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Unanswered Questions from the Alice-verse
BenRG:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 17 Jul 2015, 08:58 ---I knew that lambskin condoms were a thing in the past (back to Roman times); but I didn't know that they are in current use!
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The Blink actively imposes a low-tech environment on the planet-bound. Synthetic rubber, like other sophisticated materials, is probably on the list of forbidden things that it prevents from working.
retrosteve:
Side note: I've just been catching up on Gunnerkrigg Court.
Page 371 has a long-awaited exposition that looks awfully thematically familiar, wouldn't you say?
http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=371
Alice and Antimony have a fair bit in common, really.
wlewisiii:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 18 Jul 2015, 23:51 ---
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 17 Jul 2015, 08:58 ---I knew that lambskin condoms were a thing in the past (back to Roman times); but I didn't know that they are in current use!
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The Blink actively imposes a low-tech environment on the planet-bound. Synthetic rubber, like other sophisticated materials, is probably on the list of forbidden things that it prevents from working.
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I'd have to disagree with this. If it were the case, Alice's windmill would either not work or be useless. Instead she is providing electricity to something. Lights? A motor driving the local grist mill? Something is using electricity - as that windmill is not good for anything else. If the Blink put a true technology ban in place ala Ringo's "The Council Wars" series, I doubt that electricity would pass muster if artificial latex wouldn't.
A more likely explaination is simply that there are spare resources to make prophylactics from lamb while not from latex.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: wlewisiii on 19 Jul 2015, 14:47 ---I'd have to disagree with this. If it were the case, Alice's windmill would either not work or be useless. Instead she is providing electricity to something.
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My way of tap-dancing around this is that the Blink only affects items manufactured on Earth from locally-sourced materials. The wind turbine, on the other hand, is built from materials smuggled down from the Space Habitats by Alice's correspondents, possibly one of the Praeses or, and this would be weird, may successive generations of a family on one of the habitats that Alice has befriended and to whom she's become a sort of combination of sage and pen-friend.
Of course, this is just a headcanon for now.
retrosteve:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 19 Jul 2015, 16:00 ---
--- Quote from: wlewisiii on 19 Jul 2015, 14:47 ---I'd have to disagree with this. If it were the case, Alice's windmill would either not work or be useless. Instead she is providing electricity to something.
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My way of tap-dancing around this is that the Blink only affects items manufactured on Earth from locally-sourced materials. The wind turbine, on the other hand, is built from materials smuggled down from the Space Habitats by Alice's correspondents, possibly one of the Praeses or, and this would be weird, may successive generations of a family on one of the habitats that Alice has befriended and to whom she's become a sort of combination of sage and pen-friend.
Of course, this is just a headcanon for now.
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Occam's Razor suggests no latex because there is no manufacturing infrastructure to make latex. No need to prohibit it.
Lambs, on the other hand,are made every year.
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