SPACE:1999 Alpha Food Production
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- čas přidán 16. 04. 2021
- "...if our food chain goes, we are finished." - Dan Mateo in the episode "The Troubled Spirit."
There was mention of growing limitless crops of mushrooms, Protein Production Units, soy burgers, and a French restaurant at the end of block D level 9. Bergman says in "Mission of the Darians." "these are the components we use to provide our food on Alpha. They're processed and recycled of course to make them palatable." - Huh? We see houseplants in Hydroponics, a jug of biscuits(?) in Bergman's quarters, a dinner party for Taybor with small plates of nibbles, and a tray of food served to Sahala in detention. But we never see how Moonbase Alpha produces food. (We did certainly see in graphic detail how the Darians made food!) This concept explores how Alpha could feed 300 people every day. - Krátké a kreslené filmy
It amazes me how this 1970s classic still has the power to inspire such imaginative fan made art. I’m loving it :-)
The care that the production team gave to the 1st season is very inspiring.
Graphics technology and AI are getting good enough it could be possible to reboot the show at a fraction of its original cost.
Alpha haunts all our dreams, even fifty years later. This is beautiful work.
Thank you!
I absolutely love this. My imagination goes wild with the possibility of a first-season episode set in these environments. What fun!
Thanks!
I so miss this show! I wish it would come back but updated.
Absolutely fantastic.
Many thanks!
Ted, you are a pioneer in this area! To analize the Alpha food sustenance. Definitely a basic aspect to the Moonbase.
I had never seen something like that before!
My compliments for your creativity and love for Space: 1999!
Greetings from Italy.
Many thanks! I had always wanted to explore the minimal requirements for food, after I learned that a continuous diet of dehydrated food is not healthy. I did a little research, and went with the fish farm, bio-reactors, and a list of about 15 vegetables and tubers that provided the most nutrition.
Thrilled to see a new installment in this series The detail, pace, use of music, camera POV is excellent throughout. Thank you so much for keeping this series alive and creating dimensions that extend the visual design and feel of series one.
Thanks very much for your kind words. It's great fun working with the series' design style.
G R E A T work Ted... Thank you! Space:1999 Premiered on my 13th birthday, Sept 9, 1975 in rural Illinois. I still have all the collectibles after 45 or so years.
Thoughts: if you show the moon again, how about with a likely sized piece missing due to explosions that sent it on its journey... and fill in the recessed areas in the nose cone - black glass - lower areas become more habitable in case of separation or for another crew member riding the center beam down there... above retracted seats, once occupied, tip back a bit and slide into domes. Finally, pilots have a much clearer view of craft's surroundings.
I love putting your videos on the biggest screen possible and just enjoying the walk-through.
Reminds me of some of the cinematography in S1.
The slow, moderately paced shots of Main Mission and the corridors. Or the Nuclear Generating Area in Force of Life.
Never thought I would walk through Moonbase Alpha ever again.
But I have, thanks to you!
Nicely done! This is what a real moonbase/marsbase will have to emulate for survival.
I love how you fleshed out these environments from the old show and made them more "actual". like adding the lavatory door in the power station video, the sink alcove with the wash towels hanging next to it in this video and computer screens that look to show "meaningful" data on them. Well done!
Thank you.
Love all these works showing things you wondered about when the series was a regular thing. I've lived this show since I was a kid and still watch episodes to this day. A classic that never goes out of style. Thank you for sharing these short videos with us.
I am going to have questions shortly, more than likely. But for the moment, I'm going to just sit with this and take in the visuals!
All we have to do is find some good actors, a costume maker, a writer and some green screen cable video creator and a new series Space:1999 can be created :)
I feel like there are enough people to campaign for it. You'd have to spin it a bit, either resolve what happened to the characters and moon base alpha many years later. Or look at everything from the point of view of the inhabitants of moon base alpha, helpless as to the events around them, with a distant representation of the main characters in the background.
The Big Finish audio actors seem to do well enough. So that's out of the way...
Brilliant, totally brilliant, even after watching for forty years Alpha never gets old and now; a new lease of life, keep it up and lets see more of this amazing work, love the new Eagle and the Exploration "tank" was great!
The production work on 1999 was so very good - it's a lot of fun to work with.
Space fish, that's snappy. Animation and music are near perfect 👌
Fantastique. Bravo pour tout ce travail.
Merci pour ton mots gentil!
Our future, that was! Great work, absolutely brilliant! Thank you for producing this, it brings back so many memories of the show for me, really cool! The music is so distinctive and iconic!
Thank you! Glad you liked it :)
Hi, I congratulate you on the videos you make. I am a big fan of Space 1999, a series that I learned to appreciate when I was a kid. Now that I'm an adult, I still like the series due to its ingenuity and artisanal special effects, far removed from those of modern-day films. I've always liked the Alpha lunar base, it's nice that you showed off all those particular and sophisticated technical sections that are sometimes mentioned in the show but are never shown. Thanks and greetings from Italy.
That was fantastic, great job!
Thank you very much!
Wow, those are some really nice vids you have made. I like the behind-the-scenes kind of vibe it gives, seeing things we normally don't in the show.
This is absolutely brilliant! I hope to see more.
Got to marvel at the modular nature of everything created for that show. Way ahead of its time. I mean, in an age of robots, automated 3D printing and CAD all of this makes perfect sense. But back then they really were guessing. Sure, the original technology built into the corridor comm centres is a bit of an anachronism these days. But aside from tweaking it for a more modern feel everything else looks as futuristic now as it did back then. I think I remember Brian Johnson talking about how the mass produced, modular nature of the walls, ceilings and doors really helped them because instead of tearing down one set and chucking it on the fire (the movie and TV industry has always been very wasteful) they could re-assemble it into dozens of new set configurations which kept the costs down.
Staggering work, as ever. I'm in awe of you.
Love it. Alpha makes a great model from which to design our first moon base. I wish they would have explored more about the base in the series rather than weird encounters all the time.
That was great! The music and the sound effect fit perfectly too. Congratulations!
this is so impressive, the detail is amazing
A true labor of love. Well done.
Simply awesome. Love your work!!! Nice to see Space 1999 kept alive and it seems only a matter of time until a re-boot with plausible “Expanse style” physics - it’ll be a case of whether a production company sees this as financially viable …. No doubt this will be the biggest hurdle. The detail you show in your vid’s gives this a sense of attainable reality.
hope you see this reply Gee Bee, you mentioned the Expanse style. I watched 2 episodes of that then stopped, cannot recall why. Lockdown came along and i watched the whole thing... wow. A reboot could work IF the producers look to the fan base etc, could be really something. Love this channels videos, i can do model making fairly well (as in the tv series before cgi) but totally admire those that can do cgi, its all good if its quality sci fi. Having seen the video of the explorer vehicle i am very tempted to do one as an RC vehicle.... started making drawings already .
Outstanding work. The recreation and reimagining of the sets combined with sounds and musical score from the original series is inspired!
Thanks! There's a temptation to use updated music, but it wouldn't be 1999 without Barry Gray!
Absolutely outstanding. Just beautiful
Ted Rivers, do more video I loved your beautiful work of SPACE:1999 videos.
Thank's a lot for this video !
Understand, this is a great example of being self-sufficient. This is stuff that was sci-fi then/capable now. Hydroponics, fish farming, meat from animal tissue cell production.
I like this video, it should inspire those that understand off the grid living. Certainly the moon as an example, defiantly illustrates the idea of island survival, of a desert plain, in the vacuum of space.
My reaction to the one negative vote, "Oh, who's the nerd that down voted this?" We need food production like this when people are going, 'Omega Man' for toilet paper around town.
An absolute joy to watch, thank you Ted!
Glad you enjoyed it
Amazing! Loved the tour through the interiors. Really nice work!
Thank you very much!
Very good video. Well thought out with great fx. ❤️
As always Ted ... beautiful work. Your interiors a simply perfect. What is it about the interior design of Alpha that makes my heart race 49 years after Keith Wilson first designed and built them?
On a playful note: by season 2 those production facilities would have hurriedly been moved beneath the moon's surface into the catacombs or excavated caverns for protection from the dangers of travelling through interstellar space!!!
I enjoy watching your videos more than the original series :)
You capture the best elements of the show’s nature!
Wow, thank you!
I think that as Base Commander, I would be moving that lot a good distance underground. It's a major vulnerability.
Ice asteroid capture missions would be an absolute priority, and I'd be loosing a lot of sleep over trace element deficiencies.
Attacks by BEM's & LGM's with issues would be somewhat farther down my list of concerns.
Yes, meteors and micro meteors are concerning. I'm guessing it would be easier to bury habitats - I really don't know enough about lunar geology to say that building underground would be easy - I suspect it would be extremely difficult. Ultimately these videos are a tribute to the series, and for the most part it's set above ground.
@@romeo3928 Word is from those who went there and did the work in the Apollo days, the dust gets into *everything*.
In the series they did this to explain the change in the base command center design.
Usual story. What looks good on camera is usually an epically bad idea in real life.
Your videos are fantastic by the way.
WOW....
That makes sense!
Awesome, Ted!
Sierra Space just posted on FB about an Orbital Reef concept for feeding space missions and improving production on Earth.
MORE of these!!!!!!!
This is an excellent work.
I hope if they remake 1999 that they put a semblance of this. I also hope it survives breakaway, and any other alien incursion issues Alpha encountered.
totally amazing!
Thanks!
If they don't have an office copy paper production unit, they're in real trouble.
This an amazing piece of work I could have been taken from the series footage I have not got a clue how you do it
Thank you! 3ds Max is a great rendering software.
Great work and believable.
Thank you!
Neat!
This is great And realistic as well.
SO COOL!!! :)
The show had to leave SOME details 'to the imagination', else it would've taken decades to produce. Even Gene Roddenberry said it would've taken until 1980 to make Star Trek if he kept taking notes on space technology and adjusting the designs.
The soundtrack of the Coomlock is the ringtone of my iPhone sine the iPhone 3G.
Amazing Masterwork!!! I would like together with you realise a virtual tour in the alpha moon base. I can make it....we could realise it together
Thank you!
Anderson's Alpha. They should have a dome for farm cattle.👍🥗🍗🍔🥓🍗🥩🍖🤠
I want to live there.
awesome......fish and chips every day, with green salad, and green tea,.......( wonder is any gutsy moonwalker is brewing beer somewhere?)
Fish and chips! I wonder if they had a mushy pea production desk somewhere too :-)
Look for Tony Verdeschi. It seems as if he was balancing his time between hydroponics and security...
Very ingenious Thank you, wonder if that's were Tony grows the hops for his horrible beer (:
Lol - could be!
Always wonder where Moonbase alpha got their food. great video !
Thanks!
Really excellent work. What did you use to render it in?
Thanks! I do the 3D modeling in both Autocad and 3ds Max, and render and animate in 3ds Max.
@@romeo3928 Remind me to hire you when we get started on our Sci-Fi RPG... :)
this is great mate!
Thanks!
you are welcome!
I subscribed because anything is possible! 🌠
Hi Ted, the videos you made are incredible, congratulations. I'd like to know all the videos, I can find eagle, water, food, and the tube. do you have others? Also, do you have a website? I'm looking and seem I can't find. Also I know you are on facebook but there are several Ted Rivers I can'f find a graphic Designer. Thanks
1:05 - did you see that! The fish moved! lol
You noticed! :)
amazing design !!!!,, i think this could be updated to show the benefits of aquaponics vs hydroponics ..
the fish and the plants might have to take up the same space just for efficency sake
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I'd love to see a remake of "Space: 1999", only this time set in motion under more plausible circumstances. Perhaps the moon is sent traveling through hyperspace by some kind of accidental bi-product of a space-warp experiment, or some such. The whole nuclear explosion thing never made sense from a physics perspective. It didn't stop me from enjoying the series as a teenager, but even then it bugged me.
Tony: we also have beer!
Not a fan of Space 1999, but the CGI modeling and animation is verry, very good.
Now that we've seen the floor plans, where are the bathrooms/wc?
Will there be a Main Mission/Command Center one?
Aww....poor fish. I KNOW I KNOW!!! But damn!!! Poor fish!
Yes, I saw you wrote, you explained on the comment. But do you have a website? Also I saw some of your work, do you have any other one I didn't see? thanks
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Nice of the alien attacks not to target these places or they are very well built
seriously though whats with ceiling fans?
Lol top ! 😁
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Where were Tony's hops?
There's a small corner in a storage room ;)
Tony is known for his MOON SHINE IF ONLY HE HAD SOME CANABIS SEEDS😅😊😂
No battery chicken egg farms?
How much would you pay for a clam, muscle, shrimp grown in space? Would you eat it? And squid I see....
Eating algae
Je veux un jeu vidéo comme ça . Nintendo 64 se sont lancé , à l' époque . Mais là , ICI , j' en veux PLUSIEURS de ce genre , et maintenant .
Compris !!! ... o 0
Pour PC , et pas trop demandant pour la puissance , carte vidéo .
J' attends ... c'est long ... o 0
Shouldn't all this be underground? What if they were attacked or a meteor or space debris struck this location, they would be screwed.
@romeo3928 >>> You could say you made this video _"Just for the halibut."_
{I will see myself to the door now...🤭}
I did laugh out loud - thanks for that!
If it was like that no need to search for a planet, truth is they had to eat toothpaste stuff breakfast lunch and dinner
i wonder what effect moon gravity has on fish.
Great question - as being underwater is essentially like being weightless...
@@romeo3928 true though even then with less gravity that should also mean less water pressure as that is dictated by gravity.
@@romeo3928 also when's main mission getting it's chance to shine? o3o
@@cyberstar251 Great point! I found an article that NASA did bring fish up into space, and yes, they were disoriented for a few days, but eventually oriented themselves to light - they figured that a light source is up. No mention was made about water pressure.
@@cyberstar251 I have a clip of Main Mission at the end of my travel tube vid. MM is redesigned to fit within a cluster of Eagle pods. My next vid may re-visit MM.
This is incredible - Has Elon contacted you already to design his martian city?
Thank you!
@@romeo3928 Do you have a site, a webpage, LinkedIn page that I can follow? Space 1999 was my childhood prefered series (although I was not allowed to watch it as it gave me nightmares) and made me love sci-fi forever...I would love to know more about your project
Okay why is all of this on the surface where a solar storm could kill every living thing in a few hours? It needs to be underground or with a few tons of regalith on top. Water is like gold so open tanks are insane. they would be glass pipes(glass is super cheap on the Moon) so the fish could swim and be sealed to prevent the water waste. Silly design.
Thumbs down. The exteriors look nothing like Alpha, and having a fish farm is stupid: you waste energy and food by feeding the fish, instead you can just eat the fish's food.