For those that don't know of Doctor Who the TARDIS (always written in caps) is his spaceship, and is used for traveling except that it traverses dimensions and/of time to reach its destinations rather than any conventional A to B mileage. This can often lead to miscalculations. The fabric of time being what it is hardly tends to follow neat straight lines. Unconventional travel can mean unconventional errors which is a part of the eccentricity that is Doctor Who's appeal as a Time Lord. It's not an ordinary spaceship in many ways. It doesn't look like one. It looks like a large, blue box with space on the front just for a pair of panel doors. It's in the form of an English police telephone box from the1950's which police officers would have had a key to and used in an emergency to call for assistance or report a crime etc, or they might have used it hurriedly to shelter from the rain I suppose on a blustery night. It might date earlier than the fifties (possibly 1930's) I'm not entirely sure where those police boxes date back to. Among other properties, it has the curious characteristic of being larger on the inside than it physically is when looking at it from the outside. On the outside it appears to possess barely space enough to hold a fully grown adult, yet the inside contains more rooms than you'd ever believe were possible. It is also alive. Above is my version of a box that The Doctor doesn't have! The blue light being the same as the one on top of the TARDIS.
TARDIS - Time And Relative Dimension In Space
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River Song: Use the stabilisers!
The Doctor: It doesn't have stabilisers!
River Song: The blue switches!
The Doctor: The blue ones don't do anything, they're just... blue!
River Song: Yes they're blue: they're the blue stabilisers! [presses the button and the TARDIS indeed stabilises] See?
The Doctor: Yeah? Well, it's boring now, isn't it? They're boring-ers! They're blue... boring-ers!
Amy: Doctor, how come she can fly the TARDIS?
The Doctor: You call that flying the TARDIS? [scoffs] Ha!
River Song: Okay, I've mapped the probability vectors, done a foldback on the temporal isometry, charted the ship to its destination and... [presses a button, the cloister bell clangs] parked us right alongside.
The Doctor: Parked us? But we haven't landed!
River Song: Of course we've landed; I just landed her.
The Doctor: But it didn't make the noise.
River Song: What noise?
The Doctor: You know, the... [does an impression of the TARDIS materialisation sound]
River Song: It's not supposed to make that noise. You leave the brakes on.
The Doctor: Yes, well, it's a brilliant noise. I love that noise.
Sonic screwdriver
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