On Feb 4, 9:17=A0pm, "Tony" <t...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "SandChigger" <sandchig...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>
> "That leaves only some forgotten pre-Jihad
> group."
>
> Are you ruling out conscious machines?
Aren't you a joy? :D
Actually, in my personal speculations on Duniverse history, I have
contemplated something exactly like that.
My reasoning: in the early stages of space exploration, it will no
doubt be more economical (and safer) to send out unmanned but fairly
clever probes. (NASA has been moving in this direction for a long time
in RL, no?) Depending on what sort of machines are roaming around out
there, and their capabilities, something like that could be
possible...or at least, imaginable.
But there would still have to be humans on Arrakis (early settlers,
who later intermarried with the Fremen? If Leto has OM of the event,
it has to have come to him through Chani's bloodlines) to witness
whatever happened.
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