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rearranging-deck-chairs · 2 years ago

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The Time Lord Academy had glass turrets, with covered walkways linking them, the dormitories, lecture halls, TARDIS bays and scaphe ports together.

The scaphe (Ancient Greek: σκάφη, romanized: scaphe, lit. 'bowl'; also known as a skaphe, scaphion (diminutive) or Latin: scaphium) was a sundial said to have been invented by Aristarchus of Samos (3rd century BC).

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#this doesnt help At All #i dont know what port means in this context #but once again im delighted by.........timelords??#wait that doesnt sound right when i put it like that #i just like!! when theres stuff!! idont know!!#i just like when theyve got stuff i dont expect #like are these Actual sundials? why? what does port mean #are these like. sundials for something else than the sun #are ports like holes in the wall like in a castle where you shoot through. but they work as sundials?#like theres a clock behind the hole #asfhjfkghghjgf Gallifrey: Theres A Clock Behind The Hole #oh my godd do you know what those holes in castle walls that you shoot through are called? arrowslit #which is reasonable but ALSO LOOPHOLE #fucking loophole #Gallifrey: Theres A Clock Behind The Loophole #scream #but anyway theyre not called Ports so i dont think scaphe ports mean something like this #so what does it mean?#is it for the sun is it for something else?#it feels like in the same vein as abridgement syndrome and elective semantectomy to me but that might just be bc im misunderstanding theword

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