It's a Fall song isn't it?
having just watched it again, there's the bit where he says "Very fast bottom" and it is just blatantly him. Once you know it is.
Time. The Master (as we now know) and the Doctor both explained that.
And yet they detected Bill, walked to the lift, operated the lift and arrived in minutes rather than years from the point of arrival and detection to collect her body.
You've got things the wrong way around.
Going from the top to the bottom isn't the problem: going from the bottom to the to is.
Nope. Slow at the blackhole top. Fast at the bottom.
They need to be strong.
What's Mondasian for 'human'?
Because Mondas was Earth's 'twin' planet and therefore had humanoids much the same as Earth?
All indigenous life forms are pretty much identical including animals, plants and silurians.
Logistics. 6 weeks would require alot of food and water.
Or perhaps the lift journey would only take months for the people left behind not those making the journey. If you observed the lift from a stationary position on any one of the floors as it passed you it would appear to be moving at its normal speed. From the bottom as it rises the lift would appear to decelerate and from the top accelerate but for someone on the lift it would rise steadily. It maybe easier to visualise walking. If a cyberman was walking up the ship with magnetic boots from the bottom to the top of the ship it would take from their perspective the same amount of time to take each step. For them the journey would take the same length of time as if there were no time dilation. They set of at four miles an hours it would take them 100 hours (they don't need to stop for food or sleep they're cybermen) Blue guy would see them walk incredibly fast getting slower as they got closer to him taking the last few steps at normal walking pace. John Simm would see them start off at normal pace getting slower and slower as they get further away. The sensors the blue guy uses should see it this way rather than, irrc, the steady pace shown. Much like the masters eyebrow watching screen would show the lift rise slowly over weeks or whatever if the doors were open.
I'll try and dig it out and be more precise, but it was basically just that, no specific juicy details.
Can you remember what it said?
This is the bit I take issue with. For Bill and the proto-cybermen it took exactly how long the journey would take normally. They would pass each floor at what seemed a perfectly normal speed for them. If it travels at aconstant 4000 miles an hour (I plucked that ridiculous speec out of the air) it would take 6 minutes. It would leave Simm and arrive at the Doctor at this speed measured from their respective frames of reference but Simm would see it slow to around 1/133000 (based on 2 days equalling a thousand years) of this by the time it reached the top while for the Doctor it would appear to be travelling at 560,000,000 miles per hour when it reached the bottom. Bill would experience a 6 minute ride. The Proto cybermen two 6 minute rides.
