robkelk Wrote:Whup's ...itsune9tl Wrote:By the way,
Cavorite, was the anti-gravity material from Jules Vern's "Journey to the Moon".
He also wrote "2000 Leagues Under the Sea (not 20,000 that was the TV series).
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Cavorite is from The First Men in the Moon, by H.G. Wells. Verne's book was De la terre à la lune ("From the Earth to the Moon"), and it used a cannon to send the ship into space.
Also, that undersea book you're thinking of was Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers - "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas". ("2000 Leagues Under the Sea" would be "deux mille lieues sous la mer".)
I can only admit to being a minor abomination. I am not all knowing, nor even all remembering.
I don't speak French or Latin and barely get by in English, according to some people.
Thanks to Anime I seem to be picking up about 1 in 7 words of conversational Japanese... Weird Huh?