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fandomhigh2010-10-06 07:26 pm
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Boom-De-Yada Science - Danger Shop, Wednesday, Period 1 [Week 6]
The Doctor made everyone wait outside of the Danger Shop today.
"Let's start with the homework. I hope you didn't think I'd forgotten. I'm the Doctor, I never forget anything. Okay, I forget some things. After all, I'm not an elephant. You were supposed to live this week like it was Shark Week. How did you do?"
When that was done, he got on with the subject at hand. "An ocean, for those of you who come from less water-plenty planets, is what covers 71% of the Earth's surface. It's the big watery bits. More accurately, it's the big salty, watery bits. There's really only one ocean, but the humans of this and previous eras split it up into a few for geographic and organisational reasons. How many do we have now? Seven? Five? They'll be split into twelve at some point, but not any time soon. There are hundreds of thousands of types of life in the oceans despite humanity's best efforts to kill lots and lots of things that swim around. And contrary to any major corporations' attempts to convince you otherwise, oil does not belong in large bodies of water. Neither do waste products, pool noodles or dolphins, but try telling them that. They never listen.
But I suppose you want to see what's inside." He patted the Danger Shop door. "I've programmed the Danger Shop to simulate the ocean floor of the Great Barrier Reef. I would've chosen the Mariana Trench, but it's dark down there and there are things living down there that you don't really want to meet. So the reef it is. You can walk or swim but you won't need to worry about water pressure or breathing. It's only a water simulation, but you'll feel like you're breathing air normally and you'll be able to talk and hear each other as if you were on the surface. You probably can't always do something so fancy with a holographic set up like this, but I'm very good at this sort of thing."
He was a show-off, that's what. The Doctor stepped aside, opened the doors and let them go in to an underwater reef with turtles, coral, fish, assorted other sea life and, oh yes, probably a shark or two who'll probably leave you alone unless provoked. You were going to get soaking wet, which the Doctor forgot to mention, but it was only holographic water so it would be gone by the time you left the room.
"Let's start with the homework. I hope you didn't think I'd forgotten. I'm the Doctor, I never forget anything. Okay, I forget some things. After all, I'm not an elephant. You were supposed to live this week like it was Shark Week. How did you do?"
When that was done, he got on with the subject at hand. "An ocean, for those of you who come from less water-plenty planets, is what covers 71% of the Earth's surface. It's the big watery bits. More accurately, it's the big salty, watery bits. There's really only one ocean, but the humans of this and previous eras split it up into a few for geographic and organisational reasons. How many do we have now? Seven? Five? They'll be split into twelve at some point, but not any time soon. There are hundreds of thousands of types of life in the oceans despite humanity's best efforts to kill lots and lots of things that swim around. And contrary to any major corporations' attempts to convince you otherwise, oil does not belong in large bodies of water. Neither do waste products, pool noodles or dolphins, but try telling them that. They never listen.
But I suppose you want to see what's inside." He patted the Danger Shop door. "I've programmed the Danger Shop to simulate the ocean floor of the Great Barrier Reef. I would've chosen the Mariana Trench, but it's dark down there and there are things living down there that you don't really want to meet. So the reef it is. You can walk or swim but you won't need to worry about water pressure or breathing. It's only a water simulation, but you'll feel like you're breathing air normally and you'll be able to talk and hear each other as if you were on the surface. You probably can't always do something so fancy with a holographic set up like this, but I'm very good at this sort of thing."
He was a show-off, that's what. The Doctor stepped aside, opened the doors and let them go in to an underwater reef with turtles, coral, fish, assorted other sea life and, oh yes, probably a shark or two who'll probably leave you alone unless provoked. You were going to get soaking wet, which the Doctor forgot to mention, but it was only holographic water so it would be gone by the time you left the room.
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