![]() ![]() Things only get more interesting when an eccentric Frenchman, Michel Ardan, asks them to shoot a hollow projectile where he can travel to the moon. The club members propose various wacky schemes, up to starting a new war, until one of them suggest doing something that sounds impossible: shooting a giant bullet towards the moon, for no reason other than to show they can do it. ![]() Some time after the American Civil War, members of a certain social club in Baltimore, called The Gun Club (because it consists largely of Civil War artillery officers and various defense industrialists) starts wondering what can they do in these times of peace - during the war they entertained themselves building guns that kept going bigger and bigger, but that's an expensive hobby in a peacetime. ![]() From the Earth to the Moon (French: De la Terre à la Lune) is a novel published in 1865, written by Jules Verne about making a trip from the earth to the moon. ![]()
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