Sujet : Re: Captain Nemo's Timeline
De : tppm (at) *nospam* rr.ca.com (Tim Merrigan)
Groupes : rec.arts.sf.fandom rec.arts.sf.moviesDate : 17. Jun 2025, 16:27:08
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On 6/17/2025 8:14 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
On Mon, 16 Jun 2025 12:46:16 -0400, "Evelyn C. Leeper"
<evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> wrote:
On 6/16/25 11:29 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
<snippo, topic is /20,000 Leagues Under the Sea/.
Oh, and that my father had to point out that the "20,000 leagues" were
a horizontal measurement, not a vertical one. I was quite young at the
time.
>
I had to point this out to someone (an adult) on a panel at Philcon 2005.
In my (our?) defense, the Nautilus /is/ a submarine and submerging is
what it does. But the horizontal interpretation is correct.
OTOH, 20,000 leagues is approximately 10 times the diameter of the Earth.
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