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Jules Verne wrote about electrical submarines (Nautilus in 20,000 leagues under the sea), tasers, newscasts and videoconferencing, all became reality
by mtw 10y ago
Jules Verne wrote about electrical submarines (Nautilus in 20,000 leagues under the sea), tasers, newscasts and videoconferencing, all became reality
- adrianN 10y agoThe Nautilus is powered "by the same power as the sun", so you could argue that it is a nuclear submarine.
- Xophmeister 10y agoA nuclear fusion submarine, no less...so still not there yet!
- saiya-jin 10y agoapart from, you know, being 20,000 leagues under the sea, which is 1.1112e+8 metres accoridng to google. and submarines so deep in the ocean that they are actually deep in the space on the other side... or maybe it's just ISS?
- orjan 10y agoI'll just quote Wikipedia: "The title refers to the distance traveled while under the sea and not to a depth, as 20,000 leagues is over six times the diameter, and nearly twice the circumference of the Earth.[2] The greatest depth mentioned in the book is four leagues. The book uses metric leagues, which are four kilometres each" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty_Thousand_Leagues_Under_the_Sea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty_Thousand_Leagues_Under_...)
- notahacker 10y agoOf course, if we're being pedantic about details, that still puts the depth the Nautilus reached at over a kilometre into the earth's crust below even the deepest part of the known ocean...
- ocschwar 10y agoLet's be kind to Verne. He did not know the depth of the Marianas trench.