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Alice Grove MCDLT - THE END...?
dutchrvl:
Which, I might add, is fine by me. I would rather see him keep up the quality of QC and start a new project he's excited about then continue to spend time and energy on a comic that he is not terribly excited about anymore and therefore is unlikely to maintain quality anyway.
WareWolf:
--- Quote from: cesium133 on 13 Jul 2017, 10:37 ---That looks like more than just a signal...
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It's possible the Nightwalker was an alarm. Perhaps there were a number of them, each in a different area. If someone with nanotech arrives back on the planet, the nearest walker finds them, follows them, and sucks all the nanos out, which gives it the power to signal---whoever. The AI's presumably, and in a way impossible to mistake. THOOM! The signal having been given, wonder if something's on the way to appear and wind up the last few strips.
EDIT: Think of it as akin to the monolith buried in the Moon in 2001. When mankind was advanced enough to find it and dig it up, the first sunlight on its surface triggered an incredibly powerful signal to let the aliens know "won't be long now!"
WareWolf:
--- Quote from: retrosteve on 13 Jul 2017, 10:44 ---
--- Quote from: cesium133 on 13 Jul 2017, 10:37 ---That looks like more than just a signal...
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It's about the minimum size to be definitely SEEN if whoever's receiving the signal isn't actually ON the moon.
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Or felt if it was on the dark side. Or inside.
LKR1009:
Also wondering about Gavia's loon symbolism and the shape the Nightwalker took as it THOOMEd.
zmeiat_joro:
--- Quote from: retrosteve on 12 Jul 2017, 16:39 ---
--- Quote from: RSDeuce on 12 Jul 2017, 11:45 ---I don't *know* that Jeph and Randall know each other, but they have linked to each other for pretty much forever, and if I were Jeph and had the option to run some sci-fi shit by XCKD I sure would.
Two comics in a row that seem particularly relevant. I really do think Randall is at a minimum watching with us, and possibly colored the world's physics back when Jeph was working on the concept.
https://xkcd.com/1862/
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Well, if you're bringing that up, I should mention that Jeph definitely knows Charlie Stross. (Here he is talking to Marten http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2394 ) and the Blink definitely bears some Stross influence (see Iron Sunrise). There is also some simulated world in space stuff going on in Stross (Accelerando). So there's an influence for sure.
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I don't want to jump ahead of any further replies now, but I know Jeph knows Charlie, and Charlie has since then changed his views.
EDIT: on the singularity, I mean; he wrote a book with Cory called "The Rapture of the Nerds".
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