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A review by ghaalibking
From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne
5.0
I don't even know where to begin with this insane peice of writing.
The book itself is fairly technical, as to the mechanics of accomplishing the journey to the moon, but I cannot stress how fantastically scary, fun and mind-boggling it is to see how close he got to how it would truly play out almost a century after he wrote this.
Keep in mind that when he wrote this, there wasn't even such a thing as an airforce, let alone a space program! However, he predicted or guessed mostly all the major aspects.
Compared to the actually moon launch, he got the location of the launch right, he got the cost of the project right (accounting for inflation), he got the size of the crew correct...he even got the material of the shuttle correct! He predicted that the capsule would be made of aluminium!!!! A meterial that is still used today for very much the same reasons as we're stated by him in the book.
It's all so fantastical. Almost seems like he's traveled back in time just to give us something to scratch our heads over.
Great read!
The book itself is fairly technical, as to the mechanics of accomplishing the journey to the moon, but I cannot stress how fantastically scary, fun and mind-boggling it is to see how close he got to how it would truly play out almost a century after he wrote this.
Keep in mind that when he wrote this, there wasn't even such a thing as an airforce, let alone a space program! However, he predicted or guessed mostly all the major aspects.
Compared to the actually moon launch, he got the location of the launch right, he got the cost of the project right (accounting for inflation), he got the size of the crew correct...he even got the material of the shuttle correct! He predicted that the capsule would be made of aluminium!!!! A meterial that is still used today for very much the same reasons as we're stated by him in the book.
It's all so fantastical. Almost seems like he's traveled back in time just to give us something to scratch our heads over.
Great read!