So Megan and I were talking this morning (“What?” you say. “Social interaction??” I KNOW, RIGHT?!) and we concluded that if there ever were a time where time travel was invented and we were able to drag someone from like the 1600s to the present time, the first thing we would show them would be a vacuum cleaner.

Because that’s probably the most futuristic-looking thing we’ve got.

Seriously now. If I were to bring someone from 300 years ago into the present time and say, “we’ve developed technology that allows us to launch ourselves into space,” and ask them which of the following two objects is the thing that allows us to do so, which do you think they would pick (ignoring scale)?

I’d be tempted to pick the second object. It would roll along a runway like an airplane and then launch once it hit a certain speed.

Fun fact: the Saturn V Rocket was a Dyson in disguise.

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