What are they using for power, coal fired steam boilers, gas engines? It's outer space, you don't burn anything that is going to release CO, you don't burn anything at all for that matter.
After that egregiously bad Sci Fi blooper, I knew it could only get worse. Thank god it was just Netflix.
I thought the same thing, but CO is used in a lot of industrial processes. Since we don't know what the hell they are doing on the Moon besides mining, they might be using CO to process whatever they are mining.
But, indeed, I knew it was going to be ridiculous when they had a "METEOR STORM", oy vey!
It sounded like something out of an old submarine movie
What are they doing? Why do they come here?
Some kind of instinct, memory, what they used to do.
As one of the goofs listed mentions, it appears that they call CO2, carbon dioxide, "carbon monoxide" by accident/ignorance throughout the entire movie, and CO2 makes much more sense in the situation. There's a display early on that shows CO2 and they read it as "carbon monoxide," and less than 10 minutes into the movie (I can't remember exactly what time it is), they pretty clearly cut the audio from one of the actors, because he mouths "C-O-2" but all you hear is "C-O."
So someone realized along the line their mistake and I guess did the best they could? It's still one of the most blatantly incorrect bits of science I've seen in film, and the fact that it's so simple, that you learn about it as early as middle school, makes it all the more strange