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Sure, but in the novel, Arrakis really is hot. In the Appendix, it's stated that the sand surface reached 76.85 Celsius (170.33 F).
by SeanLuke 5y ago
Sure, but in the novel, Arrakis really is hot. In the Appendix, it's stated that the sand surface reached 76.85 Celsius (170.33 F).
- hef19898 5y agoSand surface =/= ambient temperature, with all the research that went into Dune, I think Herbert was aware of that
- SeanLuke 5y ago[sigh]. You could have just googled this, but from the Appendix: > He found that in the wide belt contained by the 70-degree lines, north and south, temperatures for thousands of years hadn't gone outside the 254-332 degrees (absolute) range That's -2 F to 137 F in the arctic circle. > Kynes and his people turned their attention from these great relationships and focused now on micro-ecology. First, the climate: the sand surface often reached temperatures of 344° to 350° (absolute). A foot below ground it might be 55° cooler; a foot above ground, 25° cooler. That's 114 to 125 degrees Fahrenheit for "a foot above ground". So once again, yes, very hot.