Weakest thing to solo a Dune Sandworm without the usage of water?

[Radioactive Zombie]

I think we've had these before, but it's been a while.

1. Allowed to bring gear.
2. NOT allowed to bring gear.

As a side note, did they ever say exactly how much water is needed to kill a Sandworm? They eat people all the time and don't die...

[The MunchKING]

D&D guy to cut themselves out of the Sandworm? "Swallow whole" is a lot less useful of a power than "chew your food carefully".

(I was going to like to the OotS strip where they said that, but apparently it was one of the calendars.)

[grampagen]

I guess mild spoilers, but given this franchise has been around for a while, well.

I think we've had these before, but it's been a while.

1. Allowed to bring gear.
2. NOT allowed to bring gear.

As a side note, did they ever say exactly how much water is needed to kill a Sandworm? They eat people all the time and don't die...

In the books, a sandworm is submerged for an extended period of time in a river, but doesn't die right away. It rather lingers along quite a while and is described thrashing in agony as its flesh slowly melts from the exposure.

Of course, this specific worm is sort of an outlier where its species is concerned.

Anyway, we may be able to extrapolate some limits of the Sandworm by its behaviors:

1) It's able to burrow through sands, but would prefer not to drive through rock and stone, though its sheer mass shows it's not much of a deterrant if pressed.
2) Fremen are able to ride on sandworms using grappling hooks. They are able to do so by fastening these hooks on the edge of one of the many scales on their skin. A human is able to pull one of these scales up sufficiently enough that the worm, feeling grains of sand irritating it beneath this outer layer, will rotate upwards to move it out of the path of the sand, keeping the worm rider in a steady position.
3) As you mentioned, they eat people all the time...and the spice harvester crafts they came in with, and the surrounding desert. They're about 450 meters in length and larger than blue whales, so that mass is sort of insignificant to them, but noticable enough to garner their attentions.
4) In the Brian Herbert books - ymmv if they're canon if you're a purist - they've been ridden to exhaustion over a period of days.

...so one supposes a prepared Fremen with no respect for Shai-Hulud could just coast on a worm ride until it keels over.

[Sophicles]

Are the worms immune to diseases? If not, then the right virus or bacteria or even amoeba should be able to take one down, no?

So the weakest thing, I'd imagine, could just be like the T-virus from Resident Evil, or a Las Plagas parasite.

[The MunchKING]

Are the worms immune to diseases? If not, then the right virus or bacteria or even amoeba should be able to take one down, no?

It wouldn't be "Solo" at that point, as they would need billions of their ally germs.

[Sophicles]

It wouldn't be "Solo" at that point, as they would need billions of their ally germs.

Well they're all replicas of the same original virus...

If Multiple Man fought and beat an enemy, would he not be considered as having "solo'd" that enemy?

[Shellhead]

Lionel Jeffries (616).

[Beadle]

Lionel Jeffries (616).

Easily. Effortlessly.

[Beadle]

Wither (616)?

[Ptrvc]

Ma-Ti from Captain Planet maybe?

Assuming the Ring works on extraterrestrials.