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[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 38 points 7 months ago

Once they're fully grown their digestive system resembles a nuclear reactor more than a stomach and they eat literally anything and can get energy out it. Even sand.

[-] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 7 months ago

I think sandworms can get big enough to hear their own noise and try to eat themselves. Just deep desert stuff

[-] Meh@hexbear.net 33 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I heard of a sandworm that had one of its ring segments surgically removed so that it could eat its own tail

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 18 points 7 months ago

dang that's wild

[-] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 7 months ago

Wouldn't surprise me if it was the god emperor

[-] jayWL@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 months ago

How did this myth spread to every teenage Fedaykin's sietch?

[-] SSJ2Marx@hexbear.net 29 points 7 months ago

But like, if you're standing on a rock or something, you're safe.

[-] DyingOfDeBordom@hexbear.net 29 points 7 months ago

they're not called rockworms

[-] Xx_Aru_xX@hexbear.net 20 points 7 months ago

Floor is lava

[-] Crowtee_Robot@hexbear.net 28 points 7 months ago

TIL my dog is a sandworm.

[-] EnsignRedshirt@hexbear.net 26 points 7 months ago

I assume they get most of their nutrition from filtering stuff out of the sand, like baleen whales scooping krill out of the ocean, and humans are just their favorite treats. They can’t get enough of those delicious, delicious people, and who can blame them?

[-] DyingOfDeBordom@hexbear.net 15 points 7 months ago

they have so much water!

*water is poison

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 15 points 7 months ago

Sandworms are huge. Thars like drinking a light beer for them.

[-] huf@hexbear.net 15 points 7 months ago

i dont think they enjoy eating humans at all, they just do it to protect the spice sands (the colonies of their offspring)

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 19 points 7 months ago

she's beautiful

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 18 points 7 months ago

Look like worms, act like hippos.

[-] D61@hexbear.net 6 points 7 months ago

Somebody AI art a hippo tail wagging rappidly on the ass end of a sandworm... I dare you.

[-] Meh@hexbear.net 16 points 7 months ago

I want a worm god. I feel like it would simplify my life in many ways

[-] huf@hexbear.net 8 points 7 months ago

i think the best part would be that you'd get to use an awesome curse:

"Here's the way of it: 'Burning be on you, Atreides! You shall have no souls, nor spirits, nor bodies, nor shades nor magic nor bones, nor hair nor utterance nor words. You shall have no grave, nor house nor hole nor tomb. You shall have no garden, nor tree nor bush. You shall have no water, nor bread nor light nor fire. You shall have no children, nor family nor heirs nor tribe. You shall have no head, nor arms nor legs nor gait nor seed. You shall have no seats on any planet. Your souls shall not be permitted to come up from the depths, and they shall never be among those permitted to live upon the earth. On no day shall you behold Shai-Hulud, but you shall be bound and fettered in the nethermost abomination and your souls shall never enter into the glorious light for ever and ever.' That's the way of the curse, My Lady."

[-] Meh@hexbear.net 2 points 7 months ago

Maybe I need to get into laying curses as well

[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 8 points 7 months ago

"I like this idea about giant worms chasing you down because you made this wrong noise."

"Sand doesn't work like that."

"Oh, I've written a third of the book already and this mechanic is referenced a lot. This will be special sand."

[-] Aradina@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago

What else is a sandworm gonna do? Taxes?

[-] Xx_Aru_xX@hexbear.net 4 points 7 months ago

they use their balls wiggle to move, and their shaft to pick direction

[-] Stylistillusional@hexbear.net 4 points 7 months ago

My spirit animal. My backside is also like a nuclear furnace when I've had Chinese food.

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