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=== Early travels === | === Early travels === | ||
Her first trip in the TARDIS was 150 million years in the past of Earth, where she was worried about the [[Butterfly effect]]. This did briefly effect her, before the Doctor undid the effect and switched on the [[Butterfly compensation switch]]. The Doctor then asked her for a set of numbers, which he used as coordinates to travel to [[21506]]. Here they discovered a space station piloted by babies. She told the babies a story whilst the Doctor investigated. She learnt from [[Jocelyn Sancerre]] that the babies where abandoned on space station, because there was a funding cut, but by law they couldn't turn off the parthenogenesis machine, which disturbed her as the future wasn't much different to her own. Trying to work out more about the [[Bogeyman (Space Babies)|Bogeyman]], she was horrified that her story inspired one of the babies, [[Eric (Space Babies)|Eric]] to be brave and try and stop the monster. She went to stop Jocelyn from evacuating the Bogeyman from the ship, removing [[The Doctor's sonic screwdriver]] from the controls. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Space Babies (TV story)}}) | |||
Her first trip in the TARDIS was 150 | |||
[[File:Care Force.png|thumb|The [[Care Force]] arrests the Doctor and Ruby. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Mancopolis (comic story)|part=One}})]] | [[File:Care Force.png|thumb|The [[Care Force]] arrests the Doctor and Ruby. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Mancopolis (comic story)|part=One}})]] | ||
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* [[Davina McCall (in-universe)|Davina McCall]], in {{cs|The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)}}, tells Ruby that no matches for her DNA sample were found in the available databases. While some have speculated online that this means Ruby is alien or from another point in time, it should be noted that the {{w|United Kingdom National DNA Database}}, for example, uses only samples from convicted criminals. | * [[Davina McCall (in-universe)|Davina McCall]], in {{cs|The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)}}, tells Ruby that no matches for her DNA sample were found in the available databases. While some have speculated online that this means Ruby is alien or from another point in time, it should be noted that the {{w|United Kingdom National DNA Database}}, for example, uses only samples from convicted criminals. | ||
** In the real world, there have actually been cases highly comparable to Ruby's, where "foundlings", who have been abandoned at locations such as hospitals and churches, have had their parentage unknown and untraceable.<ref>[https://arielbruce.com/2019/02/20/long-lost-family-press-release-born-without-trace/ ''Long Lost Family Press Release: ‘Born Without Trace’'' on arielbruce.com]</ref> ''[[Long Lost Family]]'' (the television series implied in ''The Church on Ruby Road'' to be the one Davina presents) makes use of DNA searching, particularly in the special ''Born Without Trace'', where DNA samples have been matched to relatives of a parent who have consentingly added their DNA sample to an online database, with further detective work afterwards being required to find a parent;<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200926232407/https://www.itv.com/presscentre/ep1week9/long-lost-family-special-born-without-trace ''Long Lost Family Special: Born Without Trace'' on itv.com via the Wayback Machine]</ref> if the parents have no relatives, or those relatives haven't submitted their DNA to an online database, then DNA searching doesn't work, just like in {{cs|The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)}}. | ** In the real world, there have actually been cases highly comparable to Ruby's, where "foundlings", who have been abandoned at locations such as hospitals and churches, have had their parentage unknown and untraceable.<ref>[https://arielbruce.com/2019/02/20/long-lost-family-press-release-born-without-trace/ ''Long Lost Family Press Release: ‘Born Without Trace’'' on arielbruce.com]</ref> ''[[Long Lost Family]]'' (the television series implied in ''The Church on Ruby Road'' to be the one Davina presents) makes use of DNA searching, particularly in the special ''Born Without Trace'', where DNA samples have been matched to relatives of a parent who have consentingly added their DNA sample to an online database, with further detective work afterwards being required to find a parent;<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200926232407/https://www.itv.com/presscentre/ep1week9/long-lost-family-special-born-without-trace ''Long Lost Family Special: Born Without Trace'' on itv.com via the Wayback Machine]</ref> if the parents have no relatives, or those relatives haven't submitted their DNA to an online database, then DNA searching doesn't work, just like in {{cs|The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)}}. | ||
** Furthermore, the Doctor's scan of Ruby in {{cs|Space Babies (TV story)}} confirms she is human. Similarly, in the same episode, her stepping on a butterfly resulting in her existence being rewritten implies that her descent indeed originates from Earth. | ** Furthermore, the Doctor's scan of Ruby in {{cs|Space Babies (TV story)}} confirms she is human. Similarly, in the same episode, her stepping on [[Butterfly (Space Babies)|a butterfly]] resulting in her existence being rewritten implies that her descent indeed originates from Earth. | ||
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[[Category:Human time travellers]] | [[Category:Human time travellers]] | ||
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