Where you choose to land your spacecraft is very important. Uneven ground and a leg in a hole could mean the end of voyage, a wounded ship unable to leave, and certain demise. That's something that Neil Armstrong, who would have been 86 yesterday, had first hand experience of.
Here we see our aliens have terminated their journey on a reasonably level surface, like Armstrong and Aldrin their decision took some considerable time before they chose a touchdown location. And like Armstrong and Aldrin we now we wait for them to disembark. Although on this occasion we don't watch in black and white at three in the morning while the BBC plays an abstract composition by Pink Floyd - but you can't have everything.*
While waiting, let's consider the idea that the ITV coverage includes AJP Taylor and Sammy Davis Jr discussing the ethics of space exploration.**
And we wait.
...
Klaatu barada nikto.***
* That happened.
** That happened.
*** Alien polari.
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