Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDLT - June 2017
brasca:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 11 Jun 2017, 08:48 ---Hmm. Five thousand years is plenty of time for new pathogens to evolve especially with livestock as incubators.
One possibility is that humans were genetically engineered for maximum resistance to arbitrary and new pathogens -- but then evolution has been doing just that all along and today's humans may represent the best possible.
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Well the livestock from the past may also have been genetically enhanced too so diseases related to animal husbandry may not be a factor in this world.
This notion that Alice has been purposely keeping these people in the dark was raised by Gavia before and she got defensive about it. Perhaps Alice tried to elevate humanity back to the level it once was after things normalized post blink, but this ended catastrophically and one of the reasons she can't forgive herself about the past. As such she's tried to make the people's lives as comfortable as possible in a world bereft of many of its natural resources.
Morituri:
Errrf. I knew her name before she had even finished forming, and it wasn't Laridia.
It was Amber.
And now I'm going to have to look at her, every time she's drawn, and it'll take me a confused moment to remember she's answering to the wrong name.
retrosteve:
--- Quote from: Tova on 11 Jun 2017, 19:37 ---
--- Quote from: WareWolf on 11 Jun 2017, 19:20 ---I dunno, y'all. I can't think of a single interaction that began with "PLTHBPF" or "PLLRPP" that's ended well. And don't even get me started on "SPLORP."
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PLTHBPF
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Don't get me started on Swedish PLOPP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plopp
retrosteve:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 11 Jun 2017, 08:48 ---Hmm. Five thousand years is plenty of time for new pathogens to evolve especially with livestock as incubators.
One possibility is that humans were genetically engineered for maximum resistance to arbitrary and new pathogens -- but then evolution has been doing just that all along and today's humans may represent the best possible.
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They might indeed. The immune system could easily get stronger, but when it does it tends to go autoimmune and start attacking things we like, like pancreases and organs and skin. There's also a fine balance between immune activity and cancer. Just cranking the immune system stronger can kill as easily as cure.
Kugai:
Personally, I believe anything that starts with 'GLOOOPL' can go either way
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