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skasion posted:The house ferrets is probably my favorite little detail in Dune the ferrets are there to defend against assassin rats. 
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whydirt posted:I may have committed some light jihad I feel like the original quote works just fine in Dune
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Murray Mantoinette posted:Tobias stays on caladan because he's a neverdune
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Murray Mantoinette posted:Tobias stays on caladan because he's a neverdune There are dozens still on caladan
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kiimo posted:I want to cry so bad, but I don't think I can spare the moisture
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kiimo posted:I want to cry so bad, but I don't think I can spare the moisture
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gains prescience 
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threelemmings posted:gains prescience Lol. Lotta layers on that one
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This teaser of dune messiah seems promising https://twitter.com/Star5eed/status/1278780977792376835
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My fart is a killing word...
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nooooooooo leto 2 you cant do what im scared to do you cant just turn yourself into a monster to shape humanities collective unconscious so they become immune to prescience Phlegmish posted:Haha Golden Path go brrr
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Funny the topic of farts comes up right as I catch up with this thread (ok this gbs so no surprise). Yesterday I let one rip in my husband's van, which he calls the Space Van. I was all "well, you want to be an astronaut, you gotta deal with farts in an airtight environment." This led to wondering what happens when someone farts in a space suit, or on the ISS (spoiler: they're both bad). This in turn has me wondering what happens if you fart in a stillsuit, what the tube up your butt. Does it have a vapor release, or are you walking around with an air bubble trapped in your thigh pads? Discuss.
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Unfortunately space suits have layers around the neck so that suit depressurization that happens below the neck doesn't suck out the oxygen from the helmet, so astronauts doing EVA don't really get to enjoy it by letting one rip and smelling the roses, as it were. Also, unfortunately, the pressure in the ISS and similar places isn't that high - so you can barely smell anything, and with the constant circulation it gets scrubbed pretty quick, so you don't get to share it with the others. That being said, it does remind me of one of my favorite space imagination things, which I've completely cribbed off Spider Robinson: What happens if you build a perfectly spherical mirror around an astronaut, then give him a flashlight and tell him to turn it on? And what happens if he puts it in his mouth? As Spider observes, if you ask this of people they first think of a quick answer, then start getting a far away look in their eyes - and so far, nobody's come up with an answer. The best part is, we could test it right now, if we really wanted to.
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Anne Frank Funk posted:Distilling my big wet farts for the sietch
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Guild steersman propelling himself to the front of his tank with a perfectly calculated cinnamon and methane blast
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Funny the topic of farts comes up right as I catch up with this thread (ok this gbs so no surprise). Depends on if it was a wet fart or not If it was, I will duel you to the death for wasting moisture and marry your husband, and then the two of us will roam the desert in your van
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The true Naib doesn't let a spice blow go to waste. That's what the second tube is for, huffin farts.
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D. Ebdrup posted:Also, unfortunately, the pressure in the ISS and similar places isn't that high - so you can barely smell anything, and with the constant circulation it gets scrubbed pretty quick, so you don't get to share it with the others. So what you're saying is the technique of cupping your fart with your hands to transport it to somebody is vital in space?
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Phlegmish posted:Depends on if it was a wet fart or not No true Fremen would ever leave a skidmark in his stilsuit
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Your shart was silent, desert fashion. Who told you how to do that?
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My PIN is 4826 posted:So what you're saying is the technique of cupping your fart with your hands to transport it to somebody is vital in space? Between 1970 and just barely in time by 1975 for the Apollo-Soyuz-mission, NASA and various American subcontractors spent approximately 1.7 billion US dollars (adjusted for inflation) and countless engineering man-hours to devise a perfected small container, with associated tubing and pressure control devices, smell amplifiers and moisture retainers, and tiny laser-lighted disco balls, for the express purpose of providing the kosmonauts aboard the Soyuz a real, true grit American fart. Once the two vessels had met and docked to each other in the cold harshness of space, and the crews of competing ideologies and superpowers met, the American astronauts began the elaborate process of unleashing the contents of their advanced fart technology, when the commanding kosmonaut officer walked up to them, unclenched his fist, and the aroma of Siberian despair was unleashed. "American pig-dogs, did pencil episode teach you nothing?"
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Once again I must declare kanly on this thread.
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phasmid posted:Once again I must declare kanly on this thread. The art of Kanly still has it's admirers.
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Bubblyblubber posted:Your shart was silent, desert fashion. Who told you how to do that? lol
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Halfway through book 3 there's a one time only spelling of "lasegun" which cracks me up for some reason
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The Lithium [SALT] is in the soil. LoL.
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Ingmar terdman posted:Halfway through book 3 there's a one time only spelling of "lasegun" which cracks me up for some reason Lazagun
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They are supposed to be laser tigers, which could have easily taken down the twins. Some wires got crossed and they brought in Lazatigers instead and well we all saw how that worked out
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Phlegmish posted:Lasag...ne? Garfield x Dune crossover now Shoving odie into the still "Your slobbering will waste no more water"
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:They are supposed to be laser tigers, which could have easily taken down the twins. Some wires got crossed and they brought in Lazatigers instead and well we all saw how that worked out What do you mean, the Tigers did kill poor Leto?
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10 cheap installments and these unbeatable* leaseguns can be yours! *do not operate near shields or shield generating equipment
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!Klams posted:What do you mean, the Tigers did kill poor Leto? Speaks the secret phrase to unlock ur hidden memories: 
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I'm about halfway through Heretics now, and I'm mostly liking it. Trying to remember which Bene Gesserit is which is tripping me up a bit, though.
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Yeah Lucilla and Odrade seem almost interchangeable at the start, but they're going to be diverging pretty thoroughly and quickly soon enough I myself am reading Chapterhouse, lol what is this about Secret Jews, every single new book needs to have yet another major element incongruously added to the pile
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I think that part actually fits somewhat. Herbert definitely likes the idea of religious lineages and oral history passed down through generations. See: tleilax, zensunni fremen, BG as a nonreligious example of a contiguous line of rite and ritual. The reason it may feel a bit off is he doesn't really spend much time with them so just mentioning that they're "just" Jewish makes it feel a bit more anachronistic and just pulled from our time than the amalgamations zensunni or orange Catholic.
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The part with the Rabbi an his family made some sense, I thought, since the scattering is a tale of people going through some of the worst times in history, from a famine and then spreading outwards only to crash into retreating waves of humanity. I think he probably threw that part in because the Diaspora would be a good example of what happens to large, closely-knit ethnic or cultural groups during the stresses of their time. It's not like he dwells on them having Jewish characteristics, I don't think. It's kind of in the same vein as Dune, where the Zensunnis finally settle on Arrakis after the Emperor has them moved from one lovely planet to another to keep them out of important affairs. The kneejerk reaction a lot of people have is to imagine the bit from History of the World, but it's not like that and it contains a small but very interesting plot point to the end of the story. (The young RM who was awakened without BG training and maybe even without the Spice Agony, which is contrasted with Scytale, now imprisoned, and the "null entropy" capsule containing the DNA of all the Tleilaxu masters and their science project.
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My friend is slowly going insane with the quarantine restrictions and picked knitting back up, so I designed a pattern for a scarf: I'll post pictures of the finished product as soon as quarantine lifts or Shai hulud cleanses the land of the failson taint, whatever comes first.
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