Theory:Doctor Who television discontinuity and plot holes/The Impossible Planet

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• Why is Scooti's corpse floating above the base rather than staying on the planetoid's surface?

Probably because the black hole has her in its gravity field.

• There is no way that the trapdoor is 30 feet in diameter like Ida says.

Perhaps Ida confused the term diameter with another, such as circumference, or units of measurement had changed for some reason.