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Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island, 1875, [1] "“This cavern stretches under the island as far as the volcano, and is only separated from its central shaft by t
by krasin 5y ago
Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island, 1875, [1]
"“This cavern stretches under the island as far as the volcano, and is only separated from its central shaft by the wall which terminates it. Now, this wall is seamed with fissures and clefts which already allow the sulphurous gases generated in the interior of the volcano to escape.”
“Well?” said Pencroft, his brow suddenly contracting.
“Well, then, I saw that these fissures widen under the internal pressure from within, that the wall of basalt is gradually giving way and that after a longer or shorter period it will afford a passage to the waters of the lake which fill the cavern.”
“Good!” replied Pencroft, with an attempt at pleasantry. “The sea will extinguish the volcano, and there will be an end of the matter!”
“Not so!” said Cyrus Harding, “should a day arrive when the sea, rushing through the wall of the cavern, penetrates by the central shaft into the interior of the island to the boiling lava, Lincoln Island will that day be blown into the air<...>"
1. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1268/1268-h/1268-h.htm#link2HCH0059 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1268/1268-h/1268-h.htm#link2...
- jinto36 5y agoMaybe H.G. Wells loaned his time machine to Verne for a bit?
- nwatson 5y ago[Off Topic] C.S. Lewis' first sci-fi trilogy book "Out of the Silent Planet" was likewise a ripoff, plot wise, of HG Wells' "Man in the Moon."
- aardvark179 5y agoBecause gigantic volcanic eruptions involving pacific islands were completely unknown in the nineteenth century? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1815_eruption_of_Mount_Tambora https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1815_eruption_of_Mount_Tambora
- _mczl 5y ago[flagged]
- GenerocUsername 5y agoThey're not. Your post to some tweets doesn't count for 'exceptional claims require exceptional evidence.' If you really predicted a volcano a year in advance you should present your methods and results in a better way before you start posting mildly condescending responses on platforms that allow people to downvote you
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- _mczl 5y agoThat's an unwarrantedly rude, don't you think? Are you able to back this up more? The data is there. I cannot have forged it. It is extremely close to what happened. Please state what your actual criticism is of that. Which part does not count, in your belief, precisely? In addition, not solely Tonga. Were you to scroll up that same thread you would discover the pandemic, too, from 2018. I think it is more like your disbelief, or whatever it is, fails to count either as an exceptional claim or as exceptional evidence, against what I have there posted and here linked. I get to feeling you are trying to help but your delivery could be improved I believe.
- thombat 5y agoIs there more to your pandemic prediction than 14 months before Corona-19 was declared a pandemic your writing "I have an ominous feeling ... for the last few days I had a sense that a pandemic would come" ? If not, then that doesn't seem a very striking prediction: public health bodies have been apprehensive for years, maintaining (to varying degrees of effectiveness) pandemic preparations. In the past 20 years there has been SARS (mk 1), MERS, several substantial avian influenza outbreaks, the 2009 swine flu pandemic, and so on. Even a popular movie "Contagion" (2011) about a pandemic from a novel virus of swine + bat origin. So there has been plenty of awareness of pandemic risks and the foreboding that someday soon the next mass human pandemic would arrive; plenty for your restless subconcious to haunt your sleep with.
- johnohara 5y agoKrakatoa erupted 8 years later. Wikipedia: "The sound was claimed to be heard in 50 different locations around the world and the sound wave is recorded to have travelled the globe seven times."
- acidburnNSA 5y agoThe pressure wave was recorded around the globe seven times, on barometers. I am actively monitoring my digital pressure sensors on my home weather station and have seen the pressure waves from the Tonga blast go by 4 times and counting (2 in each direction). Hoping to see a 5th pass tonight here in Seattle at around 10:55pm. I wrote a little python script to predict the future passes based on the first two very obvious ones. Very fun.
- johnohara 5y agoFun indeed. And interesting. Well done.
- acidburnNSA 5y agoNinja edit: I blogged about it here if you want to see the script, predictions, and measurements: https://partofthething.com/thoughts/measuring-the-tonga-eruption-pressure-wave-with-a-home-weather-station/ https://partofthething.com/thoughts/measuring-the-tonga-erup...
- TimSchumann 5y agoThanks for the writeup! Glad to see you around.
- audiometry 5y agoWouldn't pressure waves travelling in opposite directions interfere with each other?
- potatochup 5y agoOnly if you're exactly on the opposite side of the world I think?
- bouvin 5y agoFor an author who loved his engineer protagonists, none are more skilled than Cyrus Harding. This is the OG competency porn novel, and highly recommended – especially if you have also read (and enjoyed) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.