Alan sings "pack up your troubles", a 1915 song by English songwriter George Henry Powell (Asaf), which became massively popular during the First World War.Rowland believes that death has no dominion over them ("We shall be as gods in the Universe!"). See also the 1914 Dylan Thomas poem "And Death shall have no dominion". The title is from Romans 6 Christ is raised from the dead, "death hath no more dominion over him".Note that Helena's Alpha insignia is on the right chest, but on the left chest for male suits. Only use of the Alphan ski-suits (that aren't used when it gets cold in Black Sun or Testament Of Arkadia).The X5 computer panels seen on Ultima Thule show that Moonbase Alpha's computer is at least 13 years old. There was a manned mission to the planet Uranus in 1986.The technology is also used in Space Brain and Collision Course. Interstellar strength communications are referred to.The Alphans have passed through time warps ( Another Time, Another Place) so it is not surprising it is 2870.It seems unlikely there are any large fires on the ice planet. Smog is pollution (named from smoke and fog)- it is caused by smoky fires (from burning forests or houses and cars). It has an unusual "snowman" shape composed of two asteroids that have fused together. The New Horizons probe passed it in January 2019. A 30-km diameter irregularly shaped object in the Kuiper belt (beyond Neptune) designated (486958) 2014 MU69 was named "Ultima Thule" in 2018.The term was used in medieval literature for a remote island in the frozen north. The poet Virgil used the term "Ultima Thule" in the poem Georgics (29 BC), meaning the end (limit) of the world. It may refer to Norway, Iceland or the Shetland Isles. In Roman archives, Thule is an island 6 days sail from Britain, considered the most northerly part of the world.Library track from Joe 90 "The Big Fish" by Barry Gray.Meanwhile one day a group of riggers were found in the middle of the set eating their prawn sandwiches. It took much persuasion to complete the episode. Unimpressed, the Landaus got their own expert to say the doctor's level was unacceptable. He then enjoyed a drink with Gerry, but by the time he met the Landaus he was the worse for wear. Landau and Bain were still worried, so Gerry Anderson called in an eminent Harley Street doctor. The public health inspector was called and determined the fumes were uncongenial but safe.
Nobody expected such an overreaction, but it did cause quite a stir.Ī special vacuum pump was installed to clear the air after every shot, but it was still asphyxiating. There were men working on the set, sitting there eating prawn sandwiches in their break, saying, 'What smell?" They had scientists and all sorts of people doing tests, and of course at the end of the day they all said it was unpleasant but totally harmless.
What are we gong to do?" It was ridiculous, because once you got used to it, you couldn't smell it any more and it wasn't harmful to you in any way.
The set was finished with all the snow on it and when Gerry brought Martin and Barbara in to show them, it made their eyes water, This immediately caused a panic: 'We're shooting on this on Monday. We were due to shoot on it on the Monday and we were dressing it over the weekend. The set was huge, it covered the whole stage. It was a 'bleach' smell or something like it, and it made your nostrils tingle. They used formaldehyde to create the snow, but it did leave an odour. We compiled these shapes, and then we covered them with foam, to lose all the roughness and give it nice icy shapes. I went around the lot at Pinewood, collecting all sorts of bits and pieces. I don't have it set up for timing with that, though, sorry.Keith Wilson: I built the set out of rubbish, literally. (You gotta copy paste one line at a time, but if you remove the ending ] when you paste each line, it'll wait until it sees a ] and then does each line you previously entered in turn. RAW Paste Data Copied The text-to-speech singing in "Attack on Moonbase" by Tryhard Videos (me), for pasting in Moonbase Alpha