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From: ags@pucc-h (Dave Seaman)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers,net.tv.drwho
Subject: Throwing cricket balls (Re: How to fix bad SF)
Message-ID: <2125@pucc-h>
Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 15:50:38 EDT
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Summary: 

In article <605@utai.UUCP> strausx@utai.UUCP (Paul Albert Strauss) writes:
>        Sounds to me as if throwing the ball toward the space craft
>        (and thus away from his Tardis) would have accelerated the Doctor 
>        TOWARD his Tardis, as would the act of catching the ball.  Thus,
>        (without having seen this episode), I don't perceive a flaw.

The flaw (which Mike Davis pointed out) is that the Doctor did not get
any acceleration from throwing the ball -- only from catching it.
By the way, the original article went to net.tv but NOT to net.tv.drwho!

>> What gets me is Four to Doomsday, where the Doctor is stranded
>> in space midway between another space craft and his Tardis.  He pulls
>> a cricket ball out of his pocket and throws it at the space ship, when
>> he catches it on the rebound he has the momentum to reach his Tardis.
>> He should have also gotten some momentum from throwing the ball!!!
-- 
Dave Seaman			 ..!pur-ee!pucc-h:ags