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Going back to Jules Verne's scientific validity:
Remind me - wasn't his moon ship launched by - a gun?
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Yes
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Had no fuel?
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No, it had rockets for lunar landing and take off
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Crash landed on the Moon?
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No - thrown of course by earth's second satellite
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And found a viable ecology there?
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No
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Great science fiction, but not science.
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For 1865 it was great science - give the man a break!
In fact, most of what purports to be science fiction nowadays is about as scientific, being fantasy by another name. Bring back Asimov,Clarke, Niven, and Ian M.Banks!
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Niven pulls more fast ones than Verne ever did and has dated a lot faster.
Jon