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Updated: June 21, 2025

"It is certain," replied Barbicane; "the attraction is so great on this enormous orb, that an object weighing 70,000 pounds on the earth would weigh but 1,920 pounds on the surface of the sun. If you were to fall upon it you would weigh let me see about 5,000 pounds, a weight which you would never be able to raise again." "The devil!" said Michel; "one would want a portable crane.

Jules Verne - From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon