The important thing to know about the universe in Dune is that it's a universe that has advanced in technology, regressed sharply, then advanced again more than once.
I hate how fast Dune left the theaters for James Bond here because I wanted to watch it again. And on anything except the biggest screen just won't cut it.
@@bK2pa I don't think that you can put Dune and No Time To Die in the same level of appeal especially since Dune is an epic with arthouse sensibilities and No Time To Die is a typical blockbuster film.
I found it fascinating that they hired someone who'd worked on the 80s and 90s Batman movies to design the stillsuits. Bob Ringwood, who designed the stillsuits for the 1984 Dune, also designed Michael Keaton's batsuit for the 1989 Batman. It's cool to see that link continuing and if you think about it, a modified stillsuit could be useful for a would be superhero
That makes sense, the black rubber look reminded me of the batman suit when it gets dust on it. Like the one with riddler and batman is buried under sand.
A large part of Stillsuits is that they are designed to function in the desert. That should be all the energy you need. By incorporating thermodynamic elements into the suit, the sun and sand is basically a large battery that you can use to power some of the other functions of the stillsuit as well. You just need a really efficient way to incorporate it into the water filtration and cooling system.
You're telling me someone at NASA was enjoying Batmam so much, that they said this customs are sick, get me this man to do ours?! I beg your pardon? That's amazing!
sounds like a waste of tax payers' money but ... go off ig? maybe the housing crisis coudlve been addressed lol orrrr the prominent racism backing the 'war on drugs'
@@maxw.5742 Oh, get off it. NASA only gets like a tenth of one percent of the annual federal budget. It's grossly underfunded despite continuously showing the greatest returns on investments - scientifically and financially - of any government organization.
@@normandrolland helicopters? Also, there currently is no reason to spend massive amounts of dough on a completely useless alternative to the conventional non flying car
For some things like this suit yeah, but for some others things it can only be imaginary like going back in time. Not seeing how that'a physically possible at all.
Also factor in the Dune universe is 8000 years in the future so the suit powering the system is possible with movement powered generator units. The reality is that urine is around 95% water and the rest is a mix of salts and mostly Urea which is essentially ammonia compounds, breaking down the urea to release the ammonia and nitrogen into the air removes the bad smell and taste and lowering the salt content makes it safer too. Urea can be broken down and removed in several simple processes and filters could remove the salt. In the books the Fremen usually travel a few days in the open desert usually at nights. But also carry fresh water with them to suppliment the small losses in the suits. Also their diets could affect the quality of the urine and sweat and 8000 years of adaptation they could have fairly clean efficient digestive systems.
Honestly depends on the materials we can create. Obviously not powered completely by human motion, but definitely at least 20% can be provided I believe
I assumed the human body power was for pumping the water around the suit, rather than for actually distilling it. Solar stills already exist as a technique for purifying water, and given the intense sunlight that hits Arrakis it should totally be feasible for the water in a pouch on your body to evaporate and then get collected in another pouch.
Adding to the problem. It's so hot on Arrakis that your stillsuit would also have to be a walking refrigerator. On the bright side, solar power is easy on Arrakis. Maybe stillsuits come with battery-operated cooling, pumping, distilling, & filtering hardware. Stillsuits probably have solar cells built into the outermost layers wherever possible, and possibly a folding solar array so the user can recharge during the hottest part of the day (when you want to be hunkering down anyway).
I think what you're describing is a stillsuit that is made with our current/future tech. highly probable that if we ever made stillsuits, it would function in a similar way you described. Solar panels on the suit would have to be really efficient, as there isn't much space on them. Solar panel efficiency is going up so its possible. possibly the suit itself would have some sort or battery pack to keep all the stored energy, in the backpack unit with the distilling equipment, possible seeing how our cellphone battery tech is improving, as well as new materials for batteries coming in the near future.
I do see a stillsuit as possible, just without waste processing functionality. Recycling sweat seems possible. I see a possibility of a shirt that keeps the wearer cool & providing water possible in three years that could make running a marathon through the Mojave possible with one Camelback full of water.
I'd be willing to bet that someone invents a real-life stillsuit within twenty to thirty years at most, given the technologies developed since the Space Race of the 1960s.
The way I imagine it working is having something like one of those foot pedals you use to launch toy rockets in the air in your heels. As you walk you push air up the tubes which brings your fluid up through something like those Life Straws that filters it into drinkable water to catch pockets that are made out of fabric that holds in water but lets the air escape so you don't blow the suit up like a balloon.
As much as I loved this book back in the day, the stillsuits themselves are going to take a lot more cleverness to address the fact that they're interfering with the body's natural evaporative cooling in its collection of waste water. We're not sweating just for fun.
@@JulesD92 That's not how physics works. If it evaporates but remains within the system, then the heat it is supposed to carry away transfers back to the suit when it condenses, and the overall amount of heat in the system only continues to increase. You can either lose the heat with the water, or you keep the water and the heat.
not sure if the current specs / state of materials would do the trick, there most usuredley will be suits such as these one day but I feel like it will take a few years and some significant advances in materials first.
i can see these suits or something like it existing one day but i see it more on the scale of powered suits like halo or some other sci-fi like amour. the talos suit the US military has will evolve as new technologies are developed and with the idea of humans going to mars one day it would be the beginning of wanting a protective suit someone could survive in while exploring hazardous environments
in the book you sweat normally and the suit wicks the heat away and collects the water, they describe being inside a stillsuit to feel like a light moist breeze is running over your body
Evaporative heat removal by sweating is very efficient, in the suit our body would sweat and the heat would transfer into the wicking layer of the suit and be carried away, probably in a stillsuit it would have a radiator system in it for that. Plus in the books most Fremen travelled at night so the suit would also regulate temperature as deserts often go below freezing at night.
It seems like a funny joke until you realize how old the concept is. Urine is also technically drinkable (don't do this by the way unless you are dying of thirst) and you aren't getting water in these places for a long time.
So a tree basically wears a stillsuit? Why then, cant we simply copy a tree's vascular system? Ho do they draw liquid all the way up, high into their boughs. Or perhaps its the filtration technology that we just cant quite fabricate? So we would die of septic poisoning. Also it would seem more logical and efficient to transfer the fluids into the body via I.V rather than drink it?
I don't appreciate how Part 1 concealed the fact that they're defecating in those suits. That's a harsh reality of recycling water in real life, whether it's a space shuttle or a water treatment plant.
The hollywood mindset that star actors (in this and other iterations) have to have their full face visible all the time really kills the immersion for me. The idea that Paul would just leave his face, hair and eyes open in every scene is so ridiculous, and I have to imagine these two know it, but were told by people above their paygrade that fans need to see Chalamet's button nose whenever possible or they'd lose money.
I actually have a idea for a new age eva suit like this. inner pressure suit is basically a skin tight still suit that could not only collect their waste water but also help keep them cool/warm by pumping said water throughout the suit. Not a engineer at all...just have a funny brain :)
Because they'd quickly run out of water. There's no rain on Arrakis, no rivers, no lakes, not even seas. There is nowhere they could get large amounts of fresh water every day.
This is one of the few places where i preferred the 84 films incarnation better. In that film the still suits seemed like a real, functioning, yet used tech. There are too many shots in the new movie where the still suits look like costumes. I get that they wanted them to look a bit simpler, but i dont feel like the materials they used were a good choice. Too much plastics.
@@gagalover2k10 the outer webbing details certainly did, particularly in the harsh lighting. They weren't badly done in the new film, they just didnt feel as organic and practical as the 84 versions
