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Updated: June 17, 2025
The rockets, so often alluded to as an idea of Ardan's and already fully described, had been originally provided to break the violence of the Projectile's fall on the lunar surface; but now the dauntless travellers were about to employ them for a purpose precisely the reverse.
"How I pity Ardan's poor friends the Selenites during that night so long and so icy! How impatient they must be to see the Sun back again!" "Yes," said Ardan, also sitting down the better to bask in the vivifying rays, "his light no doubt brings them to life and keeps them alive.
"Certainly," was Ardan's reply; "these streaks are all only the parts of what we call a 'star, as made by a stone striking ice; or by a ball, a pane of glass." "Not bad," smiled Barbican approvingly; "only where is the hand that flung the stone or threw the ball?" "The hand is hardly necessary," replied Ardan, by no means disconcerted; "but as for the ball, what do you say to a comet?"
This laughter lasted till evening throughout the Union, an unusual thing in a country where any impossible enterprise finds adepts and partisans. Still Michel Ardan's proposition did not fail to awaken a certain emotion in many minds. "They had not thought of such a thing." How many things denied one day had become realities the next! Why should not this journey be accomplished one day or another?
Their bodies were thrown one upon the other, Nicholl on the top, Barbicane underneath. Ardan raised the captain, propped him up against a divan, and rubbed him vigorously. This friction, administered skilfully, reanimated Nicholl, who opened his eyes, instantly recovered his presence of mind, seized Ardan's hand, and then looking round him "And Barbicane?" he asked.
Ardan's eye could take in the whole extent in an easy sweep from the Southern Cross to the Little Bear, thus embracing within one glance not only the two polar stars of the present day, but also Campus and Vega, which, by reason of the precession of the Equinoxes, are to be our polar stars 12,000 years hence.
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