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2019-02-06

by shaenon on February 6, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Green Noah
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  1. Owlmirror
    February 6, 2019, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    Wait, what?

    The AIs are on the Olympic peninsula, in the middle of the forest, as opposed to a server farm in Seattle or one of its many outlying suburbs?

    Something very strange is going on here.

    • greenknight32
      February 6, 2019, 12:57 am | # | Reply

      Might be a good place to hide a secret underground base, the rampant vegetation would quickly cover any surface trace – though keeping your secret underground base dry could prove to be a challenge.

    • awgiedawgie
      February 6, 2019, 3:26 am | # | Reply

      Well, I suggested yesterday that it might be some of Madblood’s androids. We never really knew what happened to the ones who didn’t go die at the hands… er, paws of the hamsters.

      • D. Walker
        February 6, 2019, 3:31 am | # | Reply

        Weren’t there only about four of them left?

        Also, weren’t they really dumb? Not very good AIs.

        • awgiedawgie
          February 6, 2019, 3:58 am | # | Reply

          Dave only took a couple dozen up to Canada. Sure, maybe several others made their own way up to the hamsters, but they started out with several thousand. Most of them seem to have simply disappeared quietly. Which is actually pretty smart, especially considering they weren’t designed for thinking – they were designed to follow orders.

      • bergerjacques
        February 6, 2019, 10:08 am | # | Reply

        Though Washington is not ideal, I suspect the Cypress may be colluding with Anasigma. Note the recent outbreak of measles…

        • awgiedawgie
          February 6, 2019, 1:07 pm | # | Reply

          After what A-Sig has done to the Cypress, you think she might be colluding with them? She turned their Carbondale building into a crater after Skin Horse rescued her.

  2. Owlmirror
    February 6, 2019, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    Although I can see a vegetative entity (Green Noah) arising in the Olympic forest.

    Oh, and we may see a return of Mr. Berk or his fellow Sasquatch-Americans.

    • Gyrre
      February 6, 2019, 12:17 am | # | Reply

      Who’s Mr. Berk?

      • Owlmirror
        February 6, 2019, 12:31 am | # | Reply

        Possibly a drug-induced hallucination? Who can say?

        • Bruce A Munro
          February 6, 2019, 6:24 pm | # | Reply

          If he’s real, he’s definitely uninterested in integration with humanity, so he may be quite pleased with the reality blindness plague.

    • Shadowmehr
      February 6, 2019, 9:10 pm | # | Reply

      I like the idea of another gestalt entity or genus-loci. Madtech organic AI aiding madtech electronic AIs. The Cypress might be interested in comparing notes.

  3. Bruce A Munro
    February 6, 2019, 1:28 am | # | Reply

    It is actually dangerous for bees to fly in the rain, so she may just find it easier to pretend to be fussy [1] than reveal weakness.

    [1] Well, _fussier_, anyway.

    • Smurfton
      February 6, 2019, 3:03 am | # | Reply

      It doesn’t actually rain that much in winter, so it really depends on the time of year in-comic.

      • greenknight32
        February 6, 2019, 6:23 am | # | Reply

        In western Washington State (where I live) it rains a lot in winter, though right now it’s cold and dry. Still bad weather for bees to be out in.

        • Chrisn
          February 6, 2019, 1:08 pm | # | Reply

          And parts of Olympic park are REALLY wet, including the Hoh Rain Forest.

      • Owlmirror
        February 6, 2019, 12:12 pm | # | Reply

        I’m not sure that you have in mind the Olympic National Forest, which contains actual temperate rainforest.

        The lush forests in the Quinault, Queets, Hoh, and Bogachiel valleys are some of the most spectacular examples of primeval temperate rain forest in the lower 48 states. These rain forests once stretched from southern Oregon to southeast Alaska, but little remains outside of protected areas.
        […]
        Storms off the Pacific Ocean drop much of their moisture on these west-facing valleys. Precipitation in Olympic’s rain forest ranges from 140 to 167 inches (12 to 14 feet) every year.
        […]
        In these low elevation valleys the temperature seldom drops below freezing and summertime highs rarely exceed 80°F.

        I’m just saying, is all.

  4. Dr. Steve
    February 6, 2019, 9:25 am | # | Reply

    “The Overstory” talks about sentient trees in a very interesting way. Perhaps the roots of the forest, in connection with other vegetation, provide a “server farm” that is both literal and figurative? Or, it might simply be the enchanted forest where there will some angry trees throwing apples.

    • Robert Nowall
      February 6, 2019, 10:01 am | # | Reply

      We saw some vegetation at the end of the guest-artist Adventures of Jonah Yu and Nera Vivaldi—they were trying to cook the two of them.

  5. Robert Nowall
    February 6, 2019, 9:59 am | # | Reply

    Isn’t Olympia “Bubbles” Waters from that part of the country? Should they bring her along?

    • Candace
      February 6, 2019, 12:26 pm | # | Reply

      She used to be the water cooler in Annex One, so, no. (Unless her original “body” was shipped from there.) However, it is unclear whether the water cooler was already sentient when they got it, or if that happened at some point after it got to Annex One.

      I don’t think they can bring her along, though, since she has a ship to run now.

      • Robert Nowall
        February 6, 2019, 3:28 pm | # | Reply

        She went from the safe house in New Jersey to the Habakkuk without explanation in between—she could have moved on to something else by now.

        • awgiedawgie
          February 6, 2019, 8:43 pm | # | Reply

          The explanation was given when the rest of them arrived on the Habakkuk. She bought the ship with her stock payouts as CEO of two global charities (a job she probably began while Skin Horse was on hiatus).

          And while it is theoretically possible that she has moved on, remember she’s a water cooler at heart. She likes her big icy ship.

          • Robert Nowall
            February 7, 2019, 12:37 am | #

            It is a big AI gathering. She may already be there.

    • greenknight32
      February 7, 2019, 3:38 am | # | Reply

      I think the name was just a play on the Olympia Beer slogan “It’s the Water”. Olympia was originally brewed with water from artesian wells in Tumwater, Washington (which is right next to the city of Olympia, the state capitol). When they went nationwide, they did a series of humorous ads based on the idea the water was controlled by a mythical population of “artesians” The brand was acquired by Pabst in 1999, and the Tumwater brewery closed in 2003. It’s now brewed in southern California – but they still use the slogan.

      • Robert Nowall
        February 8, 2019, 3:53 pm | # | Reply

        I took it as that. I wondered if her Cousin Bidet (mentioned in passing) had another name, too.

  6. Shadowmehr
    February 6, 2019, 9:11 pm | # | Reply

    So Gavotte stays in the building drinking tea while sending everyone else on a mysterious mission.

    The more things change, the more they stay the same.

    • awgiedawgie
      February 6, 2019, 10:04 pm | # | Reply

      IKR… the biggest difference – apart from the whole walking building thing – is that Tigerlily is on their side now.

      (Yeah, I know Nick’s had a major change, but he’s still Nick.)

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