The top speed of any transport is limited by engine power, fuel and friction with the environment. 2000mph is relatively easy to achieve in space. At near sea-level on Earth it would produce a huge shock and superheated compressed air wave.
My attempts at rationalising these with the canon.. The Dalek craft that crashed in Egypt could've been a recon scout that was not as lucky as the one who landed in prehistoric Britain. As for the Yeti, certain Dalek mutants, like Sec, are shown to be able to entirely absorb and merge their DNA with a human, it is feasible therefore that they could do this with other creatures in a desperate bid for survival, perhaps something suited to the cold like a polar bear.. Daleks not sleeping would explain why they are always so angry. I sympathise. Their inability to perceive certain colours is stated as a limitation of the mutant that is remedied by the eyestalk which seems entirely feasible given how irradiated they were. And I imagine the 2,000mph Dalek top speed is something achievable only whilst flying as it would make them comparably as fast as the fastest jet aircraft, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird.
Probably everyone else got this immediately but it took me a couple of minutes: the measles reference is probably a playful joke referring to the "spots" on dalek skirts: as in, you're getting a "Dalek disease" and developing Dalek bumps all over.
Funny about some of those facts: The one about the Pyramid of Giza could conceivably be reconciled with _The Daleks' Master Plan_ because even though they land there in time machine and not a crashed spaceship, the Red Dalek in the novelisation is entombed in the completed pyramid after it is immobilised and buried. The _Remembrance of the Daleks_ novelisation also has the Imperial Daleks whizzing about the streets of London at great speeds just before they battle the Renegade Daleks. Funny how they can't see red as well because Red Daleks were inserted into the novelisations of "Master Plan" and "Evil" even though the corresponding Daleks on TV were just ordinary silver.
Wasn't the Saucer Commander like silver and red? I also find it a tad ironic that they can't see red, but (later on) there would be at least two red Dalek Supremes.
My theory is that Dalekanium, beskar and vibrinium are the same material with different names. They're all incredibly valuable metals and are the strongest materials in each respective universe. It's dumb, but would mean that a lightsaber couldn't cute through a Dalek, and Thor's hammer would create a giant wave of energy of whacked against a Dalek
I actually do find the idea of Daleks not being able to see certain colors is interesting, but that would probably make their threat level as a warmongering race dwindle
"City of the Daleks", a comic in _The Dalek Book_ preceding this one, claims the Daleks came up with Einstein's theories and invented the Wright Brothers' flyer while the Dalek Emperor wrote the complete works of Shakespeare! Plus, the Emperor had a larger casing built for him which apparently allowed him to read minds. There's another feature in one of Terry Nation's Dalek Annuals. I think it's called "Intercept"? Anyway, it posits that secret Dalek activity and experiments are responsible for all sorts of real-world phenomena and disasters, like the Nemesis Statue. It's another goldmine for facts like this. Heck, even as recent as a decade ago, "The Dalek Project" suggested the Daleks started WWI by conditioning Gavrilo Princip to assassinate Archduke Ferdinand! Though to be fair, the story never reveals if that happened for definite.
well that would make a funny scene. daleks painting themselves red because they believe they would then be invisible only to be easily shot down as soon as they go outside because the red just makes them stand out only for them to ask. "how did they know we were there?"
The generator fact could be fun to include in the show at some point, a potentially tense or hilarious moment where the doctor and companions have to play "Don't get exterminated" while hooking a Dalek up to generate power to save some location by restoring power.
I do remember seeing a anatomy loom up into a classic daleks insides ans seeing that the head dome had a seperate secondary brain from the mutant that still rested in the center part of the travel machine which Is an idea i'm very fond off! And even if that yeti fsct is dubiohs I would like to see the daleks encounter the great intelligence and it's yeti robots now!
When I was at school in the early 1970s I remember someone having a Dalek book that informed us, among other things, that J was the forbidden letter of the Daleks. Also, the dome lights (somehow) enabled the Daleks to keep their temper in check. At the time I wrote an epic poem (by 10 year old standard) which included a scene in which the TARDIS crew managed to smash the lights and chanted "J-J-J." The Dalek got so angry it blew its top, enabling the TARDIS crew to escape. But I have to wonder how the Daleks coped with Jamie, Jo, Sarah Jane, Tegan Jovanka and other characters with a J in their name!
I have a copy of the Dalek Handbook from the sixties, which has a map of the area surrounding the Daleks' city on Skaro, which includes a lake inhabited by mutants, animals mutated by radiation from the long war on Skaro.
Interestingly the whole “can’t see red” thing stuck around for awhile. I think spin-off material was still bringing it up in the 80s and using it as plot points... despite red Daleks being a thing almost As old, if not as old as the can’t see red thing...
Emancipation of the Daleks spoilers: .EOD would actually follow through on the Daleks being used as a source of power. With a dystopian future britain using the mutans and Thier casings as highly efficient batteries.
While certain atmospheric conditions can filter our some colours that does not mean we were unable to see them. Dalek vision is _superior_ and we see a much wider range of the electromagnetic spectrum than the pathetically tiny band that _humans_ perceive!
I love how totally inaccurate the "Daleks can't see red" thing is now. Imagine the Paradigm Daleks not being able to see their basic troops!
Watching a Dalek do 2000mph would be absolutelty hilarious
They’re charmingly creative facts. I’d love to see a Dalek going at 2000mph, wonder if any of these facts will come up in canon in the future.
The top speed of any transport is limited by engine power, fuel and friction with the environment.
2000mph is relatively easy to achieve in space. At near sea-level on Earth it would produce a huge shock and superheated compressed air wave.
@@ekij133 i would love to see a group of daleks speed across land to reach whatever
Pursuit ModelDaleks?
My attempts at rationalising these with the canon..
The Dalek craft that crashed in Egypt could've been a recon scout that was not as lucky as the one who landed in prehistoric Britain.
As for the Yeti, certain Dalek mutants, like Sec, are shown to be able to entirely absorb and merge their DNA with a human, it is feasible therefore that they could do this with other creatures in a desperate bid for survival, perhaps something suited to the cold like a polar bear..
Daleks not sleeping would explain why they are always so angry. I sympathise.
Their inability to perceive certain colours is stated as a limitation of the mutant that is remedied by the eyestalk which seems entirely feasible given how irradiated they were.
And I imagine the 2,000mph Dalek top speed is something achievable only whilst flying as it would make them comparably as fast as the fastest jet aircraft, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird.
Sec was modified for that the yeti are probably recon daleks taking over munkys
Fun fact: this is one of only two pieces of _Doctor Who_ media that is actually canon. The other is, of course, _Doctor in Distress_
Probably everyone else got this immediately but it took me a couple of minutes: the measles reference is probably a playful joke referring to the "spots" on dalek skirts: as in, you're getting a "Dalek disease" and developing Dalek bumps all over.
No, you got it before I did!
Funny about some of those facts: The one about the Pyramid of Giza could conceivably be reconciled with _The Daleks' Master Plan_ because even though they land there in time machine and not a crashed spaceship, the Red Dalek in the novelisation is entombed in the completed pyramid after it is immobilised and buried.
The _Remembrance of the Daleks_ novelisation also has the Imperial Daleks whizzing about the streets of London at great speeds just before they battle the Renegade Daleks.
Funny how they can't see red as well because Red Daleks were inserted into the novelisations of "Master Plan" and "Evil" even though the corresponding Daleks on TV were just ordinary silver.
Wasn't the Saucer Commander like silver and red?
I also find it a tad ironic that they can't see red, but (later on) there would be at least two red Dalek Supremes.
True I'd say that Daleks dont 'sleep' as their electronic mind component is always active, the organic one would need sleep of course.
A dalek crashing to earth with the crash site being marked by a pyramid sounds like a really interesting story
I like to think Daleks do sleep as I find the idea of them snoring through their modulator kinda cute.
My theory is that Dalekanium, beskar and vibrinium are the same material with different names. They're all incredibly valuable metals and are the strongest materials in each respective universe. It's dumb, but would mean that a lightsaber couldn't cute through a Dalek, and Thor's hammer would create a giant wave of energy of whacked against a Dalek
I actually do find the idea of Daleks not being able to see certain colors is interesting, but that would probably make their threat level as a warmongering race dwindle
Might explain why they were absent in certain seasons like season 18 though, they just couldn't find the Doctor
@@PipsyProductions*S18 4th Doctor stands right in front of a Dalek’s line of sight*
Dalek: “Where is the Doctor!?”
"City of the Daleks", a comic in _The Dalek Book_ preceding this one, claims the Daleks came up with Einstein's theories and invented the Wright Brothers' flyer while the Dalek Emperor wrote the complete works of Shakespeare!
Plus, the Emperor had a larger casing built for him which apparently allowed him to read minds.
There's another feature in one of Terry Nation's Dalek Annuals. I think it's called "Intercept"? Anyway, it posits that secret Dalek activity and experiments are responsible for all sorts of real-world phenomena and disasters, like the Nemesis Statue. It's another goldmine for facts like this.
Heck, even as recent as a decade ago, "The Dalek Project" suggested the Daleks started WWI by conditioning Gavrilo Princip to assassinate Archduke Ferdinand! Though to be fair, the story never reveals if that happened for definite.
well that would make a funny scene. daleks painting themselves red because they believe they would then be invisible only to be easily shot down as soon as they go outside because the red just makes them stand out only for them to ask. "how did they know we were there?"
The generator fact could be fun to include in the show at some point, a potentially tense or hilarious moment where the doctor and companions have to play "Don't get exterminated" while hooking a Dalek up to generate power to save some location by restoring power.
I do remember seeing a anatomy loom up into a classic daleks insides ans seeing that the head dome had a seperate secondary brain from the mutant that still rested in the center part of the travel machine which Is an idea i'm very fond off!
And even if that yeti fsct is dubiohs I would like to see the daleks encounter the great intelligence and it's yeti robots now!
When I was at school in the early 1970s I remember someone having a Dalek book that informed us, among other things, that J was the forbidden letter of the Daleks. Also, the dome lights (somehow) enabled the Daleks to keep their temper in check.
At the time I wrote an epic poem (by 10 year old standard) which included a scene in which the TARDIS crew managed to smash the lights and chanted "J-J-J." The Dalek got so angry it blew its top, enabling the TARDIS crew to escape.
But I have to wonder how the Daleks coped with Jamie, Jo, Sarah Jane, Tegan Jovanka and other characters with a J in their name!
Oh my God what I'd give to read that poem it sounds hilarious
@@itskevinjustkevin I do randomly remember things from way back from time to time, so if I remember the poem I will share it here!
@@paulbeardsley4095 cool beans
The idea of daleks buried int he premises is actually a sound idea
How the heck could people confuse of misshapen octopus to a giant white ape?
Daleks weren’t squids back when the book was published. All that had been seen of a Dalek creature back then was a single clawed hand in _The Daleks_
I have a copy of the Dalek Handbook from the sixties, which has a map of the area surrounding the Daleks' city on Skaro, which includes a lake inhabited by mutants, animals mutated by radiation from the long war on Skaro.
The "Not seeing red" is a tad strange, but interesting.
Dalek: haha prepared die- hey where did you go where are you
Human: thank God he gone good thing I able to cover myself in red paint
I like the measles one-Mums probably liked that too.
You forgot to mention the fact that they are surprisingly light, prepare to be chucked across my backyard you fool!
The true cannon
I do like the idea of the Daleks not being able to see certain colours to tbh not too the point there invisible though
In like the Dalekanium being worth a thousand pounds.
£1000 in 1960 would be worth nearly £30k today.
(Inflation: yet another human _weakness_ )
Interestingly the whole “can’t see red” thing stuck around for awhile. I think spin-off material was still bringing it up in the 80s and using it as plot points... despite red Daleks being a thing almost As old, if not as old as the can’t see red thing...
Emancipation of the Daleks spoilers:
.EOD would actually follow through on the Daleks being used as a source of power. With a dystopian future britain using the mutans and Thier casings as highly efficient batteries.
Got this publication..yes bonkers
Didn’t the daleks make a robot duplicate of the doctor in The Chase? The robot spies fact might come from that.
While certain atmospheric conditions can filter our some colours that does not mean we were unable to see them. Dalek vision is _superior_ and we see a much wider range of the electromagnetic spectrum than the pathetically tiny band that _humans_ perceive!
The red daleks in the comics but that was prototype not the original daleks
The daleks can't see red .. But they do see red figuratively speaking
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Hey why Don't you make a full video of the Daleks timeline
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