Free Astronomy Magazine November-December 2021

NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2021 organ rejection and all potentially transmissible diseases between be- ings on different planets. But since the alien civilization is described as much more advanced than ours, it should have been able to solve those problems. However, the same writers find a loophole later in the episodes that makes the transplant scenario less questionable, but by resorting to a gimmick more suited to Star Trek. Inevitably, even the UFO series is a child of its times, and there is no shortage of errors and naivety. Overall, however, it is also a clear photograph of the current events of the time, superimposed on sur- prising intuitions and anticipations: from everyday objects to scientific equipment, from settings to fash- ions, everything is designed for how it may have appeared accord- ing to the viewer a decade later - that is, in the period in which the series is set. The screenwriters do not create a long wait for the viewer curious to discover the faces of the aliens as, in fact, one of them is still alive after the shooting down of his fly- ing saucer. In a low-altitude raid, he had tried to eliminate the leaders of the newly formed SHADO, in- cluding Straker. The alien has hu- man features and a greenish color caused by a liquid, to which we will return later. Attempts to keep the alien alive fail because, for un- known reasons, he quickly ages and