Do you pee in Stillsuits?

Stillsuits recycle nearly all of the body's moisture, which Herbert's novel notes includes urine and feces, which are processed in the stillsuit's thigh pads. Like I said, once you have this fact in your head firmly enough to recall it while watching Dune, you immediately want to figure out who's pooping and when.
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What happens to poop in Dune?

Urine and feces are processed in the thigh pads

Most characters in Dune are not Fremen by birth, but on Arakkis they adopt the stillsuit as a matter of survival.
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How does a stillsuit work?

Worn by the inhabitants of the desert planet Arrakis, stillsuits capture any moisture that leaves the body and recycle it back into drinkable water.
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What's the thing in their nose in Dune?

Filt-Plug by Frank Herbert from Dune. A nose plug worn to collect moisture from exhaled air. On parched Arrakis, the wise traveler wears filt-plugs and a breathing mask over the mouth, to conserve moisture. FILT-PLUG: a nose filter unit worn with a stillsuit to capture moisture from the exhaled breath.
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Is a real stillsuit possible?

How feasible are actual Stillsuits for future astronauts on Mars? Fortunately, we've been doing something similar to Dune's Stillsuits for a while now on the International Space Station. "There is an entire closed-loop system onboard the [International Space Station] dedicated to water," NASA says.
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Do you poop in stillsuits?

Stillsuits recycle nearly all of the body's moisture, which Herbert's novel notes includes urine and feces, which are processed in the stillsuit's thigh pads.
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How do they breathe in Dune?

In the film Dune, when the Duke and Pual put on the desert suits, they are instructed to breathe in through the mouth and out through the nose when in the open desert.
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Who has blue eyes in Dune?

Ever since the first Dune trailer debuted, moviegoers unfamiliar with Frank Herbert's acclaimed science-fiction novel Dune may have been confused as to why, in Denis Villeneuve's Dune, Zendaya's eyes are blue. She's not alone, of course.
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Why do they wear masks in Dune?

ASU engineer designs clothing for extreme heat. Inhabitants of the desert planet Arrakis in the movie "Dune" wear suits to protect them from the heat, cool them and recycle moisture from their bodies. It's more science than fiction for thermal dynamics engineer Konrad Rykaczewski.
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How does spice work in Dune?

Spice is used as an entheogen by the Bene Gesserit, a powerful order of women who oversee and influence humanity throughout the universe; the spice gifts them with clairvoyance and other heightened abilities that mimics witchcraft. The Fremen also have these abilities due to their massive exposure.
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How do they get water in Dune?

To obtain as much water as they need to survive, the Fremen have developed stillsuits to prevent the body from losing more than a thimble's moisture a day. Their people show their loyalty to their tribe by sharing the bond of water. They even strain their dead to salvage the water from the cadaver.
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How do Fremen clean themselves?

The native Fremen in the desert must wear “stillsuits” that recycle every drop of sweat and urine while they travel or work in the spice mines. When someone dies, the water is taken from the body to be reused, because 70% of the body is water.
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What are water rings in Dune?

Water Rings were metallic counters that represented the volume of water released by a body of a dead Fremen processed through a deathstill. They were manufactured in denominations ranging from 50 liters to 1/32 of a drachm (a drachm being 1/150 of a liter).
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Why are there no guns in Dune?

Also some knives, like the Fremen's crysknife, is a sacred object. Crysknives are taked from the teeth of the great sandworm, giving them an extra oomph of honor and religious prestige. So that's why there are “no” guns in Dune. It's because it's smarter, and objectively cooler, to fight in close quarters.
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Why do Paul Atreides eyes turn blue?

The Dune trailer shows that Paul spends an extended period of time on Arrakis as he helps Chani protect the planet, meaning his blue eyes are a symptom of either ingesting the drug for power or consistently breathing in enough on Arrakis that he has a constant state of activity from Spice.
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Is Paul allergic to spice?

Chani can smell spice on Paul and wonders if it is an allergy, but Jessica says those tests were negative. Chani asks if they have makers with them, and Jessica confirms it, saying that each battle needs a blessing. Chani knows that Paul does not partake of the spice drug, and asks for the unchanged Water from a maker.
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Why do Fremen have blue eyes?

The Fremen, the main inhabitants of Arrakis, consume spice regularly (it's a central ingredient in food on the planet), and are essentially dependent on the substance. Prolonged exposure to spice is the reason all of the Fremen have blue-on-blue eyes.
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Why do they wear nose plugs in dune?

Urine and feces are processed in the thigh pads. In the open desert, you wear this filter across your face, this tube in the nostrils with these plugs to ensure a tight fit.
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How do Stillsuits work Subnautica?

The Stillsuit conserves and filters the player's bodily fluids, resulting in drinkable Reclaimed Water being added to the inventory, assuming there is space for it. Drinking Reclaimed Water restores 20 H2O points at a cost of -3 Food.
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What did Leto say Dune?

5 “If Anything Happens, Will You Protect Our Son?” - Duke Leto Atreides.
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Why is Arrakis called Rakis?

Arrakis, also known as "Dune", and later "Rakis" after the fall of God Emperor Leto Atreides II, is a harsh desert planet located on the far edge of the Old Imperium in the Canopus star system.
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Do they drink blood in Dune?

So in short, no. The Fremen were not cannibals per se although they do drink the water that's contained in the bodies of their friends and foes alike.
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