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Wednesday, 21 December 2022
quote [ When Jules Verne sent three men to the moon in his 1865 novel From the Earth to the Moon, he did so in a projectile fired from a massive gun. ]
Sent into the vacuum of space by a giant cannon
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mechanical contrivance said @ 3:18pm GMT on 21st Dec
THE COLUMBIAD
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mechanical contrivance said @ 3:53pm GMT on 21st Dec
I remember seeing a picture of the big gun being fired in the Guinness Book of World Records way back in the 80s. Now I know what that was.
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cb361 said @ 5:41pm GMT on 21st Dec
I had forgotten about the Iraqi Supergun.
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