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Stupid SF TV premise of the week
Check out the third paragraph of this story about a new SF series planned for Fox TV:
When they arrive on the other side of moon — which is cloaked in perpetual darkness and beyond radio contact with earth — they discover a mysterious compound.
News flash: there is no “dark side” of the moon. There’s a “far side,” which never faces the Earth, because the moon’s rotation exactly matches the period of its orbit around the Earth, but it’s no darker than the side that faces us–the sun shines there just like it does on the near side.
Get with the program, people. At least try to put a little science fact in your TV science fiction.
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