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- From: marcs@yang.earlham.edu (Marc Seebass(Thunderbolt))
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho
- Subject: Re: The Doctor is...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.133527.20549@yang.earlham.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 18:35:27 GMT
- References: <torresce.721950213@craft.camp.clarkson.edu> <1992Nov17.221401.11255@mail.cornell.edu>
- Organization: Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana
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- In article <1992Nov17.221401.11255@mail.cornell.edu>, drh2@cornell.edu (Dave Horlick) writes:
- > In article <torresce.721950213@craft.camp.clarkson.edu> Carlos E. Torres,
- > torresce@craft.camp.clarkson.edu writes:
- >>In response to what someone else posted - sorry I lost the note...
- >>I doubt Rassilon could be originally from Earth (or Omega) or anybody
- > else from
- >>Earth's fu ture! First of all, the TimeLord as a race have a different
- >>physionomy than humans. It is alot to accept that humans developed two
- > hearts
- >>naturally! And even if it were unnatural (artificial) - to make it
- > hereditary
- >>is quite a mystery as to why they would even want to
- >
- > It was my suggestion. Maybe you need two hearts to regenerate. In any
- > case I can easily see the advantages of Gallifreyan biology. Wouldn't you
- > like thirteen lives, limited telepathy, and the ability to make people
- > around you understand one another, regardless of language?
- I remember hearing that the bit about language was a function of the
- Tardis. The Tardis would telepathically give the people inside it the
- ability to speak the predominate language of the area they landed in. This
- is why the Doctor's human friends never had any problems with languages.
-
- ----Marc Seebass
-