With the physical laws understood, the team then consulted the detailed descriptions of Arrakis in Herbert’s six novels and in the Dune Encyclopedia. The team used the physical laws here on Earth as their basis, otherwise, it suggests that Dune is a complete fantasy world. Models rely on physical laws at their base. To answer that question, the authors began with a climate model used here on Earth. So the idea of a people like the Fremen adapted to an extreme environment like Arrakis is no stretch.
The Inuit in Canada’s far north adapted to their extreme environment, and so have peoples like the Bedouin in the deserts in Africa. “We needed a huge supercomputer to be able to crunch the hundreds of thousands of calculations required to simulate Arrakis.” From “Dune: we simulated the desert planet of Arrakis to see if humans could survive there.”Ī planet can be both habitable and inhospitable, much like extreme environments here on Earth. Rather than publish a paper, they presented their results in an article at The Conversation.
To do that, they relied on current climate models. The trio of scientists wanted to examine the fictional Dune to see how realistic it was. The climate is so brutally hot that anyone who ventures out into the Sun must wear a stillsuit-which cools the body and recycles the body’s moisture-or face death. However, it must be produced otherwise the whole interstellar empire would fall.ĭune is a desert world, where it never rains according to Herbert. Mentats take their place.) Dune’s harsh conditions make the spice difficult to harvest. (There are no computers due to a backlash against thinking machines. It’s also used by the mentats, intellectual specialists who perform sophisticated calculations. It’s the only known source of the resource called spice melange, a psychoactive drug which when used by the space navigators guild allows them to travel between stars. In the world of Dune, the planet Arrakis is critically important.
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