In the Dune universe, why not use laser weapons as bombs?
In the Dune universe, why not use laser weapons as bombs?
In the Dune universe, when a laser weapons hits a shield, both are destroyed in a nuclear explosion reaction.
So instead of building nuclear weapons, wouldn’t it be easier to tie a timer and a “parachute” to a laser gun and drop it from orbit onto your enemy’s city?
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Because it is an allegorical space opera about oil in the middle east and a magic weilding jesus written in 1965. Nukes are a part of the allegorical storytelling in a meaningful way. Dune is a space opera, not hard sci fi. It's meant to make you think and feel about our world more than it is meant to create a believable story of humanity's future like The Expanse. It's about magic worm poop, after all.
Okay but that's obviously not the direction OP is intending to go. Nobody is forcing you to leave your opinion here. If you don't find it to be fun to think about in-universe sci-fi explanations, then just leave us alone and don't be such a toxic meanie.
Yeah, I didn't mean to come off ad rude as I did, more playfully snide than actually snobby, so I deleted my comment.
I respect OP's position without practicing it myself. It's not that I don't condone it, I just have a fundamentally different approach to this story and shared it. Badly. Lemmy is crap about actually getting rid of deleted content though.
It just puts "deleted by creator" which is mildly infuriating because it removes context
That depends on your instance. AFAIK nothing is actually forcing you to delete a comment from another instance.