Continuity mistake: As Helena is tapping on the key panel, the row of black keys goes from second on the right to second on the left and back, showing the shot was reversed.
Space: 1999 (1975)
1 mistake in Ring Around the Moon - chronological order
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Nick Tate, Zienia Merton
Commander John Koenig: Now we're sitting on the biggest bomb man's ever made.
Trivia: All through the run of the first season, the multiple banks of red, white, and black input keys have no numbers, letters, or symbols of any kind, but information can be accurately input.
Question: Assuming that Moonbase Alpha is on the side facing the Earth (which is seen on the horizon over the base in the pilot episode "Breakaway"), making travel to it and back easier, and the nuclear waste on the far side, away from Earth, wouldn't the explosion propel the moon towards the Earth, thereby dooming Alpha to certain destruction?
Answer: Not necessarily - The gravitational fields of Earth and the Sun could have deflected the moon away from the solar system.
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