You know when you’re a kid and you have great pictures in your head but you can’t get them down on paper?This cartoon is drawn by someone who can get his ideas down on paper.
@davidf42I think aether was the dominant theory at the time. The idea of space filled with air went out around the time of Descartes. At least among scientists. Even in popular fiction, Jules Verne has space full of aether in 1865.
The educated knew there was no air in space early in the Nineteenth Century, if not sooner. If for no other reason than that early balloonists tended to run short of air. As well, mountain climbers had long reported the air growing thinner. Both Verne and Wells provided an air supply for their Moon travellers.
However, even many storytellers who knew better put air in space or simply ignored the vacuum.
davidf42 about 8 years ago
Did the people in 1910 not know that space was a vacuum?
ladamson1918 about 8 years ago
You know when you’re a kid and you have great pictures in your head but you can’t get them down on paper?This cartoon is drawn by someone who can get his ideas down on paper.
danshen about 8 years ago
@davidf42I think aether was the dominant theory at the time. The idea of space filled with air went out around the time of Descartes. At least among scientists. Even in popular fiction, Jules Verne has space full of aether in 1865.
Fruno about 8 years ago
Well, what the heck was (is) aether (ether)??
Ushindi about 8 years ago
What about the poor king and his gout, Nemo? Now he has to wait for you to take a trip clear to Mars?
Stickmaker about 8 years ago
The educated knew there was no air in space early in the Nineteenth Century, if not sooner. If for no other reason than that early balloonists tended to run short of air. As well, mountain climbers had long reported the air growing thinner. Both Verne and Wells provided an air supply for their Moon travellers.
However, even many storytellers who knew better put air in space or simply ignored the vacuum.
StellaMaris about 8 years ago
Hallo!!! These are a little boy’s dreams!!!