Stories abound based on seemingly blatant myths cocktailed with a scientific hue to make it more interesting, lively,.... almost real and attractive. It stimulates the mind of the reader / audience and takes them on a journey to a kind of 'Wonderland' where impossible things happen, mastered and maneuvored by unbelievable fictitious characters. Movies on these stories are made in such a manner that it makes one start wondering..."perhaps there is SOME TRUTH in the absurdity"!!.
The well-known, famous story 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea' by Jules Verne published in 1870 had this quality. It is a story of Captain Nemo and his super-submarine Nautilus. It was a modern submarine with several features which were unbelievable at that time.....though many a times scientists conducted trials since several centuries for a real…