My name is Joshua Topolsky and I have a new podcast called What Future.

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Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of I Heart Radio.

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind.

Listen or mail, this is Robert Lam and this is Joe McCormick and it's Monday the day of the week that we read back some messages.

You've sent into the show account, which if you ever want to get in touch with a contribution of your own, that account is contact at Stuff to Blow Your Mind.com.

Contact at Stuff to Blow Your Mind.com. Yeah, get in touch.

Yeah, we need contact. That's true. That's what our Mondays are made out of here. So, okay, I'm going to start off with this message from Josh.

Responding to some previous listener mail and this one needs a bit of background. So in the in a previous listener mail episode, somebody named Lurch got in touch and mentioned the 1936 HG Wells sci-fi movie.

Things to come, which featured a scene of it. There's a future civilization traveling to the moon by way of a giant ballistic cannon.

They're going to shoot somebody into the moon just like in the French movie. What's it called? The voyage to the moon.

And our listener pointed out the amusing design choice that this giant cannon has an iron sight at the end of the barrel, like somebody's going to be holding it and aiming it.

So anyway, Josh says, Hi, Joe Robyn Seth, the launch gun from Things to Come that Lurch mentioned reminded me of an actual company that is making something similar.

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