Science Fiction from television from my youth has failed to stand the test of time.
Space: 1999 is so disjointed.
It's so strange that a series which has ship designs that look like they'd actually WORK in space has such horrid physics, and it starts from the first episode.
2:30 seconds at enough G to pin them to the deck, but not make anyone pass out. The Commander is even crawling slowly. Call it 6G.
That changes the velocity of the moon 8.83 km/s. Not quite enough to get to 11.186 km/s from its start speed of 1.022 km/s.
That assumes that the thrust is pushing the right direction to add to the moon's velocity.
What the new speed of 9.852 km/s means is the moon is in a much higher orbit, and probably in far less circular one.
But wait, there's MORE!
The radioactive waste which all goes critical and creates all that thrust is shown to be on the "dark side" of the moon. That means the thrust should really push the moon INTO the earth.
Short series, huh?
Update: To get 6g out of the moon you need 4.32175×1021 kN of thrust. That's a lot.
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