Other mistake: After the alien probe emits atmosphere on the surface, there's suddenly full gravity, as evidenced by the first two people walking normally. There was no mention of full gravity on the Moon's surface, as all walking before was in microgravity.
Space: 1999 (1975)
1 other mistake in The Last Sunset - chronological order
Starring: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Nick Tate, Zienia Merton
Revealing mistake: Many times throughout the series, the wires that hold up and control the models of the Eagles are easily seen.
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?
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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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