bob k. mando wrote:the still suit is an interesting concept ... but i don't remember that herbert ever dealt with the new problem he creates, temperature regulation of the body.
no sweat evaporation = no cooling of the body to speak of + insulation factor of the stillsuit itself means that you would virtually be required to install a refrigeration unit in the stupid things or you'd steam yourself to death in all that water you were recycling.... ooopsie.
wearing a full-body condom, with a catheter up your willie, and a tube up your sphincter, with balloons under your heels to pump fluid. Ugh.
Kenneth wrote:I beleive that I would test one, to see how it would effect your overall proformance.
Brad wrote:I'm sure the author would have wanted to bitchslap me for that response, for the audacity of kicking his suspension-of-disbelief squarely in the nads with the steel-tipped boot of stark reality.![]()
SciFiEnthusiast wrote:It is interesting to test this in the desert(if it existed), but to answer the orginal question:
NO, there is at this time an abundance of water on the world and no need to worry for its conservation yet.
As to whose fate was worse: Leto II's or Idaho's? You must remember that he was not "reborn time and time again..." as Aunflin stated. Each ghola was a unique identity and had only been reborn once. He was also born in a strange world in which all of his world had changed and his entire society was dead, he was the ultimate alien amongst a land of foreigners. Leto's sacrifice cannot be ignored however--to have an unending life in endless "pearls of awareness". This consciousness is the ultimate torture, that of never being allowed to die or take action. Over time his consciousness would devolve into that of just a passive sentient "pearl" to be lost in the infinity of space perpetually.
Thus, I believe that it is truly Leto II whose sacrifice was greater.
rpschmitz wrote:SciFiEnthusiast wrote:It is interesting to test this in the desert(if it existed), but to answer the orginal question:
NO, there is at this time an abundance of water on the world and no need to worry for its conservation yet.
As to whose fate was worse: Leto II's or Idaho's? You must remember that he was not "reborn time and time again..." as Aunflin stated. Each ghola was a unique identity and had only been reborn once. He was also born in a strange world in which all of his world had changed and his entire society was dead, he was the ultimate alien amongst a land of foreigners. Leto's sacrifice cannot be ignored however--to have an unending life in endless "pearls of awareness". This consciousness is the ultimate torture, that of never being allowed to die or take action. Over time his consciousness would devolve into that of just a passive sentient "pearl" to be lost in the infinity of space perpetually.
Thus, I believe that it is truly Leto II whose sacrifice was greater.
Why was I incorrect?
If you're cloned or "gholam-ed" what's the difference????![]()
It seems like pretty much the same idea to me.
I really LOVE the Dune books....
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