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Dystopian scenario: there are a heck of a lot of people in the world and they are 60% of water. Someone will realize this and people will turn on each other to
by kazinator 9mo ago
Dystopian scenario: there are a heck of a lot of people in the world and they are 60% of water. Someone will realize this and people will turn on each other to extract that water. :)
- joe_mamba 9mo agoI call shotgun on riding the sandworm.
- glitchc 9mo agoThat's going to be a right bloody mess there, mate!
- hydrogen7800 9mo agoSurprisingly this is not something explored in "Dune" among the Fremen.
- cheeseomlit 9mo agoWhat do you mean? When a Fremen dies they extract all the water from their body- Paul is given the water extracted from the Fremen he killed in a duel. And when the Fremen first encounter Paul and Jessica I think one of the first things they say is basically "so why shouldnt we just kill you for your water right now?", meaning the water in their bodies
- hydrogen7800 9mo agoI mean fremen killing each other for their water. There is much made of recovering their water after death, but not of inter-sietch raids to harvest the water of conquered.
- p1mrx 9mo agoHuman bodies are a trivial fraction of the fresh water on Earth. That makes about as much sense as stealing batteries to run the power grid.