History Headscratchers / Moonraker

*** Drax's explanation for stealing a Moonraker was that the intended one had developed a flaw during construction, and so had proven unusable. To further defend Moonraker, given the above: Drax ran an international MegaCorp that was ''making'' space shuttles - if any one private person could get his hand on space shuttles in the world presented in the James Bond movies, it'd be that kind of person.

** The entire reason parachutes are strapped to your back and around your legs is because there is a HUGE jerk when the parachute deploys. Jaws simply wasn't able to keep hold of Bond from the force of the deployment
*** Another reason why the first guy really had a case of the IdiotBall not pulling his zipcord as soon as Bond grabbed onto him?
* Why did Drax steel the Moonraker in the first place?
** One of the ones he had planned to use had a fault so he needed a new one, He probobly figured he could finish his plan by the time anyone caught up to him.

** Dobermans could easily catch her especially given their trained to hunt and the camera cut away before we see what exactly happens to her
*** In my head cannon, she survived but got a good scare.
** Dobermans are extremely fast and Drax only gave her a handful of seconds before loosing them on her, and a dog the size of a Doberman can do a fairly slow trot and keep up with a woman running. I would have been much more shocked if she's actually managed to outrun them. And what gave you the idea that they were 'devouring' her? Most attack dogs like Drax had are trained to bring down their targets and then simply go for the throat.

** Probably. I imagine you don't end up working as a foot soldier in the private army of a guy who plans to blow up the entire world and repopulate it while ruling over everything as a god-emperor without ''some'' tendencies towards sociopathy.
** That, or standard cult brainwashing. If they thought they were at their version of the rapture, you think scientologists or members of the WBC would care much about their non-cult family members?

** [[Troper/RoarkTenjouin This Troper]] once read in a book that the closest real-life equivalent to the poison Drax wanted to use was Richin - which doesn't exactly have a long shelf life from what he's found. It could be that he was originally planning on using his own fleet of shuttles, but the shelf life for the poison Drax had was either the same length as/shorter than that of Ricin, and he couldn't get his hands on more.

** As for the possibility that the space station's size would be noticed from the ground as unusually large and bright, its important to remember that angular diameter is directly proportional to the size of the object in question '''and''' inversely proportional to the distance between the object and the observer. Or, in plain English, the further away something is from you the smaller it will look, even if its actual size when viewed up close is pretty huge. Since we're never told exactly at what altitude Drax's station is orbiting at, we can't make ''any'' assumptions about how it would look from the ground... or, for that matter, whether it would be visible to the naked eye at all. For another example of this phenomenon, consider why the sun and the moon look about the same size in the sky when the sun has approximately 400 times the diameter of the moon. [[labelnote:Answer]]Because the sun is also approximately 400 times further away than the moon, of course.[[/labelnote]]