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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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In these low elevation valleys the temperature seldom drops below freezing and summertime highs rarely exceed 80°F.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Weren’t there only about four of them left?
Also, weren’t they really dumb? Not very good AIs.
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.
Though Washington is not ideal, I suspect the Cypress may be colluding with Anasigma. Note the recent outbreak of measles…
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.
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.
Who’s Mr. Berk?
Possibly a drug-induced hallucination? Who can say?
If he’s real, he’s definitely uninterested in integration with humanity, so he may be quite pleased with the reality blindness plague.
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.
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.
It doesn’t actually rain that much in winter, so it really depends on the time of year in-comic.
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.
And parts of Olympic park are REALLY wet, including the Hoh Rain Forest.
I’m not sure that you have in mind the Olympic National Forest, which contains actual temperate rainforest.
I’m just saying, is all.
“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.
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.
Isn’t Olympia “Bubbles” Waters from that part of the country? Should they bring her along?
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.
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.
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.
It is a big AI gathering. She may already be there.
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.
I took it as that. I wondered if her Cousin Bidet (mentioned in passing) had another name, too.
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.
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.)