human
If ever we begin this journey over again, we shall do well to choose the time when the moon is at the full.
gpt
Certainly, said Nicholl,
human
Well said, Nicholl, replied Michel Ardan.
gpt
What do you think, Barbicane?
human
I think this, answered the grave president:
gpt
If ever we begin this journey again, we shall start at the same time and under the same conditions. Suppose we had attained our end, would it not have been better to have found continents in broad daylight than a country plunged in utter darkness? Would not our first installation have been made under better circumstances? Yes, evidently. As to the _invisible_ side, we could have visited it in our exploring expeditions on the lunar globe. So that the time of the full moon was well chosen. But we ought to have arrived at the end; and in order to have so arrived, we ought to have suffered no deviation on the road.
human
I have nothing to say to that, answered Michel Ardan.
gpt
Here is, however, a good opportunity lost of observing the other side of the moon.