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Turns out the rest of Dune is topics and meadows and forests and everything, the spacing guild just dropped everyone off in the middle of the desert and told them it was the only habitable place.
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MikeJF posted:Turns out the rest of Dune is topics and meadows and forests and everything, the spacing guild just dropped everyone off in the middle of the desert and told them it was the only habitable place. Hollow Dune or Flat Arrakis? pick your chaumurky
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There's probably a "temperate zone", it's just really thin and a hundred miles away from the north pole. Most likely treeless, resembling a sort of, uh, deserted, kind of, ahhhhhm, waste. Not sure why I typed that second part like Count Fenring but other people were doing it so it stays. Tree Bucket posted:And it all made so much sense! Venus could be the lush, primitive, primordial world. Mars could be cold and ancient and filled with the lost secrets of a dying race. Earth of course is somewhere in between... - fringe belief that is oddly persistent seeing as we got robots on Mars shouting "marco". Even now you occasionally discover someone who doesn't really know astronomy being surprised that Venus is a death orb. It's fertile ground (figuratively) for conspiracies, because we'll never craft a probe sturdy enough to just get down there, survive and report back again. There could be ANYTHING down there and my money's on a world like Pangaea in the Maxx, with jungle monsters and everything. Except it's always dark, I suppose.
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phasmid posted:Even now you occasionally discover someone who doesn't really know astronomy being surprised that Venus is a death orb. It's fertile ground (figuratively) for conspiracies, because we'll never craft a probe sturdy enough to just get down there, survive and report back again. There could be ANYTHING down there and my money's on a world like Pangaea in the Maxx, with jungle monsters and everything. Except it's always dark, I suppose. I mean we literally did craft a probe, it just didn't last long:  Some folks think there's life shown in the pictures: http://www.sci-news.com/space/article00156.html If I've missed  welp, I'm real dumb most of the time.
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Apr 4, 2019 16:36
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Seeing pictures from another planet is always goddamn rad.
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Apr 4, 2019 16:54
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Pham Nuwen posted:I mean we literally did craft a probe, it just didn't last long: Several, for values of “we” that include the Soviets. Something like a half dozen Venera probes soft-landed and worked for up to a couple hours.
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Original Star Wars EU gave us the schizophrenic anthropomorphized horse people so there's that. Also Venus is good for something. You just need to have a nigh-impossible to understand alien life-form to mold it to it's will, like The Expanse.
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There's a thing in sci-fi on occasion where Venus is terraformed and it either goes really well or really badly.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:There's a thing in sci-fi on occasion where Venus is terraformed and it either goes really well or really badly.
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Well drat, I'll just shut my mouth. Those are some cool as hell pics tho.
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MA-Horus posted:Original Star Wars EU gave us the schizophrenic anthropomorphized horse people so there's that. Bojack never returned to his homeworld
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Bojack the Bothan. My life is complete. I also would have made a joke about They Shoot Bothans, Don't They? if that hadn't been better.
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Apr 4, 2019 19:42
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 Back in the nineties I was in a very famous X-wiiiing book.
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phasmid posted:There could be ANYTHING down there and my money's on a world like Pangaea in the Maxx, with jungle monsters and everything. Except it's always dark, I suppose. There are ways to use other spectrum of light and see whats under the clouds. Astronomers have made very high res composites of the surface, and combined it with topographical data to make 3d models. What I'm saying is Venus is Salusa Secundus:    Temaukel fucked around with this message at 22:53 on Apr 4, 2019 |
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Tree Bucket posted:And it all made so much sense! Venus could be the lush, primitive, primordial world. Mars could be cold and ancient and filled with the lost secrets of a dying race. Earth of course is somewhere in between... Chani! You spawn of a lizard! Get down from there!
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Another bizzare thing from Dune was how the Fenrings talked. I just envisioned them talking like they were having a constant stroke
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Pham Nuwen posted:parsing "ugly lump of a man" into "Gurney Halleck is a literal dwarf" is an interesting choice, but so is turning short thin weaselly Fenring into a roaring warrior. I was having a discussion with someone about the Villeneuve movie and they thought they needed someone to do rat prosthetics for Count Fenring because he is described as rat-faced
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Temaukel posted:There is this orange-yellow cast to it because of the tint in the venusian atmosphere if i'm not mistaken. With an earth-like atmosphere, the surface would be grey-black rock. It's from radar data, there's no color information in the signal. The color is false. Also in the topographical maps, the differences in altitude are exaggerated, the surface is considerably flatter than that.
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Apr 4, 2019 21:45
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Anne Frank Funk posted:A planet inhabited by hack-fraud "writers". A sea-planet full of hyperauthors producing hypernovels
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Phanatic posted:It's from radar data, there's no color information in the signal. The color is false. Also in the topographical maps, the differences in altitude are exaggerated, the surface is considerably flatter than that. Thanks for the correction. So this false color is supposed to simulate color under atmosphere or is orange a standard output color for this kind of radar imaging? Anyway, here, have this fantastic illustration of a spice harvester by John Shoenherr:  "A Solido Tri-D projection appeared on the table surface about a third of the way down from the Duke. Some of the men farther down the table stood up to get a better look at it. Scaled against the tiny projected human figures around it, the machine was about one hundred and twenty meters long and about forty meters wide." edit: more Shoenherr  : ...and a thopter:  Temaukel fucked around with this message at 22:50 on Apr 4, 2019 |
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Phi230 posted:Another bizzare thing from Dune was how the Fenrings talked. I just envisioned them talking like they were having a constant stroke So did the Baron. So is it explicitly said that the hums and verbal pauses are a code between husband and wife, or is it just subtext?
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exmachina posted:So did the Baron. Explicit, their conversation is actually just bland nonsense and all the stuff you read them saying to each other is translated from the humming.
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quote:Lotto looked at this adviser. The meaning of the tactic was clear. 'So,' he said. Halfwit nodded. 'Then...'
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Always cracks me up
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Phi230 posted:Chani! You spawn of a lizard! Get down from there! I know, lizards don't even have spawn! That's frogs. This is perfect, what is it from??? Temaukel posted:There are ways to use other spectrum of light and see whats under the clouds. Astronomers have made very high res composites of the surface, and combined it with topographical data to make 3d models. What I'm saying is Venus is Salusa Secundus: It's even the second planet from its star. All the pieces fit!
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Tree Bucket posted:
Pretty sure it’s DOON https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Lampoon%27s_Doon Epic story of the Kumkwat Haagendasz
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Phil Moscowitz posted:Pretty sure it’s DOON I must not have fun. Fun is the time-killer
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This thread just informed me that Brian Herbert calls himself DuneAuthor on Twitter. I am mad.
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Tree Bucket posted:It's even the second planet from its star. All the pieces fit! Salusa Secundus is the third planet of Gamma Waiping. A feint within a feint. Anyway a while back I did a Venus illustration with too little haze, too much terrain variety and verticality, and speculative depictions of volcanic activity and cloud to surface lightning. Swap the lander for a Sardaukar troop carrier and it could be an ok Salusa Secundus, though. 
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Amethyst posted:
Nice WordArt™ Brian. Also, That is really cool.
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Tree Bucket posted:I know, lizards don't even have spawn! That's frogs. It's the legit hilarious dune spoof DOON. This excellent duneblog has a bunch of quotes doon posted:What sort of man was Duke Lotto Agamemnides? We may say he was a brave man, yet a man who knew the value of caution. We may say he was possessed of a highly refined sense of honor -- yet, like all leaders, was he no less capable of acts duplicitous and sleazy. We may say this, we may say that -- indeed, we may say anything we want. We may say, for example, that he was not a man at all, but rather a highly evolved bicycle. See? We may say just about anything. quote:
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Best quote ridiculing the tropical conditions of Venuses surface is from Carl Sagan. "Observation: You couldnt see anything. Conclusion: Dinosaurs."
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Carl Sagan as Leto's father's portrait.
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So I just watched Jdubs fallen kingdom and I will track down and murder Villeneuve if Jeff goldblum isn’t count fenrig. Also apologies if I didn’t say this first.
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You two, ahh, humm, dig up, hmmm dig up dinosaurs? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJelEXaPhJ8
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sebmojo posted:It's the legit hilarious dune spoof DOON. This excellent duneblog has a bunch of quotes I've been meaning to post some excerpts from the book that aren't already online, but I don't necessarily know if what I find funny would appeal to others. Plus the dating of some of the gags.
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sebmojo posted:Explicit, their conversation is actually just bland nonsense and all the stuff you read them saying to each other is translated from the humming. The funny thing is that just makes them sound like any old married couple who have gotten so used to each other that they basically have their own private language.
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“If you really are the Kumquat Häagendazs it shouldn't be much trouble, but make one false move and you'll find my abdul-jabbar slam-dunked in your face!" Admittedly a tad dated. Yet some quotes transcend time and place: Inside every fat man there is a thin man signalling wildly to get out and eat everything in sight. That's why the man is fat in the first place.
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This sounds like Bored of the Rings. Was it also Harvard Lampoon?
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