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From: bem8435@ritcv.UUCP (really wlt4326@ritvp)
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Subject: Re: TARDIS Vunlerability
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Date: Thu, 13-Feb-86 14:30:34 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 13 14:30:34 1986
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Reply-To: wlt4326@ritvp.UUCP (William L. Trainor)
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
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Keywords: Contradictions: the way of life in a sci-fi story

The point I wish to bring up, being that I am still a bit uninformed, is that
I learned that the TARDIS was more or less located extra-dimensionally, that's
why you can materialize it in a small room, and why everybody looks around
completely baffeled when they first step in it.  Why, then, is it batted all 
over the place if it runs into a meteor storm or is shot at?  All that exists
on the material dimension would be the police box, not the entire ship.  I have
also heard that it does not have to be fully materialized to stay in one place;
it's there, but only in another dimension.  Please elucidate.

Another little thing I want to bring up (and it's probably been brought up 
before) is that when something "goes wrong" with the TARDIS (almost every
episode), it tilts crazily and everybody hangs to the console for dear life
(don't you just love how they do that!).  If it is going through the Vortex,
or even just flying through space, there wouldn't be a shift in gravity
because of the ship's own artificial gravity which would keep people on the 
floor just fine if the ship turned upside down (if there was an upside-down in
space!).  The same with StarTrek; when the Enterprise gets hit, everything
shakes around.  Sure, the ship would shake relative to the "enemy", but the
source of gravity is in the ship itself!  

I guess I shouldn't be too hard on these 2 dimensional script-writers.  How 
convincing would it be if the TARDIS was careening towards some unknown time
zone (like pacific standard) and Colin Baker just stood around going
"Oh dear, oh dear, where are we going now?!?" 



"Oh, you're always complainin'!"

Bill "Power-Chord" Trainor

"You can't possibly exist, so go away!"  Who said it and when?