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Alice Grove MCDT - NEW COMIC! - October 2014
Mlle Germain:
Today's comic is already pulling hard at my suspension of disbelief - this is just not how climbing/ abseiling accidents happen. Unless you're a complete idiot and really careless (and I don't like to think that of Alice, who I think does this professionally as well, because amateurs usually don't climb turbines) you will check your rope for structural weaknesses and, especially if you're a professional, regularly exchange it for a new one even if no tears or frailties can be seen. Since one is today able to produce extremely reliable ropes, this makes today's scenario in the comic very unlikely - unless it is a special feature of the Alice Grove universe that they can't produce structurally sound ropes.
The climbing accidents that do happen are mostly due to people doing their knots wrong, forgetting to tie themselves in properly due to being distracted (!) or not being able to use their abseiling equipment correctly, not to speak of them falling on rocks/ against the wall, avalanches and the like, which can't happen when climbing a turbine.
stephber:
Do we know that she's really Alice? We haven't had a proper introduction yet...
::mind blown::
Mlle Germain:
--- Quote from: bhtooefr on 03 Oct 2014, 00:39 ---Prediction: This is a nightmare sequence. The woman died, the man has nightmares in which he tries to save her and fails.
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Intriguing theory. I could really see this to be the case.
Although in this one, he sort of causes the accident - if he hadn't arrived flailing his arms widely at her, she just would have stayed on the turbine, and maybe would have come down later in a less hasty fashion, which maybe would have avoided the accident.
stephber: Yeah, maybe the girl isn't Alice. Doesn't really change anything for me, although I guess it would feel like a letdown to lose the naming character so early in the comic and less so if she was only a side character - I kknow this is mean and irrational.
Edit: I actually don't think this accident will be fatal. And I still think it is in fact Alice.
NilsO:
--- Quote from: Mlle Germain on 03 Oct 2014, 00:56 ---Edit: I actually don't think this accident will be fatal. And I still think it is in fact Alice.
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If this accident is not fatal, it will be a miracle indeed, assuming it takes place in a universe with the same physical laws as ours. Unless it is a place with significant lower gravity, such as a small planet or a space habitat. But the blue sky suggests it is happening on Earth. Besides, a space habitat (or a pressurized dome on a small planet) would not have much wind, so a wind turbine would be useless.
I also think this is Alice. This may be how it ends. The rest of the story is just flashbacks from the man down below's point of view.
KOK:
There is nothing unusual in ropes breaking or other such unlikely mishaps in fiction. That is artistic license. (Of course now it will prove to be an assasination attempt, and I will have made a fool of myself.)
She falls from the same hight as the lowest point of the circle made by the wingtips. That is not that far up. Could be fatal, but not inevitably so.
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