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"So that notwithstanding all these seeming impossibilities, tis likely enough, that there may be a meanes invented of journying to the Moone; And how happy shall they be, that are first successefull in this attempt?" -- John Wilkins, 1640

Indeed, sir. Indeed.

"I was carried directly towards the Globe or body of the Moone with such a violent whirling as cannot bee expressed. For I cannot imagine that a bullet out of a Cannon could make way through the vapours and muddie aire neere the earth with that celerity"

Interesting to read this, written 232 years before Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon.

"You shal then see men to flie from place to place in the ayre; you shal be able to send messages in an instant many Miles off, and receive answer again immediately... but that which far surpasseth all the rest, you shall have notice of a new World, of many most rare and incredible secrets of Nature, that all the Philosophers of former ages could never so much as dreame of."

Flight, texting, and space travel in 1633