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From: pjk@hou2a.UUCP (P.KEMP)
Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho
Subject: Re: TARDIS Mass (what is it?) [Full Circle]
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Date: Thu, 5-Sep-85 13:52:14 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep  5 13:52:14 1985
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"Full Circle" (part 2) was broadcast in my area last
night and in it Romana (II) tells Adric that the
weight of the TARDIS is "5 X 10^6 kilos in your
(Alzarius) gravity."  This is 5 times that given
in "The Doctor Who Program Guide" Vol. 2.

Maybe Alzarius gravity is roughly 5 times that of
"normal" gravity.

[Funny, from the motions of people and objects, the
gravity appeared to be "normal" - in fact all the places
that The Doctor visits appear to have "normal" (1g)
gravity.  :-)]

The writer of Full Circle (Andrew Smith) apparently
isn't up on the concept of TARDIS mass.  He has the
occupants surprised at the Marsh Creatures' ability
to move the TARDIS, when it was so easily moved around
by UNIT in the Pertwee era.  Maybe the TARDIS can only
be moved when it "allows" itself to be moved.


By the way, I have a hard time understanding why the
inside of the TARDIS tilts around (as in Full Circle,
Timeflight, etc.) when the outside is tilted.

The outside of the TARDIS is just a "bridge" to the
real world.  Why should the rest of the TARDIS be
affected by changes in the position of its exterior?

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			Paul Kemp
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