The far side of the Moon is often improperly called the dark side of the Moon. The first scene of the show had a caption stating the location of the nuclear waste disposal storage being on the dark side of the Moon, although the caption also stated it was September 9, 1999, so the caption meant it was the dark side of the Moon on September 9 which is not inaccurate. It was also referred to as "the far side" by the character Ouma during the episode. The far side of the Moon, while always away from Earth, will still be illuminated by the sun, thus there is no area of the Moon that is permanently dark. This error was noted by Isaac Asimov, who wrote two articles on the scientific inaccuracies of the show.
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Made them with the skin side outside.
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And the moon sees me;
God bless the moon,
And God bless me.”
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