Oooh that's rather lully
[geek pedant mode]Also they've correctly identified that the Tardis shouldn't physically move, that its everything else around it that moves...well until it lands in the forest at the end, which rather spoils it [/geek pedant mode]
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DinivanX Has stinging piss after drinking Pact Coffee, Tue 17 Feb 2015, 8:54,
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The Tardis can also fly conventionally, though....
That's been established since the early days.
Tomb of the Cybermen, I think. Someone remarks "I saw it come down".
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In fairness though it rarely does fly and when it does it's an absolute cunt to steer.
Which is why the Doctor spent so much time walking through gravel pits, industrial chemical plants, second hand props from amateur dramatics etc to get where he actually wanted to be.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Tue 17 Feb 2015, 12:49,
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if a time machine travels through time from your front room now to your front room tomorrow
then it also has to travel through space the distance and direction that your front room travels over the course of a day to appear to arrive in the same place.
cos your front room is going round the earth and the earth is going round the sun and the sun is whizzing through space all the time too.
any functioning time machine that arrives where it left must also be a space machine.
it must be true cos my wee brother is a physics teacher and he told me that last night.
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tickle I was away, Tue 17 Feb 2015, 13:51,
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Movement relative to what fixed point?
This is where it gets complicated.
I'm out.
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sm.pl.crt.rs I don't fucking know, do I?, Tue 17 Feb 2015, 15:39,
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