly
"There is no dark side of the moon really...as a matter of fact it's all dark."
interesting
I don't think this made an episode 'cos I don't remember seeing it but I heard about this clipping. Commander Ellis was portrayed as beautiful and intelligent in most of the eps though. She was treated with respect by her peers. Kind of like Major Samantha Carter of Stargate SG-1 for her time (35 years ago).
I guess my point about Moonbase was that Gerry Anderson's portrayal of life in a moonbase military installation seemed advanced for its time. Or maybe it was just a reflection of the scientific and military dreams of the US and Soviet Union at that time.
Too bad they couldn't plan an invulnerable country...
God bless Gerry & Sylvia Anderson.
What?!?!? No way! Just saw an episode the other night. They had a chick! (But all you see is her face.) Must be some sort of Red Dwarf joke... LOL!
'Zackly.
Red Star in Orbit is a brilliant book, sadly it is out of print, but I re-read my copy from time to time...
I think he knew it too. He was just bein' a smart ass.
Yup. Fairly zinged.
You forgot to add /sarcasm
Had one all prefabbed up in the backyard. Couldn't get it through the side gate, though.
Destination: Moon came first. I haven't seen Road to the Stars, and as far as I know, it hasn't been shown in the United States for about forty years.
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