>Yesterday, I finished my re-read of Dune about ten hours before the
>first part of the miniseries aired on Sci-Fi Channel...
So did I, though that was a month or two ago...
>Minimal spoilers follow...
You need more space than that!
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>The design for the Guild transport ship was pretty cool. It looked
>kinda like Rama chopped up into jigsaw pieces. ;-) It looked like
>it spun for artificial gravity, and it had an open structure, with
>plenty of ledges for smaller ships to land and park on during an
>interstellar trip.
Yeah, I really liked the look of this! Also a nice touch was all of the
shipping traffic inside and outside the Heighliner.
>Big Changes:
>Those aren't 'thopters! ;-) In case you didn't know, an ornithopter
I don't know if this was a BIG change!
>vehicles are ornithopters, or 'thopters for short, with rocket
>assist for an extra burst of emergency power. The Atreides flying
I don't think it was rocket assist for extra power, or at least I never got
that impression. I thought that they added the neccessary lift to
supplement the flapping motion. In essence, the flapping is a way to create
a more energy efficient (or at least less fuel intensive) machine.
>Major Error?
>There was a screen mounted in the thopter that looked suspiciously
>like a computer screen. In the Foundation series, Asimov was able
How can you say for sure this was a computer screen? It could have been a
simple CRT screen displaying important information. As long as it's not a
*thinking* machine!
Damon.
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