What are the things in peoples 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.
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Why do they wear nose in Dune?

Breathing in through the mouth and out through the nose ensure moisture-rich air being exhaled was captured by the stillsuit and processed ensuring as little moisture as possible was lost through exhalation.
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What is on their faces in Dune?

A stillsuit is a full body suit worn in the open desert of the planet Arrakis that was designed to preserve the body's moisture.
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What are the tubes in Dune?

In Dune, stillsuit wearers are instructed to breathe in through their mouth and out through their nose, and any moisture from the exhale is captured by tubes attached to their nostrils.
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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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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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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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What did he breathe out in Dune?

It consisted of a false tooth with a cavity and false cap. The cavity was filled with poison gas. It was designed so that, when the bearer bit down hard on the cap and breathed out hard, the cap would break and the poison gas would be expelled into the immediate area.
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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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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.
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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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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 are Mentats lips red?

Mentats habitually drink “the Juice of Sapho,” a kind of hyper-coffee that increases their mental acuity twice over or more. Naturally, Sapho is addictive, and eventually it has the side effect of staining a user's lips an obvious red.
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Why is Jessica a concubine Dune?

Concubines were often taken by ruling members of Great Houses for companionship. This was considered an ideal practice when one wished for other Great Houses to think they were available for alliance through marriage. Duke Leto Atreides took the Lady Jessica as his concubine.
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What does Baron Harkonnen do to the boy?

In the scene from Dune I just referenced, a young slave boy is murdered by Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, a large, boil-covered monstrosity who wears a harness that allows him to float like a lethal balloon.
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How did Harkonnen survive the gas?

But grievously harmed Harkonnen escapes by air, by kicking the anti-gravity device he needs to move about into instant overdrive. ""He can switch it on and off. That's what makes him hover and and float in the room," Skarsgård says.
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How does Baron Harkonnen survive the poison tooth?

While speaking with an incapacitated Leto after the attack, the Baron is nearly killed by the poison gas released from Leto's tooth, but is able to survive since he had his shields up.
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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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Why do their eyes glow in Dune?

Herbert's novel states that blue eyes are a result of being addicted to spice. Perhaps not wanting to imply that an entire race is addicted to drugs, Villeneuve includes a scene explaining that the Fremen's eyes have turned blue simply because of their constant exposure to spice in the sands of Arrakis.
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Does Paul from Dune have powers?

Abilities and skills

Prescience: As the Kwisatz Haderach long sought out for by the breeding programme of the Bene Gesserit Order, Paul possessed a powerful ability to bridge space and time with prescient ability.
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Does Earth exist in Dune?

Remnants of Earth Exist Throughout the 'Dune' Universe

And later in the saga, Leto II, who is capable of the Bene Gesserit skill of exploring all the memories of his ancestors, will often spend lots of time reliving historically recognizable events from Earth.
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Why do soldiers in Dune fight with swords?

Humanity went back to close combat, where you fight with knives and blades because it's the only way you can kill someone through those shields. You can penetrate the shield slowly with the blade.” You can get a look at the shields in action when Paul and Gurney are sparring: Image: Dune/Warner Bros.
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Why are there no shields in Dune?

On Arrakis, a shield never lasted long because of the planet's conditions. A shield could only remain active for short periods because its harmonic vibrations would attract a sandworm.
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What do the worms in Dune eat?

Ordinarily, sandworms on Arrakis spend most of their time gobbling up sand that comprises the nearly endless dunes covering the planet. In doing so, they are able to feast on creatures known as sand plankton, microscopic creatures that devour leftover traces of the spice scattered across the Arrakeen sands.
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