At 15:50 1998.04.09 +0000, James Palmer wrote:
>Me again. Let's see...this is pretty dismal but H.G. Wells predicted
>chemical and tank warfare, Jules Verne came up with the submarine and
>the diving suit, as well as rockets going up into space launched
>from, you guessed it, Florida.
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Actually, primitive submarines and diving suits already existed when Verne
wrote 20000 Leagues Under the Sea. And he choosed Florida for the same
reason NASA did - the most southern part of the US (and basically the most
southern part of industrial world of that time).
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