Hang on a bit, you actually tried to hoover a sock?
I, clearly, didn’t try to hoover up a sock. Otherwise I may well have been more successful rather than doing it accidentally and almost burning the house down(*).
As a wise computer once said,
The thing about a black hole – its main distinguishing feature – is it’s black. And the thing about space, the colour of space, your basic space colour, is black. So how are you supposed to see them?
Kind of the same principle.
(* – yes, I was dyson with death)