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Maybe. But I don't know anyone who's ever seen one. And remember, "remote" in the UK is completely different from "remote" in the US.
There's no reason not to just have a normal phone booth. And they're becoming more and more useless anyway, what with mobile phones being ubiquitous and all.
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About his age... The Doctor was supposedly 953 years old at the beginning of his seventh (McCoy) incarnation, and fandom generally accepts he was around 750 at the beginning of his first (no?). The Doc ages much more slowly than humans do, so given the noticable physical difference between the McCoy in the series and the movie, he should be well over a thousand by now.
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Assuming he measures years in earth terms and not Galifrey's orbit around it's star.
Here's a treat from master craftsma Tim Lindsey: http://www.tmlindsey.com/tardis.htm He built a full size TARDIS prop as a changing room for some rich huy's pool.
Sweet.
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" And, of course, he would have been 0 at the beginning of his first. Perhaps you meant at his first regeneration?
That depends on Gallifrey's level of technology and culture: we already know they survive via computer after death, why not learning/living in utero? Probably ex-utero, now that I consider it.
Greg Bear has a series of books wherein advanced humans often combine personality traits via a computer like those shown on Gallifrey- and the child learns, develops mentally and petitions for citizenship. they the child chooses gender and physical apperance and is physically born with several years worth of experiences.
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Sure they can: a body could be made to any age specification. Read Greg Bear's amazing book Eon sometime. It won the Hugo award.
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