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... bwahahahaha!... that is so bloody funny!... I wish that I had created it lol!... cheers.-
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... bwahahahaha!... that is so bloody funny!... I wish that I had created it lol!... cheers.
oddjob
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Actually, thanks for bringing this up Sticky, because I didn't realise the full connection with the show at first. I remembered that Erewhon (slightly different spelling) was the name of a fictional 'utopian' country located in the South Island of New Zealand, in the Samuel Butler book of the same name, which I read probably about 25 years ago.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erewhon
I didn't remember much of the plot and thought they'd just borrowed a cool name, as has been done before, but as the wiki article reminded me part of the book was actually about intelligent machines, which brings us back to the Vardi.
Butler developed the three chapters of Erewhon that make up "The Book of the Machines" from a number of articles that he had contributed to The Press, which had just begun publication in Christchurch, New Zealand, beginning with "Darwin among the Machines" (1863). Butler was the first to write about the possibility that machines might develop consciousness by Darwinian Selection.[4].
In a 1945 broadcast, George Orwell praised the book and said that when Butler wrote Erewhon it needed "imagination of a very high order to see that machinery could be dangerous as well as useful."
In a 1945 broadcast, George Orwell praised the book and said that when Butler wrote Erewhon it needed "imagination of a very high order to see that machinery could be dangerous as well as useful."
...oh wow!... thanks for telling me all about that oddjob... I had no idea about this... colour me curious!... (I'll be Googling all about it later)...so the writers of the episode were paying a sort of homage to Samuel Butler it seems to me at least... I just love quirky information like this... lol!... cheers.
...oh sweet sweet Rose711... it's so great to see you again!... trust me sweet lady... you're not going to be disappointed in either of the new episodes believe me!... (I've seen both episodes at least 4 times each on both occasions so far) lol!... as I said... it's great to see you again... cheers.
Meglos
HAVE A NECTARINE, GONK
A few more things about 'Smile'...
Did we pick up that the colonists had names like Praiseworthy, Goodthing and Steadfast? What great names.
The Doctor telling Bill not to look at his browser history is the same thing he told Osgood in the Zygon story.
Mina Anwar was also Rani's mother in the Sarah Jane Adventures.
Did we pick up that the colonists had names like Praiseworthy, Goodthing and Steadfast? What great names.
The Doctor telling Bill not to look at his browser history is the same thing he told Osgood in the Zygon story.
Mina Anwar was also Rani's mother in the Sarah Jane Adventures.
Thanks! I like Bill so much. She's adding a great energy to the show. She might be my favorite companion in years. I didn't love Amy or Clara.
...Donna Noble was/is my most favourite female companion ever and Bill reminds me of her so much at times... they are both such 'grounded' characters... they are both no-nonsense 'don't-try-to-bullshit-me' types... neither were/are 'in love' with The Doctor... neither try to be 'better' than him... both accept him for the person that he is...
...I really started to dislike Clara (and Amy Pond) when they got so big-headed and started to actually fly The Tardis at times... they both thought that they were The Doctor's equal in his knowledge of everything that he knows of the Universe... (that's probably the reason that I don't like River Song either most likely)... they could never be his equal in his knowledge of the Universe... he is over 2.000 years old after all...
...as I stated on several occasions before the show came back I wasn't too sure that I was going to like Bill at all but I'm so happy that I was wrong... she's brilliant!... I just about love her as much as I did Donna Noble... it would be bloody brilliant if Donna Noble returned for a couple of episodes just so that I could watch the dynamics and banter between the two... just imagine it lol!... cheers.
...I'm just loving the way that this article is using the Tardis as a reference to explain how Time travel is possible lol!... and he calls his Time Machine "Traversable Acausal Retrograde Domain in Space-time," or TARDIS, in a nod to the iconic time-traveling booth from "Doctor Who."... brilliant lol!... from this website below... cheers.
https://www.cnet.com/news/time-travel-math-tardis-ben-tippett-exotic-matter-negative-mass/
Time travel is 'possible' -- mathematically anyway
A researcher crunches the numbers on time travel using his own TARDIS. Also, a weird new material could be the real-world version of a flux capacitor.
Pull out your list of regrets, mistakes and runs of just plain bad luck, because it turns out you can go back. A University of British Columbia professor has run the numbers on the feasibility of time travel, and he says they check out.
"People think of time travel as something fictional," math and physics instructor Ben Tippett said in a news release Thursday. "And we tend to think it's not possible because we don't actually do it. But, mathematically, it is possible."
It's a finding that's sure to inject new energy and vigor into late-night, half-sober arguments about the morality of traveling back in time to assassinate Adolf Hitler before his rise to power.
Tippett created a formula based on Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, which states that huge cosmic objects like stars and black holes distort space and time. The recent detection of gravitational waves created by distant colliding black holes confirmed Einstein's theory.
Large stars can actually cause the fabric of the space-time continuum to curve, which Tippett says contributes to the curved orbits of planets as they move through space.
"The time direction of the space-time surface also shows curvature. There is evidence showing the closer to a black hole we get, time moves slower," he explains. "My model of a time machine uses the curved space-time -- to bend time into a circle for the passengers, not in a straight line. That circle takes us back in time."
Oh, cool. So all we have to do is build this time-bending machine and we're off to 2012 to bet everything we have on the then-laughably long odds of a European Union without the UK, a US president named Trump and the world champion Chicago Cubs.
Actually, Tippett says not so fast, McFly.
"While is it mathematically feasible, it is not yet possible to build a space-time machine because we need materials -- which we call exotic matter -- to bend space-time in these impossible ways, but they have yet to be discovered."
Tippett's research was published in a recent issue of the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity.
Of course, not all physicists are ready to climb aboard Tippett's hypothetical time machine, which he cleverly named the "Traversable Acausal Retrograde Domain in Space-time," or TARDIS, in a nod to the iconic time-traveling booth from "Doctor Who." No less than the world's most famed cosmologist, Stephen Hawking, has said that if time travel is possible, we certainly wouldn't be able to go backward in time.
But Tippett's calculations show that his TARDIS, which is really just a conceptual bubble of space-time, can move backward and forward by moving at speeds that would exceed the speed of light at times.
I seem to remember another famous brainiac concluding that nothing could travel faster than the speed of light. In fact, it was the same Mr. Einstein that inspired all this far-out speculative math to begin with. However, if it were possible to break that barrier, Einstein said it would be essentially equivalent to time travel.
So now that we may have the math down, are we actually any closer to building a time machine and visiting a certain field near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947 just to see who shows up? All we need to do is break the speed of light barrier and get ahold of some physics-defying exotic matter that may or may not be real.
As it turns out, just this month researchers said they have created a fluid that possesses negative mass, one of the characteristics of the type of exotic matter we'd need to bend time.
So you might say we're progressing quite nicely toward making time travel a reality, but it sure would be nice if someone from a future where they've already got it figured out came back to help us out. Time to keep a close eye out for any real-world TARDISes and Time Lords.
https://www.cnet.com/news/time-travel-math-tardis-ben-tippett-exotic-matter-negative-mass/
Time travel is 'possible' -- mathematically anyway
A researcher crunches the numbers on time travel using his own TARDIS. Also, a weird new material could be the real-world version of a flux capacitor.
- by Eric Mack April 28, 2017 2:42 PM PDT
Pull out your list of regrets, mistakes and runs of just plain bad luck, because it turns out you can go back. A University of British Columbia professor has run the numbers on the feasibility of time travel, and he says they check out.
"People think of time travel as something fictional," math and physics instructor Ben Tippett said in a news release Thursday. "And we tend to think it's not possible because we don't actually do it. But, mathematically, it is possible."
It's a finding that's sure to inject new energy and vigor into late-night, half-sober arguments about the morality of traveling back in time to assassinate Adolf Hitler before his rise to power.
Tippett created a formula based on Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, which states that huge cosmic objects like stars and black holes distort space and time. The recent detection of gravitational waves created by distant colliding black holes confirmed Einstein's theory.
Large stars can actually cause the fabric of the space-time continuum to curve, which Tippett says contributes to the curved orbits of planets as they move through space.
"The time direction of the space-time surface also shows curvature. There is evidence showing the closer to a black hole we get, time moves slower," he explains. "My model of a time machine uses the curved space-time -- to bend time into a circle for the passengers, not in a straight line. That circle takes us back in time."
Oh, cool. So all we have to do is build this time-bending machine and we're off to 2012 to bet everything we have on the then-laughably long odds of a European Union without the UK, a US president named Trump and the world champion Chicago Cubs.
Actually, Tippett says not so fast, McFly.
"While is it mathematically feasible, it is not yet possible to build a space-time machine because we need materials -- which we call exotic matter -- to bend space-time in these impossible ways, but they have yet to be discovered."
Tippett's research was published in a recent issue of the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity.
Of course, not all physicists are ready to climb aboard Tippett's hypothetical time machine, which he cleverly named the "Traversable Acausal Retrograde Domain in Space-time," or TARDIS, in a nod to the iconic time-traveling booth from "Doctor Who." No less than the world's most famed cosmologist, Stephen Hawking, has said that if time travel is possible, we certainly wouldn't be able to go backward in time.
But Tippett's calculations show that his TARDIS, which is really just a conceptual bubble of space-time, can move backward and forward by moving at speeds that would exceed the speed of light at times.
I seem to remember another famous brainiac concluding that nothing could travel faster than the speed of light. In fact, it was the same Mr. Einstein that inspired all this far-out speculative math to begin with. However, if it were possible to break that barrier, Einstein said it would be essentially equivalent to time travel.
So now that we may have the math down, are we actually any closer to building a time machine and visiting a certain field near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947 just to see who shows up? All we need to do is break the speed of light barrier and get ahold of some physics-defying exotic matter that may or may not be real.
As it turns out, just this month researchers said they have created a fluid that possesses negative mass, one of the characteristics of the type of exotic matter we'd need to bend time.
So you might say we're progressing quite nicely toward making time travel a reality, but it sure would be nice if someone from a future where they've already got it figured out came back to help us out. Time to keep a close eye out for any real-world TARDISes and Time Lords.
nutmeg
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wow, someone needs to in invent us some exotic matter quicksmart
nutmeg
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If anyone was wondering about Jordan's Doctor Who credentials apart from her cool hairy TARDIS tatt, here's a clip from Axis of Awesome:
And just for fun, here's their most famous routine, probably most of you have seen it already:
And when the new Jordan was introduced live to fans:
Jordan is so funny, I really hope she's a regular on Rove's show.
And just for fun, here's their most famous routine, probably most of you have seen it already:
And when the new Jordan was introduced live to fans:
Jordan is so funny, I really hope she's a regular on Rove's show.
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Meglos
HAVE A NECTARINE, GONK
Ah! I know of Axis Of Awesome and the classic '4 Chord song'. didn't make the connection. Thanks Nutmeg.
Columbo
Never again
And because of Clara's hubris she got herself killed.
Of course she was revived again a couple of episodes later which kind of lessened the impact.
Wait, she came back? I only watched her episodes sporadically but someone had recommended the death one and that was a very good episode.
As for Bill, I liked the way she called the Doctor for being the worlds policeman because of the Tardis being a call box. I don't recall that happening before.
I enjoy Donna Noble too. She might be my favorite and I was so happy with the end of the story. She was in many ways the bravest of the companions to me.
I have a soft spot for Rose because of the episode where they parted just made me cry. I wondered why the current doctor didn't have her photo on his desk because he loved her too.
I liked Rivers first episode in the library that was amazing and I did see her final "death" episode as well.
And don't forget Captain Jack. I liked him as well and I thought his living so long and becoming the face of Bo was sad and genius at the same time.
kxk
SAPIOSEXUAL
HAPPY WHO DAY
Ooo Capaldi is talking about his demise, tragic/sad ..............maybe he can save Clara, he has to remember her first, then give up an incarnation possibly????
Clara, being the IMPOSSIBLE GIRL, she wasn't just a human girl, she was different and special, thus her Doctory kind of ways - I don't classify as hubris, she isn't like any other companion.
Poor Amy suffered through abominal tortorous scripts, she got Moffat at his worst.
@Rose711 you missed cool stuff, how could you miss that finale? And if you don't watch episodes don't you get confused???
Ooo Capaldi is talking about his demise, tragic/sad ..............maybe he can save Clara, he has to remember her first, then give up an incarnation possibly????
Clara, being the IMPOSSIBLE GIRL, she wasn't just a human girl, she was different and special, thus her Doctory kind of ways - I don't classify as hubris, she isn't like any other companion.
Poor Amy suffered through abominal tortorous scripts, she got Moffat at his worst.
@Rose711 you missed cool stuff, how could you miss that finale? And if you don't watch episodes don't you get confused???
...well hello there ladies and gentlemen and boys and girls... uncle Sticky is here yet again to post about his favorite show 'Live' tonight... and no doubt... it's probably going to be yet another brilliant episode as per usual... I can't wait!... anyone else here tonight or is it me talking to myself again ?... lol!... no matter... it's fun regardless lol!... cheers.
...the show starts off with Bill saying... "I've got a question..."... lol!... cheers.