Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!decvax!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!wmartin From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho Subject: Re: Why is a TARDIS so big? Message-ID: <643@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 16:37:48 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.643 Posted: Mon Aug 12 16:37:48 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Aug-85 21:16:59 EDT References: <456@moncol.UUCP> <569@hou2a.UUCP> <3464@dartvax.UUCP> <103@pyrnj.uucp> Reply-To: wmartin@brl-bmd.UUCP Distribution: na Organization: USAMC ALMSA, St. Louis, MO Lines: 25 In article <103@pyrnj.uucp> romain@pyrnj.uucp (Romain Kang) writes: > The Doctor comes up with a >plan to eject 1/4 of the TARDIS's mass (17000 tons, velocity ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >unspecified) to produce the thrust to escape. Aha! Many months back, I mentioned in a posting that I had thought that the TARDIS was very massive, and yet we constantly see it being schlepped around by people at the places it ends up (trucked to the local police station in Black Orchid, hauled by primitives into a cave in a couple episodes, etc.) Now here is evidence that I was right. Even though the *spatial* dimensions are tricky, with a small physical size in our world(s) but huge once you get inside, the MASS in our world(s) should be the full amount (does the above mean that 17,000 tons is 1/4 the mass, or they ejected 1/4 of 17,000 tons? [and being British, it should be "tonnes", right? :-)]. So it should be immovable without a huge crane in our environment. Therefore, every time a story has it being moved, or sitting in a spaceship which has to then haul(*) the TARDIS's mass and its own payload, this is a failure of the writers to stay correct and consistent. All fans should flame the writers! (*) This would prevent the accelleration or takeoff of spaceships in which the TARDIS is sitting; don't know what it would do, if anything, to those cruising or drifting in which they materialize.