Crossover drabblememe
Because I need a little distraction and I want to get a little writing practise even before I start railing against the Yuletide deadline:
From daegaerGive me the premise for a crossover (example: someone in a fairytale meets the devil, who turn out to be Crowley), a fusion (example: Midsomer Murders and Weiss Kreuz fusion: the peaceful English ( Read more... )
From daegaerGive me the premise for a crossover (example: someone in a fairytale meets the devil, who turn out to be Crowley), a fusion (example: Midsomer Murders and Weiss Kreuz fusion: the peaceful English ( Read more... )
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy as this to say about Time Lords:
Absolutely nothing. As far as the Guide is concerned, they don't exist and never have nor (according to some of the more advanced models with the premium subscription and future-compatibility) ever will.
There is a school of thought which states that any sufficiently advanced knowledge repository will develop certain defense mechanisms against any information which, by it's possession, threatens the coherence of the knowledge repository as a whole. The salt libraries of the delicate, poetical inhabitants of Toca Plow, for example, will secret a nacreous coating around any books containing references to Vogon poetry. More advanced computational stores of information may also act to protect themselves against knowing something which would, in effect, do their head in (head in this case being the quantum computer matrix).
In some cases, it may be possible to retrieve this information if the knowledge repository is kept stable in a large suprareality field, but the cost of this is extortionate. Field Guide Ford Prefect claims that a similar effect can be submersing your copy of the Guide in a large Pan Galactic Gargleblaster. There is no evidence that this works, since the necessary exposure to the fumes from a large Pan Galactic Gargleblaster prevents the reader from maintaining any knowledge of these so-called "lost entries", or indeed, much of their life to date.
Proponents of the theory of self-protective information claim that the more complicated the knowledge repository, the more it will protect itself, actively seeking to erase -or at least, isolate- paradoxical or dangerous information. Opponents of the theory say that the theorists only make this claim since it is, of course, impossible to know what it is you don't know, if you don't know you don't know it.
See also the entries (or lack thereof) on the Doctor; What Happened To the Planet Earth, ZZ 9 Plural Z Alpha; Zaphod Beeble Brox.
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