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Lateral with Tom Scott cover image

42: Giant concrete balls

Lateral with Tom Scott

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Grand Central's Stars

Do they, to this day, have stars on the ceiling at Grand Central? I've never been. They've done the wrong hemisphere because they're in the northern hemisphere and they've done the southern hemisphere or something. We should have modern constellations. The three cabois. Yep, the iPhone. This one looks like Flappy Bird. There's Flappy Bird it's sort of the big dipper. It's the selfie stick. Yeah, what's your star sign? Steam locomotive. You know, in our current capitalist hellscape, they would probably all be owned by Keke Koehler and Samsung. Oh my god. And we've got 10 years to rename

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