[spoiler]By 50,000 years, assuming humans are not extinct (looking at Episode Three), SOMEONE would have discovered Aperture again and either destroyed it completely or rebuilt it good as new and with an A.I. with more management capabilities for once.[/spoiler]
[spoiler]With that FACT, I'll never accept Portal 2 50,000 years after Portal as canon.[/spoiler]
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Player1 wrote:
The only way we can know is to ask them. Which is what that journalist did. Unless you can come up with a credible _source_ stating otherwise, this is the best information we've got.
The World Without Us.
Many things are said, but the main ones are that urbanized areas AND the world wonders couldn't survive for any longer than 500 years.
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Player1 wrote:
Maybe we just got our asses kicked, but managed to survive and revert to stone age style life for a while.
Would require biological degradation. We live in 21st century, we (and especially the Resistance, who were put under the pressure of the Combine) have experience on how to rebuild civilization from scratch.
Player1 wrote:
The only way we can know is to ask them. Which is what that journalist did. Unless you can come up with a credible _source_ stating otherwise, this is the best information we've got.
The World Without Us.
Many things are said, but the main ones are that urbanized areas AND the world wonders couldn't survive for any longer than 500 years.
EDIT: Also,
Player1 wrote:
Maybe we just got our asses kicked, but managed to survive and revert to stone age style life for a while.
Would require biological degradation. We live in 21st century, we (and especially the Resistance, who were put under the pressure of the Combine) have experience on how to rebuild civilization from scratch.
Trivia: this is the very second account I registered with the nickname ASBusinessMagnet, after my YouTube channel.
Player1 wrote:
Aperture Science facility is not suddenly devoid of an agent that actively tries to maintain it.
[spoiler]It is. The Announcer is just prerecorded messages, and Wheatley is as good for a facility manager as you saw for the second half of Portal 2.[/spoiler]
Player1 wrote:
Aperture Science facility is not suddenly devoid of an agent that actively tries to maintain it.
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Player1 wrote:
[spoiler]What triggers the pre-recorded messages? What drives Wheatley to come get you?
Even if we accept your premise, any facility with moving parts like what we see in the game, will have stopped functioning after just a couple of years if not actively maintained. Oil grease lumps up, dries out, and all metallic parts rust together, just to name a couple of things. So it's equally unlikely that the facility should be running like that after a couple of years as after a couple of hundred or a couple of thousand to be frank.[/spoiler]
Solar power?
If a solar battery is "maintained" in a sterile room with vacuum inside and glass walls then you are good to go.
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A likely conclusion is:
Valve set Portal 2 in the future, possibly long enough for any human alive during Portal 1 to be dead (120+ years), and did not want to disclose the precise time, just as they did with the Black Mesa Incident date.
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Solar power?
If a solar battery is "maintained" in a sterile room with vacuum inside and glass walls then you are good to go.
EDIT:
A likely conclusion is:
Valve set Portal 2 in the future, possibly long enough for any human alive during Portal 1 to be dead (120+ years), and did not want to disclose the precise time, just as they did with the Black Mesa Incident date.
Trivia: this is the very second account I registered with the nickname ASBusinessMagnet, after my YouTube channel.
My impression is that the parts of Aperture Labs fix each other. Unless absolutely everything in Aperture Labs breaks at once or they run out of seemingly limitless resources (listen to the commentary about turret building machines), the building stays in semi-working order.
My impression is that the parts of Aperture Labs fix each other. Unless absolutely everything in Aperture Labs breaks at once or they run out of seemingly limitless resources (listen to the commentary about turret building machines), the building stays in semi-working order.
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Nightgunner5 wrote:
My impression is that the parts of Aperture Labs fix each other. Unless absolutely everything in Aperture Labs breaks at once or they run out of seemingly limitless resources (listen to the commentary about turret building machines), the building stays in semi-working order.
There is only one central artificial intelligence, and likely only one central announcement system.
And, on that matter, the Aperture Labs weren't fixed until GLaDOS was turned on.
Nightgunner5 wrote:
My impression is that the parts of Aperture Labs fix each other. Unless absolutely everything in Aperture Labs breaks at once or they run out of seemingly limitless resources (listen to the commentary about turret building machines), the building stays in semi-working order.
There is only one central artificial intelligence, and likely only one central announcement system.
And, on that matter, the Aperture Labs weren't fixed until GLaDOS was turned on.
Trivia: this is the very second account I registered with the nickname ASBusinessMagnet, after my YouTube channel.
