Timeline for Isn't Arrakis supposed to be hot?
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| Jan 4 at 20:45 | comment | added | m1gp0z | Anakin would hate it here | |
| Sep 28, 2021 at 12:16 | comment | added | AlefSin | I don't know about you, but walking over sand at above 40 degrees surely will be making me sweat. | |
| Sep 26, 2021 at 10:31 | comment | added | HorusKol | I still don't think it qualifies as hellish. 350° absolute is 80°C - but that's literally the surface. Sand gets hot in sunlight - ever run barefoot on a beach? The passage mentions the air one foot above the ground is 25° cooler - so 49-55°C, which is not far over the temperatures recorded what I've experienced here in South Australia (without a stillsuit!). | |
| Sep 26, 2021 at 8:05 | comment | added | AlefSin |
It seems that the book says it was indeed a very hot planet: Kynes and his people turned their attention from these great relationships and focused now on micro-ecology. First, the climate: the sand surface often reached temperatures of 344° to 350° (absolute). A foot below ground it might be 55° cooler; a foot above ground, 25° cooler. Leaves or black shade could provide another 18° of cooling.
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| Sep 26, 2021 at 3:22 | history | edited | HorusKol | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 26, 2021 at 3:07 | history | answered | HorusKol | CC BY-SA 4.0 |