'Mole machines' is what me and my brother used to call them. You see them in Thunderbirds, any film about Victorians tunnelling trying to find the core of the Earth, and lots of cartoons. They're basically cylinders with giant screws on the front and they burrow through soil, rock, or the white-hot core of the planet at about fifteen miles an hour.
I knew not everything you saw on TV existed in real life, but I saw these things on too many different shows and films for it to be a coincidence. So Mole Machines must be real, I deduced, and I hoped fervently to ride in one when I was a grown up. Big disappointment.
I was delighted to see a Mole Machine pop up in The Incredibles. Maybe a whole new generation of kids will see them as a viable transport option.
A childhood belief about technology
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the mole on my leg was from when my brother drew on it with a marker.— Lori
- I believed Noel Edmonds real name was 'Mole' Edmonds— abi
- I used to think if a moth landed on you , you would get a mole. — karen
- I thought the mole on my arm was from a bug pooping on my arm a long time agoAnon
- I used to believe that the mole in my belly button was a poppy seed from a muffin I ate.Anon
- My dad told my young daughters that molasses comes from mole asses. I don't know how long they— Monica