Ideas Are Easy

[tshiggins]

Originally Posted by woodchuck

September 13, 1999 an alien space craft that will later be called SDF-1 crashes into the Moon and sends it hurtling out of the Solar System. The crew of Moon Base Alpha struggle to unlock the secrets of Robotechnology and get back to Earth.

Couldn't you just have a random wormhole open up and swallow the moon, and then randomly spit it out again in various places in the universe?

That strains credulity a lot less.

I mean, I was 12 years old when Space 1999 first aired in the United States, and even I knew the cause of the disaster was silly, as was the notion that the moon could reach another solar system (much less more than one) in the lifetime of any of the crew.

Getting hit by an alien spacecraft is even less plausible than an explosion in a nuclear waste depot. Any disaster energetic enough to blast the moon out of its orbit would just turn it into gravel, instead.