Prophets of old wrote scripture; prophets of the modern era write science fiction. Jules Verne, who was born in 1828, made uncanny predictions about submarines, airplanes, and space travel. An Apollo mission astronaut said this about Jules Verne:
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It cannot be a mere matter of coincidence. Our space vehicle was launched from Florida, like the spaceship in From the Earth to the Moon...
...it had the same weight and the same height, and it splashed down in the Pacific a mere two and half miles from the point mentioned in the novel.
Frank Borman, Apollo Mission astronaut