The roots of science fiction

[insurgent]

http://purple.home.texas.net/etexts/

This is a small collection of public domain science fiction novels. The oldest is from 150 AD!

They're a very amusing read. What do you think? Must have required a lot of imagination from the authors - I mean, who could think of a voyage to the Moon in 150 AD? Do any of you know them already?

One of the first lunar landers as devised by Domingo Gonsales in 1638:

One can see that he wears clothes suitable for the long cold flight - one wonders why NASA spent so much money designing all that fancy equipment. And did they even try this design? I think not. They're wasting taxpayers' money, that's what they are.

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[insurgent]

*BUMP*

Aww... why don't people think this is funny?! Come on!

 

[WillJ]

Well, it wouldn't get you to the moon, but I bet if you used it to get around town it'd be a babe magnet.

 

[cgannon64]

Now if only there was a way to harness the birds' ****, it would be complete...

 

[The Last Conformist]

I promise you'd get more babes with a private jet.

 

[Gladi]

Why woulf it be so funny? People were always imaginative, geese powered spacecraft is not more ridiculous than little green men tending canals of Mars. BTW famous Cyrano de Bergerac was sci-fi author too.

 

[col]

About as feasible as Jules Verne's giant cannon firing a shell to the moon.

 

[The Last Conformist]

Supposedly, Iraqi was exploring the possibilities of getting things in orbit by cannon in the '80s.

 

[IglooDame]

Supposedly, Iraqi was exploring the possibilities of getting things in orbit by cannon in the '80s.

I thought their giant cannon was for the purpose of hyper-long-range artillery fire, presumably at Israel. Unless you mean that the things intended for orbit were bits of Jerusalem.