THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON by Jules Verne

[bayne]

richardburton said:

His is supplied by Mars Telecom, so it's decent enough. He doesn't tend to download much of that Martian porn anymore, so its not so much of a problem anyway

It's a varient of adsl that streams coded data in a laser beam through the crystal egg. Unfortunatly the flashing laser in the corner of the eye of the egg user can sometimes trigger epilepsy.

And I wouldn't believe him about the martian porn... Not after Dejah Thoris embarked on her new career as Barsooms most audacious 'adult entertainer'.

[evadestruction]

I had no idea where to put this, but I found it interesting and thought others might too. I dont know how much research goes into these, so dont yell if its really inaccurate


www.cracked.com/article_18846_6-eerily-specific-inventions-predicted-in-science-fiction.html

[Lonesome Crow]

I like this bit.

Somehow, Verne predicted that the astronauts would become weightless in space. There was no way he could have known that at the time -- it was just some crazy bullshit he made up to make the story interesting

Either that or he'd read Sir Isaac Newton's law of universal gravitation, which came out almost 200 years earlier. ;D
These people really should do their homework better.