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The Doctor getting his Carl Sagan on.
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Aug 30, 2014 20:09
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Hijo Del Helmsley posted:Of course "That's all you do", Doctor. It's a loving bucket on wheels with a gun attached. What else is it gonna do. He ideally wanted it to run around shouting AFFEC-TION-ATE!
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Aug 30, 2014 20:14
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Yeah, take that Verity Lambert what's with all this Aztec poo poo That was more or less my first thought too, but I think the guys problem is the "UK" part rather than the (Pseudo-)"Historical" part. Personally I'm all for mixing alien world episodes with historical episodes, its a british show with a british cast so it will tend to skew towards UK history. As long as we stay out of late 20th/early 21st century London because for Who even Victorian London is less played out than that. Also if he meets robin hood, I'm hoping he then goes on to meet merlin and then the 3 musketeers, just do a tour of all the BBCs "Doctor who slot" shows.
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Aug 30, 2014 22:33
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Plucky Brit posted:When was the last time the Daleks killed several people on screen? I can't remember any since Dalek. Lets be fair here: This episode, Space. Last episode Victorian London. Before that was the Xmas special (alien world), the 50th (all over the drat place, some on contempory earth, but some on alien worlds and some in space), then last season Trenzalore, the moon (of the future), victorian yorkshire, the TARDIS (in space, in the future), 1970s haunted house, a cold war russian sub, alien world, modern day london. I cant be arsed going back any further, but the last 11 broadcast Doctor Who episodes have actually shown a decent spread of settings.
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Go watch a film called Outpost. Thematically related to the daleks! Of course, this is a sci-fi show, so I'm perfectly happy to accept that "Yeah, we fixed the radiation off screen with anti-radiation pills", but if we want to apply some actual science.... Damage to tissue from radiation depends on a number of factors. Your Absorbed Dose is the energy absorbed divided by the mass of absorbing tissue (Measured in Greys). Higher numbers = worse. Now, this is a piss-poor measure of how dangerous the radation will be to a living being, so we then multiply Absorbed Dose by a radiation weighting factor (or Quality factor) depending on the type of radiation to give the "Equivalent Dose" (in Sieverts, or more usually milliSieverts). A dose of 0.1 Sieverts will increase yoru cancer risk, a dose of 2 Sv may be fatal, and with current technology 8 Sv will kill you, nothing we can do about it. Now, even this isnt a complete calculation of risk, because radiation absorbed by the skin will obviously have a different risk than radation absorbed by the brain or the bones. So, short form; poo poo is complicated, but assuming that when they were shrunk they lost mass as well (seems reasonable as there were 5 people standing in essentially the same place and the dalek didnt tip over) and bearing in mind the square-cube law (the volume of tissue decreases faster than the surface area when you make something smaller) then their danger from radiation has drastically increased. D = E/M, and while being smaller will have decreased the energy absorbed, the mass will have decreased more, leading to a higher Absorbed Dose, giving us a higher Equivalent Dose. If their mass hasnt decreased with their size then they are in less danger, but on the other hand at that point they could fight the daleks by reducing the size of the soldiers and dropping on them as all their mass will be focussed on a tiny area. Like I say, I dont tend to let things like that bother me in a sci fi show (although the last Die Hard movie...), I was more taken out of it by them using "rad" as a unit as opposed to "Greys". As they are neither in the 1960s or American then they should be using the SI unit. It was as if they were describing distances in Furlongs or chains. It can be interesting to apply actual science to this kind o fthimn got thing about what woud actually happen in similar situation.
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Yvonmukluk posted:Ten spoke in Estuary, he doesn't count. Wait... There are people who dont think that Tennant did a lovely job of an english accent?
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