Before writing a series about Pine Gap you would think that the writers would do some homework first, researching some of the detail that would be covered in the episodes to at least align what many of the viewers would expect to be accurate to enable them to think that the detail that they don't know about is potentially accurate.
One really simple set of errors is around the US fighters that were targeted by radar with one being shot down. F16 fighters do not fly off US aircraft carriers, however F18s and F35s can, which could have been checked using something as simple as Wikipedia. Similarly US Navy planes are flown by US Navy pilots, not the USAF (other than a handful of exchange pilots who could be from the USAF or from an allied country, e.g. the UK Royal Navy had some pilots fly with the US Navy).
There are multiple issues with how the drone imagery was shown. Drones like the Predator do not hover in one place to get the same viewpoint, instead they fly around and you'll get at least some changes in the viewpoint. The same will happen with satellite images which will show a different perspective due to their orbital motion.
One plot element revolves around there being a single server which controlled all the intelligence related operations plus other stuff like the air conditioning. Clearly none of the researchers had spoken to anyone with any enterprise IT architecture experience. There is no way that this would happen.
As for using a graphics card to send data to a mobile phone, a graphics card wouldn't be able to do this at all. They do not have the hardware to do this. They could have used a WiFi network card but why would one be installed on a highly classified PC in a secure facility?
A plot element needed someone to write the code to implement this with them having a few minutes to do so. Whilst a few minutes might allow you to write some simple code, doing anything remotely complex wouldn't be possible. Plus you'd need something like a JDK / SDK / compiler to be installed.
All of this had to be done from a PC in a single room, but since there was only a single server for the entire Pine Gap facility, you would be able to do this from any PC connected.
The list of mistakes / errors due to poor research is a lot more than what I've listed. Surely you'd have expected that the production company would have used some people with expert knowledge to do some fact checking first? Or as a minimum had their writers read a few Wikipedia articles or maybe a few Tom Clancy novels?
One really simple set of errors is around the US fighters that were targeted by radar with one being shot down. F16 fighters do not fly off US aircraft carriers, however F18s and F35s can, which could have been checked using something as simple as Wikipedia. Similarly US Navy planes are flown by US Navy pilots, not the USAF (other than a handful of exchange pilots who could be from the USAF or from an allied country, e.g. the UK Royal Navy had some pilots fly with the US Navy).
There are multiple issues with how the drone imagery was shown. Drones like the Predator do not hover in one place to get the same viewpoint, instead they fly around and you'll get at least some changes in the viewpoint. The same will happen with satellite images which will show a different perspective due to their orbital motion.
One plot element revolves around there being a single server which controlled all the intelligence related operations plus other stuff like the air conditioning. Clearly none of the researchers had spoken to anyone with any enterprise IT architecture experience. There is no way that this would happen.
As for using a graphics card to send data to a mobile phone, a graphics card wouldn't be able to do this at all. They do not have the hardware to do this. They could have used a WiFi network card but why would one be installed on a highly classified PC in a secure facility?
A plot element needed someone to write the code to implement this with them having a few minutes to do so. Whilst a few minutes might allow you to write some simple code, doing anything remotely complex wouldn't be possible. Plus you'd need something like a JDK / SDK / compiler to be installed.
All of this had to be done from a PC in a single room, but since there was only a single server for the entire Pine Gap facility, you would be able to do this from any PC connected.
The list of mistakes / errors due to poor research is a lot more than what I've listed. Surely you'd have expected that the production company would have used some people with expert knowledge to do some fact checking first? Or as a minimum had their writers read a few Wikipedia articles or maybe a few Tom Clancy novels?