At 01:15:45, Zane drives off in the Jeep wearing the same clothes he left behind beside the transformation machine.
During the final scenes at the remote radio telescope site, vehicles - including two white vans - are shown flying down a dusty road with dust billowing up behind and around them. Thereafter, though, the vans sometimes have dust on them and sometimes don't. The third vehicle, a sedan, appears to not have any dust on it whatsoever.
When the black hole generator sucks up everything in Zane's attic, it leaves the rest of the house intact with only a damaged electrical socket. When the same device is used in the satellite array, it destroys the entire building.
FM frequency radio waves would not be used for interstellar communication because the radio waves bounce off the ionosphere back to Earth. It is possible a very small fraction may make it through, but any meaningful communication would be done at microwave frequencies which is what NASA uses to communicate with spacecraft.
Towards the end when Zane & Char run into a building, Zane has a key to the deadbolt on the building door. But the deadbolt is installed wrong. It is a 'Kwikset' double cylinder deadbolt and the screws that hold it on the door are on the outside of the door, not the inside. Anyone with a screwdriver could simply remove the lock and open the door.
The California (maybe Pasadena) police car has no unit ID number on it.
When Zane and Ilana are talking about the climate changes in San Marsol Zane has a flashback of the presentation that he had crashed earlier at JPL, however he should not have heard the part about the melting polar ice because he was already removed from the room by two security guards.
Melting polar ice was not a secret; it is, and was, a well-known fact.
Melting polar ice was not a secret; it is, and was, a well-known fact.
When Zane attempts to transmit the video from the control room, the power in the room fails due to a large cable being cut outside. However, the steel window curtain still rolls up when Zane presses a button, which would be impossible if there was no power in the room whatsoever.
If there was no power in the room whatsoever this would be correct. However, the window covering and other essential services, were on a dedicated backup system like a generator or batteries.
If there was no power in the room whatsoever this would be correct. However, the window covering and other essential services, were on a dedicated backup system like a generator or batteries.
(at around 34 mins) Lindsay Crouse is informed about increases of several greenhouse trace gases, but the presentation shown is adding percentages of different gases to make a total sum of the per cent increase. Though the calculation is mathematically correct, it makes no sense, since it mixes different gases.
It's not saying greenhouse gases increased 700%. It's saying those percentage increases add to 700%.
It's not saying greenhouse gases increased 700%. It's saying those percentage increases add to 700%.
The EMT is seen squeezing a ventilator bag on the man on the stretcher as the policeman is saying he is DOA (dead on arrival), A dead body does not need ventilation. Plus, it was too early to tell if he were DOA. DOA means dead upon arrival at the hospital. They hadn't even yet left the scene.
DOA has to be verified by a medical doctor, not a cop or an EMT.
DOA has to be verified by a medical doctor, not a cop or an EMT.
(at around 14 mins) In the lecture about terraforming Mars, the lecturer talks about "raising the temperature ten fold". No scientist would say this: it's virtually meaningless as it depends on the temperature scale used.
Not at all. Ten times F°, C° or Kelvin is still ambient temperature (of Mars) times 10.
Not at all. Ten times F°, C° or Kelvin is still ambient temperature (of Mars) times 10.
At the Mexican radio station where the firefighters are working, it is clear that either there was never a fire or the fire has long since been extinguished. There is no visible smoke or even steam from the water's interaction with fire.
It would not have been possible to broadcast the tape using a communications satellite that is in use. Uplinking on top of other broadcasts would create interference so that neither the video on the tape nor the original broadcast could be viewed.
The large black scorpion above the light switch in Llana's room has no stinger.
Zane's satellite service truck does not have a California license plate.
[1:34:04]The alien would not be able to puncture a fire extinguisher with his rapier-like weapon.
When Zane is in the elevator with an alien and says, "Would you like to see the ruins my friend?" his lips don't match the words.
Ilana Green refers to Oaxaca as central Mexico. Oaxaca is in the far south of the country.
Ilana Green is not good at reading maps.
Ilana Green is not good at reading maps.
Ilana tells Zane that the flower field she examined at the beginning of the film is 90 miles from the North Pole. Even if the ice pack melted, there would be no soil for plants to grow in, as the nearest land is more than 400 miles away.