I think lasers are pretty wack when you think about them through this lens. A small, wand-like object in your hand can make light appear from seemingly nowhere. If it’s powerful enough it can set things on fire or blind people. Not to mention larger ones like laser cutters or the LLD, used to destroy missiles midflight. Thats sure to blow some feudal peasant minds

    • DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      I somewhat disagree. As you said people weren’t idiots, they just lack the contextual understanding we have.

      Take a car for example. Even if you’d never seen a wheel, it would surely be easy to understand how it works just by seeing a car roll by. You may not immediately understand how its moving itself but I don’t think that means you would conclude its magic. You could think it’s biological, but honestly concluding that it’s a machine doesn’t seem that unlikely to me.

      Also the internet… I think most modern people just think it’s magic really.

      • QuinceDaPence@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        If you’ve only known stairs your whole life, a lift would seem like a teleportation device.

        I once talked to a guy on Reddit who had a version of this turned up to 11.

        I don’t remember the exact times so I’ll guess but it’ll get the point across.

        He boarded the New York Subway at 8:42am September 11, 2001, and got off at 8:50am.

        Dude was just having a normal day walking onto that train and the next station was in a totally different dimension.