eagles were cool, i used to have one aswell.

i still have the moonbase alpha fact file somewhere. (obtained later in life, mothers tend to throw stuff out lol)

but no, i didnt know that, cheers.

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Edited by - git on 11/2/2006 4:11:36 AM

lol - i'm watching moonbase alpha on an MST3K stream right now(ktma vintage) - its horrrribbble

if you liked moonbase alpha (in a campy way) you might also enjoy these other MSTy's with or without rips
Space Mutiny
Project Moonbase
Prince of Space
Fugitive Alien
Star Force: Fugitive Alien 2
Stranded in Space
Rocketship X-M
Moon Zero Two
First Spaceship on Venus
Stranded in Space
Crash of the Moons

you can find a list of all the post-ktma MST3k rips here

thanks CV, that's a great list! The only one that immediately springs to mind is Moon Zero 2 which iirc was a Hammer production? the others look familiar and I must have seen them way back when, they seem like standard Saturday afternoon and late night after the pubs close fare!

when i was a very small Taw, i was staying at my granny's one summer and I saw part of a film called Robinson Crusoe on Mars which i thought was great. i didn't see it again for maybe 25 years? (these were pre-interweb, pre-dvd, even pre-VHS dayspartially - oh yes) needless to say when i eventually saw it again, it was dire, but at least i got to know how it ended (dreadfully, actually)

if you like camp trashy sci-fi hokum, then i highly recommend Life Force, full of well-known faces for us SF buffs and one of the most engaging piles of utter tosh ever made! zombies, spacecraft, sexy vampires (Mathilda May <yum> Jean-Luc Picard and an exploding Frank Finlay

To be serious, in our current predicament it is unlikely that this planet will remain habitable in the next few hundred years, so all countries should put their heads together to find a way of putting our little human arses on the moon (or any other part of theis system) to save us from extinction.


"The Emperor will show you the true nature of the Force. He is your master now."

do we really deserve to survive if we destroy our home? would any new neighbors welcome such a pest (or scourge)? methinks not :O

yup taw, moon zero two is a hammer productions flick. imo robinson crusoe on mars is a great movie when compared to moonbase alpha - moonbase alpha only looks good compared to a Tek Jansen adventure, or that ancient silent sci-fi short where they shot an artillery shell full of men into the moon's eye. looking back on it now i still think crusoe on mars is a good movie also, how did it end? I can't remember! moon zero two is even worse than moonbase alpha- the budget is lush enough, but the story shuffles along at a snails pace and never fails to explain what will happen next, spoiling every moment of high-tension quarter-speed gun fighting.

back on off topic topics, i think its foolish (and that's being kind) to think that the diaspora can be carried out with what we have for propulsion today - even Orion, the nuclear-pulse driven ship would take lifetimes to reach the nearest star, which doesn't have a habitable planet. if we can't learn to use what we already have wisely, we're certainly not capable of living in the 10000% more hostile and desolate environs of space. besides that it's an elitist pipedream - the idea of less than 1% of humanity surviving the apocalypse is very appealing to those who feel they belong in that 1%

then again, we know it's not impossible for humanity to spring back from the brink - we know now that at one point the global population was reduced to something like 5000 humans (based on current DNA and statistical models of mutation that don't agree with the lack of diversity in the human genome). if it happens it happens, if not humanity ends right here on the rock where it began. either way, none of us are getting outta here alive! imo we're better off praying to an omnipotent deity to save us than NASA, who couldn't find Uranus with a 20 meter refractive telescope

Edited by - Cold_Void on 11/5/2006 8:32:19 AM

Edited by - Cold_Void on 11/5/2006 8:33:23 AM

Why don't a private company take there money and invest it in something like this? It has to have some value, and then they would hold a monopoly on space if they discover a lot of information needed to live in space and/or on the moon.

CV, I waited years to find out how it ended, and it's terribly predictable and disappointing when you consider how engaging the film is for most of its running time.

after a while the astronaut finds that he's not alone on Mars, aliens are using it as a mining bases and they've got slaves. one of the slaves escapes and the Yank rescues him and calls him Friday, of course. they're chased by the aliens (the bombardment is quite scary) and although they survive, they have to be careful in future. The American teaches Friday english and how to do stuff and in return Friday shows him oxygen pill plants or summat and water, that will keep them alive.

Eventuallyt hey aliens find them and they have to escape across Mars to the pole, chased by the aliens, until Friday's slave shackles come off and the aliens can't track them anymore. However theyre nearly out of air pills, food, water, and prepare to die at the Martian pole, until, deus ex machina a rescue ship from Earth passes over and they radio it and are picked up.

yes it's tripe but it had some lovely poignant moments such as when the astronaut eventually blows up his orbiter by remote, as he can't get back to it and it's passing over just serves to taunt him about his situation.