![]() ![]() Thus our characters can bump into it, run their hands Who has achieved this "disappearance" byĬovering the outside with light-resistant paint (a recognised research Only as an absence of visibility, a shape of nothingness (Inlaid, into Therefore, we do no see the machine at all or rather it is visible Quivering electronics, then we simply have a version of the dear old Night-watchman's shelter to arrive inside a marvellous contrivance of Passing through some common object in street such as a If we scotch this by positing something humdrum, say, If it is a transparent plasticīubble we are with all the lowgrade spacefiction of cartoon strip and When we consider what this looks like, we are in danger of either The original suggestion was that of a night-watchmen's shelter. ![]() The Tardis Handbook (which contains a collection of various period memos and internal BBC documents) records that the design was chosen in order to have a device that was "humdrum", "portable" and something that was a "recognisable symbol" without being too "science-fiction". Was it just to be a bit original since most would have expected an English box disguise used as a vessel to be a red telephone box? Given that, and given that the English Phone Box is a cliché, is there a reason, why it is not just that? However let's say it is an oversight and it is only 100 miles, or even that in a 1000 miles but the immediate surroundings are more important that the farthest ones, and that’s why it would be something specific to the UK. Well, given 1000 miles it is very unlikely that it would transform into anything specifically British. "thousand mile radius would take in the whole of the UK and most of Europe (as well as a large area of sea)" answered Jan 5 at 14:59 Richard "within the first nanosecond of landing its chameleon circuit analysed the surrounding area, calculated a twelve-dimensional data map of all objects within a thousand-mile radius and then determined which outer shell would best blend in with the environment.” That is why the Tardis disguised itself as a Police box, "answered Jan 7 at 18:39 DoctorWho22 ”"The TARDIS had a malfunctioning chameleon circuit, at the time of the debut of the first episode of Doctor Who in 1963 it was common to see Police call Boxes in British Cities. This is linked with Why did the First Doctor land in a junkyard, and why didn’t the TARDIS disguise itself as junk? ![]()
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