Jules Verne Collection — Index

Purpose

Investigating evidence that Jules Verne (1828–1905) described real, operational technology — weapons, propulsion, submarine engineering, anti-gravity physics, and lunar travel — decades before their “official” invention. The standard explanation (“he was a visionary”) fails to account for the engineering precision of his descriptions. Nobody guesses the exact composition of gun-cotton, the behavior of aluminum projectiles, the physics of water-cushioned shock absorption, or the specifications of electric submarines without access to real technical knowledge.

Verne was not predicting the future. He was disclosing the present — or the recent past — in forms his readers treated as continuous with engineering and war news; twentieth-century catalogs then isolated the same titles under fiction, which made dismissal easy. This places him in the same category as H.G. Wells, Lovecraft, and Tolkien — authors who converted suppressed knowledge into entertainment the public could file as “already just a story.” See Predictive programming: literature.

The Civil War Connection

From the Earth to the Moon (1865) opens with the Gun Club of Baltimore — a fraternity of Civil War artillerists who have perfected weapons of unprecedented destructive power. Verne describes these men as having advanced gunnery beyond anything in Europe: “Their weapons attained colossal proportions, and their projectiles, exceeding the prescribed limits, unfortunately occasionally cut in two some unoffending pedestrians.”

The central plot — building a 900-foot Columbiad cannon to fire a manned projectile to the Moon — is set immediately after the Civil War ends. The Gun Club members are explicitly described as restless warriors seeking a new outlet for their weapons expertise. The key character rivalry (Barbicane vs. Nicholl) encodes the arms race between penetrating projectiles and armor plate — the same technology cycle that produced modern DU (depleted uranium) munitions. Read structurally, that rivalry is a trial of contrivances akin to Arthurian single combat: engineer against engineer, armor against penetrator. Surrender on this reading follows not from losing a bet but from learning that no practicable thickness of shield could stop what the opposing network could already throw — hence a decision about land and lineages (children, and their children) rather than honor alone.

The suppression thesis: Verne’s description of the Columbiad — a gun that fires a 30,000-pound aluminum projectile at 12,000 yards per second, capable of defeating any armor plate — describes a weapon system whose destructive power exceeds anything officially acknowledged in the 1860s. The projectile-vs-armor rivalry Verne details maps precisely onto DU penetrators: small, dense, high-velocity projectiles designed to defeat hardened armor through kinetic energy alone, producing catastrophic secondary explosions.

If such technology existed — or was in development — during the Civil War, a decisive demonstration could have ended the fighting once the armor-penetrator trial was conclusive. The subsequent redaction of that capability from the historical record would match standard classification practice. Verne, with his connections to French military and scientific circles, could have learned of it — and released it through a narrative his contemporaries read as plausible extraordinary voyage, not as a separate modern genre called “fiction.” The same material carries an early existential sting: war that could waste habitable land for generations. A literary echo of planetary extinction — Lord Byron’s poem Darkness (1816) — sits a generation earlier: not ordnance, but the same imaginative threshold (life extinguished on Earth). Timeline synthesis: 19th Century Weapons & Declassification | US Civil War.

The Rotation Anti-Gravity Thesis

In the same novel, Verne describes the travelers using water-cushions and partition-breaks to survive the concussive force of being launched from a 900-foot cannon. The physics of surviving such acceleration require either:

1. Material cushioning (water-cushions, as described), or
2. Rotational physics — rapid spinning to distribute concussive force across all axes simultaneously

Verne’s later works (Robur the Conqueror, Master of the World) describe heavier-than-air flight achieved through rapidly rotating propellers generating lift beyond what fixed wings could provide. The Albatross (Robur’s vessel) uses 37 vertical-axis screws on a platform — a configuration that generates extreme rotational force fields. This is not aerodynamic lift. It is rotational anti-gravity: the same principle that Schauberger, Searl, and suppressed aerospace research would later describe.

The rotation thesis: rapid axial rotation is the key to anti-gravity. Verne described it in 1886. The technology was not “invented” — it was classified. Proof: Verne and Wells were able to describe technology decades before its “official” appearance because it already existed in restricted military and scientific circles.

19th-Century Moon Missions

If the Columbiad cannon is real technology, and if rotation-based anti-gravity was understood in the 19th century, then the logical conclusion is that manned lunar missions were undertaken in the 19th century by wealthy individuals and military organizations with access to this technology. The missions were subsequently redacted from the historical record and the public trace reclassified as science fiction in later catalogs.

Evidence:

• Verne described the specific trajectory, transit time (97 hours), and orbital mechanics before these calculations were “officially” performed
• The water-cushion shock absorption system maps onto real engineering solutions for high-G acceleration survival
• Wells independently described similar technology in The First Men in the Moon (1901), using anti-gravity material (Cavorite) — a different fictional wrapper around the same underlying physics
• Both Verne and Wells “predicted” technology that wasn’t officially developed for another 100 years — the simpler explanation is that they had access to existing knowledge

Cross-reference: Predictive programming: fiction as control | Predictive programming: literature

Files — Complete Collection

Tier 1: CRITICAL — Suppressed Technology / Weapons / Space Travel

Tier 2: HIGH — Strategic / Military / Geopolitical

Tier 3: MEDIUM — Exploration / Engineering

Key Passages for Investigation

1. The Columbiad Cannon (DU Weapon Precursor)

From From the Earth to the Moon, Chapter XVI onward:

The trajectory from conical penetrators → shells that shatter armor plate → the Columbiad’s 30,000-pound projectile that nothing can resist follows the exact development path of modern kinetic energy penetrators (DU rounds). Verne describes this as Civil War technology. The official history dates DU munitions to the 1970s–80s.

2. Water-Cushion Shock Absorption

This is staged deceleration — the same principle used in modern spacecraft landing systems. Verne describes it as an engineering solution, not a theoretical concept.

3. The Aluminum Projectile

Aluminum was a precious metal in the 1860s — more expensive than gold. Verne’s choice of aluminum for the projectile suggests knowledge of its structural properties at aerospace-engineering level, decades before such applications were “developed.”

4. Robur’s Rotational-Lift Aircraft

From Robur the Conqueror (1886):

The Albatross uses 37 vertical-axis lifting screws — rotating propellers generating lift through angular momentum. This is not conventional aerodynamics. Robur explicitly argues that heavier-than-air flight through rotation is superior to all balloon-based approaches. He demonstrates this by flying around the world.

Published 17 years before the Wright Brothers’ 12-second hop at Kitty Hawk. Verne’s aircraft is vastly more advanced than anything the Wrights achieved.

5. The Nautilus (Electric Submarine)

From Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870):

Captain Nemo’s submarine is powered by sodium-mercury batteries, uses compressed air for breathing, has electric lighting, maintains temperature control, and can descend to extreme depths. The first operational military submarine (USS Holland, 1900) appeared 30 years later. Verne’s Nautilus is more advanced than submarines built well into the 20th century.

6. In the Year 2889 — Technology Checklist

Cross-References to Paradigm Threat Timeline

The Verne–Wells–Lovecraft Pipeline

Verne is the earliest and most technically precise encoder. His works describe engineering at a level of detail that suggests direct access to technical knowledge — not imagination. The subsequent authors increasingly abstract the content: Wells wraps it in alien invasion, Lovecraft in cosmic horror, Tolkien in medieval fantasy. But Verne gives you the specifications. He tells you the cannon is 900 feet long, the projectile weighs 30,000 pounds, the gun-cotton charge is 400,000 pounds, and the initial velocity is 12,000 yards per second. These are engineering documents disguised as novels.

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