TMA_1 Posted March 20, 2002 Posted March 20, 2002 Morietani and wallach. however you spell them dont have the book with me.lol
TMA_1 Posted March 20, 2002 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.
jacobdouds Posted March 21, 2002 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.
Alexander_Ordos Posted March 21, 2002 Posted March 21, 2002 You should't try to guess our future... - it makes me shuder because i'd be dead by this time :'(
TMA_1 Posted March 21, 2002 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.
AntiPasta Posted March 21, 2002 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.
Emperor Harkonnen Posted March 21, 2002 Posted March 21, 2002 Where in House Harkonnen, I don't remember that. What page?
AntiPasta Posted March 22, 2002 Posted March 22, 2002 I dunno exactly somewere near the final exams, before the moritani show up
Alexander_Ordos Posted March 22, 2002 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...
jacobdouds Posted March 23, 2002 Posted March 23, 2002 According to this site, Geidi Prime is in the Horse Head Nebula.
Acriku Posted March 23, 2002 Posted March 23, 2002 This is Dune though, not some scientific textbook.
gryphon Posted March 24, 2002 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. :)
TMA_1 Posted March 24, 2002 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.
Acriku Posted March 24, 2002 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.
AntiPasta Posted March 24, 2002 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
jacobdouds Posted March 24, 2002 Posted March 24, 2002 I guess that meens that all religions started at a small point or something?
AntiPasta Posted March 26, 2002 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"
jacobdouds Posted March 26, 2002 Posted March 26, 2002 Sci Fi more or less just means more Advanced, like set in the Future at some point.
TMA_1 Posted March 26, 2002 Posted March 26, 2002 But frank stressed on science in his books. read them and see
Emperor Harkonnen Posted June 7, 2002 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.
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