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Date Posted: 17:12:01 06/01/03 Sun
Author: IDAHO
Subject: Actually I doubt it.
In reply to: Crysknife 's message, "Anouther thing on B.Jihad." on 11:49:33 05/31/03 Sat

While the Spice is everywhere on Arrakis, I think it would still be a while before the effects of it would be immediately obvious. For example, was chocolate immediately an obvious discovery? And then when it was discovered, how long did it take to become ubiquitous?

Also with the Spice, it's properties as a narcotic or regular cooking Spice might seem obvious at first, but why would it be obvious to immerse someone in a tank of gaseous Spice so that they would mutate and become able to navigate through fold space... I think that it would be decidely harder to recognize this fact.

While the Fremen who settle on Dune might realize that the Spice has properties (they would be the first since they have the most contact with it), they are a highly secretive people, and no one else amongst the known worlds wants to go to Dune because it seems hellish and out of the way.
It would be the equivalent of rich oil deposits being discovered in the arctic before the combustible engine was invented. The place is hellish and there is no reason to desire oil (though that seems ridiculous to us because oil has become such a valueable commodity).
It would only be after the invention of the combustible engine that is run on refined oil, that people would even care about the rich deposits of crude oil in the polar regions of the planet.

Does that make sense?

Therefore I would have to disagree with your assessment.
And why the hell did it remind you of Star Wars? I don't see any parallel. Is that like your rubric for measuring how bad something is?
It reminded me of Star Wars, therefore it sucked?
What's with that?

-IDAHO-

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Replies:

Well.... -- Crysknife, 21:37:04 06/01/03 Sun
- It's not that it "worked for me" -- IDAHO, 12:35:44 06/02/03 Mon
  - IDAHO, I will relent -- Crysknife, 13:17:09 06/02/03 Mon
    - well I have to admit... -- IDAHO, 14:10:24 06/02/03 Mon
      - Agreed. (NT) -- Crysknife, 14:23:32 06/02/03 Mon
You have an interesting vocabulary. (NT) -- tvscks, 11:00:31 06/02/03 Mon