Jules Verne

[haukipesukone]

I just discovered he had a "lost novel" that was discovered in 1994, Paris in the Twentieth Century.
Article about it: http://www.depauw.edu/SFs/review_essays/taves71.htm

Especially that novel, I heard (haven't read it), seems to "predict" very well what's the world going to be. His other novels too seem to have a good idea of nature of the future.

Why is that? Was Verne simply a smart guy who figured it all out, did he have prophetic abilities, or maybe he had connections to those in the know?


All the modern things
Like cars and such
Have always existed
They've just been waiting in a mountain
For the right moment
Listening to the irritating noises
Of dinosaurs and people

The Modern Things by Björk

[supertzar]

I just got done reading Journey to the Center of the Earth aloud to my daughter. It seems to be a joke about the blustering Professor Hardwigg not understanding that the Earth is actually hollow like a bead and that he had traveled through to the interior surface. Of course, it's a joke on the reader, too. Only the very astute or those in the know would understand it.

[cafetimes1991]

I just got done reading Journey to the Center of the Earth aloud to my daughter. It seems to be a joke about the blustering Professor Hardwigg not understanding that the Earth is actually hollow like a bead and that he had traveled through to the interior surface. Of course, it's a joke on the reader, too. Only the very astute or those in the know would understand it.

Indeed!

[haukipesukone]

I just got done reading Journey to the Center of the Earth aloud to my daughter. It seems to be a joke about the blustering Professor Hardwigg not understanding that the Earth is actually hollow like a bead and that he had traveled through to the interior surface. Of course, it's a joke on the reader, too. Only the very astute or those in the know would understand it.

When was the Hollow Earth Theory invented? Are there ancient myths that are obviously connected to it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_earth

Hollow Earth is a belief that the planet Earth has a hollow interior and, possibly, a habitable inner surface. The hypothesis of a Hollow Earth has long been contradicted by overwhelming evidence, as well as by the modern understanding of planet formation, and the scientific community now dismisses the notion as pseudoscience.

Can anyone say whether the highlighted stuff is really true? (It's on Wikipedia, of course it's true...)

[localidiot]

Jules Verne was a very intelligent person, I would not be surprised that like Ray Bradbury he tried to make a future that followed as close as he could figure to how the world could evolve.
The accuracy he did so is amazing.

As for the highlighted stuff, off hand I know they use earthquakes to determine the consistency of the inside of the earth.
It's how they've arrived to it's composition.

[cafetimes1991]

See The Biggest Secret, everyone.

[ultimate]

See The Biggest Secret, everyone.
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