Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDLT - June 2016
Zebediah:
This is actually no small accomplishment. Starting a fire with flint and steel is hard. Although much easier than even more primitive methods - try a bow drill sometime.
Gavia has to learn a whole new skill set, and she's going to discover how intelligent and skilled our "primitive" ancestors had to be to survive.
brasca:
With every strip it appears that Gavia is not as helpless without her nanotechnology as estimated. She seems to have physically recovered and is now mentally determined to survive. And now she can make a fire which is something I'd have little patience for.
improvnerd:
Although, it's going to be a little harder for her the next time someone annoys her.
"You have earned my wrath!"
(Kshhk Ksshk)
"Hang on, this may take a while...."
freeman:
--- Quote from: FunkyTuba on 06 Jun 2016, 10:00 ---guessing here ... (lucky if I hit the right order of magnitude)
5-10 mph * 8-10 hours/day * 22 days = 1000-2000 miles ... that's a pretty good chunk of land they've covered ... what man-made lakes are that long across?
or am I drastically overestimating the kind of progress they could make
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Absolutely, heavy vagons don't go much faster than a good walking pace, meaning maybe 2-3 mph on agreeable terrain. Again, when talking about muscle powered long distance travel, it's more meaningful to divide the distance traveled by day rather than hour, so you get numbers like about 20 miles on a average day.
cesium133:
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 07 Jun 2016, 14:31 ---This is actually no small accomplishment. Starting a fire with flint and steel is hard. Although much easier than even more primitive methods - try a bow drill sometime.
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When I was in Boy Scouts as a kid, I tried the glasses and sunlight method, using my own glasses. I'm nearsighted.
I didn't earn many merit badges....
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