Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDT - June 2015
Method of Madness:
--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 11 Jun 2015, 09:12 ---Tomorrow it's space trees and cucumber ships!
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If this sentence is supposed to turn people against GMOs I don't see how :roll:
Zebediah:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 11 Jun 2015, 08:56 ---
--- Quote from: Thrudd on 11 Jun 2015, 08:52 ---- The space version may have been inspired by the trees from Tench Muyo.
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About 30 years ago, the BBC showed a one-off sci-fi short/nature documentary where future humans have been miniaturised to about the size of harvest mice and are living in a gigantic space station that turns out to be a huge genetically-engineered intelligent tree.
The spaceship that they used to visit past Earth turned out to be a genetically-engineered cucumber! :laugh:
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Did Douglas Adams have anything to do with that? Because a cucumber-spaceship sounds like exactly the sort of thing he would dream up.
jwhouk:
Boss stated on Twitter that Friday's update (double-sized) will be the end of chapter two.
DillyDolly:
Possible spoilers -
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Actually... I'm betting Alice *is* not just human—but the only human (besides Ardent and Gavia). Her charges (the villagers) are the sentient machines. Think about it. Look at how "evolved" Ardent and Gavia are. We know they are humans who have been modified.
Now look at Alice's villagers. They are down to Earth. They have advanced technology (like the windmill), but they appear to living like people lived a hundred or so years ago in our time. It's like they are living as green as you can. Then there's the nanotechnology. If it's strong enough to build humans, why not make it to make "artificial" life? My guess is Alice's world began as normal Earth and the people's ancestors were AI experiments. Alice cares for everyone, because she could be one of the original scientists. She may dislike other humans, because she's seen them being jerks, and this is why she want Ardent and Gavia gone. The humans try to become more artificial. The robot people try to be more natural (even going as far to procreate like humans, age and die). It seems actually like what could happen to the QC universe in several thousands of years considering robots are sentient.
jwhouk:
I'd agree if it wasn't that she said she'd known Jebediah since he "was a bump in her mother's belly."
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