I like how people used to think of such absurd solutions to problems way back in the day. H.P. Lovecraft thought that we'd have to mine out the ice with these specially engineered superdrills, but no, we'd just build bigger drills. Older designers thought skyscrapers would've required all these huge trusses and gothic arches and physics with all that shit leaning into itself, but no, we just put metal in the buildings and it was fine. That guy thought that diseased, 200 kilo manslugs would need their own special pants to carry themselves around, but actually they just have regular pants and play Mario Kart in real life.