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Date Posted: 11:06:43 04/27/04 Tue
Author: anonymous
Subject: No, it's not
In reply to: IDAHO 's message, "Actually it IS plausible" on 16:12:09 04/23/04 Fri

No one's denying who created which invention. It's just annoying that in Brian Herbert's world, all the main inventions that really impact history are created in two periods: during the Butlerian Jihad, and the generation before Paul Atreides (both of which he conveniently covers). The three things that really shape the universe after Leto's death - no-ships, Navigator-less navigation, and Tleilaxu spice - were all developed at almost the exact same time, four thousand years earlier, and conveniently forgotten. That just doesn't make sense. What makes more sense is that a bunch of fans wrote in asking for explanations of all those things, and the authors decided to indulge them (and give themselves an excuse to add more filler to the books).

Count Fenring and his wife talk that way to each other in Dune, throwing "Mm-m-m-m"s and "Ah-h-h"s around. When Fenring is alone with the Baron, that affectation disappears completely. When his wife returns, he's at it again and Herbert provides a translation for their "personal humming tongue" (yes, that's a quote from the book). Fenring and his wife were secretly communicating with each other, trading observations, through Feyd's gladiator battle. Doesn't that sound like something a BG and spouse might do?

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Lost Technology -- Freakzilla, 11:02:59 05/26/04 Wed
- Crap -- erin, 13:23:20 05/27/04 Thu
  - Can we agree on this? -- erin, 13:48:54 05/27/04 Thu
    - Agree?...maybe a little -- Crysknife, 14:26:02 05/27/04 Thu
      - But, who else who has the rights? -- erin, 19:36:09 05/27/04 Thu
        What are you talking about? -- Crysknife, 12:36:24 05/28/04 Fri
        My point was you are being too critical. -- erin, 13:22:48 05/28/04 Fri
        That's funny.. -- Crysknife, 14:05:52 05/28/04 Fri
        touche' -- erin, 15:08:50 05/28/04 Fri