Re: Captain Nemo's Timeline

On Tue, 17 Jun 2025 08:27:08 -0700, Tim Merrigan <tppm@rr.ca.com>
wrote:

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.

Ah, but "horizontal" doesn't mean "in a straight line". It doesn't
even mean "on a Great Circle". They move around a bit.

But perhaps the title was chosen by Marketing ...
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Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"