Some say that the “Dune” franchise revolves around the spice mone (A magical drug that enables interstellar trips), but true “dune” fans know that ownership revolves around sandworms. The huge worms that roam the desert planet of Arrakis are one thing of awe and beauty, a source of great opportunities and great fear. They can generate spice and they can be used As a provisional UberBut they can also eat you and they will not feel bad either.
If you want to control the worms, you need a tool the most: the thumper. A mechanical device generated by the Fremen, a little, will literally swallow the sand at a constant speed and make noises that radiate through kilometers of sand and put on the next worm. The worm will come to eat the thumper, but that’s okay; The Fremen who activated it will almost certainly move out of the way when it matters.
Why do the worms always come for the rackets? Because the rhythm in which they beat the sand gives the impression that it is a living being that makes noise and the living beings provide good worm elements. The underground worms are used to hearing random noises here or there, normally thanks to the wind, the sand throws around so that they know that they should switch off these natural noises. (It is like the extraterrestrials in “a quiet place” do not take care of chasing waterfalls or other natural sound sources.)
Thumpers are a brilliant tool created by the freme
In a sense, the rackets are the overall opponent of sandwalking technology, which Fremen has been teaching since childhood. To sandwalk, her steps mean irregularly to integrate yourself into the noise of the natural desert. The purpose of a monastery is not to join at all. Sometimes it is used to welcome a worm for a taxi wake; In other cases, it should hide the evidence of crimes that may have occurred at a certain point. And sometimes the little part of a trap; The Fremen can lure an enemy to a place just so that the enemy can get there and realize too late that the thumper was on the way, and a worm could devour it at any time.
There are many variations of rackets, although we cannot see many of them in the “Dune” books. There is a kind of thumper that is equipped with a candle. When the candle burns out, the monastery is triggered and attracts to attract worms. (The candle takes about an hour to burn, although it could be constructed so that they are burned longer or shorter.) In addition to a useful tool, rackers help how wise are the fremen. They do not have nearly as much access to technology as the factions of Harkonnens or Areidides, but they are able to build technology so effectively and complex. Combine the thumper technology with the Fremen’s Amazing StillSuit technologyAnd they have a group of people who are very clever as they live under all the sand.
And where did “Dune” goalkeeper Frank Herbert get the idea for racket? It is possible that the environmental clerk was inspired by The American Woodcock, a real bird that attracts worms with a very similar tactic over the ground. The bird’s approach is of course much smaller and smaller and smaller, but it is difficult not to remember the thugs when we see these sweet little boys stomp on the floor:
