Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDLT - December 2016
brasca:
I would think the radioactivity would diminish over the millennia, but this could be an advanced form of it or perhaps whatever is down there was buried under tons of concrete because it's just highly toxic waste. Pate isn't completely certain what's down there.
BenRG:
I don't think that Alice was looking for radiation at all. It's more likely that she was looking for chemical contaminants. After five millennia a lot of synthetic materials could have decayed into poisonous particulate end-products that makes asbestos seem like nothing by comparison. Then there is the possibility of accumulated vaporised hydrocarbons from fuel and lubricants which could fill sealed chambers like a toxic fog.
cesium133:
Or she could be looking for contaminants that could indicate that someone else has been in there sometime in the past 5000 years.
Zebediah:
Or it's a code phrase and she wasn't talking to Pate at all, but signalling Sedna.
JimC:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 26 Dec 2016, 00:28 --- It's more likely that she was looking for chemical contaminants.
--- End quote ---
I was just thinking water and mud leaking in from outside.
But TBH I find it difficult to believe in anything mechanical being of any value after 5000 years. Unless of course its somehow maintained. One could hypothesise self renewing nano machines with a care and maintenance function.
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