Arrakis

Dune: how high could giant sand dunes actually grow on Arrakis?

Dune: how high could giant sand dunes actually grow on Arrakis?: Frank Herbert first published his science-fiction epic Dune back in 1965, though its origins lay in a chance encounter eight years previously when as a journalist he was tasked to report on a dune stabilisation programme in the US state of Oregon. Ultimately, this …

Dune: we simulated the desert planet of Arrakis to see if humans could survive there

Dune: we simulated the desert planet of Arrakis to see if humans could survive there: Dune, the epic series of sci-fi books by Frank Herbert, now turned into a movie of the same name, is set in the far future on the desert planet of Arrakis. Herbert outlined a richly-detailed world that, at first glance, …