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TARDIS (Exterior)

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TARDIS (Exterior)

The Doctor's time-and-space machine disguised as a police box/Pop Culture

The TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension In Space) from Doctor Who is famously bigger on the inside. Its exterior, stuck in the form of a 1960s British police telephone box due to a broken chameleon circuit, is a modest blue wooden cabinet. The real Metropolitan Police boxes measured about 2.7 m tall, 1.37 m wide, and 1.37 m deep. The TARDIS weighs approximately 1,000 kg in its external form, though it contains infinite dimensions within.

Measurements

Height2.7 m
1.8 tenthsShuffleboard courts
2.5 tenthsLondon double-decker buses
19.3 billionthsJupiter diameters

Based on real Metropolitan Police box

Width1.37 m
1.14Coffee table lengths
22.8Stacked hamsters
4.89Football lengths

Square footprint

Depth1.37 m
5.1 thousandthsTitanic lengths
3.8 thousandthsCruise ship lengths
13.7Harmonica lengths

Square footprint

Floor area (exterior)1.88 m2
409Credit cards
368 millionthsWhite Houses
2.7 trillionthsTexases

Exterior footprint only

Exterior mass1,000 kg
152 billionthsHoover Dam masses
143Thanksgiving turkeys

Approximate for the external shell

Exterior volume5.07 m3
4.49Porta-potties
25.4 millionthsHindenburgs
10,140Human bladders

Interior volume is, of course, infinite

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