Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDLT - June 2016
JimC:
--- Quote from: Eastrim on 08 Jun 2016, 00:31 ---The climate stuff is not necessarily indicative, considering how much the world changed, though if this was Earth I would expect most weather systems to remain basically the same.
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I like most of your post a lot, but maybe this is contestable. Climate has changed radically and rapidly in the past, even without obvious external factors (Araguainha, Chicxulub, Deccan Traps etc). If you add into the mix the possibility of the technologies before the blink having caused climate change, and than the massive effects of the blink itself (vis ecological changes) then I submit all bets are off in the area of climate.
Loki:
BenRG: hold on, has it been established Sedna left her?
BenRG:
Very few things about Alice are 'established'. All we know is that Sedna knows Alice well enough that the two of them tend to say identical things in unison and that Sedna is very, very tired of Alice's self-condemnation.
retrosteve:
--- Quote from: Wildroses on 08 Jun 2016, 20:40 ---Maybe the first time the Nightwalker backed off because it was afraid of an awake, alert Alice, or recognised she would interfere.
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The Nightwalker is defnitely artificial, but not necessarily intelligent,. If it were intelligent (ie. sentient), then it would kinda screw up Alice's narrative.
She says no AIs were left on earth. And Gavia believes AIs are impossible. Alice has known of the Nightwalker for millennia.
If Alice thought the NW was sentient, she would have mentioned it by now. I'm assuming not, and that it can't be afraid of anything. I think it's as self-aware as a Roomba.
EDIT: Fixed quote tags - Felix
retrosteve:
Fridge Horror about the Nightwalker:
Nightwalker isn't self-aware, it's just a mechanism that seeks out nanotech, then absorbs it and sends a flare to the moon. Okay, fine.
...;a week later...
...and dissipates on the wind! Its job is done, and it's a ONE TIME JOB. This ONLY makes sense if someone is coming in response to that flare.
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