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Old 20-December-2007, 05:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Manchurian Taikonaut View Post
This is why the StarTrek Borg Cube is so great, they dont give a dmn about flying. I think that Doctor Who police box is cool because it is the most non aerodynamic looking, more resembling a brick than a spacecraft.
I have a pet hypothesis about that. What if the Tardis is hovering somewhere just off space-time, perhaps in the Void, and that what manifests at a certain place and time is nothing more than the disguised airlock poking into real-space like a submarine's sail poking through the arctic ice-pack. (See below.)

Aerodynamics would thus be largely irrelevant, and might explain why the Tardis traveling linearly through space is both feasible and exceptional, and might even help explain why the Tardis was relatively invulnerable in real-time (vs and on the Dalek fleet, for example.)
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