When I was 3 or 4, my dad told me that it was cold on Mars. Being an impressionable child, I assumed that Mars was the outermost planet in the solar system. Fortunately, an early obsession with outer space fixed that when I was 6 or 7.
A childhood belief about outer space
others believed things like this
- As a child I used think if I jumped too high on a trampoline I'd be sucked up into outer space.— Jenn
- when I was small I always thought that the solar system ended, and then it was just white paper after that— sparrow
- When I was really little I used to belief that fireworks dropped out of the sky from outer space.— davesgrl2001
- I used to think that up in outer space the sun was a gigantic baby that never grew up like in Teletubbies.— WeirdButProud
- I thought the airport was a place that you get chopped into pieces in order to go to outer space! lol!!!— I don't know why you get chopped...
- When I was younger, my brother told me the police had an infra-red system and could see into everyones house.— Clare, Ireland