Storytime with StarStryder discussion

We started reading Jules Verne's "From the Earth to the Moon" last week. Written in 1865, this book is set in the days following the US civil war and opens with a bored Baltimore Gun club trying to figure out what to do with itself. Unable to just start a war, and bored without reasons to make their guns go boom, these gentlemen, are led into a brave new day by their president, a day that includes developing a gun capable of launching men to the moon.

While initially a thing of joy, this book's ecstatic beginning quickly devolved into chapters of of math upon math upon math. And then some more math.

There was a lot of math.

And it wasn't all right or all wrong. But it will be fun (yes, fun) to tear a part. As we continue our way through this book, note the science you find here, and let's see how this science has or hasn't stood up over the past 150 years!

Cheers,
Pamela