In the book (and in the first movie) they specifically talk about “drum sand”, in the book it’s explained that it is a specific condition of the sand bed due to wind or something. Maybe Neil missed that?
I assume the worms move with something akin to jet propulsion. They suck sand in the front continuously and it travels all the way through them and out the back.
Famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson once again has a scientific bone to pick with a motion picture.
This time, per The Hollywood Reporter, Tyson’s qualms are with the second installation of Dennis Villineuve’s “Dune” series — a film in which a superhuman cohort of women use a special voice to perform mind control and a very bald Stellan Skarsgård floats through the air.
But as the scientist explained an appearance on the “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” last week, his issues aren’t with the superhuman magic of it all.
According to online forum discussions and a 2017 study, Tyson’s right: sand is pretty good at absorbing noise.
But as Tyson points out, pretty much all legless, worm or snake-like creatures on Earth have to slither in S-shaped lines if they want to move forward.
Colbert and Tyson then went back and forth with some worm movement theories; the former offered that perhaps they have some sort of propellant system on their underbellies, while the latter wondered whether they might simply be “pooping really fast.”
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According to Alex Jones, this guy should now be dead ~400x, also a Reptiloid, a Muslim, a Space Terminator Alien French hybrid, the God Emperor of Israel and at least 25,2 Joe Bidens. 😅
Fascinating that it’s given as “for personal reasons”, tbh. I bet that reason was to show their neighbor who was an anti-vaxxer or something. Older germans can get petty like that. Source: Am older german.
A 62-year-old man from Germany has, against medical advice, been vaccinated 217 times against Covid, doctors report.
“We learned about his case via newspaper articles,” Dr Kilian Schober, from the university’s microbiology department, said.
Dr Schober said: "We were able to take blood samples ourselves when the man received a further vaccination during the study at his own insistence.
Evidence for 130 of the jabs was collected by the public prosecutor of the city of Magdeburg, who opened an investigation with the allegation of fraud, but no criminal charges were brought.
Messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccines work by showing the body’s cells a bit of genetic code from the virus.
Dr Schober worried hyper-stimulating the immune system with repeated doses might have fatigued certain cells.
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Then why in the world would he not just say so and just drive or walk to the train between DC and New York? He’s a government official, but not really one notable enough to need a security escort to go to the grocery store.
The chief medical officer for the Customs and Border Protection agency repeatedly asked staff members to order fentanyl lollipops for him to take on a helicopter mission to the United Nations in New York City in Sept. 2023, according to a whistleblower report by the Government Accountability Project.
Over half a dozen CBP employees were involved in the “urgent” requests to purchase the fentanyl lollipops, the whistleblowers said, with senior leadership in the office reporting concerns about the process in emails.
According to the whistleblower complaint, Eastman “created a hostile and chilled work environment” through attempts to “flout law and policy,” and with his disparagement of other senior leaders and abusive treatment of other staff.
Alvarez, who suffered from sickle cell anemia and heart disease, died after detention facility staff dismissed or downplayed her complaints of pain and declined to take her to the hospital multiple times.
The CBP spokesperson stated Friday that the Department of Homeland Security launched a review of the OCMO following Alvarez’s death “to address the critical failures that led to this deeply upsetting and unacceptable tragedy.
This review quickly identified serious concerns within OCMO, including mismanagement, and an insufficient focus on delivering consistent and quality medical care.”
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PEDs could literally change peoples lives if doctors were allowed to prescribe and manage their use. Im on some shit that would turn up on a test if I were an olympic athlete, simply because I got tired of trying to keep my middle-aged ass in shape and continually catching minor injuries that fucked up my training. The fact is, some of these drugs/compounds are banned because they WORK.
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