This is a unique time in our history, in the history of 
any civilization, it's the moment of the acquisition of 
technology, that's the moment when contact becomes 
possible.

You want to hear something nutty? I heard about these two 
guys that want to build something called an airplane. You 
get people to go in it and fly around like birds. Or what 
about what about breaking the sound barrier or rockets to 
the moon or atomic energy or a mission to mars? Science 
fiction, right?!