How Dune's Stillsuits Could Become a Reality

How Dune's Stillsuits Could Become a Reality | WIRED

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In 'Dune,' inhabitants of the desert planet wear full-body stillsuits for their survival. These stillsuits capture moisture and recycle it into drinking water. Jacqueline West and Bob Morgan, costume designers on 'Dune,' explain how they approached designing the suits for the film.
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@bryanroymilloria5049 2 жыл бұрын

This movie looked futuristic and ancient at the same time.

@colindavis2031 2 жыл бұрын

that is exactly what frank herbert wanted when writing the book

@itsmecaldo 2 жыл бұрын

Then you got the point :D

@codename495 2 жыл бұрын

That’s what the original novel series intended.

@violet-beck 2 жыл бұрын

Denis Villeneuve captured Herbert's vision perfectly!!!

@ExtremeMadnessX 2 жыл бұрын

Futuristic feudalism basically...

@spamreciever4208 2 жыл бұрын

The important thing to know about the universe in Dune is that it's a universe that has advanced in technology, regressed sharply, then advanced again more than once.

@HenningGu 2 жыл бұрын

I hate how fast Dune left the theaters for James Bond here because I wanted to watch it again. And on anything except the biggest screen just won't cut it.

@bagasaperdana 2 жыл бұрын

Imax gang unite

@AutomaticHumanoid28 2 жыл бұрын

Not even released where I live until December. So be luck you got to see it

@Mrchair-bk5ns 2 жыл бұрын

I hate how I couldn't watch the musical "Annette" because they were making room for other films. Same.

@Mrchair-bk5ns 2 жыл бұрын

@@bK2pa I don't think that you can put Dune and No Time To Die in the same level of appeal especially since Dune is an epic with arthouse sensibilities and No Time To Die is a typical blockbuster film.

@tshmn 2 жыл бұрын

Agreed! Went to see it twice in two different countries, first in IMAX and on smaller screen, and last one just wasn’t good enough

@mattsimon931 2 жыл бұрын

Watched the movie last night, and by the start of the first few scenes, I knew the costume department is going to win awards for this movie.

@machdude3366 2 жыл бұрын

A large part of Stillsuits is that they are designed to function in the desert. That should be all the energy you need. By incorporating thermodynamic elements into the suit, the sun and sand is basically a large battery that you can use to power some of the other functions of the stillsuit as well. You just need a really efficient way to incorporate it into the water filtration and cooling system.

@davidbolha Жыл бұрын

Peltier element ? 🤔

@Jadorelainie 2 жыл бұрын

You're telling me someone at NASA was enjoying Batmam so much, that they said this customs are sick, get me this man to do ours?! I beg your pardon? That's amazing!

@tannerabbott1452 2 жыл бұрын

*SpaceX. Elon Musk really is pretty cool at times

@maxw.5742 2 жыл бұрын

sounds like a waste of tax payers' money but ... go off ig? maybe the housing crisis coudlve been addressed lol orrrr the prominent racism backing the 'war on drugs'

@kaimargonar1000 2 жыл бұрын

@@maxw.5742 Aren't there other branch of the Government responsible for that?

@Oddi0 2 жыл бұрын

@@maxw.5742 Oh, get off it. NASA only gets like a tenth of one percent of the annual federal budget. It's grossly underfunded despite continuously showing the greatest returns on investments - scientifically and financially - of any government organization.

@richardjohnson9543 2 жыл бұрын

I found it fascinating that they hired someone who'd worked on the 80s and 90s Batman movies to design the stillsuits. Bob Ringwood, who designed the stillsuits for the 1984 Dune, also designed Michael Keaton's batsuit for the 1989 Batman. It's cool to see that link continuing and if you think about it, a modified stillsuit could be useful for a would be superhero

@superguy7044 2 жыл бұрын

That makes sense, the black rubber look reminded me of the batman suit when it gets dust on it. Like the one with riddler and batman is buried under sand.

@citizen-7xl5 2 жыл бұрын

The great thing about science fiction that given time it can become science fact

@josephbrennan370 2 жыл бұрын

I am still waiting for teleportation.

@normandrolland 2 жыл бұрын

@@josephbrennan370 Ah! I’m still waiting for flying cars. 😀

@kelvin7019 2 жыл бұрын

@@normandrolland helicopters? Also, there currently is no reason to spend massive amounts of dough on a completely useless alternative to the conventional non flying car

@Gadget-Walkmen 2 жыл бұрын

For some things like this suit yeah, but for some others things it can only be imaginary like going back in time. Not seeing how that'a physically possible at all.

@mhazg6621 2 жыл бұрын

Sci-Fi is *CRIMINALLY* underrated

@ShapedByMusic 2 жыл бұрын

“I don’t think it’s thermodynamically possible” titles the video “how stillsuits are still possible”

@SCRandall 2 жыл бұрын

Gotta get those clicks somehow, I guess.

@koransumant6270 2 жыл бұрын

Honestly depends on the materials we can create. Obviously not powered completely by human motion, but definitely at least 20% can be provided I believe

@joolian4763 2 жыл бұрын

@@koransumant6270 couldn't they supplement the needed energy with solar power and maybe a battery?

@clownboyyyy 2 жыл бұрын

it would need an external power source i think is the main complaint

@ClydeShaffer 2 жыл бұрын

I assumed the human body power was for pumping the water around the suit, rather than for actually distilling it. Solar stills already exist as a technique for purifying water, and given the intense sunlight that hits Arrakis it should totally be feasible for the water in a pouch on your body to evaporate and then get collected in another pouch.

@kahrnivor 2 жыл бұрын

Well the year in Dune is 10,000 and change so in the next eight thousand years there will be considerable advancements

@markuslechner4800 2 жыл бұрын

Yes 10.000 AG in the Dune Timeline. But in our Timeline Dune takes place 20.000 years in the future.

@zeroasphyxia 2 жыл бұрын

Remember, we have a Technology called "Graphene"

@bursegsardaukar 2 жыл бұрын

The space station would be considered a still tent.

@kelvin7019 2 жыл бұрын

An extremely ancient space tent, yes. Probably prehistoric

@AED_wrath 2 жыл бұрын

Makes me realize the influence this book probably had on video games nowadays, crazy

@MollyHJohns 2 жыл бұрын

Also the sci-fi genre in filmmaking since the book series' existence

@Oddi0 2 жыл бұрын

In Subnautica you can actually make and wear a stillsuit!

@mjisurdad 2 жыл бұрын

It Influenced Star Wars and lots of other stuff

@mikes252 2 жыл бұрын

Also factor in the Dune universe is 8000 years in the future so the suit powering the system is possible with movement powered generator units. The reality is that urine is around 95% water and the rest is a mix of salts and mostly Urea which is essentially ammonia compounds, breaking down the urea to release the ammonia and nitrogen into the air removes the bad smell and taste and lowering the salt content makes it safer too. Urea can be broken down and removed in several simple processes and filters could remove the salt. In the books the Fremen usually travel a few days in the open desert usually at nights. But also carry fresh water with them to suppliment the small losses in the suits. Also their diets could affect the quality of the urine and sweat and 8000 years of adaptation they could have fairly clean efficient digestive systems.

@justsaiyansteve 2 жыл бұрын

Gamers would buy it and never leave their chairs. He he

@davidmcrae4791 2 жыл бұрын

all the architecture in this movie is so surreal and futuristic looking, but also so natural looking.

@punkressph1 2 жыл бұрын

My bet for Oscars for costume design would be between Dune and Cruella

@thekinginyellowmessiahofha6308 2 жыл бұрын

Dune did better imo

@kitirena_koneko 2 жыл бұрын

I'd be willing to bet that someone invents a real-life stillsuit within twenty to thirty years at most, given the technologies developed since the Space Race of the 1960s.

@Jonathan-ex3sl 2 жыл бұрын

I would bet there’s already a DARPA program researching it

@Vsn24 Жыл бұрын

The way I imagine it working is having something like one of those foot pedals you use to launch toy rockets in the air in your heels. As you walk you push air up the tubes which brings your fluid up through something like those Life Straws that filters it into drinkable water to catch pockets that are made out of fabric that holds in water but lets the air escape so you don't blow the suit up like a balloon.

@AFreeThinkingDawg09 2 жыл бұрын

Really hoping this was just part 1 in a long epic. Very well done! Movie looks aesthetically amazing!

@amiciprocul8501 2 жыл бұрын

What I learned is that being in Space would suuuuuuck.

@koransumant6270 2 жыл бұрын

Ohhh yeah.

@elasina 2 жыл бұрын

Can’t believe they drink urine

@koransumant6270 2 жыл бұрын

@@elasina well it's filtered out so it's fine...

@MachoToast-lg2bc 2 жыл бұрын

If Dune doesn’t get the Oscar for costume design then the academy failed

@OblivionGameplays 2 жыл бұрын

Said same thing

@kylebear8101 2 жыл бұрын

The same with Lamb getting best foreign film

@bkdans8 2 жыл бұрын

look it up - this costume desinger did not create this design

@MattGarcyaDC 2 жыл бұрын

its been failed

@meldroc 2 жыл бұрын

Adding to the problem. It's so hot on Arrakis that your stillsuit would also have to be a walking refrigerator. On the bright side, solar power is easy on Arrakis. Maybe stillsuits come with battery-operated cooling, pumping, distilling, & filtering hardware. Stillsuits probably have solar cells built into the outermost layers wherever possible, and possibly a folding solar array so the user can recharge during the hottest part of the day (when you want to be hunkering down anyway).

@LeCatte 2 жыл бұрын

I think what you're describing is a stillsuit that is made with our current/future tech. highly probable that if we ever made stillsuits, it would function in a similar way you described. Solar panels on the suit would have to be really efficient, as there isn't much space on them. Solar panel efficiency is going up so its possible. possibly the suit itself would have some sort or battery pack to keep all the stored energy, in the backpack unit with the distilling equipment, possible seeing how our cellphone battery tech is improving, as well as new materials for batteries coming in the near future.

@Ass_of_Amalek 2 жыл бұрын

how does the suit recondense the sweat without overheating the wearer?

@susannaharnhart4910 2 жыл бұрын

For the stilsuits, they use the movement of the body as an engine to pump the process

@NotHPotter 2 жыл бұрын

As far as I recall, that isn't actually addressed in the book.

@urvagrawal2358 2 жыл бұрын

Yes exactly

@dubstep101angu 2 жыл бұрын

Magic

@pauly260 2 жыл бұрын

I do see a stillsuit as possible, just without waste processing functionality. Recycling sweat seems possible. I see a possibility of a shirt that keeps the wearer cool & providing water possible in three years that could make running a marathon through the Mojave possible with one Camelback full of water.

@kylebear8101 2 жыл бұрын

But to be honest, sweat has too much salt in it. As well as other waste. For real, if you don’t pee waste out, you sweat it out! 😳

@NotHPotter 2 жыл бұрын

As much as I loved this book back in the day, the stillsuits themselves are going to take a lot more cleverness to address the fact that they're interfering with the body's natural evaporative cooling in its collection of waste water. We're not sweating just for fun.

@JulesD92 2 жыл бұрын

You didnt read the Book properly then. Its clearly explained that the Sweat evaporates and cools the Body even with the stillsuit on.

@NotHPotter 2 жыл бұрын

@@JulesD92 That's not how physics works. If it evaporates but remains within the system, then the heat it is supposed to carry away transfers back to the suit when it condenses, and the overall amount of heat in the system only continues to increase. You can either lose the heat with the water, or you keep the water and the heat.

@jeff3696 2 жыл бұрын

not sure if the current specs / state of materials would do the trick, there most usuredley will be suits such as these one day but I feel like it will take a few years and some significant advances in materials first.

@remyazharyyosef1811 2 жыл бұрын

Singapore is already recycling water and desalinate seawater for drinking. Oh heck, give them the Oscars already.

@dominikweber4305 2 жыл бұрын

For some reason i always imagined them like white jumpsuits, but the variant in the movie looks also really cool

@rajat.2 2 жыл бұрын

White makes more sense, it'll reflect more heat than a darker colour

@cutuecus1366 2 жыл бұрын

But when it’s night it’s really cold, so it good to have a colour that both reflects and absorbs a decent bit of heat

@helmeston 2 жыл бұрын

Having drank my big coke too early in the movie, I sure was wishing I could have one of these.

@niksatt4843 2 жыл бұрын

I've been hoping for this for decades

@jacknochill6086 Жыл бұрын

Stillsuits and ornithopter are the coolest things I saw on movies.

@MartyD 2 жыл бұрын

can’t wait for this movie!

@rmannayr2129 2 жыл бұрын

IT ACTUALLY LOOKS REALLY WELL DONE!

@nicolasdoblado259 2 жыл бұрын

Now that I see it again, the Sardaukar suit looks very similar to the Space X suit

@justmikachannel 2 жыл бұрын

We need still suits as merchs

@germany456 2 жыл бұрын

hopefully out in space theres people like this, best movie ever

@koolerpure 2 жыл бұрын

i can see these suits or something like it existing one day but i see it more on the scale of powered suits like halo or some other sci-fi like amour. the talos suit the US military has will evolve as new technologies are developed and with the idea of humans going to mars one day it would be the beginning of wanting a protective suit someone could survive in while exploring hazardous environments

@tegoshiyu 2 жыл бұрын

Costume are amazing. So beautiful

@hardluck7769 2 жыл бұрын

Where do I get one ??

@traebest3046 2 жыл бұрын

I’d definitely wear a stillsuit on the strip in LA

@kylebear8101 2 жыл бұрын

SAME! I honestly wanted to do Fallout New Vegas cosplay in Vegas too…

@rikkiwatson3927 2 жыл бұрын

How would you expel human body heat? The only effective way would be powered venting but then how would the skin breathe?

@theBG2016 2 жыл бұрын

in the book you sweat normally and the suit wicks the heat away and collects the water, they describe being inside a stillsuit to feel like a light moist breeze is running over your body

@mikes252 2 жыл бұрын

Evaporative heat removal by sweating is very efficient, in the suit our body would sweat and the heat would transfer into the wicking layer of the suit and be carried away, probably in a stillsuit it would have a radiator system in it for that. Plus in the books most Fremen travelled at night so the suit would also regulate temperature as deserts often go below freezing at night.

@carlosdelossantos5115 2 жыл бұрын

when the dune music kicks in

@jacobthompson1682 2 жыл бұрын

Space catalysts that's all we are missing lol.

@zacmarulo8721 2 жыл бұрын

So if solar panels were installed on the stillsuits could they be feasible then?

@gaigejones3947 2 жыл бұрын

Yall better come up with these quick! I live an az and it only getting hotter!

@germany456 2 жыл бұрын

i would love to wear these suits, this movie was so good

@dozhadeville444 2 жыл бұрын

What happens something smashes into the SAT??

@rmannayr2129 2 жыл бұрын

DUNE WAS AWESOME! ONE OF THE BEST MOVIES THIS YEAR!

@danielson1792 10 ай бұрын

Read the books they are amazing

@Veronica.John10-10 2 жыл бұрын

This sounds like Christian Slater. Now you can't un-hear it 😊

@ryanjones4917 2 жыл бұрын

This video makes me want to see the movie.

@jordanzig4563 2 жыл бұрын

Yesterday’s urine is tomorrow’s coffee is immediate barf

@machdude3366 2 жыл бұрын

It seems like a funny joke until you realize how old the concept is. Urine is also technically drinkable (don't do this by the way unless you are dying of thirst) and you aren't getting water in these places for a long time.

@alissonvert3552 2 жыл бұрын

looks like something hamcus would make

@erockromulan9329 2 жыл бұрын

Plenty of solar energy to be captured to make up for the thermodynamic difference.

@piratehunter1 11 ай бұрын

I actually have a idea for a new age eva suit like this. inner pressure suit is basically a skin tight still suit that could not only collect their waste water but also help keep them cool/warm by pumping said water throughout the suit. Not a engineer at all...just have a funny brain :)

@She-gribble 2 жыл бұрын

6:05 truueee

@JKSJKS1 2 жыл бұрын

So good

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@vertemouse1156 Жыл бұрын

I don't appreciate how Part 1 concealed the fact that they're defecating in those suits. That's a harsh reality of recycling water in real life, whether it's a space shuttle or a water treatment plant.

@charlesco7413 2 жыл бұрын

So a tree basically wears a stillsuit? Why then, cant we simply copy a tree's vascular system? Ho do they draw liquid all the way up, high into their boughs. Or perhaps its the filtration technology that we just cant quite fabricate? So we would die of septic poisoning. Also it would seem more logical and efficient to transfer the fluids into the body via I.V rather than drink it?

@nexusartemis5599 2 жыл бұрын

Cause it's hard?

@JB-wl7jx 2 жыл бұрын

Trees are too affected by outside factors to have a consistent water supply especially in a desert like conditions where no trees are native too

@BHCha- 2 жыл бұрын

Loved this movie

@pamagee2011 2 жыл бұрын

The stillsuits looked better in the David Lynch film. Probably the only thing that I thought looked good in that version

@davidbolha Жыл бұрын

Indeed.

@b.chuchlucious5471 Ай бұрын

Incredible science fiction and illusion!

@RandomU5erName 2 жыл бұрын

Our precious bodily fluids

@sabrineessid7402 2 жыл бұрын

Haha

@NotHPotter 2 жыл бұрын

Purity of essence.

@politicalaccountabletheory768 2 жыл бұрын

Don't drink the coffee on a space station

@somebrid2147 2 жыл бұрын

I mean they explained them pretty well in the movie but aight.

@juanfernandez1696 2 жыл бұрын

Just put a solar panel on it for power.

@tshmn 2 жыл бұрын

yeah they really could use that to power the city

@sjjas7271 2 жыл бұрын

this is way too cool

@RizztrainingOrder 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve never seen someone so excited by recycling urine…..

@Hahahahaaahaahaa 2 жыл бұрын

The hollywood mindset that star actors (in this and other iterations) have to have their full face visible all the time really kills the immersion for me. The idea that Paul would just leave his face, hair and eyes open in every scene is so ridiculous, and I have to imagine these two know it, but were told by people above their paygrade that fans need to see Chalamet's button nose whenever possible or they'd lose money.

@gretaweiss6802 2 жыл бұрын

5:41. But I do know what you’re saying.

@aselrahc 2 жыл бұрын

So add a battery. :)

@djohnson0753 2 жыл бұрын

I mean the idea is similar to what astronauts are doing where they recycle moisture in everything

@deviltownshades3653 2 жыл бұрын

Sick

@kit3sch 2 жыл бұрын

I wish you have 10m sud

@forgetfulstranger 2 жыл бұрын

Next video: the broken Arabic of Dune

@shanek6582 2 жыл бұрын

Why can’t they take water with them in camelbaks

@invaderhaywire 2 жыл бұрын

Technically they do. Its just bigger and more spread out along the suit.

@user-zl7sv6go3p 2 жыл бұрын

They can't keep getting new water because it is too rare/expensive

@bramvanduijn8086 2 жыл бұрын

Because they'd quickly run out of water. There's no rain on Arrakis, no rivers, no lakes, not even seas. There is nowhere they could get large amounts of fresh water every day.

@TheSkullConfernece Жыл бұрын

I mean hey, they're stillsuits, though.

@shankyf1 2 жыл бұрын

And the Oscar goes to......

@laytonkranack9585 2 жыл бұрын

I’m not going anywhere I can go go with my friends if you

@giamfamilysimplesandbox2701 2 жыл бұрын

Nose ring lol how

@Shinzon23 2 жыл бұрын

It's not a nose-ring it's enables them to breathe in and out of a filter that make sure that they don't lose moisture through breathing out

@raphlvlogs271 2 жыл бұрын

star wars was heavily inspired by dune.

@maemae7063 2 жыл бұрын

Dune Stillsuits is one of kind while Squid Game jersey and custom drive people crazy.

@Dr.Harvey 2 жыл бұрын

Stillsuits are thermodynamically impossible. It's easy to prove with school-grade physics. Stop sheer clickbaiting.

@susanalopez9176 2 жыл бұрын

😮

@rivvin8387 2 жыл бұрын

Yum

@dbsthumper 7 ай бұрын

my BIG question,since these suits recycle waste,do they SMELL?!!!

@jamallaidley4718 2 жыл бұрын

Nice 🤭

@cee164 2 жыл бұрын

be cool but probably couldnt afford it anyways if they were real

@ClydeShaffer 2 жыл бұрын

1:56 amogus

@kodekodak9298 2 жыл бұрын

this is brutely a click bait

@MultiSteveB 2 жыл бұрын

5:37 "I don't think it's thermodynamically possible to do what they're doing in the suits." - James Broyan, NASA Technologist

@noscope1244 2 жыл бұрын

Third

@mileshalocke7514 2 жыл бұрын

Wow first

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@razorfett147 2 жыл бұрын

This is one of the few places where i preferred the 84 films incarnation better. In that film the still suits seemed like a real, functioning, yet used tech. There are too many shots in the new movie where the still suits look like costumes. I get that they wanted them to look a bit simpler, but i dont feel like the materials they used were a good choice. Too much plastics.

@gagalover2k10 2 жыл бұрын

The stillsuits In the 2021 version didn’t look plastic. Like, at all lmao

@razorfett147 2 жыл бұрын

@@gagalover2k10 the outer webbing details certainly did, particularly in the harsh lighting. They weren't badly done in the new film, they just didnt feel as organic and practical as the 84 versions

@gagalover2k10 2 жыл бұрын

@@razorfett147 eh, we’ll agree to disagree

@razorfett147 2 жыл бұрын

@@gagalover2k10 oof. Just realized i wrote "were badly done" instead of "weren't badly done" My bad 😄

@noscope1244 2 жыл бұрын

No fifth