The most telling thing, to my mind, is how little of this fanciful technology we see in the real world. Yes, the manhattan project was super-secret, but within

The most telling thing, to my mind, is how little of this fanciful technology we see in the real world. Yes, the manhattan project was super-secret, but within 10 years that science was everywhere. If we really had our hands on the kind of nearly-magical tech that all these breathless tabloid releases suggested, we'd see it leaking into actual tech. The First Nation to develop a TARDIS, is going to USE that TARDIS.