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Dr. Who's Sonic Screwdriver Exists
Phoghat writes "Television's favourite Time Lord could not exist without his trusty sonic screwdriver, as it's proved priceless in defeating Daleks and keeping the Tardis in check. Now Doctor Who's famous cure-all gadget could become a reality for DIY-ers across the world, say engineers. Ultrasonic engineers at Bristol University and The Big Bang: UK Young Scientists and Engineers Fair are uncovering how a real life version of the fictional screwdriver — which uses sonic technology to open locks and undo screws — could be created."
Real life TARDIS when?
Mmmmm ... Billie Piper ... I'll be in my bunk.
Title: "...Sonic Screwdriver Exists."
Summery: "...could be created."
I call shenanigans.
Like The Master, I want a laser screwdriver. Who'd have sonic?
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Of course it would be cool to see some of the potential applications make their way back into Dr. Who.
ex. the Doctor using his screwdriver as an ultrasonic welder.
That group of bovine standing over there appears quite portentous. That's right it's an ominous cow herd.
but may still be some time in the making hyperbole fail
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Sound is a longitudinal wave, not transverse, and has no polarization to rotate or orient.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
Bruce Drinkwater, professor of Ultrasonics, said "a fully functioning time machine may still be light years away", which could mean near Alpha Centauri. If only we knew how fast and in which direction it was travelling...
Where he "invents" death stars and time machines via a bunch of ludicrous pseudo-scientific bullshit hand-waving, and presents it to a bunch of LARPers?
...but it could be created.
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Ah, but can it be used to paper over plot holes, or do just about everything to further the plot. It seems to do just about anything but unscrew screws, but what do you expect from writers who just can't write decent plots? Whats the point of getting the Doctor into a tricky situation if all he has to do is take out his sonic screwdriver and whoosh- instantly solved. Sheer lasiness from the writers. But then again, they probably have an eye on merchandising and toy sales...
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Real life TARDIS when?
It's an unrestricted time machine so surely 'when' it is created is irrelevant. Since it does not exist now we can probably conclude that it is very unlikely to be created in the future.
Sound is a longitudinal wave
Only in liquids and gases. You can have transverse sounds waves in solids.
Yea but now we have a hideous doctor in return.
You must be new here. ... Oh wait ...
It's "Doctor Who", not "Dr. Who".
Yes, I'm ignoring the Cushing films. Just like most people do.
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From the article:
So there are extraterrestrials, they have a time machine, and they are on the way of bringing it to earth!
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Fat?? What are you talking about?
Methinks you have an exceedingly fucked up definition of "fat chick". Or, dog-faced for that manner. Real, actual women are rarely that god-awful size zero ideal that everybody seems to like.
I'd happily hump her leg until they turned the firehose on me. She's friggin' hot!!
If you think Billie Piper is in any way "fat" then you have a seriously warped view of human beauty.
Not that you're any different than 99% of people who will see a girl that weighs 150lbs and think "eww, fatty".
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DO NOT WANT!
Freema Agyeman OTOH ... *drool*
just ignore him and pay attention to Amy Pond, and everything will be ok
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Great... Politics has devolved to the same level as video game console fanboys. We're all doomed...
Careful, you could end up with Donna Noble.
Most annoying companion since Adric. Remember when he ended up on a Cyberman ship that was going to crash into Earth in the past and the Doctor and his other companions standing around, all obviously thinking 'I hope nobody else mentions that we have a time machine and could go and rescue him before the ship crashes?' Almost every time Donna opened her mouth, I was reminded of that moment.
Apparently the Doctor got bored with intelligent women for a bit. Even Rose was more lacking in education than intelligence.
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Let's really embrace the nerdiness - how would a tool that the Doctor uses in such a wide varieties of ways have to work?
First, jettison any baggage you have with the term "screwdriver"...clearly, the word is used to be synonymous with "tool". I've always kind of imagined that what the SS is, first and foremost, is a technological scanner and classifier. When the Doctor points it at something, the SS scans the technology and presents the Doctor with an (invisible to everyone else) visual representation of its internals. Probably an abstract representation. Then, the Doctor is able to telepathically use the SS to manipulate those internals in whatever way he wants.
So, if you point it at an actual lock, you would see a representation of the tumblers, and you can "will" the tumblers into place with it. If you point it at a cell phone, you'll see a circuit diagram, etc.
Add to that a galactic size library of all software algorithms ever written, and the ability to write them remotely. With a few thousand or so years for the Time Lords to develop progressive layers of software abstraction, you'd have a tool a well-trained user could do anything with.
If your bitterest enemies are people who hack the heads off civilians, then I would say you're doing something right.
Will it have setting 2428D to re-attach barbed wire?
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Dr. Who's Sonic Screwdriver Exists...and all it took was redefining the words "sonic screwdriver" and "exists".
I swear, writing inaccurate headlines that give impressions 180 degrees from the story facts is an art that you just can't teach.
Hey Phoghat! Are you too stupid to know the difference between "Dr. Who's Sonic Screwdriver Exists" and "Dr. Who's Sonic Screwdriver Could Be Created"?!
Knowing Google's lust for data collection, the Soviet Union is still alive and well inside the psyche of Sergey Brin....
No, he is just got his "Chick's I would do" scale out of whack. With the categories being:
I would do her and brag to my wife
I would do her and brag to strangers
I would do her and brag to my friends
I would do her and admit it to my friends
I would do her and wouldn't admit it to my friends
I would do her but wouldn't admit it to myself
I wouldn't do her
Most people are incapable of categorizing these until the oppertunity is staring them in the face. Perticularly the "I would do her but wouldn't admit it to myself" by it's very nature. I would put Billie Piper in the category of "I would do her and brag to my wife", but the poster claiming that she is anywhere below "I would do her and brag to strangers" shows a distinct lack of self awareness.
No, this sonic screwdriver will not help you pick up chicks. For that, you need an impractically long scarf and a big, goofy hat. At least, those items seem to help me.
Let q be a radix > 1. I am in ur base-q, killing 10 d00ds.
The poor fool's never seen a real woman, most likely. Just cartoons, barbie dolls, and skinny TV actresses.
Either that, or all the women he knows are on meth or crack.
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Not that you're any different than 99% of people who will see a girl that weighs 150lbs and think "eww, fatty".
Well, it's all relative. If she's five feet tall and weighs 150 lbs, she's pretty chunky, borderline obese in fact. If she's six feet five and weighs 150 pounds she's rail thin.
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Rose Tyler.
Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m)
Weight: 112 lbs.
Measurements: 36B-25-35
Oh yeah, what a fat dog. 36-25-35...it's a travesty.
The bones are for the Dogs. Real Men prefer meat
Apparently someone has been hanging out with/channeling kdawson far too much.
defeating Daleks and keeping the Tardis in check
Huh? Why would the doctor be keeping the Tardis in check?
Does that phrase mean something different where the submitter comes from?
To me it means to hold something back, to thwart something, to foil its dastardly schemes.
I like to think that 'Sonic Screwdriver' is just a mispelling of 'Psionic Screwdriver'.
It's a do-what-I-mean tool, just like the 'Psychic Paper', and unlike a proper C Compiler or XML parser.
The mechinism by which it does it's thing is unimportant; it could be a heat screwdriver that uses themal expansion/contraction to move parts, or a graviton screwdriver manipulating mass and be used exactly the same way in almost every situation.
Anyone with a 'chicks I would do' scale, inevitably, would be the same guys who would do a Mexican Greyhound if someone would hold its head. Eventually, after years of desolate self gratification, the lure of autoerotic asphyxiation fullfills and fills out the entry into the Darwin awards and another soul won't be pissing in the gene pool.
Dammit, Beavis, put that down it's been in your mother.....
I see your Billie Piper and raise you Karen Gillan.
To do something right, you often have to roll up your sleeves and get busy.
Will it work as a regular screwdriver? if so will it be universal?
I allways miss the particular bit i need.
Billie Piper is ok if you like fat chicks with dog faces.
Says the Anonymous Adonis.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
just ignore him and pay attention to Amy Pond, and everything will be ok
In the immortal words of Viz, I'd crawl a mile over broken glass just to poke matchsticks in her shit.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
No, this sonic screwdriver will not help you pick up chicks.
It might help you undo their bra, though.
Or 12 parsecs for the Kessel run.
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