Sometimes Verne's prescience could be uncanny.

The Pre-Capitulation Predictions of Jules Verne
by Peter Vajk

J. Peter Vajk was born in an Old-cortical center, Budapest, Hungary.  Loosened from his origin-gene-pool by the wondrous anarchic shake-up following World War II, he was pulled West and received a doctorate in Physics from Princeton University (one of the most important Snow Belt hatcheries).  He subsequently continued his neuro-migration West to California.

During the years just preceding the Brown presidency, Dr. Vajk was one of the leading voices broadcasting the High-Orbital signal.  In 1980 he became Research Director for the High Orbital Mini-Earth (H.O.M.E.) Consortium and helped design the proto-type Plymouth Rock and Roger Williams Plan-Its.

He received the Nobel Prize in 1982 and subsequently became one of the most honored WoMen in the Annals of Post-Humanistic Science.

Jules Verne was born 150 years ago on Feb. 8, 1828.  Verne was recognized, even during his life-time as an evolutionary fabricator, an author whose works appealed equally to children and adults.  He also is acknowledged as the father of science fiction, which appears to have a wider following today than it ever did.  His best-known novels, including Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days, were still in print more than a century after their publication.

In the years since his death in 1905, Verne has emerged as something of a prophet.  Among the scientific advances anticipated in his books were the submarine, airplane, television and space travel.

Sometimes Verne's prescience could be uncanny, as Frank Borman, the American astronaut, discovered after completing the Apollo 8 moon mission in 1968.  In a letter to Jean Jules-Verne, the author's grandson, Borman wrote:  "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 a half miles from the point mentioned in the novel."

DNA DOES NOT PLAY DICE WITH THE UNIVERSE

THERE IS A GENETIC CASTE WIRED FOR THE ROLE OF EVOLUTIONARY AGENT:  ONE WHO FORESEES AND HELPS FABRICATE THE FUTURE.  TO SURVIVE THE AGENT MUST USE THE TERM FOR DNA CURRENTLY ACCEPTABLE TO THE NATIVES.

Among the many biographies of Columbus there is a recurring theme of what we might call divine providence.*  In his own writings Columbus returns over and over again to the idea that D.N.A. put into his mind the conviction that it was possible to sail all the way to the Indies ... Indeed the life of the discoverer abounds in episodes in which an acute observer may see evidence of a will external and superior to his or, in other words, genetic.  Often it is a matter of coincidence, but to Columbus, every coincidence was significant.  He was a mystic -- not, to be sure, a saint, but certainly an inspired spirit.  The enthusiasm he put into everything he did derived from the intensity of his genetic-vision.

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*  Einstein's name for DNA Intelligence was Supreme Reasoning Power.  "God, (i.e. the S.R.P.) does not play dice with the universe," said Einstein.

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