6 word story: Star Wars, Dune, Gone with Wind
6 word story: Star Wars, Dune, Gone with the Wind
There are certain diehard types of Star Wars fans who would like to see anything having to do with the prequels (Phantom Menace, Clone Wars, Revenge of the Sith) buried under the desert for eternity.
They may have lucked out. It appears that the set built in Tunisia for The Phantom Menace is eventually going to be swallowed by a barchan, a type of sand dune, that’s creeping forward at a rate of 50 feet a year, according to National Geographic’s Amanda Fiegi.
Dunes move, the Discovery Channel explains, by wind, which can pick up grains of sand once it reaches 15mph. When enough sand picks up and piles against something a dune starts to form and as it grows it eventually collapses and kind of folds over onto itself, building up again in the spot where it fell. They can swallow real villages whole. One imagines a fake village would be no match at all for the sandy earth out for a stroll.
The roll over would be too bad because Mos Espa, the Star Wars village, is a tourist magnet and tourist attractions bring money to the people who live near them. On the other hand...despite the prequel haters, what's to say a lot of fans wouldn't pay to unearth a genuine Star Wars village?
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