| space suit: when contact was first made with the aliens, the inhabitants of earth were understandably shodek to find that they looked like space suits. not that the aliens looked like human beings in space suits, as was first supposed, but that down to the stiff tube joings and fish bowl face plates the body of the other worlders were an almost exact resemblance to the suits designed on Earth during the early stages of space exploration. the only theory about this that made any sense--and one later corroborated by secret files exhumed and made open to the public--was that the superpowers had knowledge of these aliens even in the nascent das of Sputnik and the Voyager, and that when NASA and the rest took to designing the suits that would be worn by men in space, they did so intentionally to make them resemble the alien anatomy. the reason, quite forward thinking for the time, as improbable as it seems today, was that if telescopes were to catch sight of an extra terrestrial buzzing around the stratosphere, the Earthling who made the sighting would not be alarmed or guess the truth, they would merely assume that it was a human being in a "suit", and go on with their business. |