In a dream, I saw that I was in the the middle east somewhere as a tourist. I saw that I attended a heavily attended outdoor ceremony in which a new kind of rocket - perhaps it was their first homemade innovation of the kind, was being tested and demonstrated publicly.

I saw that the visibly huge craft was docked to a moderate launchpad given the scale and designs I knew from the rockets launched by the likes of NASA. In fact, I noticed that there were several people close to the launch pad, who, while the rocket prepared to launch, went ahead to leave about the pad unconcerned and with even no visible protective wear such as special suits or accident proof clothing. They instead merely wore the typical...