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Corrected entry: The chariots are electric vehicles (they need to recharge in the sunlight), but they have rev counters. Electric vehicles don't have a rev counter, and even if they did, an electric motor moving the wheels at 9000 rpm would cause the car to move at a ridiculous speed.

Correction: Supposition: we don't know what the future's technology will bring, so mechanical improvements are certainly within possibility.

David R Turner

Regardless of any mechanical improvements, an electric motor spinning the wheels of a vehicle at 9,000 RPM (assuming the wheel's circumference is 1 meter as an understatement), the chariot would be moving at 150 m/s or 500 km/h. The specified in the show that they move at about 35 mph.

You're also entirely discounting the idea of gearing, as used in conventional engines. Without knowing the schematics and internal workings, we can't assume that the electric motor (s) are directly connected to the wheels as they are in modern electric vehicles.

Jon Sandys Premium member

It would appear you two are arguing apples and oranges. If the rev counter is measuring rotations of some undefined motor function, then gearing could make a difference. If, as the original comment states, it is measuring wheel rotation, then that would be post-gearing and the speed issue would be correct.

Looking at the dash board it has two gauges, RPM and Km/H. Also a "4W" "Diff Lock" "H4" indicators, from what I have seen so far about the tech crew of this production, they lack "tech." Those indicators are for standard single engine 4WD. I would say no attempt has been made, when designing the chariot prop, for any proper electric vehicle technology to be researched. Eg, 4 wheel motors.

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Correction: This is incorrect. The TV shown is most likely a Sony Videoscope KP-5040, which was available as early as 1981.

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Witness Marks - S1-E8

Corrected entry: Steve and Leigh visit a fertility clinic. The counselor urges them to keep trying to have a child, noting among other things that Steve's sperm sample shows good motility. Later, we find out that Steve had a vasectomy before they got married, making it impossible for the clinic to harvest a sperm sample.

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Correction: Steve never gives the clinic a sample to test. The counselor stated that the would test for count and motility once they have the sample. When we find out that Steve had a vasectomy, he also states that he never told Leigh about it, so he is just going through the motions at the fertility clinic and already knows his test would show sterile.

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Correction: From Wikipedia: "The term "United Kingdom" became official in 1801 when the parliaments of Britain and Ireland each passed an Act of Union." The abbreviation UK dates from 1883.

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Romans - S1-E10

Corrected entry: In the final minutes of the episode, Henry and Wendell Deaver are playing chess. Henry makes an incorrect move with one of his Knight pieces to take Wendell's Knight. He then announces that he has Wendell in check. Henry's other Knight was in the correct position to make the same move, legally, and remove Wendell's Knight from the game.

MJ1387

Correction: Henry doesn't move his Knight, he moves his Bishop diagonally to take Wendell's Knight. Henry's Bishop now has Wendell's King in check.

Bishop73

My mistake. Thanks for the correction.

MJ1387

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