My dad told me the moon was lit exclusively by lite reflected from the earth and believed it himself. I could never figure how a reflection could produce a crescent.
A childhood belief about outer space
others believed things like this
- I used to believe the crescent moon was God's trimmed thumbnail— Sakari
- I used to believe that when the moon phase was a Crescent that it was god's fingernail clippingAnon
- i always thought I was the reflection and your reflection was a personAnon
- one of my friend's was told by his father that if you didn't turn mirrors over the reflection would run out.— pri
- When a grown-up is shown as a child, it was actually them, and the film took 20+ years to produceAnon
- i used to think that the moon would follow you in the car, also that it looked like a half moon.— natalie k