Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDLT - April 2016
DSL:
Are we looking at a lunar impact, though, or an event in cislunar space? Say, something involving an orbital platform that just happens to be transiting the moon (Or perhaps at the Lagrange-1 point)? Guess we'll find out in a couple weeks.
BenRG:
Jeph had the impact appear to be on the Moon when something confusing like the Moon being a background object was not strictly necessary. Also, he had Alice mention earlier that the Night Walker would stare at the moon all night and every night. It seems most likely that it was on the Moon.
JimC:
--- Quote from: DSL on 23 Apr 2016, 06:19 ---Are we looking at a lunar impact, though, or an event in cislunar space? Say, something involving an orbital platform that just happens to be transiting the moon (Or perhaps at the Lagrange-1 point)?
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Unless I am much mistaken the L1 point wouldn't be stable in the long term? ( http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/mechanics/lagpt.html ). Unless a spacecraft were actively managed I think it would be unlikely to stay there. Also I'm not convinced (although I haven't done the numbers or made a scale drawing) that the drawn image is consistent with the L1 point.
But failing that, consider, assuming we have an actual event targeted on the moon, was it targeted at the moon in general, or at a specific point on the moon? And if at a specific point, because there's a desired target, or perhaps because there is or was nothing to hit at that point? We don't know much about the orbital civilisation do we. I wonder if they exploit the moon, mining maybe, and if so what the implications are...
Zebediah:
Yeah, only L4 and L5 are long-term stable without active station-keeping.
Verteiron:
It's also possible that the NW's beam wasn't strong enough to directly inflict that much damage, but that whatever it hit on the lunar surface reacted by exploding violently.
I wonder if Gavia's nanotech can regenerate itself? Unless every single one of them was destroyed, they should be able to reproduce exponentially (assuming adequate source materials) and be back in full force relatively quickly. Hopefully a few survived or she's going to have a rough time of it. As reliant as she is on them she literally might not even know how to feed or clean herself...
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