The top mistakes in 2001: A Space Odyssey http://www.moviemistakes.com/film8 en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:55:00 +0000 9851 When we see the space station from the cockpit of the approaching shuttle, the station does not appear to rotate because the shuttle is rotating at the same speed. OK...except that the station IS still rotating with respect to the sun, which means that the light source and shadows on the station should be moving. 15450 The view of the front of the moon buggy shows the sunlight coming from the right side of the screen(Pilot's left shoulder) But when we see his view out the window, the sunlight casts shadows as if the sun was behind them. 93642 When Dave gets his supper,the order of the slop from right to left are: yellow, light brown, light brown, dark brown. Later when he's eating the order is: yellow, orange brown, dark brown, light brown. 55389 Several times during Heywood's speech to the team at the crater, his arms shift from his sides with hands in pockets to in front of him with hands on the podium. 52215 When the astronauts are on the way to the monolith on the Moon, there are two windows seen within the interior of the small space shuttle. During their small lunch, in the left window, the horizon is seen as the surface of the Moon is flowing back against the direction of the flight. However, although sometimes this horizon fills up to half of the window, no horizon can be seen in the right window despite being located directly beside the left window. Nevertheless, the inclination of the Lunar surface should allow for it to be seen.