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   Your Name to Dumas Walker   
   Re: Happy 62 Doctor Who   
   07 Dec 25 10:53:02   
   
   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   On 2025-12-05 11:27:02 +0000, Dumas Walker said:   
   > From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
   >>   
   >> The whole Series is about an entity that flys around the Universe in   
   >> a space ship and goes anywhen in Time!! Like THAT really happens!!   
   >   
   > Some of us believe that, in order for it to be "*science* fiction,"   
   > there has to be at least some science involved.  If it completely   
   > ignores science, then it is just fiction.   
   >   
   > Apparently, you are ok with it being just "fiction" and that is fine.   
      
   The TARDIS is a time machine and the Doctor are most of his foes are   
   aliens, so that is fictional science ... hence "science fiction".   
      
   Sci-fi shows and movies don't need piles of pointless quasi-scientific   
   mumbo-jumbo geek-speak spouted to make the "science fiction".   
      
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