I believed that if you shone a flashlight at the sun for eight minutes, that the sun would blow up and all life on earth would be extinguished.
A childhood belief about outer space

others believed things like this
- I used to think that if you shone a flashlight beam onto a lightbulb long enough, it would eventually light.— Karen K
- When i was a toddler i sued to believe that if you ate soap you would blow bubbles for the rest of your life.— KEL
- if you shone a torch into the sky at night, an airplane would thin you were a runway and land on you— spam
- I used to believe that the full moon was God's flashlight.Anon
- I used to think that if you didn't blow your nose and just sniffed the snot up, you head would blow up.Anon
- I used to believe that the sun shone brighter on a Sunday! Sunday in all languages is named after the Sun!!!— Vasu Moses