Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDLT - August 2016
DSL:
Solar panel or windshield. Maybe both, if a certain tech I'm reading about matured in time to survive the Blink. There's a person under the panel, where a driver would be on a stagecoach or carriage. Front part, if what looks like a radiator grille is in fact a radiator grille, suggests an internal combustion engine.
Storel:
--- Quote from: retrosteve on 26 Aug 2016, 16:58 ---The heterochromia goon -- are we sure that's Mr. Pate's and not Ellie's? He just appears out of nowhere.
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He's wearing the same white-shirt/gray-suspenders combo as Mr. Pate and his cap looks like a chauffeur's cap, so I think he's probably the driver whose legs we can see in the first panel. He may have been shutting down the carriage engine, or at least banking the fires, while Mr. Pate started chatting with Ellie.
Edit for further thoughts:
--- Quote from: DSL on 26 Aug 2016, 17:00 ---Front part, if what looks like a radiator grille is in fact a radiator grille, suggests an internal combustion engine.
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The smokestack, though, strongly suggests a steam engine.
retrosteve:
It's obvious that Mr. Pate is not the slightest bit interested in Ellie or her discoveries this time, and really wants to meet her guests. He's not really being very subtle about it either. More evidence for the ubergeek assessment.
His glasses seriously glow, like Dale's. I have to wonder what available technology makes that possible, and what makes it useful. Are these AR glasses? HUD with internet connection? Or just a way to see in the dark? Any of them seem impossible post-blink to me, and his carriage doesn't seem to have advanced beyond the Industrial Revolution, so what's his technology deal?
Solar panel? How is that combined with the apparent steam engine? Or maybe they're totally separate, and the solar panel is the power source for his glasses or some other tech hidden in the carriage?
BenRG:
--- Quote from: retrosteve on 27 Aug 2016, 08:26 ---Solar panel? How is that combined with the apparent steam engine? Or maybe they're totally separate, and the solar panel is the power source for his glasses or some other tech hidden in the carriage?
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You can generate steam with solar heat; it could be an ultra-efficient light-to-heat converter material that was dug up at some point in the past. Note the lack of smoke coming from the cart so it is unlikely to be using coal or wood to heat its boiler.
JimC:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 27 Aug 2016, 11:22 ---Note the lack of smoke coming from the cart so it is unlikely to be using coal or wood to heat its boiler.
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Ideally you arrive at your destination with the fire just going out, so not necessarily.
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