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Moon Landing

posted 13 years ago by thunderwing13
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Ive just been watching episode S06E01 - The Cold and I noticed Hancock says, "The age of the sixties, they can put a man on the moon, a rocket halfway round Venus".

This episode was aired on 4th March 1960.
Wikipedia says:
The first human-made object to reach the surface of the Moon was the Soviet Union's Luna 2 mission on September 13, 1959. The United States's Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon on July 20, 1969.

How did The writers (Simpson & Galton) know about an event still 9 years in the future?
Am I missing something, or was a DeLorean involved?

[–] srjow 13 years ago

Yes it was, as the DeLorean was available from any time before March 1960 - which makes a mockery of the car plant closing down really.

What I can't work out is what happened to the rocket when it got half way round Venus...but never mind.

Hancock and the writers travelled across space and time - which is why the show has not aged - and built an entire episode around one unfortunate consequence of their journies. The effect on Hancock's body was severe but mostly compensated for when they stuck the DeLorean in reverse - all except for the bit sticking out from the front of his face. The New Nose owes its very existence to their time travelling. His feet were never the same again either.

"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" Carl Sagan

[–] willjohn 12 years ago

During the time the show was being made Russian and American satellites were always in the news. The race to the Moon had not started but it was widely predicted.