Post ASLixv7ivKPX9O8bAW by MaxaufderRax@literatur.social
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(DIR) Post #ASLYbofZExU1DkmzGi by CitizenWald@historians.social
2023-02-04T20:18:19Z
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Following all the news reports about the #Chinese #Balloon, I cannot help but think of thishttps://youtu.be/IK78UcJmiJw#ChineseBalloon
(DIR) Post #ASLbW6khObMNQd9vA8 by nobodysfool@historians.social
2023-02-04T20:50:54Z
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@CitizenWald I've been thinking of this:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu-Go_balloon_bomb
(DIR) Post #ASLbgZQxc4CBHLup04 by CitizenWald@historians.social
2023-02-04T20:52:48Z
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@nobodysfool Yes! Too few people know about these. This incident is clearly generating some interesting conversations (as well as humor)
(DIR) Post #ASLhzQtCCmbc0OV2tU by markstoneman@zirk.us
2023-02-04T22:03:25Z
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@CitizenWald Or Pynchon's _Against the Day_.
(DIR) Post #ASLixv7ivKPX9O8bAW by MaxaufderRax@literatur.social
2023-02-04T22:14:20Z
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@CitizenWald So that's what this mysterious balloon is all about ... And: Oh oh, I saw that when I was a child, somewhere in the back room of a vicarage. Then the following week: "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea".
(DIR) Post #ASLjiuZ4oq911mL4jI by CitizenWald@historians.social
2023-02-04T22:22:51Z
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@MaxaufderRax Yes. The Vincent Price movie is not very good, but it belongs to a certain style of science fiction. When I saw it, I was struck by the similarity between its plot and that of 20,000 Leagues. (I read a good deal of Verne at one point, but I don't believe I read Master of the World, which sounds intriguing: the character Robur also builds an airship in Robur the Conqueror/Clipper of the Clouds https://www.onverticality.com/blog/clipper-of-the-clouds: