Am I the only person who has a problem with the idea of finding native magnesium? Also comes up in Journey to the Centre of the Earth (2008)
Running ground-to-orbit spacecraft on small internal tanks of hydrocarbon fuel?They would have done better with gibberish like dilithium crystals.
The meters and feet thing being said out loud: when the show is dubbed into other languages than English, the audio says 'meters'. Many U.S. 'Joe Public' viewers don't know about the metric system, so it's doubtlessly aimed at them when feet are used. I wish the American and indeed sometimes British fixation on miles and feet would end, but still (shrugs). The new 'Lost In Space' show is not bad; for all it's niggling little flaws, there seems to be a sincerity to it's oeuvre.