Howling:Bracewell

Anyone checked this out as a real surname? Check out the Bracewell Probe at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracewell_probe. IMHO certainly makes this a very interesting choice of surname for the character and surely can't just be coincidental as it's relatively uncommon 86.26.137.154 04:55, April 19, 2010 (UTC)

Interesting. You might have something. Certainly never knew about the Bracewell probe. And other things relating to Bracewell are:

1) The real Professor Bracewell, who gave the name to this type of probe, worked for CSIRO (the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation), which I for one, had never heard of, prior to seeing them represented on Jeff Angelo's laptop with Patrick Moore to help expose Prisoner Zero. A CSIRO connection across two Season Five episodes?

2) This one's a long-shot, and could be rubbish: The Eleventh Hour's Bracewell's forbidden love was a "Dora Bella". "Adora Belle", was a young lady in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series who ran the Golem Trust, and had a romantic connection with the Ankh Morpock Post Office' Postmaster.

- Golems. I wouldn't consider a connection if there were not a lot of mythical creature clues running over this series;

- Post Office. Bracewell's parents, in his artificial memories, ran a post office, some place with ash trees; and the Doctor referred to a post office in Leadworth, perhaps in TEH.

3) I'm glad this area is for speculation, because that is all this is. CSIRO's website has information on the funnel-web spider. It has two genus, one being the Atrax.  Torchwood Five 87.80.103.44 18:59, May 29, 2010 (UTC)