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Alice Grove MCDLT - June 2016
Zebediah:
The language and culture of Alice's town seem roughly 19th-century American Midwest in origin. Which may not mean anything - that may just have been the culture Alice was trying to promote, and after 5000 years Alice has had time to make the town's culture anything she wants it to be.
retrosteve:
Think of ANY civilzation in history, a thousand years later. Generally unrecognizable. A few exceptions: China is still China. But even China in 1000 years will not look like China.
5000 years later after a purge of all higher technology and a large part of the population, this won't look much like Earth as we know it. This could be anywhere on the planet with enough territory to permit this much travel in a straight line. For all we know, it's Antarctica, with the rest of the planet being too hot to support human life.
(P.S. I rather like this idea.)
freeman:
--- Quote from: retrosteve on 04 Jun 2016, 11:11 ---For all we know, it's Antarctica, with the rest of the planet being too hot to support human life.
(P.S. I rather like this idea.)
--- End quote ---
I doubt, for several reasons.
* -Polar nights and days, meaning several months of no day or no night, this would cause extreme weather and the place wouldn't look like a typical desert; it would be bound to get some rainfall. Maybe the place would look like siberian tundra?
* -You know seasons are a big deal when planning multi-month expeditions on muscle power, even this day and even more so in a society with less technology at their disposal, if the seasons weren't bening, this fact should have been at least givena nudge in the story or have we distanced ourselves from the nature to such and extent that we don't have to see the significanse?
* -Antarctica's ice cover has done things to Antarcticaen geology, there wouldn't be flat plains but instead ribbed plains going down to the ocean, think of fjords. Large parts of it would be submerged and there would be several large lakes too.
cesium133:
Antarctica would also be a really bad place to put a spaceport. It's much easier to launch into orbit from near the equator (it's why the U.S. launches from Florida and the EU launches from French Guyana.)
JimC:
There's maybe a clue in "community of archaeophiles digging up rockets way out west" in http://www.alicegrove.com/post/140340016979/it-wouldnt-do-any-good-but-shed-feel-better
West is interesting... If we assume they are travelling West to a pre blink site. Baikonur is to the East of the Aral sea, and Vostochny even more so. You can't travel west to Florida or to Kourou, so that only really leaves Mohave/Edwards in California of current sites, but can someone suggest a lake -> Prairie candidate?
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