in which Chloe should never watch science programs and gets crossover ideas
Specifically programs which are about the universe, physics and wormholes and such. And OH GODS saying wormhole brings back such memories. (My parents used to watch Farscape, a program I didn’t really pay much attention to the plot of, except that the ships were really cool and so were the aliens except for that one species that was mostly human in appearance but were an entire race of mercenaries.)
Anyway, The History channel over here has a show called ‘The Universe’ and is about black holes and the theory of relativity and fun stuff like that.
And so I learnt that wormhole is so named because it’s like a wormhole in an apple, spaghettified is a technical term, there’s like an actual physics law that states that if anything can exist, it MUST (rule 34 only… it’s SCIENCE); science also has something called a ‘giggle factor’ which used to be applied to black holes because no-one thought they could exist and that a white hole is like a black hole except in reverse.
The trouble with science, and I have to blame myself for this, is that whenever I learn something new, I need to anchor it in fandom so I can remember it.
So the Doctor is running around my head defending that spaghettified and ‘giggle' factor’ are real terms. (The law that anything that can exist MUST doesn’t really need something like that. It’s pretty much rule 34 after all.)
Also, Antiques Roadshow and Torchwood. If you have seen as much of it as I have and enjoy the times when they show a person who has brought something in and the experts have NO idea what it is, you could believe that sometimes Torchwood hangs around just in case someone has a heirloom alien artifact.
Early toasters also look REALLY cool. Especially the ones that are spring-loaded and flip around so it can toast both sides. I want one. Even it if would scare me in the mornings when I’m not quite awake.
I also want Captain Jack to have one, but that’s mostly ‘oh hey, right time period’ more than anything else.