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RegulusRemains t1_j27g9ee wrote
Reply to comment by greenknight884 in The 1984 Dune film makes a lot more sense if The Spice is referred to as Space Cocaine instead. by neoengel
Exactly haha. After I read it and googled publication date and the Iraq conflict I was left with a blown mind
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Reply to comment by QuickSpore in The 1984 Dune film makes a lot more sense if The Spice is referred to as Space Cocaine instead. by neoengel
Oh that's why the epiphany stuck. I thought it predicted the future haha. Literally thought this book was a prediction of our future.
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Reply to comment by bigwebs in The 1984 Dune film makes a lot more sense if The Spice is referred to as Space Cocaine instead. by neoengel
I think he was talking about the idea when he was writing the book. In the end spice was the thing that was controlled and caused the other entities to fight, scheme, and bribe over.
Edit. It might also be that if the water was unleashed upon dune the spice would end? I've barely read past the original novel so maybe something deeper lol
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Reply to comment by Bretty_boy in The 1984 Dune film makes a lot more sense if The Spice is referred to as Space Cocaine instead. by neoengel
When I first read it I had this crazy epiphany that emperor shaddam was like general saddam hussein.
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Reply to comment by Bretty_boy in The 1984 Dune film makes a lot more sense if The Spice is referred to as Space Cocaine instead. by neoengel
This is from frank Herbert. Not exactly spice, but chaom controls spice too.
"All of this encapsulates the stuff of high drama, of entertainment-and I'm in the entertainment business first. It's all right to include a pot of message, but that's not the key ingredient of wide readership. Yes, there are analogs in Dune of today's events-corruption and bribery in the highest places, whole police forces lost to organized crime, regulatory agencies taken over by the people they are supposed to regulate. The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC."
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Reply to The 1984 Dune film makes a lot more sense if The Spice is referred to as Space Cocaine instead. by neoengel
The whole thing is about oil. There are tons of middle eastern references
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Reply to comment by Castle_33_ in Water line from house to barn lost pressure! Please help!? by Castle_33_
always pressurize before burial
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Reply to comment by dtseng123 in Carnegie Mellon researchers claim they have used new AI techniques to train much cheaper robot dogs (approx $6,000 cost) to reproduce the advanced functionality of the Boston Dynamics Spot robot. by lughnasadh
Haha yeah it is. But their hardware is just so damn cheap and great quality!
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Reply to comment by dtseng123 in Carnegie Mellon researchers claim they have used new AI techniques to train much cheaper robot dogs (approx $6,000 cost) to reproduce the advanced functionality of the Boston Dynamics Spot robot. by lughnasadh
Yeah he's come a long way! Doing great work
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Reply to comment by dtseng123 in Carnegie Mellon researchers claim they have used new AI techniques to train much cheaper robot dogs (approx $6,000 cost) to reproduce the advanced functionality of the Boston Dynamics Spot robot. by lughnasadh
Way cheaper to buy a unitree and go from there
RegulusRemains t1_ja8dcq7 wrote
Reply to comment by aceguy123 in Eli5: what’s the difference between a graduate and undergraduate degree by deadpuppy101
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Eli5: whats the diff between undergrad and graduate degree?