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[mark peacock]

hi my friend found this today when the lights came on looked like a cockroach stood up and blowing what looked like dust up into the water has anyone any idea as to what this is i have never seen one of these before.
http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=8&u=11717580

 

[Herefishyfishy]

Looks a bit like a sand worm: Shai-Hulud!

 

[Dirtsquirt]

Since when was Arrakis underwater?

-Dan

 

[theJ]

looks like the underside of a stomatilla snail (or one that lost its shell), when they spawn it looks like dust blowing into the water also.

 

[Herefishyfishy]

Since when was Arrakis underwater?

-Dan

Open canals called qanats are used "for carrying irrigation water under controlled conditions" through the desert.[1] As indicated by large salt flats, Arrakis once had lakes and oceans.

In Children of Dune, Leto Atreides II tells his twin sister Ghanima:

The sandtrout ... was introduced here from some other place. This was a wet planet then. They proliferated beyond the capability of existing ecosystems to deal with them. Sandtrout encysted the available free water, made this a desert planet ... and they did it to survive. In a planet sufficiently dry, they could move to their sandworm phase.

Are we still on topic?:lol::lol::lol:

 

[Dirtsquirt]

Ah, must have forgot. Last time I read any of those books was long ago.

Didn't Frank die and then his son took over? I think things started to go downhill from there.

-Dan

 

[Herefishyfishy]

Didn't Frank die and then his son took over? I think things started to go downhill from there.

-Dan

Absolutely correct