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21st Mar 2024

Constellation (2024)

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Factual error: Jo is re-entering the atmosphere. There is very hot plasma shown outside, typical of reentry. While this plasma is occurring, there is a communications blackout. Yet Jo seems to be able to communicate with Roscosmos control in spite of that.

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21st Mar 2024

Constellation (2024)

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Factual error: Col. Caldera is on a call on his computer. He is shown in his US Air Force blue uniform. At the beginning of the conversation he has no decorations or ribbons or badges on his uniform. Yet a little later, when we see him from inside the house (albeit with no pants below the uniform jacket!), he is shown with ribbons on the jacket. Further, he has a beard, which is not allowed by Air Force regulations. The only exceptions are with a religious exemption or with a waiver for medical shaving reasons.

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Factual error: Secret Service Agent Miles salutes the President inside of Air Force One and has the other hand on her hip. Secret Service agents do not salute. They are not military.

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17th Mar 2024

Constellation (2024)

Paul Is Dead - S1-E6

Factual error: The female British astronaut is in her space suit. There is a supposedly British flag on her left sleeve. But the flag is wrong. The red diagonal stripes are centered on the white field. They should be off-centered by 3/5 of the white space. Not centered. This is a common mistake you find in British flags bought outside the UK.

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Factual error: Mr. Monk is crossing off days on a calendar until Trudy's passing anniversary. Three days before, he says "only two days left." Mr. Monk is too much of a perfectionist to say that. How did this happen?

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Beyond Logic - S1-E10

Factual error: Season 1, Episode 10: Lee is trying to get out of the underworld on his capsule with the rescued others. They all get in, and he closes the top hatch by turning the hatch wheel clockwise. Trying to take off, a wire becomes disconnected outside, and Lee has to go out again. He turns the hatch wheel clockwise, and this time it opens instead of closing. If it was clockwise for close, it should be counterclockwise to open.

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1st Jan 2024

Breaker High (1997)

Factual error: The USS King's crew are all wearing blue camos with US NAVY on their left chest. Yet the Skipper keeps calling them Marines.

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Factual error: Lieutenant Commander Sharp addresses the crew of the USS King. At the end, he shouts "Semper Fi." Marines say "Semper Fi," not Navy personnel. "Hooyah!" would have been more appropriate. By the way, I don't think bright metal collar insignias are worn with the blue camo uniform. They use subdued rank insignia. But I am not sure.

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Factual error: Lieutenant Commander Cole goes to the skipper's office with his hands in his pockets and proceeds to talk to him, and not once does he remove his hands from his pockets. This is a military no-no. A person in uniform NEVER walks or talks with his hands in his pockets.

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Suggested correction: Not necessarily. 1) This was during the Vietnam war, a lot of regs are overlooked. 2) The old military phrase "RHIP" (Rank has its privileges).

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I respectfully disagree. I was an officer in Vietnam during the war, and the Air Force would not tolerate it even there. Maybe the Navy was more lax.

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Factual error: CPT Leo tells Harp he just flew 10,000 to get there. This war is in Europe. Even assuming the easternmost area, say Poland, Nevada is only 5,700 miles away.

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Factual error: LT Harp is talking with CPT Leo. Leo, reciting Harp's achievements, says he has 56,000 hours of flying drones. Impossible. A Lieutenant, say a First Lieutenant, would be promoted to Captain in typically four years. 56,000 hours in four years is 4,667 a month. It should be divided by eleven, as he is entitled to one month leave. So the corrected amount is 5,091 hours a month. This is 254.55 hours per workday! Yeah, right.

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Factual error: At his hearing, a drone pilot (a lieutenant) is asked where he did his basic training. He replied, "Parris Island." Wrong. US Air Force officers do not go to Parris Island. Some, such as ROTC and Academy graduates, do not go to basic training at all. Others go to Officer Training School. Parris is a Marine Corps base that gives basic training to enlisted Marine Corps personnel.

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24th Oct 2023

Mafia Mamma (2023)

Factual error: Kristin meets Lorenzo at the airport. He asks for her number, which she gives him. Later when he calls her, her Mafia family take the phone and smash it to pieces while she's talking. They give her a new burner phone. They say they did a background check on Lorenzo. How? The family never met him at the airport, the only time she saw him. Further, when they meet for dinner (how she found him is another mystery), she shows him a picture of her son on the phone. How did a photo get on her new phone?

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23rd Oct 2023

Farscape (1999)

Premiere - S1-E1

Factual error: CDR Crighton has on his astronaut flight suit. He is wearing an American flag on his right upper arm. But the flag has the field of stars to his rear. It is a flag designed to be worn on the left arm, not the right.

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17th Oct 2023

Expend4bles (2023)

Factual error: Lee Christmas commandeers a small wooden boat from Thailand to intercept a container ship carrying nuclear materials. The distance between Thailand and Vladivostok is around 4,000 nautical miles. It is extremely unlikely that a small wooden boat would be able to motor from Thailand and intercept a container ship. It would never have enough fuel to go and return. Further, a container ship cruises at around 21 Knots, a much faster speed than a small wooden boat.

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17th Oct 2023

Expend4bles (2023)

Factual error: A clandestine team of men and women is being transported to near the coast of Vlavidostok to parachute down and capture nuclear detonators. They are shown being transported in a US Air Force C-130 Hercules. This is a no-no. The CIA does use the Lockheed L-100-30, the civilian version of the Hercules, but would never have Air Force markings for a clandestine operation, especially inside Soviet airspace.

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17th Oct 2023

Expend4bles (2023)

Factual error: The movie makes a mention of a CIA black site in the South Asia Sea. There is no such sea. Between the North Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean there are many "seas", the largest being the South China Sea. But there are also others such as the Andaman, Java, Banda, Timor, Celebes, and Sulu seas. There is no South Asia Sea.

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20th Jul 2023

Foundation (2021)

In Seldon's Shadow - S2-E1

Factual error: Season 2, Episode 1: Two women are diving and need to open an electrical panel. The mother drops the knife she is using to twist off the screws. Her daughter picks up the blade – by the blade and not the handle – and then proceeds to twist the access screws. The screws are on the panel at each front corner. When the panel is removed, there are no front-facing screw holes. All the screws seen are on the inside of the panel to the sides.

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