The Doctor's phone number
Jul. 14th, 2009 04:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethYou know that solution at the end of last season that involved *absolutely everyone* phoning the Doctor?
You know how that means now everyone on Earth has his phone number?
... I changed my number just to avoid one man, imagine what he'd have to deal with if the whole planet could prank call him.
So any solution that relies on 'contact the Doctor' gets just a teensy tiny harder.
Also how do timey-wimey messages work?
... at the speed of plot, obviously.
Which fic was it I read after Ghost Machine as had the TARDIS navigate by stars made of screams?
TARDIS arriving at events that would have had a big impact on time, TARDIS can see the big ripples.
Stuff that resolves without the Doctor wouldn't TARDIS bait?
Character stuff is always more interesting than tech stuff.
But tech shapes character.
I'm in the middle of a CJCherryh re-read right now, and the tech that makes babies in tanks and pours tape in their heads shapes character rather direct. But the spaceship stuff with variable travel and communication time and limited resources from fixed supply points makes big differences too. Bujold plays with similar tech, tank babies and fixed point FTL, and comes up with a variety of civilisations from it.
The DW 'verse has so many sorts of tech, and so few limits, it's a bit hard for them to shape anything.
Ooh, phone numbers: Found an article
the number, and almost any number you’ll ever see in a TV drama or hear in a radio drama, is fake.
It’s part of a range of numbers reserved by OfCom (the media and telecommunications regulator) for ‘drama purposes’.
In fact if you ever see 07700 followed by a 9 you can be pretty certain it’s a fake number for drama purposes only.
In fact anything from 07700 900000 to 07700 900999 will not work if you try to call it – so if you’re ever out and are asked for your number by someone you don’t want to give it to – you have 1000 to choose from and still have it look like a local number.
I knew TV did fake numbers but hadn't thought what range they use lately.
US is all 555.
You know how that means now everyone on Earth has his phone number?
... I changed my number just to avoid one man, imagine what he'd have to deal with if the whole planet could prank call him.
So any solution that relies on 'contact the Doctor' gets just a teensy tiny harder.
Also how do timey-wimey messages work?
... at the speed of plot, obviously.
Which fic was it I read after Ghost Machine as had the TARDIS navigate by stars made of screams?
TARDIS arriving at events that would have had a big impact on time, TARDIS can see the big ripples.
Stuff that resolves without the Doctor wouldn't TARDIS bait?
Character stuff is always more interesting than tech stuff.
But tech shapes character.
I'm in the middle of a CJCherryh re-read right now, and the tech that makes babies in tanks and pours tape in their heads shapes character rather direct. But the spaceship stuff with variable travel and communication time and limited resources from fixed supply points makes big differences too. Bujold plays with similar tech, tank babies and fixed point FTL, and comes up with a variety of civilisations from it.
The DW 'verse has so many sorts of tech, and so few limits, it's a bit hard for them to shape anything.
Ooh, phone numbers: Found an article
the number, and almost any number you’ll ever see in a TV drama or hear in a radio drama, is fake.
It’s part of a range of numbers reserved by OfCom (the media and telecommunications regulator) for ‘drama purposes’.
In fact if you ever see 07700 followed by a 9 you can be pretty certain it’s a fake number for drama purposes only.
In fact anything from 07700 900000 to 07700 900999 will not work if you try to call it – so if you’re ever out and are asked for your number by someone you don’t want to give it to – you have 1000 to choose from and still have it look like a local number.
I knew TV did fake numbers but hadn't thought what range they use lately.
US is all 555.
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Date: 2009-07-14 03:43 pm (UTC)... who else has it programmed into their mobile?
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Date: 2009-07-17 04:32 pm (UTC)0770900578