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[ktgm]

The whole water crises makes me think more and more of Frank Herbert's Dune. BTW, does anyone who actually read the books (unlike me who just watched the movies and played the computer game) know what people ate on Arrakis?

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[ahmes]

The Houses that leased Arrakis brought their own food and water supplies from their home planets and trade spice for other commodities, but the Fremen lived on more or less whatever they could find. When the planet was first discovered, attempts were made to terraform it (before the spice was discovered), so there's a lot of introduced species on the planet already adapted to arid zone ecology. However, the sandworms are the only fauna on the planet that are plentiful enough to be a consistent food supply, and only the immature sandworms are easy to catch and cook. It is also technically possible to subsist entirely on spice, though few beings outside the Navigator's guild would seriously try.

For more stuff than you are ever likely to want to know, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrakis

:)

[ktgm]

Sweet. Thanks for your answer. That would have bugged me for ages.

I want spice :)

[minus9]

I think you should give reading Dune a go. i've got a copy you can borrow... You'd love it not just for the water emphasis (which really inspired me last time I read it) but also for the deeper spiritual and psychological aspects. It's a much richer story in the book than the movie, which was quite good of course, and not just for having Sting in it... :-)