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Old March 18th, 2003, 09:06 PM

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Spice isn't fuel, but IIRC, it is necessary for the Spacing Guild navigators to eat it (in large quantities) in order for them to navigate hyperspace. Eating so much spice has also mutated the navigators as time has passed. They begin apprenticeship the guild as normal humans and undergo transformation as they continue to eat the spice as related in Brian Herbert's House of ... series.
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Yeah... spice is not a fuel.
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So spice can be eaten and is a fuel at the same time?

Isn't that kind of wierd?
I guess I know now why I didn't like it in the first place.
By no means Melange is a fuel ! A ship with Holtzinger (sp.?, sorry) field can warp ro anywhere but it will be lost without a navigator breathing Melange.

I do no think "eating" is a right term. It's more like breathing in Navigator' case. "Normal" people drink melange, not eat it !

Off topic (sort of) When russians speak about consumming vodka, - sometimes we do not use the word "drink" but "eat" instead. Trust me

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So spice can be eaten and is a fuel at the same time?
Isn't that kind of wierd?
I guess I know now why I didn't like it in the first place.
Is not a fuel.
It's a drug that use the Navigator Guild's pilots to control the space ships in the transtellar travels.
This drug give them a "prescience" that they need to control the ships.

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Isn't that kind of wierd?
I guess I know now why I didn't like it in the first place.
hehehehehe, really you're confused.
Of course many things in the book are "weird", unique, think should say. But IMHO this is one of the reasons because "Dune" is a great book.
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i thought the spice gave/mutated the guild navigators the ability to fold space, i didnt realize there was an actual drive and the guild just acted as navigators.
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Oh well, if there is spice in only one planet that makes the "Dune Universe" way to easy from an strategy point of view.
Even a 3rd grader would realize that controlling the spice will be controlling the galaxy.

I'll take StarWars and StarTrek any day.
L. Ron Hubbard's "BattleField Earth" is not that good because of the 7 universes in diferent dimensions.
Anything that goes beyond one galaxy is way too much for my peasant taste.
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Oh well, if there is spice in only one planet that makes the "Dune Universe" way to easy from an strategy point of view.
Even a 3rd grader would realize that controlling the spice will be controlling the galaxy.
Umm... that is the entire point. Maybe you should actually read Dune before you bash it.

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