Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDLT - April 2016
TinPenguin:
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--- Quote from: Y on 02 Apr 2016, 20:45 ---At least she has her priorities straight, unlike some tv shows where they take time to get dressed when confronted with an emergency. It's the same for people that are confronted with a bear while peeing, they finish their business first and zip up because they don't want to be caught dead with their dick out, instead of fleeing or whatever you're supposed to do when seeing a bear.
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Never run from a bear. Back away very slowly, and it will likely wander away. If not, and it looks about to attack you, make yourself as large as possible, make lots of noise, try to scare it.Fight the bear..you want to be as troublesome of a meal as possible. If that doesn't work, curl up in the crouch position. Your back will get ripped up, but your vital organs will stay in your soft, squishy torso.
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Dagoonite:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 04 Apr 2016, 03:22 ---Snip!
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I hate being a geek some days because my mind whirls and analyzes things, especially with the evidence that we're given.
Like how Alice (admittedly in armor) soaks an antimaterial round to the face. A round like that can severely deform over an inch and a half of titanium. That's nasty. (Okay, we don't know what kind of round Sedna was firing while in combat mode, or... Yeah.) Or how Alice tanks that fall from the wind turbine. While both of these are kinetic damage, they're very different.
Now, I won't lynch Jeff if he says nanomachines in the end despite how that makes me twitch uncomfortably. It's his story, not mine, and he's entitled to use whatever explanations he wants to give, if he chooses to give any. The story is solid, and that's the most important thing, right?
Failing that, if I were to hazard a guess, I'd go ahead and suggest that their skin has either a technological or biological high shear non-Newtonian fluid that operates down to a near-molecular level along with some other mechanism to spread out impacts over a greater range. The armor behaves like cloth, but appears to offer more protection. I would randomly guess that it behaves on a similar principle as the skin, along with some sort of super-dense crystalline latticework going on at a molecular level that... Okay, you know what, let's skip this unless people want more and just fast forward.
I'm torn on if Alice is more biotech or.... normal tech? Non-biotech? I'll just call it tech for now. On one hand, it's implied that her hair grows by Sedna. That seems silly to have on non-biotech units. On the other hand, summoning armor like that, or deploying it somehow, would require a degree of tech that would be hard to reproduce with biotech. But Sedna illustrates that they're probably anatomically correct, which seems weird and mildly fetishy for tech, but more plausible for a biotech unit made off a human pattern. But on the other hand...
...What's this about "MST3K Mantra?" Just shut up and enjoy the ride? B-but my geek cred demands that I figure this out and show everybody that I'm smart! I... Fine, I'll go sit in the corner and write "nobody wants to read fifteen pages of technobabble but me, even if Jeff seems to put thought into his" a thousand times. Sorry. I promise not to do it in public again.
bhtooefr:
I'm just surprised Jeph didn't use carefully placed arms or jumping felines as censor bars.
Is it cold in here?:
Welcome, analytical new person!
Whatever the explanation, it has to cover the deduction that they are self-repairing. We haven't seen anything remotely like a facility that could repair Alice, and she's lasted longer than any machine humanity has ever built. That points to something biological or to handwavium.
FunkyTuba:
--- Quote from: Dagoonite on 04 Apr 2016, 07:25 ---...What's this about "MST3K Mantra?"
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