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From: kyrimis@tilt.FUN (Kriton Kyrimis)
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Subject: Re: Safety Violations and the TARDIS  :-)
Message-ID: <341@tilt.FUN>
Date: Fri, 6-Sep-85 12:17:52 EDT
Article-I.D.: tilt.341
Posted: Fri Sep  6 12:17:52 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Sep-85 07:10:37 EDT
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Reply-To: kyrimis@tilt.UUCP (Kriton )
Organization: Princeton University CS Dept
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Summary: 

In article <631@hou2a.UUCP> pjk@hou2a.UUCP (P.KEMP) writes:
>* Only one exit (no alternate or emergency exit/escape pods)
	In "The Masque of Mandragora", the Doctor (Tom Baker) went back to the
	"original control room", and guided the TARDIS from there for at least
	two episodes (haven't seen any beyond "The Hand of Fear"). That was a
	room decorated in classical style, the TARDIS console was much smaller
	and made out of wood (!!!) and, yes, there was a door! Based on that,
	it would be easy to assume that *all* rooms have a door to the
	outside, even though you can *enter* the TARDIS through whatever
	control room happens to be in use.

>* Exit is not clearly marked
	Yes, but the first thing the Doctor does when he enters the TARDIS,
	is to close the door by pulling that lever with the big red knob (OK,
	it was a later addition, but still...). If you first came to the TARDIS
	along with the Doctor, it should be very easy to pick it up (as that
	schoolteacher did, in "The Awakening"). If you first came in alone,
	then you probably found the door open, so you know how to get out.
	(Not to mention that you shouldn't be in there in the first place).

>* No emergency lighting (?)
	See "Death to the Daleks", a Jon Pertwee episode. After a power
	failure, the emergency lighting came up, only to fail itself a few
	moments later.

>Can anyone name any other violations?
	- No lifeboats (or their spaceship equivalent)
	- No spacesuits. People enter unknown environments/the vacuum of space
	  with only their clothes on (and sometimes even without them - see
	  "Death to the Daleks", where Sarah goes out to a freezing planet
	  dressed for a day at the beach).
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	Kriton	(princeton!tilt!kyrimis)
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