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The Doctor's Every Journey
jc79 writes "David McCandless of InformationIsBeautiful.net has created a crowdsourced dataset of every time travel journey the Doctor made in every episode of the series since 1963. Who wants to visualise it?" Previous efforts have resulted in this amazing visualization of time travel intersecting Bill & Ted, Back to the Future, Time Bandits, Buck Rogers, Planet of the Apes and many more.
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with how often the lead actor changes I'm like Dr. Who?
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A convergence in the time-space continuum has resulted in clogged internet pipes. The pipes should be bigger on the inside than the outside.
I notice that Time Tunnel is missing. I don't think the list is restricted to good episodes and movies. Maybe including that would make the visualization too messy.
"Crowdsourcing" is one of the stupidest Web 2.0 terms yet devised.
It's not a crowdsourced dataset, it's more of a big timey-wimey ball.
In the name of the late Senator Ted Stevens, they are TUBES man, TUBES!
Looks like they could use a bit more fandominium!
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I noticed that on the master sheet, he went from "Day of the Dinosaurs" to "Ark in Space" - missing the Jon Pertwee stories "Death to the Daleks", "The Monster of Peladon", "Planet of the Spiders", and the Tom Baker story "Robot"
I know he says that the master sheet only contains those which have time travel, but this is clearly false - "The Monster of Peladon" takes place a century after "The Curse of Peladon", which is also missing. Also, in "Planet of the Spiders", takes place both in the 1970s, and far in the future (he speaks with a civilization made up of the descendents of a wrecked Earth space ship.)
Wow, I think that the construction of a visualised dataset of Dr Who's journey has created a new pinnacle of geekiness. Anyone know of anything more geeky?
It just goes to show crowd-sourcing only works when you don't melt down the servers. Realistically with the slashdot community we could have had this project finished within the first five minutes, disputed and changed within the next, and finally edited back to some resemblance of validity within about 20 after that. Then again, this is Dr Who, so Steven Moffat episodes would require any visual display of the time line to be four dimensional.
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Forget geek cruises, conventions, LARPs, and every other means to the imaginative potential of a herd of geeks. Reenaction of any show (not just DW) in the db, with scavenger hunts and puzzle solving analogous to that episode(e.g. building a simple radio or solving a scientific problem), with interludes of discussion sessions on real-world or philosophical ideas in the episode. Teams could be made based on different skills, and organizers could cherrypick the stories that provoke the most discussion. As a bonus, you would be touring Paris, London, Amsterdam, and many, many quarrie^H^H^H^H^H^H^H other exciting locations.
I will have to RTFA, because I don't remember Buck Rogers ever time traveling. Even the old Buster Crabb version was devoid of time travel.
I did notice that Star Trek was missing from the summary. I know they time traveled a lot! Especially, the Kirk Enterprise.
Farscape,
Primer,
What others?
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I didn't have time to RTFA !
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There ought to be some kind of wiki for fictional predictions. Not like "2430 - The Borg fight The Enterprise at Vega" but more like "2190 - First contact with aliens (Star Trek: First Contact)" or "2050 - World War III begins (some other show)" or "October 23, 2077 - Nuclear war between China and the US (Fallout)" (all dates made up by me except the last one).
It'd be really cool to be able to see what sort of huge events were supposed to have happened on a given date according to some TV show, movie, book, or video game.
Wikipedia has some pages that sort of serve this function, but they're all very incomplete or mixed up with real-life predictions, which are lame.
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what do the lines mean?
It does seem miss some instances of time travel in the middle of a story. For instance, near the end of Smith and Jones, he goes back to the beginning of the day to take his tie off at Martha, and during Vincent and the Doctor, there were two round trips from 2010 to 1890, of which only the first leg is reported here.
OK, I may be over-nerding here even on a nerd topic.
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You know, It is amazing so much time is being spent on analyzing fictional data. Is the US Government funding this? :)
In the episode Wargames, it's clear that the Wargames are taking part in some alternate dimension, and by travelling from zone to zone the Doctor is not travelling through time but rather from one zone that is set up to emulate a certain time period to another zone which is set up to emulate a different time period. On the spreadsheet, it shows the Doctor making several journeys through time during this episode which isn't what happened.
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The visualization has several areas labeled "mega paradox". So what should Roswell have been labeled? That would have had Quark and his brother, the Futurama crew, and who knows how many other scifi characters.
You can't tell me The Island never appeared in Dr. Who.
What about The Tomb of the Cybermen, or The Macra Terror, or any of the other omissions? Why don't these count?
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I never saw an episode of Dr. Who prior to the new series'.
Where would be a good starting point to watch the older stuff? My understanding is that the first episodes are just "gone".
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If we encounter a bottleneck on the internet due to time space distortion, is it a Klein bottleneck?