Dec 29, 2021
Could a Real-life Stillsuit Keep Us Alive on a Desert World?
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: space, sustainability
Could water-recycling suits help future astronauts survive on Mars?
It’s one of the most well-known pieces of speculative technology in science fiction: the Stillsuit.
As an essential feature of Frank Herbert’s Dune, the Stillsuit is the body-fluid recycling full-body suit worn by the Fremen of Arrakis, a technological adaptation to a desert world with almost no water but home to an extremely valuable resource that leads to human colonization of the barren planet.
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