On Jan 28, 8:59 pm, Wild Monkshood <Wild_Monksh...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
> Freakzilla wrote:
> > On Jan 28, 12:15 pm, Wild Monkshood <Wild_Monksh...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > wrote:
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> >>Freakzilla wrote:
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> >>>On Jan 28, 11:25 am, Alpine Wintergreen <cannibisrod...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>>wrote:
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> >>>>Hi,
> >>>>Dune newbie here. In the movie there is a creature floating in a
tank
> >>>>that is somehow related to the guild I think? What is it?
>
> >>>It's a Guild Navigator. They are humans, born in space who live in
> >>>spice gas. They have a limited linear ability to predict the future
> >>>from the spice gas which allows them to safely navigate space.
>
> >> Born in space? Not according to Brian Herbert. :)
>
> >>WM
>
> > I've got more Dune knowledge in my ***** than Brian Herbert has
> > alltogether.
>
> > "Guild navigators diverged widely from humankind's more
> > common shape. Born in space and living out their lives in tanks of
> > melange gas,
> > they distorted the original form, elongated and repositioned limbs and
> > organs.
> > But a young navigator in estrus and before entering the tank could
> > breed with a
> > norm. It had been demonstrated. They became non-human but not in the
> > way of
> > the Bene Gesserit."
> > ~Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune
>
> Well, I know that and you know that, but, apparently, the
Gruesome
> Twosome thinks it's an academy that gifted students apply to, or some
> such....
>
> WM
I think it depends on what you get on your SAT's. Kevin wanted to
throw that in so he could brag about his score of 410.
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