When I was little I was told that the world was round so I believed that but I couldn't figure out how it was also flat. I ended up with my own theory that we lived encased in a huge glass globe with a flat plane on the inside, that's what our houses sat on on and what we walked on. Then someone told me that the sun is bigger than the earth, but that made no sense to me because I figured there's no way the sun could fit inside the glass globe.
A childhood belief about outer space
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the world, Earth, was enclosed in glass, like one of those snow globes.— G
- My cousin once told me that glass was made from ground up beetles, and I believed her! — benjymous
- The very first time I saw a globe (of Earth, yes) I asked where "College" was located.— Shade
- When my dad was young,he used to believe that the lines on a globe were on the world itself.— LINE MACHINES!
- I used to believe that the earth was flat.— Rt.y
- I used to think that we lived in a gigantic snow globe.Anon