Your point being? As I recall Verne's moon expedition was shot from a giant cannon - a process which would have turned to paste any multicellular organism. As I remember he also had air and inhabitants on the moon. Are you claiming that Verne's/Heinlein's fictional plot devices are at some point in time going to turn into reality? Because if that's the case, then suddenly you're going to need a lunar atmosphere and lunar native inhabitants which is no more absurd than Heinlein's self sustaining lunar colony.
Edgar Rice Burroughs had John Carter on Mars with a breathable atmosphere and somewhat humanoid inhabitants. Does this mean that they're four armed Martian princesses?
“Your point being? As I recall Verne’s moon expedition was shot from a giant cannon - a process which would have turned to paste any multicellular organism. As I remember he also had air and inhabitants on the moon. Are you claiming that Verne’s/Heinlein’s fictional plot devices are at some point in time going to turn into reality?”
The details of how to accomplish the feats mentioned will of course differ from how such feats are actually accomplished, but that’s missing the forest for the trees. Verne was fiction, yet we went to the moon. Your inability to acknowledge the strategical importance of the moon as pointed out by Heinlein’s story is both short sighted and dangerous.
“Your point being? As I recall Verne’s moon expedition was shot from a giant cannon - a process which would have turned to paste any multicellular organism. As I remember he also had air and inhabitants on the moon. Are you claiming that Verne’s/Heinlein’s fictional plot devices are at some point in time going to turn into reality?”
The details of how to accomplish the feats mentioned will of course differ from how such feats are actually accomplished, but that’s missing the forest for the trees. Verne was fiction, yet we went to the moon. Your inability to acknowledge the strategic importance of the moon as pointed out by Heinlein’s story is both short sighted and dangerous.