Corrected entry: All satellites orbiting the earth experience a phenomenon known as "orbital decay" - the process of prolonged reduction in the height of a satellite's orbit. Larger satellites, like those shown in the movie, are especially susceptible to this as they collide with molecules in the outer atmosphere. The satellites depicted in the movie could not possibly have lasted over 700 years in orbit; the Skylab space station, for example, was only able to stay in orbit for six years before it crashed to earth.
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20th Sep 2009
Wall-E (2008)
13th Jan 2020
Wall-E (2008)
Continuity mistake: All the makeup that Wall-E has put on him in the repair bay disappears instantly. (00:51:00)
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Suggested correction: Simply untrue. At 00:52:43, WALL-E receives a cute make-up. At 00:52:54, WALL-E shakes off its fake eyelashes. At 00:52:57, a suction machine sprays white soap over WALL-E, who activates its wipers (screenshot's top pane). By 00:53:06, WALL-E's face has lost much soap but is still stained. At 00:53:17, WALL-E is clean again, but the suction robot is busy sucking WALL-E's soap (screenshot's bottom pane).
13th Mar 2020
Wall-E (2008)
Character mistake: Captain McCrea tells the passengers that it's the 700th anniversary of the Axiom's first flight. The Axiom has been in flight for 255,642 days. Actually, 700 years is 255,675 days. That figure includes the additional day in 175 leap years.
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Suggested correction: Leap years only occur because of the earth's rotation around the sun. As the AXIOM is in space, there is no need to correct for the earth's rotation.
First, rotation is the spin of the Earth (which cause day and night). Revolution is the earth orbiting the sun (which causes years). However, this correction is not valid on the premise you're trying to present. Many films set in space still use Earth time, so a day is 24-hours, even though they're in space and there is no sunrise and sunset (although it's stated the Axiom operates on a 25-hour day). So they would use Earth's year, which takes 365.256 days. Since the Axiom isn't orbiting the Sun, it wouldn't experience a year, so they're using something else. The fact that they're slightly off suggests it's a writing mistake and there's no evidence they use an arbitrary 365.203 day year.
That's still wrong. Even if their years were strictly 365 days, 700 years would be 255,500 days, not 255,642.
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Correction: Human technology presented here was able to create, among other things, a huge spaceship filled with a great number of humans over several centuries, with artificial gravity and a whole host of intelligent robots. Building satellites that are able to stay in orbit for a few centuries should be rather easy for them.
"Orbital decay" is the least of the problems here. Thrice throughout the film, we see a densely packed envelope of trashed satellites (which have lost the ability to fight orbital decay). The real threat to this envelope is called a "collisional cascade." The EVE's transport alone must have initiated one. At 0:33:34, we see the ship going through the envelope and... leaves it largely untouched. This is either magic or a movie mistake.
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