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Comments on Namib Desert Beetle-based Dune Dew Collectors
They're not chromoplastic, but this new material could be used in Frank Herbert's dew collectors from Dune. (Read the complete story)

"is any trying to make slow glass i thought of a perment web cam how much storage is out there"
(joe e 6/20/2006 6:46:05 PM)
"well this inst just reminicent of the dew collecters but this sounds more like a material used in still suits of DUNE..."
(jeff 6/23/2006 9:16:56 AM)
"this might make a good candidate for a layer in a still suit. It would also be good for a coating inside of a wind trap, at the condensation point. "
(Walt 6/20/2007 6:32:07 PM)

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