Free Astronomy Magazine November-December 2021

NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2021 In episode 17, “Sub-Smash”, we find Straker trapped in a SkyDiver dam- aged by a submarine attack. In the 18 th , “The Sound of Silence”, the ab- duction of a terrestrial confirms the fact that aliens prefer to hide their aircraft underwater, where they last longer than the two days typically endured in the atmosphere before exploding (it is not said why this happens). In episode 19, “The Cat with Ten Lives”, the theme of the true nature of the aliens returns to the center, up to that point described as humanoids that have only some organs ex- planted from unfortunate earthlings (note that aliens never get given a common name: they are simply “aliens”). A new autopsy on an alien reveals that in reality the whole body is human and that the only anomaly is represented by the brain, from which the areas dedicated to emo- tions and creativity are removed, while the analytic and logic areas re- main. According to a bold hypothesis by Dr. Douglas Jackson (played by actor Vladek Sheybal), medical offi- cer of SHADO, aliens are incorporeal