Dune .....folding space

Far off in the control rooms of spice gas...

The Spacing Guild is the foundation of the interstellar civilization. Its Navigators use the spice drug melange to gain limited prescient abilities which enable them to successfully navigate "folded space" (created by the Holtzman Generator on board), and thus safely guide enormous Heighliner spaceships from planet to planet instantly. As its mathematical and pharmaceutical methods are secret and Guild Navigators interact with others only through intermediaries, the Guild has a monopoly on interstellar transport and banking, which it can leverage as absolute political and economic power over other factions when necessary to maintain its dominance

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• dune
• guild
• navigator
• fold
• space

[stephenparallox]

So... does the spice navigator beam them in thru his mouth, and then out his ass?... it was never clear in the movie, just wondering.

[ludwigvonsteampole1]

What must be going through the minds of those in the Control Rooms Of Spice Gas i wonder.

[PBanimation]

Therse inspired the advisors from half life 2!

[OzClawhammer]

yet it wasn't until MIB that pug's became popular in Sci Fi

[wozza2341]

@ludwigvonsteampole1 That is a question that I think many of us have often thought about. Thank you for voicing it.

[EnzoFuturistic]

If they ever make a movie based on Dan Simmon's Hyperion novels, THIS is what it should look like.

[phuturephunk]

I'm still sort of stumped as how we went from the source material that stated that navigators were mutated humans that had features akin to a cephalopod to some kind of grub with a vagina mouth.

David Lynch is a madman.

[phuturephunk]

@stephenparallox Nah he navigates, somehow, the correct 'path' of folding space between one locale to the other. Its more of a decision making process than actually doing the 'folding'. See, in the dune universe thinking machines are outlawed and since actions like going faster than light would take gigantic amounts of computational power human civilization needed to find a substitute for AI that could do the calculations necessary for space travel to be successful. Hence, navigators.

[BVargas78]

poor little puggies, they got their palace taken over by harkonnen :(

[KenoshiAkai]

@freak49 I think this from the Alan Smithee edit of the film, with all of the horrendously superimposed tracks of music. Really ruins the feel of the scene.