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The Series Has Landed
Giant Birds?: In the Planet Express advertisement, there is a giant
bird which swoops down and captures a PE employee delivering a package. The atmosphere
on that planet must about equal in density to that on Earth (as a man stood in
it without a spacesuit). Considering that, it would be impossible for a bird of
that size to fly, as it would be too heavy and couldn't get nearly enough lift
with its normally proportioned wings.
Solution by Cash Kennedy: The person is in a spacesuit in commecial first off (although spacesuit looks heavily damaged
after he gets shot by lasers). Second a human could live at a significantly higher atmosphere, so
long as the partial pressure of oxygen stayed around .1-.3 atm, (see wikipedia
/Oxygen#Toxicity_of_O2) and humans could adapt to the extra pressure, with time
and limited exposure to at least a couple times our normal pressure, which
should be enough to allow that bird to fly, which is only a little bit
bigger then some of the largest flying birds on our planet.
Where's Evans?: In the first part of the advertisement, a man is swallowed
by the gelatenous blob, and says "I'm not Evans", but later on the same
person is shown, and is Evans (or at least delivers the package and doesn't correct
his boss that he is not Evans).
Solution by mtvcdm - They were clones seperated at birth.
Egg on their face: Any commercially produced eggs would almost certainly
not have chicks inside them, so why did one of the giant eggs hatch and attack
the professor? Also, it takes far longer than just a few seconds for a bird to
get out of its egg.
Solution by caped_avenger - Obviously the eggs have been tampered with,
and I expect birds have evolved to get out of their shells quicker.
Top of the Charts: Perhaps Dr. Zoidberg is incompetent enough
not to notice when he put a chart of a human body upside down on the
wall, but wouldn't he notice that the text was upside down too?
Nice Wheels!: If the moon cars are supposed to spend all their
time on a track, why is it possible to steer and drive them off the
track?
Fungeneering?: The fungeneers know there are no whales on the
moon, so why would they think whalers went to the moon? Also, given
that they have knowledge of the TV comedian, and "Single Female
Lawyer" in the episode "When Aliens Attack", why don't
they know anything about such a major event like the moon landing. Also,
in "When Aliens Attack", we are told that most recordings
were lost in 2443 during the second coming of Jesus, so how did they
know anything about the comedian's show?
Sounds Odd: On the moon, with no atmosphere, sound cannot be
carried, and the robots whalers would not be able to speak/sing. The
usual way around this would be to have the sounds transmitted through
a radio to the people on the ride, but if that was the case, why does
the sound quieten as Fry and Leela drive away from it?
Solution by Charlie Folkdance:
It's programmed to do that.
Can't Find it?: Why would the original moon landing site have
been lost for centuries when the moon is colonised, and a lunar lander
has been placed there?
Solution by Charlie Folkdance:
It was palced there centuries ago, and there are no colonies, just a few farms and amusements.
Feeling Hot?: Fry and Leela's space suits aren't heated, and
it would certainly be fair to say they aren't cooled either. Given that
the temperatures on the moon can reach into the hundreds, why don't
they just die from the heat?
Riding Shotgun: The farmer shoots at Fry, Leela & Bender
with his shotgun during the car chase. Given that there is no oxygen
on the moon, how would the gun fire?
Solution by Anders - you do not need oxygen to fire a gun, the gunpowder
burns in a closed container and contains its own oxydizer.
Crocodiles?: There are crocodiles on the moon. Even though they
have space helmets, the rest of their bodies are exposed, they have
no oxygen, and they couldn't eat through the helmets, so how do they
live?
Blastoff!: The lunar lander was replaced on the moon, and may
have fuel, and most certainly a radio. So why didn't Fry and Leela try
to take off or call for help when they were trapped in it?
Solution by El-Man:
Taking off: If the Ascent Stage had been replaced with a working, fuelled-up version identical to the original, the hypergolic propellants with sufficient tank
insulation and seals might stay viable for weeks or even months, as hypergolic
propellants are somewhat corrosive. However, there was only enough battery power to keep the propellants from freezing into slushy gunk for about 80 hours. Also, the helium priming and pressurisation sets for the Lunar Modules could and did leak away into space; even the best welds and seals in existence can't keep light, 'slippery' helium and especially hydrogen locked away forever. They WILL eventually leak or boil away into space through the very seams of their tanks, no matter how well they're welded or sealed. The Apollo craft were only really designed to work properly in every way for a limited time.
Calling for help: The output power of the lander's radios was
surprisingly low, and they had the Earth's entire huge and sensitive dishes
of the Deep Space tracking arrays looking for their signals. Would someone even be monitoring these bands in the year 3000? And that's assuming there was any battery power left.
In summary: the fuel was more than likely useless slush and quite probably no battery power to operate a very weak radio. The Historical Sticklers Society would've had to had replaced the Lunar Module two or three days before Fry and Leela found it.
Fast Running!: Fry and Leela are in the lunar lander for only
about a minute, yet Bender has enough time to go back for the crushinator
at the farm, and run all the way back to the lander.
How did you know I was here?: Despite no indications of where
they are, Amy Wong somehow knows where to fly the Planet Express ship
and that they need to be rescued with the magnet.
Magnetic?: Bender is supposed to be made of titanium, which
is not magnetic. So how did he get picked up by the magnet, and how
did the fridge magnet stick to him earlier?
Solution by Kyle Williams:
He is not made of just titanium. Other episodes give other alloys he is made of.
Look Ma, no Helmet!: When the farmer takes off his helmet, he
should die almost instantaneously fromn explosive decompression, yet
he is fine.
Models not to Scale: When they are flying away at the end, you
can see that the Planet Express ship is about twice the size of the
lunar lander, which only just fits Fry & Leela. If so, how is there
so much space in the Planet Express ship?
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