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Alice Grove MCDLT - June 2017
Thrudd:
--- Quote from: brasca on 07 Jun 2017, 07:25 ---Just because Ardent shuns technology doesn't mean he wouldn't leave the space habitat without some means of communication. How else would he get back home?
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Just a hearken back to the beginning where they tried to contact them and there was no answer, ego, they had a way of communicating such a distance or at least thought they did.
Shremedy:
Pate has unknowingly caught himself in some speciesism...Alice's exact words were "I serve everyone", which he (laughingly) interpreted as "all Earthbound humanity". Which is, not too unreasonably, "everyone" to him. What if she literally meant she served EVERYONE, human, AI, Praeses, hypothetical space aliens, etc.?
Tova:
I don't think it would have made any difference to his speech.
brasca:
--- Quote from: Thrudd on 07 Jun 2017, 20:46 ---
--- Quote from: brasca on 07 Jun 2017, 07:25 ---Just because Ardent shuns technology doesn't mean he wouldn't leave the space habitat without some means of communication. How else would he get back home?
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Just a hearken back to the beginning where they tried to contact them and there was no answer, ego, they had a way of communicating such a distance or at least thought they did.
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Gavia had a radio built into her among other things, but Ardent couldn't have known she would follow him to Earth to bring him back so he had to have some means of communicating with the Praeses once he was ready to return.
A small perverse otter:
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 04 Jun 2017, 22:54 ---
--- Quote from: A small perverse otter --- She *has*, in fact, kept her village in something like a less-than-ideal stasis.
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What is less than ideal about it? They are safe and happy, seem to be healthy and they are living a environmentally friendly and sustainable lifestyle. Sounds pretty ideal to me.
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Safe, yes. Happy? We don't know -- all we've seen is life as Alice has shown it to us. As to "environmentally friendly and sustainable lifestyle," though? There are two major modern innovations which ameliorate the human condition more than almost any others: running water to wash your hands in, and vaccines to make your kids live past their fifth birthday. (Running water gets them past their first.) You can't have the second without the first, and Alice's town doesn't have it.
What does that mean? 60% of all children die before their first birthdays.
That's less than ideal.
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