Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site mmm.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!stolaf!mmm!cipher From: cipher@mmm.UUCP (Andre Guirard) Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho Subject: Re: Safety Violations and the TARDIS :-) Message-ID: <341@mmm.UUCP> Date: Thu, 28-Nov-85 15:52:55 EST Article-I.D.: mmm.341 Posted: Thu Nov 28 15:52:55 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 29-Nov-85 22:03:44 EST References: <631@hou2a.UUCP> <341@tilt.FUN> <627@wjh12.UUCP> <350@faron.UUCP> <541@uwmcsd1.UUCP> Reply-To: cipher@mmm.UUCP (Andre Guirard) Organization: 3M Company, St. Paul, Minn. Lines: 22 Summary: In article <541@uwmcsd1.UUCP> jerry@uwmcsd1.UUCP (Jerry Lieberthal) writes: >> >In "Four to Doomsday" the Doctor pulls out some sort of headgear that allows >> >humans/Alzarians/Trakenites to survive in atmospheres without oxygen. They >> >> I seem to remember one episode with Tom Baker as the Doctor where he >> didn't need to where a spacesuit (or headgear) out in space. Actually, >> it wasn't in space, but rather inside a spaceship. The Doctor was hiding > >The episode was "Nightmare in Eden", and Baker does that kind of trick >several times where he just "holds his breath", a trick he apparently picked >up from the tibetan monks. I believe the first time that was done with Baker Time Lords and even mere human beings do NOT explode when exposed to vacuum, as you all seem to suppose they should. It is very uncomfortable, however, and it is not possible (or at least not safe to try) to hold your breath. A greater danger is the temperature. -- /''`\ Andre Guirard ([]-[]) De Tuss from de Tonn \ o / ihnp4!mmm!cipher `-'