Comments on: There’s a very specific shot of three ornithopters https://www.isegoria.net/2021/12/theres-a-very-specific-shot-of-three-ornithopters/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Fri, 01 May 2026 09:53:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Harry Jones https://www.isegoria.net/2021/12/theres-a-very-specific-shot-of-three-ornithopters/comment-page-1/#comment-3485620 Harry Jones Wed, 29 Dec 2021 02:37:23 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=48533#comment-3485620 It’s Lawrence of Arabia in outer space. The only point of the ecology stuff is that the universe can squash careless humans like so many bugs. That’s not the main theme of the books.

The God Emperor, on the other hand, is a force of nature. Only he got boring, so he had to be killed off.

]]> By: TRX https://www.isegoria.net/2021/12/theres-a-very-specific-shot-of-three-ornithopters/comment-page-1/#comment-3485569 TRX Tue, 28 Dec 2021 21:06:52 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=48533#comment-3485569 “bring back humanity to its right position in the ecosystem,”

Except Arrakis was an alien planet, and not only were humans not native there, they couldn’t survive without a nontrivial amount of technology. And even then, Arrakis pretty much sucked.

]]> By: Wang Wei Lin https://www.isegoria.net/2021/12/theres-a-very-specific-shot-of-three-ornithopters/comment-page-1/#comment-3485454 Wang Wei Lin Tue, 28 Dec 2021 07:36:42 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=48533#comment-3485454 ‘…humans are not in control of nature…’

Really? When have humans ever been in control of nature? Some of the assumptions of the arts/media crowd just reveals their disconnect from reality, science and history.

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