my friend used to have this "technique" for jumping off stuff. until he was about 13 he thought if you jumped off a high building and stayed close to the wall on the way down, you could push off with your feet right before you hit the ground and roll and you would live. he never tried it so unfortunately he's still alive.
A childhood belief about physics
others believed things like this
- i once thought that if you jumped high enough in the air, you'd get stuck!Anon
- Until I was in High School, I really thought that the "underground railroad" was under the ground.— S
- As a child I used think if I jumped too high on a trampoline I'd be sucked up into outer space.— Jenn
- I used to believe that grown-ups got scared because they were so high off the ground.— Sammy
- I used to think the Empire State Building was called the "Ten-past-eight building".— Alex
- I thought ground beef was the meat they scraped off the ground at the slaughterhouse. Yuck.Anon