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AlteaDeo

AlteaDeo

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it is sure that FH used known reference for his planets... Since the story of Dune is closly related (well, a sort of expanding) future of earth....

still. don't think that mars could be dune.

Mars is rock, not sand.

Mars is red, not sand color.

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TMA_1

TMA_1

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that is a definate no.lol It isnt mars. And we dont know about the little diaspora. where they went and what they did.

AlteaDeo

AlteaDeo

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Frank Herbert wrote a FICTIVE universe based on our "true" universe... still, his work is ficitve...

that's common thing for an author to inspire itself in the real world...

still, dune is not mars :)

Acriku

Acriku

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Not yet Thorup ;) You could but imagine the face expressions Charlamagne would be experiencing if he saw a jet flying over him at and over the speed of sound.

Dude_Doc

Dude_Doc

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For space traveling: We still got 30000 years to Butlerian Jihad, 40000 to Dune, and 45000 to Heretics and Chapterhouse, so well, 2002...

I heard that Frank Herbert first planned to transform Mars into a Dune like-planet, then changed it. Besides that, Arrakis is the Third planet in the Dune Solar System, which would be the Earth in this case, and what I've read, Earth is a "Universal Park" or something...

TMA_1

TMA_1

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well there is plenty of time to devolp new technologies if the lord doesnt come. besides there are no laws in science per'ce. its just hte best idea we have. quantum physics could and is wrong. everything science does is wrong in a true scientists mind. they just build to it and try to make it better.

AlteaDeo

AlteaDeo

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Dune would be the earth... interesting idea with all those desertification.... :)

even more interesting when I remember that sand trouts where "imported" from an another planet to arrakis.... :)

Caid Ivik

Caid Ivik

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In book appendixes is Arrakis (or Dune) always described as second planet of system Canopus. Canopus is a giant star about 1200 light years from Earth, big like 200 000 Sun. It's a brightest star of Carina constellation (near Centaur), so if you live in Australia you can see it whole year. Maybe this name inspired Herbert with House Corrino's name.

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