sds5044@ritcv.UUCP (Steven D. Smith) (12/20/85)
In article <424@tekchips.UUCP> toma@tekchips.UUCP (Tom Almy) writes: >With all this discussion about how K9 gets around, a more pressing question >in my mind is how do the Daleks climb stairs? The Cybermen scare me, but >I just laugh at the Daleks. I can sleep easy at night knowing that they >can't navigate my door step! > >Tom Almy > >"Sticks and Stones can break my bones but Daleks can never hurt me!" K9 in on treads like a tank this allows for rough terrain but not stairs. As far as K9-MI is cncerned, he probably did not have any kind of provision for starirs since the hospital he was built at used elevators as the principle mode of vertical movement. The Doctor probably modified K9 in the MII and later models by installing a form of anti-gravity field. The field could probably be operated for only short periods of time. This would allow K9 to go up and down stairs. The Daleks probably had a similar arrangement. This is only my speculation and not based on fact. However, the treads on K9 were mentioned in a recent issue of Starlog.