So in the famous opening sequence of "Alien" (1979) as we survey the poorly lit interior of the ship, there's a shot that always has bothered me. At one point, we see one of the "bobbing duck" toys happily bobbing away. There's a problem with that. Those only work as long as the container they're bobbing from (in this case, a glass of water apparently) still has water in it for the duck to wet its beak. So, with the crew in long hibernation -- hmm -- who has been refilling the glass, which otherwise would have been devoid of water through evaporation in short order.
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