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![]() There are several mentions of message cylinders in the Dune novels. The idea is that these metal cylinders are locked; the message tape itself typically corrodes quickly and becomes unreadable when exposed to air.
This does not seem to be one of the more highly developed technologies - many times, they are described has having been captured and read by the enemy. Uses minimic film.
Compare to the Message Cylinder (Message Bomb) from The Cosmic Cloud (1931) by Bruno H. Burgel, Argento-Platinoid Dispatch Box from Schachner and Zagat's 1931 story Venus Mines, Incorporated, the personal capsule from Foundation (1951) by Isaac Asimov, the single sheet molecule from Dorsal! (1960) by Gordon R. Dickson, truffle skins from The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965) by Philip K. Dick and the distrans from Dune (1965) by Frank Herbert. Comment/Join this discussion ( 1 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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