A childhood belief about technology

When I was about five I had (and still have, though I don't use it as much anymore) a Magic School Bus dinosaur game. In it the bus was a time machine and could travel to the age of the dinosaurs. It convinced me that I could build a time machine if I put a timer in a cardboard box and it would work if it was thrown into the air and it would fly to the time of the dinosaurs. So every day I would find the kitchen timer and sit in the box with it and begged my parents to throw me into the sky so I could go back in time but they kept telling me I couldn't but I kept believing I could. Eventually I was able to annoy everyone with this time machine stuff and my mom threatened to take away the Magic School Bus CD. I gave up when my parents finally explained thoroughly why it wasn't possible.