I was always interested in science. Somewhere I saw a textbook with a drawing of a cannon shooting a cannonball into orbit around the earth, to explain escape velocity. I was convinced that the moon had been shot out of a cannon to orbit the earth thereafter.
A childhood belief about outer space
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that sattelite dishes were used to shot down falling meteors that fell to earth.Anon
- i used to believe that you could see 2 suns from somewhere on earth— bramblepicker
- I used to believe we lived IN the earth rather than ON it.— AC
- I used to believe that the earth was flat.— Rt.y
- That if there was an Antarctica, there had to be and Arctica somewhere on the other end of the earth. — tammy
- when i was young i used to believe that the sun goes down behind the mountains into the earth— confused