Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-h Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:ags 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 Article-I.D.: pucc-h.2125 Posted: Fri Jul 12 15:50:38 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 14:39:29 EDT References: <419@carina.noao.UUCP> <294@looking.UUCP> <280@dcl-cs.UUCP> <2885@ncsu.UUCP> <605@utai.UUCP> Reply-To: ags@pucc-h.UUCP (Dave Seaman) Organization: Purdue University Computing Center Lines: 17 Xref: watmath net.sf-lovers:8624 net.tv.drwho:1162 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