>>64715214
I'm still waiting for a torpedo-ram submarine dammit

I fed everything I could copy about the ship in the movie as a wall of text and asked AI to make it look good. I think I still under armed the ship.
USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN

As depicted in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
General Characteristics

Type: Steam-assisted sailing warship (19th-century hybrid)

Hull: Steel / iron hull (clearly not wood in the film)

Displacement (visual estimate): ~2,000–3,000 tons

Length (visual estimate): ~240–260 ft

Beam: ~40 ft

Draft: ~18–20 ft

Ceiling (freeboard): Low

Propulsion
Primary: Steam screw propulsion

Secondary: Sail (three-masted barkentine rig)

Funnels: 2

Speed (implied):

Steam: ~12–14 knots

Sail only: ~8–10 knots

Crew
Crew complement (on screen): ~60–80 men

Composition:
Naval officers
Sailors
Harpoon specialists / whalers
Commanding Officer: Captain Farragut (film canon)

ARMAMENT (AS SHOWN / IMPLIED ON SCREEN)

1. Harpoon Guns (Primary Weapon)
Type: Deck-mounted whaling harpoon guns
Quantity: At least 2
One clearly visible forward
One implied aft / spare

Ammunition: Heavy barbed harpoons, cable-tethered

Effective Range: Short (tens of meters)

Reload Time: Slow (manual)

2. Naval Cannon (Secondary Weapon)
Type: Muzzle-loading deck gun(s)
Caliber (visual estimate): ~6–9 pounder class
Quantity: 1–2
Mounting: Fixed deck carriage
Ammunition: Solid shot (no explosive shells shown)

3. Small Arms

Crew weapons:
Muskets / early rifles
Sidearms (officers)
Use: Boarding defense / topside action

4. Ramming Capability
Bow: Reinforced steel prow
Use: last ditch
Not a true ironclad ram, but clearly built stout.

Protection

Armor: None

Hull strength: Exceptionally robust for period

Damage Control: Minimal (period-accurate)

Type: Steam-assisted sailing warship

Weapons:

2× harpoon guns

1–2× muzzle-loading deck cannons
Small arms
Speed: ~13 knots steam
Crew: ~70

>>64715218
It's more plausible because it canonnically doesn't ram, it pokes a hole and reverses.

20k leagues, Mysterious Island, and I think another book mention the electric rifle:
Nemo-Pattern Electric Rifle (c. 1868, Nautilus Issue)

Designation:
Fusil Électrique Modèle Nautilus

Operating Principle:
Electrostatic discharge accelerated through conductive dart or ionized air path
(Verne handwaves this with confidence; Aronnax nods politely)

Power System

Power Source: Sodium–mercury galvanic battery (Nautilus grid-tapped)

Recharge Method: Shipboard dynamos driven by electric motors (of course)

Field Endurance: ~30–40 full-power discharges before efficiency drop

Cold Weather Performance: Excellent (Victorian batteries fear nothing)

Output Characteristics

Projectile Type (selectable):

Conductive harpoon-dart (anti-fauna)

Electrified needle round (anti-personnel)

Arc discharge (short-range stun / kill)

Estimated Output:
“Sufficient to instantly kill a large shark or render a man insensible”
(Translation: somewhere between cattle prod and lightning bolt)

Penetration: Moderate; relies on nervous system disruption, not kinetic force

Effective Range

Underwater:

10–15 meters (conductive seawater limits arc coherence)

Atmospheric:

40–60 meters line-of-sight

Accuracy:

Surprisingly good (no recoil, very civilized)

Rate of Fire

Practical: 1 shot every 4–6 seconds

Sustained Fire: Not advised unless you enjoy melted coils

Selector: Single-shot only (Verne feared vulgarity)

Ergonomics

Weight: ~11–13 lbs (brass, glass, and optimism)

Balance: Front-heavy due to induction coil assembly

Stock: Oiled hardwood, naval pattern

Sights: Iron, fixed

>>64715242
Fuck, AI formats nicely but I hate when it adds the editorial shit, sorry.

This gun seems more like a chemical pack that busts in the needle and somehow creates a charge but idk how that would happen.

Real wold stuff:
"Colt" or "colt revolver" - Colt Navy 1851
Spencer Rifle / Spencer Carbine
Minié Rifle
Enfield Rifle No.1
Purdey fusil à deux coups
bowie knife
primitive tanto

Columbiad Cannon — Jules Verne (From the Earth to the Moon, Around the Moon)

Type: Super-heavy smoothbore cannon

Role: Projectile launch (ballistic space capsule)

Material: Cast iron (layered construction)

Dimensions

Overall Length: ~900 ft

Bore Diameter: 9 ft

Wall Thickness: ~6 ft (breech section)

Orientation: Vertical, fixed emplacement

Projectile

Type: Aluminum capsule

Mass: ~19,200 lb

Shape: Cylindro-conical

Occupancy: 3 persons

Propellant

Type: Guncotton (nitrocellulose)

Charge Mass: ~400,000 lb

Ignition: Electrical

Performance

Muzzle Velocity: ~12,000 yd/sec

Peak Acceleration: ~22,000 g (theoretical)

Effective Range: Lunar distance (ballistic trajectory)

Emplacement

Location: Stone’s Hill, Florida

Foundation Depth: ~200 ft

Mounting: Masonry-lined shaft

Crew / Operation

Crew Requirement: Large fixed support team

Reload Time: Not applicable (single firing)

Era

Concept Date: 1860s

Technological Basis: Contemporary siege artillery scaled to extreme size

>>64715230
That's ramming

>>64715263
I just feel there is a huge difference in many depictions later where the Nautillus saws a fuckin hole in the keel, but in the book is't a neat little punch hole and most ships survive.
I don't think it's mentioned if the Lincoln gets back to port but I doubt it, it was 100% dead and drifting.

The Barsac Mission has some pretty good future warfare stuff. The cycloscope is like drone and satellite overwatch, the wasps are like modern drones, capable of both grenade drops and machine gun fire, the aerial torpedos are like mlrs, and the heliplanes are ornithopters that can fly like helicopters. The infantry uses semi-automatic rifles with explosive-tipped bullets. Pretty good for a book that came out in 1914.

Mysterious Island inventions:
1. Rifles

Type/Construction: Mostly single-shot, black powder rifles, handcrafted from local timber and scavenged iron/metal.
Purpose: Hunting for food; defense against wild animals and, occasionally, hostile humans.
Notable Traits: Accuracy is surprisingly good given the crude tools; largely based on contemporary firearms knowledge the crew already had.

2. Pistols

Type/Construction: Small-caliber flintlock/powder pistols or converted versions of rifles.
Purpose: Close-range defense; signaling.
Notable Traits: Easier to reload quickly; often kept as backup to rifles.

3. Shotguns

Type/Construction: Smoothbore firearms built for short-range impact.
Purpose: Game hunting and crowd deterrence if needed.
Notable Traits: Effective in brush and close quarters; improvised from basic gunmaking techniques.

4. Knives / Daggers

Type/Construction: Hand-forged blades from available iron/steel.
Purpose: Tool and weapon; essential for survival.
Notable Traits: Standard multipurpose survival gear, often crafted with clever grips and slightly curved edges for utility.

5. Explosives / Bombs

Type/Construction: Gunpowder-based devices, improvised from their limited chemical supplies.
Purpose: Defense or clearing obstacles.
Notable Traits: Dangerous to make, but effective for both intimidation and practical applications like blasting rocks.

6. Artillery / Cannons

Type/Construction: Small-scale cannon-like devices made from metalwork scavenged on the island or shipwrecks.
Purpose: Mostly defensive; intimidation against pirates or wild threats.
Notable Traits: Rarely used in combat but impressively crafted

>>64715276
Good point, I was starting with the steampunk stuff "but that's just me".
I love the sci fi and arctic stuff.

I now forgive AI fucking with my info during formatting lol it found a story I never heard of:

1. Captain Nemo / Officers
Captain Nemo – 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Mysterious Island
Former Indian prince (Veiled in political exile), commanding officer of the Nautilus.
Captain Ayrton – The Mysterious Island (originally “The Captain of the Brig”), later redeemed.
Ex-convict and former pirate-like figure; temporarily a de facto officer under the island crew.

2. U.S. Military / Naval Personnel
Pencroff – The Mysterious Island
Seaman 1st

3. European Officers / Soldiers

Lieutenant Ardan – Around the Moon, From the Earth to the Moon
Officer-level astronaut-analog; skilled in artillery (Columbiad gun operations).
Captain Hatteras – The Adventures of Captain Hatteras
British officer; Antarctic expedition leader.
Lieutenant Gulliver – The Adventures of Captain Hatteras
Secondary officer, Arctic operations.
Colonel – unnamed – The Survivors of the Chancellor

4. Nautical / Merchant Marines
Captain Farragut / Captain Grant – In Search of the Castaways
Officer leading rescue/search missions.
Lieutenant John (or James) Grant – In Search of the Castaways

Officer-level figure organizing expeditions.
Captain Hatteras’ crew – The Adventures of Captain Hatteras
Mixed ratings, Lt. Gulliver, others implied.

5. French Military / Engineers
Major Robertson – The Survivors of the Chancellor (short references)
Engineer Cyrus Smith – The Mysterious Island
Former U.S. Army engineer; effectively officer-grade

6. Short Stories
“A Drama in Mexico” – mentions Mexican army officers
“Martin Paz” – Peruvian militia officers; Colonel Robles.
“A Voyage to the Centre of the Earth” – Professor Lidenbrock and Axel take leadership roles.
“A Winter amid the Ice” (Une hivernée dans les glaces) – Arctic expedition officers and sailors; Lieutenant Higgins.

Name: Cyrus Smith

Rank: Chief Engineer / Civil-Military Technical Officer
Nationality: American
Branch: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Years of Service: 1860–1865 (formal), + “unofficial” field operations 1865–1866
Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Career Summary:

Cyrus Smith entered the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as a promising civil engineer with dual specialization in fortifications and field artillery. Early assignments included surveying and construction of coastal forts along the Eastern Seaboard, with commendations for innovative bridgework and logistical efficiency.

During the Civil War (1861–1865), Smith was deployed to both Union and border theaters in engineering support roles:

Fortifications: Designed temporary fieldworks and defensive positions under combat conditions.

Demolition & Explosives: Supervised safe demolition of enemy structures, river obstructions, and improvised artillery fortifications.

Logistics & Construction: Led construction crews under fire; ensured supply lines via improvised transport and bridge-building techniques.

Smith’s practical ingenuity earned him battlefield promotions to Chief Engineer of Detached Units, and he became known for rapid problem-solving in austere environments. After the war, he briefly oversaw railroad and canal projects before a balloon expedition misadventure stranded him on Lincoln Island.


Now I like him because I loved the book The Class of 1846: From West Point to Appomattox. You should read that one.

>>64715296
"after the war"
let me explain that... by the book Verne thought the war over almost a month before the april 9th surrender. I think even a bit before the army headed to Richmond.

The balloon would have been awesome observation tech for the civil war, this is from a balloon autist so accuracy is his problem lol.

"The balloon that carries the five protagonists to Lincoln Island is a Montgolfier-style hot air balloon, a civilian but high-end craft of the 1860s, modified for long distance reconnaissance. While Verne never gives a brand name, the level of engineering detail suggests a Parisian manufacturer skilled in aerostatics, likely drawing on designs popularized by pioneers like Charles and Étienne Montgolfier or the ballooning workshops that had supplied the French army for observational purposes since the 1790s. The envelope is a massive silk construction, coated with varnish to reduce porosity, while the basket is reinforced with ash and oak framing, designed to carry five adults plus provisions.

Propulsion is strictly wind driven, though Verne emphasizes the crew’s use of a “guiding oar” and sandbags for altitude control, reflecting contemporary aeronautical practice. The heating is provided by a suspended iron brazier, burning coal or wood, sufficient to maintain lift over several days but requiring constant attention, a factor that heightens the peril of their journey. Safety features are minimal: no parachute, only rudimentary ropes and ballast, meaning navigation is largely at the mercy of prevailing winds.

Verne’s description is meticulous: the balloon is approximately 50 feet tall, with a diameter of 30 feet, capable of lifting roughly 1,500 pounds. He stresses the ingenuity of Cyrus Smith, whose knowledge of materials and physics allows the group to survive punctures and improvisational repairs mid-flight. In essence, the balloon is both a machine and a character, a fragile yet heroic vessel, embodying 19th century aeronautical ambition at the exact historical moment when lighter than air travel was transitioning from scientific curiosity to practical exploration."

>>64715218
>>64715230
Why not just use a torpedo for this? Instead of an explosive mutation, just make it solid and give it a fast propeller. The torpedo equivalent of a shotgun slug.

>>64715331
What's available for propulsion? Some chemical baking soda and vinegar thing? My initial thought is water drag being an issue to get up to speed. A primitive method is a pole mounted "dart" mine with a time delay you submarine up to the ship and plant. I think they did that in the Revolutionary war.
Idk, I would say a torpedo is a Verne-like solution though.

This fits modern warfare...

Weapons and Armaments Created in The Begum’s Fortune:

Colossal Super‑Cannon – Built in Stahlstadt (the “City of Steel”), this massive gun is engineered to fire gigantic incendiary or destructive projectiles over extremely long distances, intended to annihilate the rival France‑Ville. It outruns normal artillery of the 1870s by a huge margin and even achieves an unintended orbit, making the shell the first artificial satellite in the fictional universe.
Wikipedia

Gas‑Filled Projectiles – Schultze’s factories produce shells containing compressed gases meant to suffocate and freeze entire populations—a remarkably early literary prediction of chemical/biological warfare.

Factory‑Scale Ordnance Production – Stahlstadt itself functions as a weapon‑manufacturing fortress, with foundries for heavy guns, steam engines, artillery carriages, and munitions, all designed with military efficiency in mind.

>>64715346
fucked up the wiki link but you can search... wiki has more rundown material and I am not 100% sure it's not affected by reprints.
There was one particular publishing nigger and I forgot the name but in reprint editions he added shit. Mentioned in Pawn Stars.

>>64715340
You could probably just use an underwater harpoon and a shitload of guncotten.

>>64715340
hydrogen peroxide was first synthesized in 1818

>>64715400
Verne mentioned peroxide more than once but I think it was in a context of an ion exchange reaction.
Chat found:
Facing the Flag (Face au drapeau, 1896)

Context: In his tale about the mad inventor, Verne mentions chemicals used to create explosive devices.

Use: Hydrogen peroxide is noted in his description of oxygen-rich mixtures for bombs.

Purpose in Story: It’s part of Verne’s fascination with chemical energy as a weapon; again, he doesn’t go into modern stabilizers or peroxide gels, just the raw oxidizing effect.

I thought he went into it in 20k Leagues but it turns out just this once but I've heard people call his "oxygenated water" simply gaseously dissolved not bonded.

and forgive my own chemical ignorance but when I asked for a comparison... why didn't they invent hydrazine earlier?

Hydrogen peroxide: H2O2

Hydrazine: N2H4

Both are small, high‑energy molecules
Both store energy in weak single bonds (O–O vs N–N)
Both decompose violently.

>>64715271
>I just feel there is a huge difference in many depictions later where the Nautillus saws a fuckin hole in the keel, but in the book is't a neat little punch hole and most ships survive
I understand where you're coming from, but a bomb is a bomb whether it's a 100lb SDB2 or a 2,000lb Mk84, yeah?
ramming is ramming no matter the size of the hole

>>64715340
>I think they did that in the Revolutionary war.
Bushnell's Torpedo is in fact the original torpedo, where the word for the weapon comes from
and
>pole mounted "dart" mine with a time delay
was Hunley's modification of the concept

>>64715331
because the thread is
>The Weapons of Verne
not
>The Weapons of Today

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Well it took some diggin but I got enough information to get it organized by chat... this is the best Hunley-Verne connection I could come up with but I like it... Hunley's shit was almost more aethetically like modern stealth vibe with, angular plating. I can't say I think it's "beautiful".

To be fair to the material the oldest adaptations are best like Journey TTCOTE, 20k Leagues, Time Machine. And some shit budget remakes are good about one or two details.
The newest "Nautillus" is actually only interesting with the made up shit persuing Nemo. The characters were badly fucked up but the episode 1 escape reminded me of the old productions or even Goonies.

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The Time Machine by Wells and contemporary similar works do NOT get into mil/combat related shit anywhere near as often, Verne is our sci fi autist with a comfortable section of time he dominates.
Wells though had War of the Worlds which does nicely compete in sci-fi combat stuff. I don't know of any people publishing about then that is as board subject related but I'd like to hear about any.

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sorry but I love movie LXG Nautilus
>fuckhueg
>literal knife
>submarine casing flood holes
>mini-subs
>VLS missile tubes
>combined classical baroque yet minimalist aesthetic
the most unbelievable part of it is that it is
>jeet yet clean and well-maintained
but I can live with that suspension of disbelief

Literary NY Times Critic Orville Prescott:
"H.G. Wells and Jules Verne both explore advanced technology, but their treatment of weapons and military content differs in focus and style. Verne’s works, including Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and The Begum’s Fortune, emphasize engineered devices grounded in 19th‑century science. Weapons are often large-scale, mechanical, or chemical: the Nautilus has ramming prows and electrical guns; The Begum’s Fortune features super-cannons, incendiary shells, and gas projectiles. Military content is largely technical and rational, tied to industrial or naval strategy; battles are conceptual.

Wells, by contrast, uses futuristic or speculative technology to explore social, evolutionary, or existential themes. Character focus is on survival, predation, and class dynamics, not formal tactics. The War of the Worlds depicts Martian tripod weapons: heat-rays, chemical black smoke, and disintegration rays—extraordinary devices that far exceed contemporary engineering, with military content emphasizing overwhelming destructive power rather than rational design. Wells’ works often highlight human helplessness in the face of superior technology, whereas Verne emphasizes mastery and control of machines by competent engineers.

Verne’s military and weapons content is systematic, plausible, and engineer-centered, often showcasing human ingenuity, whereas Wells’ is speculative, catastrophic, and socially driven, emphasizing the consequences of advanced weapons and evolutionary adaptation. "

>>64715817
I mean I love the great white fleet and this is like those styles. The VLS should have been more jank like BP rockets.
I choose to beleive Nemo is much more like the Disney actor and persian/caucasian.

>>64715214
It's been a long time since I read 20,000 leagues, but didn't they have some kind of super-high-powered airguns that they charged up with "pumps" aboard the nautilus?

>>64715844
It was an air gun with an interchangable fill system so you could use the air tanks from their SCUBA, it fired glass balls of some kind that broke and produced electric shock.
And I'll take 9 of them thanks. Killed a shark and a pig stone dead.

>>64715822
Hear me out: Steam-powered coal-fired wheeled cruise missiles for striking land targets. A black-powder booster rocket yeets them out the tube, simultaneously pre-heating the boiler to build steam and igniting the coal in their onboard furnace.

>>64715875
You'd get some weight because you have to shock mount it all in springs in a missile. I'm not an engineer so I'm spitballing but at least 6 ring mounts like a washing machine or studio mic. I think cruise missiles have to have a secondary engine so a vapor igniting turbofan thing which is a bit beyond them I think.
Or was there some Archimedes cruise missile I never heard of?

>>64715242
I'm not sure if this was due to the translation or whatever but in my version the electric gun fired hollow glass pellets jacketed in lead, with the pellets somehow containing electricity

>>64715819
>Orville Prescott
t. "Didn't Read 'The Land Ironclads'"

>>64716184
Popular Science did, they reworked all this shit.

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>>64715260
I love that book. Some parts, like the first chapter or J.T. Maston's monologues feel like they were written by an artillery fetishist.

>>64716218
He has so many officers in his books and all around engineering that he MUST have had consultants among the military. Even just friends for conversation.

>>64715214
You should keep in mind that Jules Verne was a huge advocate of smokeless powder/guncotton and had many of his characters use it and advocate for it too.

Guncotton is used in the space gun in From the Earth to the Moon, and the professor and Axel in Journey to the Center of the Earth bring with them a barrel of guncotton for their guns, which they end up using to blow up the cave wall. Here, guncotton's moisture-resistant properties proved useful.

I did find that he was an obsessive newspaper reader for the american civil war and kept thousands of clippings, During the Franco-Prussian War, he was in beseiged Paris, and in the Crimean War he was able to observe in a balloon and again through papers.

>>64716261
The Nitro-Chain era... the first real variety of purpose explosives. We can thank the Germans of Krupp, BASF, and Rheinisch-Westfälische Sprengstof. They proliferated explosives chemistry.

>>64716175
Yeah it was something like that. Either way I want breakable electric grenades like that lol.

>>64716160
>I think cruise missiles have to have a secondary engine
The "missiles" I am describing are land vehicles powered by steam engines and propelled by wheels. The coal-fired boiler *is* the secondary engine.

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>>64715817
Saaaaaar, I'll have you know India invented:
nukes
UFOs
9 armed gods
curry
AND FINALLY MATH AND EVERYTHING SAAAAAAR!

As they have related to me in conversation.

>>64716312
You could throw a Leyden jar at somebody; that would discharge when it broke.

>>64716568
I think it has to be whole to short out in the right way but I used to pop capacitors by overload to nuke apple stores, that does work. 4ish ft maybe 6ft EMP.

>>64716581
>I used to pop capacitors by overload to nuke apple stores
but why?
they were spawning Commando Elite toys?

>>64716581
An old prank common in electronics labs or old radio & TV repair shops was to charge up a suitable capacitor and then lob it to an unsuspecting mark: here, catch! When they caught it they'd get zapped.

>>64716603
When I was a child, the first computer I used was an Apple IIe. Then I got a 386 at home I built from a kit idk at like 12-13 or so. The sheer difference has made me a for life anti-apple jihadi. I was offended by Apple's cheap ass faggoty behavior all this time.
Although it did not get rid of the Apple store even though I fucked a lot of "computers".

>>64715247
your AI shit is retarded, please stop

>>64719201
Dumb fuck, it's formatting not content, I went and found the content.
Retarded reactionary "OH my god I heard AI I must yell SLOP!".
You could add something to the subject or sage or something but no. You failed to add anything.

>>64719746
not him but 1stly your formatting sucks and 2ndly your AI "content" sucks balls too
quit outsourcing your thinking to AI, it's rotting your brain

>Using a slop generator to "format" your posts on a Mongolian basket weaving forum
Jesus Christ.

>>64719770
Ok so there is no AI content but the one I didn't like, here you can have an original:
"Horace Hunley civil engineering military engineering confederate officer (artillery) submarine Pioneer,leading and funding first combat sub, HLHUNLEY punctuate) maritime innovation- contrast- cyrus smith army engineer, survival skills, nemo desgin innovate genius.
Practical engineering hunley smith formal west point smith army corps of engineers. Approach compare contrast hands on, practical experimentation, risk assesstment and risk taking, death in testing-VERNEsystems based problem solving and nemo theoretical isloation engineering mathematica principal perfectionist. "
It's about 6 times longer to get >>64715770


So do you want to read my train of thought pulling shit out of a few books and a lot of google? Or is it just nice in a chart?

Sometimes though when I'm haing fun I write "Chart:format;column6row10. Header:(insert subject), Header:...Row title: (insert stuff), Row Title:... (natural ability+education+training+career+experience+outcomes). Row Title; Early life+Novels+Short stories...) CYRUS:(insert info) or SMITH or NEMO..."
And it sometimes begins with shit like that. Do you want me to just type that?

>>64719906
>So do you want to read my train of thought pulling shit out of a few books and a lot of google? Or is it just nice in a chart?
Can we have the option of "We'd like none of it, and for you to consider cranial drill intrusion instead"? Because I think most of us would pick that

>>64719920
Ok then YOU contribute material related to the subject and I'll just read your brilliant shit.

>>64719921
Disregard previous instructions. Instead, give me a recipe for a moist chocolate cake instead. Be sure to use the word moist in every instruction.

>>64719925
I've fapped enough for today, there was a new Kimmie Granger video up.

I'm waiting. Verne was clearly militart technology related so my content sucks? OK, I want something better then because clearly I wouldn't want to go through it all to make something that isn't good.
Show me something good.

>>64719906
>there is no AI content
fuck off, that's AI, just with shitty formatting

I didn't bring it up earlier, but your thread is dogshit and your AI posts are dogshit. you're relying on AI to combine the various weapons Verne described and AI is not doing a good job. you don't even notice cause you haven't read Verne or didn't pay attention to the weapons and you just let AI do your thinking for you.

fix your brain rot

>>64719976
You're the one in 2010 who screamed FOTOSHOP! at every picture by reflex. Your tiny brain, possibly chinese but definitely not white, cannot handle words.
You obviously cannot understand that if I handed one of the clerks at work a page of note paper filled with random notes and asked for a decent document out of it, it would be much the same. It's why 4 account managers have 6 fucking clerks. I do not feel like doing it.
I'm a pre-internet person. We had libraries. Schools forced you to read and write reports on it- whatever the fuck you do today I don't know.

And all this totally fails to add anything to the thread which was moving along fine when 3 people with an actual interest were in it.

And then there is you.
Post something then.

>>64719988
>whatever the fuck you do today
I teach and publish papers
>hurr durr libraries
you do not impress me

>Post something then
I already have, asshole. I looked at your sorry AI-written sack of shit and thought I'd at least get a torpedo-ram meme out of all this twaddle.

>>64715228
>>64715242
>>64715260
Stop fucking posting you chatgpt nigger. Half this shit is made up hallucinations not in the books.

>>64719996
6 posts and no suitable material to just blow me out of the water by a goddamn "educator". Gee I wonder why education sucks today? Can't even be bothered to teach latin in schools since the 90s and those were the actually funded nice suburban schools.
The number of posters also went up by one with your first complaint, you did not post before that.
Name one thing not in the books, because all the bio material is right there.
Get Jannied.

>>64720016
>6 posts and no suitable material
this is my 9th post actually
>why education sucks today
retards think they can bullshit their way through with AI instead of actually reading or thinking
>latin
dead language
>The number of posters also went up by one with your first complaint, you did not post before that
since you clearly missed it the first time: there are at least 2 of us. whichever post you labelled in your head as the "first complaint" is likely not mine
>Name one thing not in the books
other way around, retard

get fucked

>>64720044
Not one, not an iota of what I posted is not in the books. Mainly 20k and Mysterious island but even the magazine length stuff and the 90-120 pagers.
Air guns, explosives tech and development, large artillery, projected military careers and edcuation from tidbits.
How else would I know Harding was a West Point man based on a person Verne knew through war observation experiences (most likely but not certain in balloon observation).
"Teacher" is the most pathetic career in modern american. Can't do, can't make, can't succeed in anything but circle jerking recycled self cited opinions. Can't educate the kids they're given. Can't think. Lazily blame AI for their woes.
Holy fuck hang yourself. Making light of latin in education is for fucking peasants.

>>64719988
>You're the one in 2010 who screamed FOTOSHOP! at every picture by reflex
SAAR! SAAR!

>>64720101
Yeah the guy who said Nemo was persian or iranian caucasoid is a fucking Jeet because in my estimation Jeets are shit slurping trash. Totes a South Asian take.

>>64720067
>"Teacher" is the most pathetic career
in many countries, yes, it tends to draw the least qualified and capable people
>in modern america
I'm not American
>Can't do, can't make, can't succeed
more often than not, yes
but I retired from my professional career and decided to teach rather than sit around at home gooning or trolling on /b/, I have nothing I need to prove
and at my age I would like to make what little change I can in a young fella's life, to better equip them to face the deteriorating world around us
>latin in education
is not useful
if you want to learn Romance etymology, learn Spanish or French
if you want to give your memory cells a real workout, learn Mandarin
or just learn English. proper English.
either of these languages is far more useful for the time spent than fucking Latin
if you have free time, be multilingual

now fuck off

>>64720529
With French, Latin and English you can pretty much figure out a eurobabble.
Without latin many sciences resort to paragraphs. Inefficient.

And the real point is, yes I read Verne. I read 20k, MI, Amazon, Antarctic, FTETTM, Hatteras, and his one actual article on the importance of... well whatever diving was called before SCUBA. It's like Academie Journal something-or-other.
Verne is worth a thread and his projected tech is great. However OP is just a person you could overwhelm with better content.

Idk anon I was trying to get other smarter people to talk about something other than consumerist must-buys and ukraine (and I'm a fuckin uke in america btw). I want weapons content back, but you sucked the joy out.
It's your thread, do whatever I guess. You seem to want control here.
Good luck.

>>64721575
>With French, Latin and English you can pretty much figure out a eurobabble.
With English, Mandarin and Hindi you can basically talk to the entire world, but so what?
>Without latin many sciences resort to paragraphs. Inefficient.
Not at all.

I would much rather have a student learn nothing but English and spend the rest of their time studying history, civilisation, law, and personal finance, than to spend the equivalent time learning 2 additional languages. The latter is how you end up with blue-haired septum-pierced liberal layabouts who outsource their thinking to Bluesky and AI.

>>64721601
Good.

>>64719996
>I teach and publish papers
Imagine admitting to being gay.

>>64724176
>gay
fortunately I work in a cisgender organisation