From the earth to the moon
by Jules Verne · first published 1924
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"From the Earth to the Moon" by Jules Verne. The scientific description of how to launch a "rocket" (well, projectile really) and ultimately get stuck in lunar orbit (spoiler) is surprisingly accurate given its publishing date of…
on “Science Fiction Stories with Good Astronomy and Physics: A Topical Index” ↗Jules Verne was/is inspiring. I also recall enjoying From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon. Cryptonomicon felt like work but Snow Crash and The Diamond Age were breezy yet interesting and perspective-changing.
on “Ask HN: What book had a big impact on you as a child or teenager?” ↗Remarkably, a spot in the close vicinity of Cape Canaveral was chosen by Jules Verne as the launch site for the moon travelers in his 1867 book From the Earth to the Moon.
on “NASA, SpaceX set May 27 as target date for first crew launch” ↗>I'm sure that a century ago, space was just something we would never reach. Far from it! From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne was written in 1865, and was a reasonable attempt at hard sci-fi. More scientifically, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky published "Exploration of Cosmic Space by Means of Reaction Devices" in 1903,…
on “US urged to reveal UFO evidence after claim that it has intact alien vehicles” ↗Fiction plays a fundamental role in shaping the direction of our efforts. For instance, Jules Verne's "From the Earth to the Moon" planted the seed for the Apollo Program. As Asimov's work on the laws of robotics planted a seed to inspire future AI development. Edit: To better make my point, "Robert Manning used to make cardboard…
on “Building the USS Enterprise over the next 20 years” ↗$ man bash | wc 5375 41026 312785 "From the Earth to the Moon" by Jules Verne has 39,985 words
on “Show HN: A fix for the .bash_profile .bashrc .profile madness” ↗Here is a related question that has bothered me for some time: in Jules Verne's "From the Earth to the Moon" (1865), he writes the travelers as only achieving weightlessness for a small moment, at just the point where the moon's gravity exactly cancels out the earths gravity. This makes an intuitive kind of…
on “Myth: The astronauts didn’t float away because they had heavy boots” ↗What about a buried rail gun, as a less explosive version of the columbiad in Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon? You'd step on to a circular platform, get slowly lowered into the barrel, then shot into the sky, where the wings would open :)
on “Larry Page’s Flying Taxis, Now Exiting Stealth Mode” ↗Does Copenhagen Suborbitals reminds anyone a bit of "The Gun Club" in Jules Verne's "From Earth To The Moon"? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon)
on “Why the US can beat China: The Facts about SpaceX Costs” ↗Another terribly interesting sci-fi author was Jules Verne. He made many predictions about the future in several of his works. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_in_the_Twentieth_Century#...
on “Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Future in 1964 … And Kind of Nails It” ↗…imperial bent. There was a time when British literature certainly did. Read Kipling's tales of India under the Raj. There were periods when American literature did. Jules Verne goes over the top on that in "From the Earth to the Moon". Eisenhower's "Crusade in Europe" took that path. But now? Not so much. The bent in serious American literature today seems to be guilt. Serious books have to be about racism, sexism, gay problems,…
on “Divine Indigestion: The endlessly fabulized American self” ↗You know, a theme of From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne is the longstanding rivalry between weapon makers and armor makers. 150 years after it was written, that bit still seems to hold true.
on “Shaped Charges – Sheet of copper going through 1ft of solid steel (2010) [video]” ↗…get along even when asking it to create multiple characters engaged in a conflict. (Or perhaps that's just an artefact of it estimating that I want that). Reminds me — in a bad way — of Jules Verne's From The Earth to the Moon.
on “Certified 100% AI-Free Organic content” ↗…Tsiolkovsky developed his rocket equation in 1903 and in 1928 he published The Will of Universe dedicated to space colonisation. He clearly new it’s within reach of human mind. Jules Verne published From the Earth to the Moon and given that his works are some early examples of science fiction and not a pure fantasy, one could say even Verne envisioned space travels as possible.
on “US urged to reveal UFO evidence after claim that it has intact alien vehicles” ↗I long used Verne's "From the Earth to the Moon: A Direct Route in 97 Hours, 20 Minute" as evidence that privately funded space flight isn't so unimaginable. In that case by the Baltimore Gun Club. Then there is The Man Who Sold the Moon by Heinlein…
on “Machine conquest: Jules Verne's technocratic worldmaking” ↗