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Re: Zero gravity in Around the Moon

From: <Rfbagby~at~aol.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 10:01:57 -0400
To: jvf~at~gilead.org.il (Jules Verne Forum)

In a message dated 6/3/2004 2:39:14 AM Eastern Daylight Time, chvsanchez~at~arnet.com.ar writes:

> > Finally, under the heading "The Error in Jules Verne's Book" he discusses the
> > imaginary Gallium comet in "Hector Servadac", which made a full revolution
> > around the Sun in two years, while his aphelion (max distance from the Sun) is
> > 820 million km. He proves using Kepler's third law that these numbers imply
> > that the comet's perihelion (min distance from the Sun) is negative, -343
> > million km. "In other words, a comet with such a brief period of revolution as
> > two years couldn't travel the distance from the Sun Jules
> Verne gives in his
> > book."
REPLY: Only another instance of Gallia's "impossibility" which Verne's own conclusion admits (confounding the likes of I.O. Evans and the wretched US translator Ed Roth, who don't want it to Have All Been A Dream.)
RF Bagby
Received on Thu 03 Jun 2004 - 17:04:04 IDT

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