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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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