1) I was about 10 in 1980 and worried frequently about nuclear war with the USSR. I didnt understand how it worked and somehow concoted this theory that our country and the USSR had buried wires that ran all the way through the Earth to just underneath the other country. If one wanted nuclear war you just push a button and poof! that country vaporizes.
2) One girlfriend I had didn't understand how the space shuttle left the Earth's atmosphere b/c she thought the Earth was surrounded by some sort of glass-like window. She was 25! My current girlfriend confessed to me that when she first immigrated to the US from Vietnam she saw her first vending machine in the airport. When she saw someone use it and get change she figured there must be a midget inside to couint the money. She was 18!
A childhood belief about technology
others believed things like this
- I used to belive, that USSR is the best country in the World...:(— Iryna
- I used to think wars started when a sergeant from one country socked a sergeant from another country.— recovering
- I used to believe that the world, Earth, was enclosed in glass, like one of those snow globes.— G
- i used to think, when i was about 4 that i lived inside a whale because i live ion the country Wales— mike
- I used to believe that we lived inside the earth!— Natalie Howley
- I used to believe that human lived inside the planet earth and not on its surface.— Giancarlo