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The Doctor's Option - S1-E3

Factual error: Avichail is talking to the doctor while a tracheostomy tube is inserted into his throat. In reality, it's impossible to talk with a tracheostomy, because the tube diverts the air out before it reaches the vocal cords. He would have to block the tube opening with his finger to make a sound. (00:34:22)

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The Doctor's Option - S1-E3

Factual error: Avichail is speaking while a tracheotomy tube is inserted in his throat. In reality, you can't speak with a tracheotomy because it diverts the air out before it reaches the vocal cords. You'll have to close the tube with your finger to make a sound. (00:34:22)

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Factual error: At the Western Front camp near Washington, you can see tanks moving with their cannons raised to the highest angle. In reality, tanks move with their cannons in a horizontal position. The cannon is raised only when it needs to hit a high target, such as a high floor of a building.

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Revealing mistake: When Jessie falls on her back in the breaking into the White House, you can see she is surrounded by complete bullets, perhaps blanks. One would expect the floor to be covered with used bullet cartridges. (01:35:00)

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Stupidity: When Eitan and Ran escape the Egyptian troops, they take shelter in a creek and fire back at them. Ran is firing from his handgun, but the troops are at least a couple of hundred meters away, while a common handgun can only reach a range of about 30 meters. There is no way the handgun's bullets will even reach the chasing troops. (00:57:24)

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Factual error: Throughout the movie, we see soldiers at the air base control center communicate with the aircrafts using an RT-524 radio transmitter. This radio operates in the VHF range, which is not suitable for communication with fast jets due to the Doppler effect. To communicate with jets, you need a UHF range radio.

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Factual error: When Raban meets the Baron Harkonnen in Harkonnen's bath, the water reaches nearly the top of the bath. As Harkonnen's large body descends into the liquid, the level of the liquid does not rise, in contradiction to Archimedes' principle. (00:46:37)

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Stupidity: During the battle on the harvester, Chani is firing an anti-aircraft projectile at a Sardaukar approaching her. Although the projectile is strong enough to destroy an ornithopter, instead of blasting the Sardaukar away, it pushes it into the air until it hits the harvester track. (00:36:39)

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Two by Two - S1-E6

Continuity mistake: When Alicia presents the slingshot trajectory, Eva says the solar sails will provide "more than enough" power to reach the planet with the U238. Shortly after the sails are deployed, the edge of one of them is damaged, causing the ship to lose enough power to start dropping back to the star. But you can see that about 1/10 of one of the six sails is damaged, or 1.7% of the entire sail array. How is "more than enough" reduced to "not enough" when they lose such a small part of the sails? (00:19:57 - 00:23:33)

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We Weren't Supposed to Be Awake - S1-E4

Factual error: Angus rushes to the bridge to tell the officers that the crystal that contaminated the glove was made from an unknown element, that's not on the periodic table. This means the element is heavier than the heaviest known element, Oganesson. In other words, it's a superheavy element. The problem is superheavy elements have an extremely short half-life time, usually measured by the milliseconds. Anything made from this element will dissipate before or shortly after it hits the ship. (00:40:00)

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We Weren't Supposed to Be Awake - S1-E4

Other mistake: Alicia puts a square tray with vials into a device that looks like a small cabin. Then we see a supposedly top shot of the device, which is a centrifuge. But in the centrifuge, the vials are held in a circle, not in a square. (00:34:00)

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We Weren't Supposed to Be Awake - S1-E4

Other mistake: Alicia puts the vials with the protein in a centrifuge, supposedly in order to mix them. When she's done, she takes a vial and shakes it to make sure it's mixed evenly. However, a centrifuge separates solutions into their ingredients, not mixes them. (00:34:00)

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Get Out and Push - S1-E3

Factual error: When asked how the shuttle will move the large space ship, Alicia says, "We're in space. There's no gravity, resistance, or friction. Size doesn't matter, just force." However, Newton's second law still applies in space. F=m×a, or a=F/m. The acceleration is in direct ratio to the force and opposite ratio with the mass. In other words, given the force the shuttle's engines can apply, and the very large mass of the space ship, the acceleration the shuttle can produce is relatively small. (00:25:56)

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Get Out and Push - S1-E3

Factual error: Alicia realizes that the asteroid is actually a comet by its tail. However, earlier in the episode we are told we are far from any star (so no point in opening the solar sails). The thing is, comets only develop a tail when they are near a star, which blows gases off the comet with the solar wind (the same wind that could operate solar sails). So in reality, there would be no tail to this comet.

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