How Dune's Stillsuits Could Become a Reality
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Date: 2022-07-07
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Mike
Also factor in the Dune universe is 8000 years in the future so the suit powering the system is possible with movement powered generator units. The reality is that urine is around 95% water and the rest is a mix of salts and mostly Urea which is essentially ammonia compounds, breaking down the urea to release the ammonia and nitrogen into the air removes the bad smell and taste and lowering the salt content makes it safer too. Urea can be broken down and removed in several simple processes and filters could remove the salt. In the books the Fremen usually travel a few days in the open desert usually at nights. But also carry fresh water with them to suppliment the small losses in the suits. Also their diets could affect the quality of the urine and sweat and 8000 years of adaptation they could have fairly clean efficient digestive systems.
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Also factor in the Dune universe is 8000 years in the future so the suit powering the system is possible with movement powered generator units. The reality is that urine is around 95% water and the rest is a mix of salts and mostly Urea which is essentially ammonia compounds, breaking down the urea to release the ammonia and nitrogen into the air removes the bad smell and taste and lowering the salt content makes it safer too. Urea can be broken down and removed in several simple processes and filters could remove the salt. In the books the Fremen usually travel a few days in the open desert usually at nights. But also carry fresh water with them to suppliment the small losses in the suits. Also their diets could affect the quality of the urine and sweat and 8000 years of adaptation they could have fairly clean efficient digestive systems.
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meldroc
Adding to the problem. It's so hot on Arrakis that your stillsuit would also have to be a walking refrigerator. On the bright side, solar power is easy on Arrakis. Maybe stillsuits come with battery-operated cooling, pumping, distilling, & filtering hardware. Stillsuits probably have solar cells built into the outermost layers wherever possible, and possibly a folding solar array so the user can recharge during the hottest part of the day (when you want to be hunkering down anyway.
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Adding to the problem. It's so hot on Arrakis that your stillsuit would also have to be a walking refrigerator. On the bright side, solar power is easy on Arrakis. Maybe stillsuits come with battery-operated cooling, pumping, distilling, & filtering hardware. Stillsuits probably have solar cells built into the outermost layers wherever possible, and possibly a folding solar array so the user can recharge during the hottest part of the day (when you want to be hunkering down anyway.
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JDH
The hollywood mindset that star actors (in this and other iterations) have to have their full face visible all the time really kills the immersion for me.
The idea that Paul would just leave his face, hair and eyes open in every scene is so ridiculous, and I have to imagine these two know it, but were told by people above their paygrade that fans need to see Chalamet's button nose whenever possible or they'd lose money.
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The hollywood mindset that star actors (in this and other iterations) have to have their full face visible all the time really kills the immersion for me.
The idea that Paul would just leave his face, hair and eyes open in every scene is so ridiculous, and I have to imagine these two know it, but were told by people above their paygrade that fans need to see Chalamet's button nose whenever possible or they'd lose money.
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koolerpure
i can see these suits or something like it existing one day but i see it more on the scale of powered suits like halo or some other sci-fi like amour. the talos suit the US military has will evolve as new technologies are developed and with the idea of humans going to mars one day it would be the beginning of wanting a protective suit someone could survive in while exploring hazardous environments
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i can see these suits or something like it existing one day but i see it more on the scale of powered suits like halo or some other sci-fi like amour. the talos suit the US military has will evolve as new technologies are developed and with the idea of humans going to mars one day it would be the beginning of wanting a protective suit someone could survive in while exploring hazardous environments
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Mach
A large part of Stillsuits is that they are designed to function in the desert. That should be all the energy you need. By incorporating thermodynamic elements into the suit, the sun and sand is basically a large battery that you can use to power some of the other functions of the stillsuit as well. You just need a really efficient way to incorporate it into the water filtration and cooling system.
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A large part of Stillsuits is that they are designed to function in the desert. That should be all the energy you need. By incorporating thermodynamic elements into the suit, the sun and sand is basically a large battery that you can use to power some of the other functions of the stillsuit as well. You just need a really efficient way to incorporate it into the water filtration and cooling system.
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Charles
So a tree basically wears a stillsuit? Why then, cant we simply copy a tree's vascular system? Ho do they draw liquid all the way up, high into their boughs.
Or perhaps its the filtration technology that we just cant quite fabricate? So we would die of septic poisoning. Also it would seem more logical and efficient to transfer the fluids into the body via I. V rather than drink it?
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So a tree basically wears a stillsuit? Why then, cant we simply copy a tree's vascular system? Ho do they draw liquid all the way up, high into their boughs.
Or perhaps its the filtration technology that we just cant quite fabricate? So we would die of septic poisoning. Also it would seem more logical and efficient to transfer the fluids into the body via I. V rather than drink it?
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razorfett147
This is one of the few places where i preferred the 84 films incarnation better. In that film the still suits seemed like a real, functioning, yet used tech. There are too many shots in the new movie where the still suits look like costumes. I get that they wanted them to look a bit simpler, but i dont feel like the materials they used were a good choice. Too much plastics.
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This is one of the few places where i preferred the 84 films incarnation better. In that film the still suits seemed like a real, functioning, yet used tech. There are too many shots in the new movie where the still suits look like costumes. I get that they wanted them to look a bit simpler, but i dont feel like the materials they used were a good choice. Too much plastics.
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Richard
I found it fascinating that they hired someone who'd worked on the 80s and 90s Batman movies to design the stillsuits. Bob Ringwood, who designed the stillsuits for the 1984 Dune, also designed Michael Keaton's batsuit for the 1989 Batman. It's cool to see that link continuing and if you think about it, a modified stillsuit could be useful for a would be superhero
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I found it fascinating that they hired someone who'd worked on the 80s and 90s Batman movies to design the stillsuits. Bob Ringwood, who designed the stillsuits for the 1984 Dune, also designed Michael Keaton's batsuit for the 1989 Batman. It's cool to see that link continuing and if you think about it, a modified stillsuit could be useful for a would be superhero
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Pauly
I do see a stillsuit as possible, just without waste processing functionality. Recycling sweat seems possible. I see a possibility of a shirt that keeps the wearer cool & providing water possible in three years that could make running a marathon through the Mojave possible with one Camelback full of water.
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I do see a stillsuit as possible, just without waste processing functionality. Recycling sweat seems possible. I see a possibility of a shirt that keeps the wearer cool & providing water possible in three years that could make running a marathon through the Mojave possible with one Camelback full of water.
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Bercilak
As much as I loved this book back in the day, the stillsuits themselves are going to take a lot more cleverness to address the fact that they're interfering with the body's natural evaporative cooling in its collection of waste water. We're not sweating just for fun.
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As much as I loved this book back in the day, the stillsuits themselves are going to take a lot more cleverness to address the fact that they're interfering with the body's natural evaporative cooling in its collection of waste water. We're not sweating just for fun.
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