Status Updates From De la Tierra a la Luna

Also reading this one for class 😝

"but till then the experiment of the gun club can have no other result than to have provided our solar system with a new star"

bro!! £ ! £! £! £!

"or
2. the projectile, following an immutabile law, will continue to gravitate round the moon till the end of time"

cheers???? £ ! £? £(

bro imagine being stuck in orbit around the moon 2833 miles away from it 😭😭😭😭😭😭

"as soon as the first effects were over, the injured, the deaf, and lastly, the crowd in general, woke up with frenzied cries. "hurrah for ardan! hurrah for barbicane! hurrah for nicholl!"

😭😭

"this immense canopy of fire was perceived at a distance of 100 miles out at sea, and more than one ships captain entered in his log the appearance of this gigantic meteor"

bro I'm cackling, what must've they thought at such a sight

"Michel ardan, always easy... was full of inexhaustible gaiety, laughing, joking, playing pranks with J.T. Marston. in one word, he was the thorough "frenchman" (and worse, a "parisian") to the last moment"

BRO

"and, a still more significant fact, even the national passion for gambling quelle for the time under the general excitement of the hour"

the flipping national passion bro ts can't be serious

"for, if the projectile were not fired that very night at 10h. 46m. 40s. p.m., more than eighteen years must roll by before the moon would again present herself under the same conditions of zenith and perigee"

bro I'm crying, they need it as exact as seconds??????

"I dare say, my dear ardan," replied the president, "but our projectile is no Noahs ark, from which it differs both in dimensions and object. let us confine ourselves to possibilities"

"when one forgets one's anger in mechanics or in cobwebs, it is a sign that the anger is not dangerous"

"he was one of those originals which nature sometimes invents in the freak of a moment, and of which she then breaks the mould"

"a hair brained fellow"

michel ardan the diva u are

"reflected? have I any time to spare? I find an opportunity of making a trip to the moon, and I mean to profit by it. there is the whole gist of the matter :3"

Ahora tengo dudas de si la Luna tiene atmósfera o no

No puedo creer que ahora quieran enderezar la Tierra 🌎

Ten pages left.
The goal of the day is to finish this. 🤭

,”the moon would end up by one day falling into the earth”

Side-project 🫡

Todo este tiempo creí que iban a viajar en un cohete a la luna. Quedé 🤡

Me encanta que todo sucede porque:
- Hombre disparar. ¡Pium pium!
- No más guerra, hombre no disparar :(
¿Y si disparamos a la luna? 🧐

Incluso en el libro dice que si hubieran propuesto esto en un lugar que no fuera estados unidos, se hubieran burlado de la tontera que decían.

When a man forgets his hatred to plunge into problems of mechanics or rob a spider of his breakfast, it means that his hatred isn’t dangerous for anyone.

They did unto others as they would not have had others do unto them, an immoral principle on which the whole art of war is based.

Que loco como es verdad lo soberbios que son los gringos😮

Würde es gern mögen. Aber ich habe Mühe

Leitura de praia 💆🏻‍♀️

Ok

Aburrido!!

“A suit with ample dimensions”

“Dragged anchors as the sailors say”

Está aburrido tbh

pg 63 - the gun would cost 49.5 million, today. Still quite a deal.

pg 83 - Another correct prediction, as NASA’s lunar launches were staged in Florida.

…used on modern space craft.

pg 57 - today, the projectile would cost 3.4 million today. Quite a deal when considering the cost of modern space craft.