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Sandworm size chart (lemmy.ca)

submitted 7 months ago by lautan@lemmy.ca to c/sciencefiction@lemmy.world

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[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

So, the sarlacc. The bits of it we see in the movies, are its mouth (the pit with the spiky stuff,) and its (apparently beaked) tongue.

The sarlacc is probably quite a bit larger. (Maybe not dune sand worm big.)

[–] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

How do sarlaccs multiply? They are not very mobile, so I assume some sort of pollen/spore situation. So it's "mouth" might also be it's genitals

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 7 months ago

The wiki says spores. Good guess!

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

I dunno. I’d have to either be spores or parthenogenesis. Given their size they can’t be that common,

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I would guess it's exactly Dune sandworm big, in that it's taken from Dune directly. Almost certainly it started as the same creature.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I’d say not, because they’re apparently large enough that a Krayt dragon can fit into the cavity left behind after eating one. That thing was maybe not as long as a sandstorm, but definitely as chubby

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well, that's information made up after they appeared on screen first. I guess it depends on what we're talking about. Talking about the very first appearance, just a mouth in the sand, that's 100% a Dune sandworm with a different name. Some time after that more detail was added to the world that differentiated it from that.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Last I checked Sandworms didn’t have:

a tongue, beaked or otherwise,
a bunch of tentacles that could grab and pull food in
an apparent inability to move

If you’re going to generalize that much, to say they’re the same… does it really matter? It’s not like Herbert didn’t add to sandworm cannon either; so further explanations to what a sarlacc even is shouldn’t be discounted either.

I wouldn’t even call a sarlacc a worm, to be honest.