Shaped metal earth-delivery systems

Abstract

Michel Verne (1861-1925), son of the famous storyteller Jules Verne (1828-1905), rewrote and posthumously published The Chase of the Golden Meteor (1908). An entirely gold metal asteroid of enormous size, the public announcement of its out-of-the-blue coming to rest on the Earth's surface provokes an epic worldwide financial crisis. In 1941, Georges Prosper Remi (1907-1983), also widely known by his penname Herge, published a newspaper serialized children's tale featuring his internationally beloved child-adventurer, the boy TINTIN, performing in The Shooting Star, and considering the effects on fiercely rival capitalist financiers competing over possession of the strange solid body containing a fictitious mineral, phostlite, which exhibits previously unknown, environmental-active globally influential properties.