• SingularEye@lemmy.blahaj.zoneM
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      7 months ago

      spice is both. it also lets you see the future, bend spacetime, and recover the memories of your ancestors. Among other things.

      • shneancy@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        psychedelics also “let you” do it (and by that i mean make you feel like you can)

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          It’s explicitly described as allowing spacetime bending in the books, maybe Villeneuve will talk more about it in the nexr movies

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            Spacefolder ships use the Holtzman effect to bend spacetime. Computers were used to find safe routes before the Butlerian Jihad. Without computers, guild navigators use their prescience to find safe routes. Spice doesn’t allow spacetime bending, just navigating through bent spacetime without a high fatality rate from flying into stars.

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      7 months ago

      Spice is much more than a psychedelic or a stimulant, I would say it’s more like if an Adderall pill and a microdosed LSD stamp had a kid

  • Lyre@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    I mean yes but you also have to remember that in dune the powerful horny men are controlled by a galaxy spanning religious order of powerful horny women.