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A piece of glass that can hold 12 _hours_ of direct sunlight? How can such an energy be contained without destroying any kind of optical equipment?

There's an interesting question: what will archaeologists of the future think of us, if they ever find the remains of our culture. Will anything electronic remain at its present form? Will any buildings or roads remain? I have this uneasy feeling that the old Roman roads, and the Pyramids, will outlive our meagre, unstable products.

This time, I'm not making a value-judgement, just asking a question, and making a small prediction.

In 1870, Jules Verne wrote about his Nautilus submarine in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. He gave us a great yarn; but submarines go back long before Jules Verne. Quite a lot of subs had been built by 1870. One had even sunk an enemy ship.

An English inventor described a workable submarine in 1578.

A Dutch inventor finally built several oar-driven subs in the early 1600s. And by the early 1700s, England had issued at least 14 patents for submarines. During the American Revolution, Bushnell built his Turtle submarine and tried to sink a British warship. By then he was using an established technology. The Turtle was hand-powered, and so too was Fulton's submarine a few years later.

When the German builder Wilhelm Bauer made two large submarines in the 1850s, they were still man-powered. Bauer sold his subs to the Russians, and he did so with a fine sense of theater. In 1856 he put one under Kronstadt Harbor with a small orchestra in it. Men in the ships at anchor that day heard the Russian National Anthem welling up from the ocean floor.

the Confederate military built a series of 50-foot-long cigar-shaped steam-driven submarines. In 1864 one of them actually sank the Union sloop Housatonic.

Well, this would all be nice and dandy, except that:
a. The Bible was ghost-written for God by numerous authors, so it's not really his work, or, technically, any single entity's work. (No, I don't think they were part of the Collective. Fnord.)
b. It has no scientific elements.
c. The fantastic elements are mostly centered in the first few books, so I don't know if it could really be counted as fantasy, overall.
d. It had made no clear predictions that turned out to be correct. (Saying that in the next chapter, the Israelites will be Punished by God doesn't count - the writer was peeking.)