to clarify the ending scene paul was already attempting to join the fremen at the end stilgar initially tries to kill them for their bodies water but his mom reveals she’s bene gesserit who are religiously sacred to the fremen so he refuses to attack her and lets them join jamis disagrees so he duels paul and after paul kills him stilgar officially lets paul join
For the balloon - pretend that the ballon was big enough to lift the object. Could you reverse the thrusters on the towship to put hot air into the balloon and have it lift more?
Ultimately, we just pretended that the balloon was large enough to lift the crawler! I'm fairly certain that hot air, even from the thrusters, wouldn't have adequate buoyancy. The difference in density between the hot jet wash and the surrounding air just wouldn't be large enough, right?
if i’m not wrong i believe it’s implied that the craft are made out of a lightweight steel like material called “plasteel” which i believe also has the strength weight ratio needed to build an ornithopter, so it’s probably much lighter than it looks
Plasteel might explain it! We were assuming the crawlers were metal, but if they are plasteel (which I assume is much less dense) then buoyancy might work!
@@SemiStableUniversein country yes, in the UK probably not. Remeber the Duke knows they are outnumbered by the Fremen and the Duke needs them to survive their war with the Harkonans. Cultural sensitivities is at play and the rules you're saying will only bring disaster because you're still going to be fighting the Harkonans but because you insulted the Freman now you have to fight them too. It is a delicate game the Duke is playing.
i think them having questionable procedures actually fits quite well, the atredies just arrived on arrakis and only have low quality equipment left by the harkonnens and are trying to as rapidly as possible harvest spice so they don’t get kicked off of arrakis so they’d probably be pretty bad at their job
We still don't really understand the economics of the Dune universe. Why are all these workers working? For pay? Are there merchants? Or is it just families telling people what to do?
@@SemiStableUniverse it really depends on the house, they all get paid for their job but harkonennes mostly motivate with fear and atredies motivate with loyalty, likely the workers get paid alot as spice is super vauble cause its needed for space travel and is only found on arrakis, also there are "merchants" its an org called CHOAM formed from all of the houses across the galaxy that effectively trades stocks on spice production, its really weird tbh
oh and spice is also super valuble because spice addiction drastically increases your lifespan (but if you stop taking it the withdrawl will kill you) and it is needed for the bene gesserit witches and the human calculator mentats and the space guild navigators to all get their powers
@@SemiStableUniversethey're defense's were disabled by the Dr who was a spy for the Harkonans. And the tech of Dune allows for space folding not space ports which like mentioned before is strictly regulated by the spacing guild. The same Spacing Guild who is in league with the Harkonans, Benegesserit and the Emperor who want to take down the Duke for various reasons.
with the shield i don’t think they could use an inverse frequency cause the shields use gravity manipulation tech that actively responds to its environment so you’d have to adjust the inverse frequency to match the current frequency which would mean computers which are illegal
they fight with swords because shields block based on velocity and so only slow moving weapons penetrate the shields and so they mostly fight with slow moving hand to hand weapons, although admittedly frank herbert was terrible at writing battles
@@SemiStableUniverse the ecology of arrakis is really fascinating like the sandworms have a three stage life cycle where they go from plankton to sandtrout and the sandtrout bind up aquifers in order to stop the big sandworms from hitting them and dying and i think they change like locusts do where if they hit the right conditions they start changing into their next stage
to clarify the ending scene paul was already attempting to join the fremen at the end stilgar initially tries to kill them for their bodies water but his mom reveals she’s bene gesserit who are religiously sacred to the fremen so he refuses to attack her and lets them join jamis disagrees so he duels paul and after paul kills him stilgar officially lets paul join
For the balloon - pretend that the ballon was big enough to lift the object. Could you reverse the thrusters on the towship to put hot air into the balloon and have it lift more?
Ultimately, we just pretended that the balloon was large enough to lift the crawler! I'm fairly certain that hot air, even from the thrusters, wouldn't have adequate buoyancy. The difference in density between the hot jet wash and the surrounding air just wouldn't be large enough, right?
if i’m not wrong i believe it’s implied that the craft are made out of a lightweight steel like material called “plasteel” which i believe also has the strength weight ratio needed to build an ornithopter, so it’s probably much lighter than it looks
although i think the first mention of plasteel is in the third book so it’s impossible to tell
Plasteel might explain it! We were assuming the crawlers were metal, but if they are plasteel (which I assume is much less dense) then buoyancy might work!
To be fair to the fremen sacred knife the Sikh people carry knives for religious reasons and are allowed to carry them at all times at least in the uk
But would someone be able to approach the Prime Minister with a knife, even if the knife were religiously significant!!?
@@SemiStableUniversein country yes, in the UK probably not. Remeber the Duke knows they are outnumbered by the Fremen and the Duke needs them to survive their war with the Harkonans. Cultural sensitivities is at play and the rules you're saying will only bring disaster because you're still going to be fighting the Harkonans but because you insulted the Freman now you have to fight them too. It is a delicate game the Duke is playing.
i think them having questionable procedures actually fits quite well, the atredies just arrived on arrakis and only have low quality equipment left by the harkonnens and are trying to as rapidly as possible harvest spice so they don’t get kicked off of arrakis so they’d probably be pretty bad at their job
We still don't really understand the economics of the Dune universe. Why are all these workers working? For pay? Are there merchants? Or is it just families telling people what to do?
@@SemiStableUniverse it really depends on the house, they all get paid for their job but harkonennes mostly motivate with fear and atredies motivate with loyalty, likely the workers get paid alot as spice is super vauble cause its needed for space travel and is only found on arrakis, also there are "merchants" its an org called CHOAM formed from all of the houses across the galaxy that effectively trades stocks on spice production, its really weird tbh
oh and spice is also super valuble because spice addiction drastically increases your lifespan (but if you stop taking it the withdrawl will kill you) and it is needed for the bene gesserit witches and the human calculator mentats and the space guild navigators to all get their powers
On the space portal, the Atredies don’t have spaceships. No one does outside of the Guild so they can’t defend the entire system.
They can see it from the surface though, right? Maybe put some spotters on it as part of the military?
@@SemiStableUniversethey're defense's were disabled by the Dr who was a spy for the Harkonans. And the tech of Dune allows for space folding not space ports which like mentioned before is strictly regulated by the spacing guild. The same Spacing Guild who is in league with the Harkonans, Benegesserit and the Emperor who want to take down the Duke for various reasons.
with the shield i don’t think they could use an inverse frequency cause the shields use gravity manipulation tech that actively responds to its environment so you’d have to adjust the inverse frequency to match the current frequency which would mean computers which are illegal
they fight with swords because shields block based on velocity and so only slow moving weapons penetrate the shields and so they mostly fight with slow moving hand to hand weapons, although admittedly frank herbert was terrible at writing battles
We totally need to reread Dune (poorly written battles and all!)
the worms natural prey is a form of plankton the can live in sand, that plankton organism is also the baby form of the sandworm.
also the worm doesn’t hunt prey actively it attacks sound and rhythmic motion because they are trying to keep other sandworms out of their territory
I would be very interested in the ecology of Arrakis! What is going on under the sand!?
@@SemiStableUniverse the ecology of arrakis is really fascinating like the sandworms have a three stage life cycle where they go from plankton to sandtrout and the sandtrout bind up aquifers in order to stop the big sandworms from hitting them and dying and i think they change like locusts do where if they hit the right conditions they start changing into their next stage
Super cool!