seawasp: (A Disbelieving Doctor)
seawasp ([personal profile] seawasp) wrote2011-05-11 06:00 pm
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Writer's Block: Behind the wheel

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A TARDIS, of course. It's everything all the others are, and more.

[identity profile] muirecan.livejournal.com 2011-05-11 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I was pondering answering it with the Gay Deceiver from Heinlein's Number of the Beast. Which is a decent time machine, rocket, car, etc.

[identity profile] scott-sanford.livejournal.com 2011-05-12 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
And it's also bigger on the inside. The Gay Deceiver doesn't even mount a broken chameleon circuit, that might be a factor for some users. I'd go for the TARDIS just for the telepathic translation feature, but I really hope the whole killer cyborg thing follows the Doctor not his ride.

[identity profile] gary-jordan.livejournal.com 2011-05-12 06:58 am (UTC)(link)
LA1 I thought of the Tardis first, then Gay Deceiver. But wouldn't it be nice to have a fully operation Death Star? You could park it at a Lagrange point.

Ironically, I have seen maybe two episodes of Doctor Who. Everything that I know about the Tardis (which is not much) comes from on-line discussions

[identity profile] gary-jordan.livejournal.com 2011-05-12 06:59 am (UTC)(link)
Footnote 1: LA stands for Laughing Aloud. It requires less bandwidth than LOL, if you don't need to explain it.

[identity profile] scott-sanford.livejournal.com 2011-05-13 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
The Death Star strikes me more as a place to go than a vehicle - you really can't go to the store in it. On the other hand, I suppose you could make money parking it in orbit and undercutting the ISS on, um, being a space station.

As to watching Doctor Who, there is an argument against and an argument for; it's possible to catch some standalone episodes, too.

[identity profile] gary-jordan.livejournal.com 2011-05-13 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I fully concur with the Argument Against. More, aren't there supposed to be "missing episodes" that were never recorded for some stupid reason (possibly involving British Labour Unions)? That means that even if I wanted to, I could never collect the whole set to watch.

RE: the ISS, if you park the Death Star in the right place, it's sufficiently large to make the ISS go into orbit around it.

[identity profile] scott-sanford.livejournal.com 2011-05-14 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
Yes. There are episodes not available in 2011 because nobody with a time machine has yet returned from collecting them.

[identity profile] muirecan.livejournal.com 2011-05-12 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes but the Gay Deceiver can take you to Novel dimensions.