Not sure but pretty certain I was folding space by the time I got down to it.
Posted on 06/06/2023 6:38:19 AM PDT by Red Badger
Yes, see, we can replicate that technology! We’ve got plenty of those!
“Science fiction is fiction. It’s not about whether something is possible, but about assuming that something is possible and then considering what might happen if it were.”
Excellent post.
It can get people rethinking about what might be possible—which is a great way to inspire future inventors who can benefit everyone.
A lot of Freepers need to light the fire in the “imagination” part of their mind.
I will admit that the book was very hard to follow for me but it was back in 1978 or 1979 I think. Hell I cannot remember what I went to the kitchen for just a few minutes ago. But I did read a lot of science fiction in the 1970s and this was supposed to be one of the majors.
I just didn’t see the premise of riding or taming giant worms to make sense.
Yeah the movie sucked and now that there is a re-hash I won’t be watching. Maybe I will re-read the book and see if it got better with time.
Not sure but pretty certain I was folding space by the time I got down to it.
You weren’t folding space, you were folding over.................😜
So then Peter Chris of KISS would be safe.
*ba dum...
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....t't'ting*
I’ll try this out on you: Anything you imagine can come to pass because thought creates.
God said it best:
GENESIS 11
... 6 The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”...................
I always thought that set of verses made God look like a spoil-sport. ;-D
He’s actually paying the human mortals a complement.........Nothing that they set their mind to would be impossible.....................
This probably follows that “Man was Created in God’s Image”. It certainly can’t mean God looks like me. That would be poor choice of judgement.
Man’s mind...................
So many of us waited with great anticipation for the release of the movie Dune. It was a huge disappointment.
I need to pull my copy of the book and read it for the umpteenth time.
Which Dune do you mean?
1984 version or the SyFy Channel’s abomination or the new Dune?............
Spacing Guild Leader: "We just folded space from Ix. Many machines on Ix."
Emperor Shaddam IV: "And snitches get stitches."
In the book, it seems pretty apparent that ‘Spice’ is a metaphor for ‘Oil’. In 1965 it was apparent to the brighter folks that the Arabs had a vital resource greatly under their control; the political, economic, and martial implications of that were part of what Herbert (who admitted to being an admirer of Joe McCarthy) was exploring in the book.
However, until we get to other planets, we won’t really know, will we? It seems the least plausible part of the entire book to me.
There’s also the back story of a war between humans and AI that humans barely won, something that movies have a hard time covering.
And Christopher Walken will play the emperor in part II
Of course the worst abuse of human modification came from the Reverend Mothers with their master plan of eventually taking over the known universe through their selective breeding program. Here's a story fans of Adolph and Margaret Sanger can root for - until those plans collapse upon themselves at the end.
Interesting choice of Walken as Shaddam IV. He's good but can't escape the "Duke Syndrome" (no matter what role he took John Wayne was always John Wayne). I'd have gone with Mark Hamill who, besides being old now, morphs so well he's sometimes hard to spot.
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