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Alice Grove MCDLT - May 2016
TheCollector:
I vote the last panel for best panel ever.
brasca:
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--- Quote from: BenRG on 27 May 2016, 14:12 ---...a second level to her augmentation that the Night Walker couldn't touch?
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Or didn't need to touch perhaps?
But in http://www.alicegrove.com/post/115986771824/kids-these-days Ardent at least implies that the space population is not "baseline human" and that they are all long lived. I suggest that implies the space population are all augmented above baseline human, whatever that is, as well as having a variety of choices beyond that, where Gavia had the nano machines and Ardent apparently some kind of biological engineering.
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Perhaps they are both the product of biological engineering. It seems like something that would have to be done in the embryonic stage, but then again this is technology thousands of years more advances so I suppose Ardent could have opted for genetic mutation when he was older. However, if Gavia were just a baseline human melded with nanotechnology she could never survive being unconscious that long so it's likely that she, Ardent, and other space dwellers are genetically enhanced to a certain extent and then free to make choices as to how much further they want to go in evolution. Gavia favored technological augmentation as a philosophical choice so I can see yet another reason for Gavia to resent Ardent. This chain of events has inadvertently forced his own philosophical beliefs on her.
At least she might not have to struggle to long to adapt. It's quite possible her muscles have already regained strength, but she might have to learn how to walk because it's been so long since she did.
Skewbrow:
I'm relatively ignorant about physiology, but I would guess that there are nerves (to muscles) in Ardent's tail. Could he otherwise wag it delightfully?
freeman:
This amount of lampshade hanging about "metabolic stasis" in today's page is a proof that Jeph still reads this forum and also he's trolling us pretty hard.
Is it cold in here?:
He hasn't logged in in almost two months.
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