Jules Verne

Thus, not only are we able to do familiar things better with nuclear energy the nuclear-powered submarine is a dramatic example, but we are also able to do things never before possible, such as studying the diffusion of dissolved salts in the open ocean or extending the useful life of seafoods through irradiation.

nuclear energy has at last enabled us to realize the predictions of jules verne's adventure tale twenty thousand leagues under the sea and to build a true submarine a craft whose submerged existence is limited only by the physiological and psychological endurance of its human crew this fact in itself has added greatly to our need to learn much more about the ocean for the sea is an opaque and strange environment in which the deadly game of hunt and be hunted will be won by whoever knows the ocean best the very fact that we have nuclear energy means we have nuclear wastes many of these inevitably find their way into the ocean as all things do we need to know more about the watery world before we can safely allow this inflow to continue In the waters of the seven seas are enough deuterium and tritium to power tomorrow's thermonuclear power plants for millions of years.

These rare, heavy varieties of hydrogen, enormously abundant in the vastness of the sea, comprise an energy source without limit for all nations, which need only develop the technological ability to extract them and put them to work.

In 1900, the U.S. Navy commissioned its first submarine, the USS Holland, which was built by John P. Holland.

What remains of Wells? There remains a little shelf of very excellent books, beginning with Tono-Bungay and ending with Marriage.

It is a shelf flanked on the one side by a long row of extravagant romances in the manner of Jules Verne, and on the other side by an even longer row of puerile tracts.

But let us not underestimate it because it is in such uninviting company.

There is on it some of the liveliest, most original, most amusing, and withal most respectable fiction that England has produced in our time.

All of this has been gamed out over 50 years.

And I'm sure there are science fiction novels from the, you know, Jules Verne probably has one where the computer goes nuts and does shit like that.

So we need to understand that.

Somebody says, Hal is from University of Chicago, Champaign-Urbana, my alma mater.

Absolutely.

It was, it was like Jules Verne.

It was like, yeah, it was so good.

And like when they, what I do like about strange new worlds is the swings are taking are, we're going to try to, genres that Star Trek's never done.

But as Witcherly raised his eyes, Miss Carson was transfixed.

are you jacob she asked why do you ask you were speaking with joseph's voice perhaps joseph's spirit has returned to dominate my own joseph it is you the body is merely a ship in charge of a spirit captain sailing down that coast of shadows joseph's words joseph you are here things most abysmally strange stranger than anything that would be seen through the windows of a jules verne submarine pass in the most ordinary row of houses the most respectable of houses here was a respectable house so far as appearances went on that most respectable of avenues a house built at great expense of stone and glass steel and copper and yet in the drawing-room of it miss carson tremulous had slipped forward to her knees before the man who had murdered his brother and was whispering that brother's name as she saw or thought she saw that brother looking out at her from the fratricide's eyes CHAPTER XV THE REPRIEVE to explain a little of what was passing in Amanda Carson's mind just then, and something of what was palpitating in her heart.

It is only necessary to remember that for years she had been the amanuensis of Joseph Witcherly, that, as such, she had read books without number, had been present at interviews and investigations, that, almost without noticing it, she had taken cognizance of and cruised far into that sea of Joseph Witcherly's shadow coast.

Dr. Hodgson, Professor Hislop, W.T. Stead, Flournoy, the gifted Frenchman, Sir Oliver Lodge, Dr. Joseph Maxwell.

And in 2012, it helped deliver something the scientific world had been chasing for generations, the first footage ever captured of a live giant squid in its natural deep-sea habitat.

a creature that had haunted human imagination since the ancient Norse told stories of the Kraken, that had inspired Jules Verne, terrified sailors, and eluded every camera ever sent to find it, seen at last in its own world on its own terms.

Dr. Edie Witter is a MacArthur Fellow, the award popularly known as the Genius Grant.

She's the co-founder and senior scientist of the Ocean Research and Conservation Association, where her team tracks the chemical threats invisible to the naked eye that are reshaping our coastal waters.

Right.

Exactly.

Ever since, like, Jules Verne.

It's just like, oh, I know it's down there, but, you know, we've never seen one.

kind of circumstance.

And that gesture in the adventure novel is very much relating to our early speculative fiction of things like Frankenstein, Dracula, any of the Jules Verne stories, or even Stevenson's own Dr. Jekyll and Mr.

Hyde.

Yeah, yeah, for sure.

I had Treasure Isle.

I had Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Black Beauty.

I love it.

Right, just classic books that kids would get back there.