I was a kid when the Soviets got Sputnik up. I asked my father if that wasn't dangerous--I thought we lived inside the earth, and that a satellite would poke a hole through the other side when it came our way. After he stopped laughing, he explained that we actually lived on the outside. Then, I worried about falling off!
A childhood belief about outer space
others believed things like this
- When I was a kid I thought that the newsreaders on satellite TV lived in the satellites.— Mat
- 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
- I used to believe that we lived inside of the world. I asked my Dad who lived on the outside of the world. — Pauline
- I had a little hole in the wall under my bed when I was little and I thought that Fraggles lived in there.....— Tina
- I used to believe we lived IN the earth rather than ON it.— AC