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And they can use that energy in case the wind falls away, and the tide is coming up, and there is still a little bit of energy to reach the dunes and save their lives, because they are drowned very easily.
It says, well, there's the sea, there are dunes, and I'm here.
It got even more puzzling when we found dunes.
OK, so this is our movie of the equatorial region of Titan, showing these dunes.
These are dunes that are 100 meters tall, separated by a few kilometers, and they go on for miles and miles and miles.
There's hundreds, up to a 1,000 or 1,200 miles of dunes.
It's obviously a place which is very dry, or you wouldn't get dunes.
It would be something like what happens with sand dunes on a beach.
In principle, you could imagine to find sand dunes of any slope angle in a beach, and yet, the slope angles of sand dunes are typically around 30, 35 degrees.
As a result, the vast majority of sand dunes have slope angles around the critical value, near to collapse.
We also saw things like this: dunes, and what look to be, on the righthand side, wind-blown shadows.
You get sand dunes.
So let's make architectural sand dunes and a beach cabana.
As I said earlier, it looked very much like Earth, so you see sand dunes.
The dunes here move southward at a pace of around 600 meters a year.
Now, sand dunes cover only about one fifth of our deserts.
It provides a physical support structure for the trees, and it creates physical spaces, habitable spaces inside of the sand dunes.
Inside of the dunes we find shade.
Sand dunes are almost like ready-made buildings in a way.
So, we have a way of turning sand into sandstone, and then creating these habitable spaces inside of the desert dunes.
The desert is there, sand dunes, some small field.
They love Namibia for its beautiful dunes, that are even taller than the Empire State Building.
It is by comparison amateur looking, aimless pans left and right across the desert the kind of which you would expect from any German tourist equipped with a handycam, the camera left running from the window of a car picking up all kinds of meaningless images, wire fences, derelict buildings and patches of dirt going through the lens in haphazard order, intercut with shots of sand dunes.
"3 Men in White" director Willis Goldbeck's "Ten Tall Men" is a rip-snorting adventure in the Errol Flynn tradition about recklessly brave heroes and slimy villains running loose in the dunes.
Despite these minor failings it is a superb film, and even today you can wander the sand dunes of the River Daya (Compassion) in southeastern Orissa (formerly Kalinga) and experience the fullimagining of the Ashokan battlefield.
In the first Gulf war, this resulted in "rolling" sand dunes, sometimes ten meters high and several kilometers long, that covered roads and buildings.
The Egyptian defenses blocked the central highway across the Sinai with a fortified box containing powerful artillery and more than a hundred tanks, fronted by three parallel trench-lines manned by thousands of infantrymen and anchored on sand dunes and high ground at each end.
Sharon had his troops climb over the sand dunes to enter the trench lines at their top end and attack down their length – a simple maneuver that the Egyptians could have defeated had they not been pinned down by an artillery barrage and Israeli tanks firing directly at them.
The Egyptians’ tanks could still have counter-attacked, but they were engaged by an Israeli tank battalion that appeared from well behind the trench lines, having crossed supposedly impassable sand dunes.
Yet without his constant attention, the road map will run into the Middle East sand dunes that have already buried so many well-intentioned peace plans.