Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDLT - June 2016
Zebediah:
OK, so Sedna isn't normal. If she has the same kinds of enhancements that Alice has then I would assume she requires significantly more energy than a baseline human. So unless her photosynthesizers are dramatically more efficient than chlorophyll, she can't survive on sunlight alone.
sitnspin:
Or perhaps whatever tech they are made up actually operates more efficiently than a human body.
MooskiNet:
We just watched a (quasi) human who has been stripped of the nanotech that allowed them to fly, shield themselves and fling fireballs change the melanin content of their skin visibly and instantly through an act of will.
Given that, it seems making 21st-century estimates of someone else's ability to use photosynthesis as an energy source would be right out, yeah?
Edit: spellin
mr.jacob:
Oh god imagine the blackface college parties up in space
brasca:
--- Quote from: DSL on 21 Jun 2016, 09:51 ---Random thoughts from today's comic:
Given the political fumduckery that bubbled uo in the states over trans people and bathrooms, I wonder what the immediate social ramifications today would be from the surfacing of the ability to change one's skin color with an act of will. Most of my circle would be anywhere from enthusiastic to chill about it, for reasons philosophical and practical, but I know some twitchy bigots who would be even twitchier about it -- a prospect both entertaining (because I know them) and terrifying (also because I know them).
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So far it seems that there is no skin based prejudiced 5000 years into the future even on Earth. I do wonder what the Praesides have told the other space dwellers about Earth since it likely affected Ardent and Gavia's perception. Gavia said they left the Earth to live in freedom and harmony in the forest. Perhaps the Praesides also told the space dwellers of mankind's previous bigotry towards people of different races, genders, sexuality, etc. and even though that might not be true anymore since Earth does resemble the way it did around the middle 19th century which wasn't the most enlightened of times it's reasonable to conclude that they might be on the same level of social evolution to an outside observer who doesn't have all the facts.
--- Quote from: DSL on 21 Jun 2016, 09:51 ---"If you're wondering how she poops and pees, and other science facts (la LA la) ..." ... The Loon has gone two? Three? weeks without eating or apparently metabolizing. Not ruling out the possibility of miracle-tech clothing or even body mods (she's not BASELINE. GEEZ.), but ... no input. no output.
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Considering everything that Ardent and Gavia's bodies can do without technological enhancements it's difficult to rule out anything. I'm assuming that the fabric in their clothes is technologically advanced, but free of nanotechnology otherwise the Night Walker would have absorbed that too. As such it's probably stain resistant and form fitting, but that's about it. I believe that Gavia still has a digestive system similar to baseline humans since Alice called her an asshole and she took it as an insult. If that part of the body was no longer in use then it really wouldn't have an impact. It would be like calling someone an appendix or tonsil. It's not conclusive proof, but until proven otherwise I assume she gets the call of nature too.
--- Quote from: DSL on 21 Jun 2016, 09:51 ---Sedna days "preachin' to the choir" some few thousand years after this part of the globe, at least, has seen either preachin' or choirs. Was there any evidence of religion in Alice-town, other than a casual reference to Alice as a "witch"? Some superstition, maybe, directed at Ardent. Made me wonder, though, about words in use today, long after the concepts that birthed them have faded. And now that I've set myself up, I csn;t think of any examples ... Anyone else?
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I agree with JimC on this. The comic is translated into a language we can understand, but it's possible that Sedna likes to use idioms from the time before the blink. While it might not be as prevalent I could imagine religious groups evolving out of the old ones and possibly new ones emerging over 5 millennia. There's a lot we don't know about the world beyond Alice's town which seems free of a lot of the old prejudices, but that's likely due to Alice's will.
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