TMA_1 Posted March 20, 2002 Share Posted March 20, 2002 Morietani and wallach. however you spell them dont have the book with me.lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMA_1 Posted March 20, 2002 Share Posted March 20, 2002 oh and I read before that somebody said that earth is in another galaxy. that is dead wrong. In frank herberts novels it says that the planet revolves around the Canopus star which is only a few lightyears from earth.Look up the star charts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacobdouds Posted March 21, 2002 Share Posted March 21, 2002 What planet revolves around the Canopus star TMA_1?The books are set approximatly 25'000 years in the future.Navigators fold space like a rubber sheet. It's a theory made by some important scientist guy. I could post it if you would like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander_Ordos Posted March 21, 2002 Share Posted March 21, 2002 You should't try to guess our future... - it makes me shuder because i'd be dead by this time :'( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMA_1 Posted March 21, 2002 Share Posted March 21, 2002 Arrakis does. http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/c/canopusast.aspThere are the characteristics of the Canopus star which is the home of  Arrakis in the Dune books. It is a bright white star with the class of FO. It is about a 100 lightyears away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caid Ivik Posted March 21, 2002 Share Posted March 21, 2002 Our Sun is about 2000 ly from Canopus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntiPasta Posted March 21, 2002 Share Posted March 21, 2002 I posted a similar question (about earth) to the alt.fan.dune newsgroup, and one guy referred to the DE as mentioning earth was severely ruined and then placed off-limits.BTW, In House Harkonnen some people are called Terrazi's. This sounds a lot like 'people from earth'Plus, I believe that in Dune Messiah there is also some text about Paul holding a conch shell from Mother Earth!Additionally, somewhere in the religion appendix in Dune, it says that the OC Bible was established in orbit around earth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emperor Harkonnen Posted March 21, 2002 Share Posted March 21, 2002 Where in House Harkonnen, I don't remember that. What page? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntiPasta Posted March 22, 2002 Share Posted March 22, 2002 I dunno exactly somewere near the final exams, before the moritani show up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander_Ordos Posted March 22, 2002 Share Posted March 22, 2002 Yes Earth is mentioned in the Dune books...As for the machines - in some scifi's machines are friends of human:Exmpl: Andromeda... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacobdouds Posted March 23, 2002 Share Posted March 23, 2002 According to this site, Geidi Prime is in the Horse Head Nebula. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMA_1 Posted March 23, 2002 Share Posted March 23, 2002 life cant exist in or around nebulas.lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acriku Posted March 23, 2002 Share Posted March 23, 2002 This is Dune though, not some scientific textbook. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander_Ordos Posted March 24, 2002 Share Posted March 24, 2002 TMA it's just SciFi lol ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gryphon Posted March 24, 2002 Share Posted March 24, 2002 That means that it's not just fiction, it's sci-fi or science fiction. So there is some science involved in it.Although I look at Dune as a saga or probbebly fantasy more than placing it in the sci-fi bookshelf. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMA_1 Posted March 24, 2002 Share Posted March 24, 2002 so everybody suddenly changes their minds.lol People on this forum constantly talk about the scientific properties of Dune so it shouldnt screw up with stuff like that. anyways frank never said it is in the horse head nebula. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acriku Posted March 24, 2002 Share Posted March 24, 2002 Science fiction only states that there is a minOOte smudge of science in it, and all the rest can be hardcore madness. A book about love and romance, set in space, could be classified as SciFi. Kinda silly, but oh well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntiPasta Posted March 24, 2002 Share Posted March 24, 2002 I found some other interesting thing in the Dune appendix on religion...something like:"and the CET convened on a neutral island on Old Earth, the spawning ground of all ancient religions"what island does he mean? I thought of Israel at first, but that aint an island Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacobdouds Posted March 24, 2002 Share Posted March 24, 2002 I guess that meens that all religions started at a small point or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acriku Posted March 24, 2002 Share Posted March 24, 2002 Well they could be talking about Pangaea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntiPasta Posted March 26, 2002 Share Posted March 26, 2002 well that doesn't seem very likely, because humans weren't even around at the time of Pangeae IIRC and it used to be everything (all land mass), thus make it unnecessary to refer to it as being 'the spawning ground of all religions" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acriku Posted March 26, 2002 Share Posted March 26, 2002 Hence the "could" in the sentence. Â ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacobdouds Posted March 26, 2002 Share Posted March 26, 2002 Sci Fi more or less just means more Advanced, like set in the Future at some point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMA_1 Posted March 26, 2002 Share Posted March 26, 2002 But frank stressed on science in his books. read them and see Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emperor Harkonnen Posted June 7, 2002 Share Posted June 7, 2002 I read the a couple of post about earth being destroyed during the butlerian Jihad. That is wrong. Earth probably still exsist. Cos after BJ all religions with over 1 million members catered at a neutral island on Oldjorden, which is norwegian for OldEarth. There they dsicussed something, which I don't remember. This inforamtion is located in the Appendix of Dune under Dune's religion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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