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Posted: 10 Apr 2009 11:23
by SadisticCynic
That would be some bioweapon! Although massive in effect it does have the kind of political subtlety (i.e. who can you blame?) I would expect in Dune.
Returning to fantasy land, we should make miniature sandtrout, introduce them to someones diet (a la tapeworms) and then watch them shrivel. Then from the dry dead husk we could salvage a wombful of spice!
I like my bioweapon better!
(Or was that too KJA for me?)
Posted: 10 Apr 2009 11:31
by SandChigger
Not if we test it on KJA first.
Posted: 10 Apr 2009 11:37
by TheDukester
You gotta love a place where a systems announcement turns into an actual Dune discussion ...
Posted: 10 Apr 2009 13:18
by Nekhrun
Baraka Bryan wrote:Nekhrun wrote:Baraka Bryan wrote:I like to imagine them as an experiment gone wrong... a group of humans who had these little fish-like trout (either developed, or genetically altered) and take them to a water planet to see what happens... the things suck up water like no tomorrow so they dump a bunch in the ocean to see what happens..... it takes a long time and eventually that group gives up on the experiment but eventually the water reserves all become encapsulated and the trout de-terraform the planet to their liking and evolve to develop the spice cycle etc... eventually growing into sandworms ... a completely unforseen event.
It couldn't have taken all that long if the BG did it on Chapterhouse in a relatively short time period.
i guess it depends on the pre-existing water content on the planet... if chapterhouse was a planet that had lakes, but no real oceans, it wouldn't take relatively too long.. if they were brought to a water-covered planet, it would take a hell of a lot longer.
Didn't Odrade go swimming in an ocean on Chapterhouse before the sea went away?
Re: Everyone please read, lurkers and posters alike
Posted: 10 Apr 2009 15:57
by SadisticCynic
Think that was more of an inland sea of some description. It still shocked Odrade how quickly it vanished though.
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Posted: 10 Apr 2009 22:34
by Rakis
TheDukester wrote:You gotta love a place where a systems announcement turns into an actual Dune discussion ...
Banned for being off topic...
Re: Everyone please read, lurkers and posters alike
Posted: 10 Apr 2009 22:54
by Eyes High
Re: Everyone please read, lurkers and posters alike
Posted: 10 Apr 2009 22:58
by Rakis
You were just waiting to use that...
Re: Everyone please read, lurkers and posters alike
Posted: 10 Apr 2009 23:02
by Eyes High
yep I was.
Re: Everyone please read, lurkers and posters alike
Posted: 10 Apr 2009 23:08
by Rakis
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Posted: 11 Apr 2009 10:14
by Nekhrun
TheDukester wrote:You gotta love a place where a systems announcement turns into an actual Dune discussion ...
Maybe we just figured out a way to get more Dune discussion on here. If we start off-topic then it's inevitable that we go off-topic from that and end up on Dune.
Re: Everyone please read, lurkers and posters alike
Posted: 11 Apr 2009 11:19
by SandChigger
Dune?
You mean this isn't the
"How Great is Canadia, eh?" & Soporific Politics Discussion board?!
Re: Everyone please read, lurkers and posters alike
Posted: 12 Apr 2009 23:06
by Rakis
Re: Everyone please read, lurkers and posters alike
Posted: 13 Apr 2009 01:02
by SandRider
Re: Everyone please read, lurkers and posters alike
Posted: 13 Apr 2009 09:35
by Rakis
Re: Everyone please read, lurkers and posters alike
Posted: 13 Apr 2009 09:41
by Freakzilla
There's an obvious need here for redneck smilies...
Re: Everyone please read, lurkers and posters alike
Posted: 13 Apr 2009 11:46
by SandRider
Re: Everyone please read, lurkers and posters alike
Posted: 13 Apr 2009 12:03
by Mandy
There's a serious lack of redneck smileys on the internet. I could only find two (didn't look very hard, though).
This one looks like a vampire
and this one just sucks
Re: Everyone please read, lurkers and posters alike
Posted: 14 Apr 2009 22:58
by trang
if ya need GORTS lasgun Eye just let me know!!
I dont have any explanation where these thoughts came from but talk of dune and rednecks it just slipped into my head...
Could there have been redneck fremen??
Larry the Fremen Guy,"Yes Suh! We sure are darn from see-itch Whus-K-Tan-GOH!! down deep in the Suth'n POH' lar area!"
I need to wrap my head in foil to keep the maudru from planting thoughts in my head!!
Trang
Re: Everyone please read, lurkers and posters alike
Posted: 15 Apr 2009 08:56
by Rakis
trang wrote:if ya need GORTS lasgun Eye just let me know!!
Trang
That would be kewl...
Re: Everyone please read, lurkers and posters alike
Posted: 14 May 2009 01:31
by cmsahe
Well I have not been tested with the Gom Jabbar so I can't say that I'm human...
Re: Everyone please read, lurkers and posters alike
Posted: 14 May 2009 10:27
by Ampoliros
I didn't have a pain box so I just used a microwave. I'm still not sure if I passed or failed the test.
Re: Everyone please read, lurkers and posters alike
Posted: 14 May 2009 10:38
by SadisticCynic
That's a fail. A human would know to trick his trapper into the microwave thus removing a threat to humankind.
Re: Everyone please read, lurkers and posters alike
Posted: 14 May 2009 11:14
by Freakzilla
The Gom Jabbar test is meaningless if you already know the way of the test.
You have to survive an overdose on drugs instead.
Re: Everyone please read, lurkers and posters alike
Posted: 14 May 2009 17:24
by SadisticCynic
Is that why Jessica had that done to Leto? I could never figure out the deeper reason to it. Cool.
