OK, we're going to get
hyper-nerdy now (
editors note: "now"?) (
snell's note: shut up).
One of the more famous
Doctor Who stories was...
The Dalek Invasion Of Earth. It's well known because
a) many eerie scenes of
Daleks marching through an abandoned
London;
b) The "
what if the Nazis had won WWII" allegory;
c) it's the first time one of the Doctor's companions left;
d) it was remade into a theatrical movie starring
Peter Cushing.
But it's also equally well known for it's
naff science. As my friend
Siskoid describes the Dalek's plot:
The Daleks' plan is revealed and it is, of course, very much absurd. They mean to empty the Earth's core, disrupt its magnetic and gravitational fields, and replace with a power source to turn the planet into a great, big (gas-guzzling) spaceship.
(BTW,
Siskoid is doing a daily Doctor Who review, each episode in chronological order. Go read it,
every day!)
Anyway, this is the part where
I rise to the Daleks' defense, because the plan was so brilliant, it was
actually implemented in the past...er, the future...er, it get confusing.
The Doctor Who story, aired in
1964, was set in
2164 (or,
2150, if you prefer the theatrical version). But let's travel backwards, to a
1952 comic book story, and go forward to the
25th century!! (Oh, my head...)
The Solar System's
Space Guard has been alerted to an
unusual threat:
After landing to investigate, rescuing a bikini-clad "
space article writer," fighting monsters who were really
holograms, and finding
secret entrances, the discover:
"
Outer Spacians"????? Man, this
political correctness has gone way too far!!
Upon further exploration...
The world
hollowed out?? Can you touch the sky?
Hollowed out the world, installed motors in it, and drove it around the cosmos, and planned to use it to conquer other planets?!?!?
In other words,
12 years before Dalek Invasion of Earth (or
3 centuries after...oh, my head), the Outer Spacians had
the exact same plan!!!The Daleks are vindicated!!
The Daleks are vindicated!! We have to stop making fun of their "
ridiculous" plan!! They could have used it to conquer the cosmos!!
Nothing could have stopped them had they hollowed out the Erath!!
Nothing!!!...
Oh.
Never mind.
From Fantastic Worlds #6 (1952).Space Epilogue:
