Talk:The First Men in the Moon

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[edit] Original research

I hate to say this, since it's quite well done, but it seems to me that the section on Cavor's motives is almost entirely original research. Nareek 05:00, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Indeed.

While we're at it:

Why did Cavor, in all the considerable time that he was free to make broadcasts to Earth, fail to provide fellow-humans with the formula of making cavorite? And why did he tell the Grand Lunar in such great detail about humanity's warlike proclivities?

Actually, there are several allusions in Cavor's transmissions that not everything is as grandiose as he is at first led to believe. (The "kids" of the Selenites in their infant stages, the doped working hands amidst the fungus fields.) My impression was that Cavor was at first truely naive enough to assume the Selenite society to be better than the one on Earth, hence he wanted man to stay off the moon and had no motivation to share the Cavorite formula. He also told of man's belligerent nature by accident. Later it did occur to him that the Selenites were neither better nor worse than humans, and he wanted to share his Cavorite secret to get a chance to get back to Earth, or because (okay, wildly speculative now:) because the Selenites had "learned" to wage war, and Cavor wanted to save Earth from their impending invasion. (Which would also explain why now the Selenites cut him off from Earth, whereas before they'd been quite indifferent to his radio activities.) So, all in all it'd be a kind of prequel to "War of the Worlds".

But all this is of course original research, and mere speculation, and I just felt in the mood for a rant. --Syzygy 15:02, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Technology?

Is it worth mentioning that the technology used in the book wouldn't work as speculated (Air made weightless would only get you into orbit, not to the moon)? --Irrevenant [ talk ] 00:59, 1 March 2008 (UTC)