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He's comparing things like known sand on earth, to make-believe drum sand on make-believe planet called Arrakis. He thinks he's being smart, but he's really just being obtuse.
To be fair, if you define “sand” as being silicate particles of a given size, you would expect it to behave similarly in similar conditions.
Sure, I’m nothing to let it get in the way of my enjoyment… but to be honest, part of my enjoyment of Star Trek is ragging on terrible science and engineering. (Sorry, but for example most federation ships do not appear to have their CoGravity line with the CoThrust. How much fuel do you think they wasted keeping the enterprise flying straight?)
Do we know how the addition of melange affects the properties of silicate particles?
That could be a fun debate and would be in the spirit of the Colbert interview.
Yes. Melange is the handwavium of Dune, so however Herbert wanted it to.
Well, there ya go!