10 Predictions For The Future Of Humanity (According To Doctor Who)
3. Time Travel Will Be Invented
Theres an overwhelming amount of evidence to suggest that time travel will never be invented. For one thing, how come nobodys ever come back to tell everybody that time travel has been invented, eh? Theres also a decent amount suggesting that humanity will get there one day, and some of the more scientific theories about a potential time machine in the future suggests that it will only be able to move forward in time, not backward. So much for making a real-life TARDIS. Guess were stuck with all these poxy regular police boxes that nobody ever uses. What are those things even for, if theyre not props? Apparently itll take until the 22nd century for the first time travel experiments to happen, as Danny Pinks great grandson Orson made that pioneering first trip in the episode Listen from this past series. Things dont end so well for Orson, since he ends up at the very end of civilisation, but from all the other time travellers whove cropped up in Doctor Who over the decades - besides the man himself, obviously - it seems like the show is hinting were going to get there someday. Which is a nice thought, because how else are modern viewers meant to catch up with the hundreds of episodes produced before the show came back?
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