My 6 year old son said to me after the Columbia space shuttle exploded, "someone musta accidentally pressed the "explode" button."
A childhood belief about technology

others believed things like this
- When I was 7 my brother told me that when the space of the computer runs out it will explode.— Sam
- I use to think the hazard lights button would cause the car to explode.— m0u5y
- I thought that when you pressed the hazzard button in the car, the dukes of hazzard would come and save you.— smfd26
- That the District of Columbia was an island in the Carribean. I believed this until I was about 19 yrs old. Anon
- I used to belive that the New Years ball exploded, and people who were near it died.— Angela
- that fireworks were animals with bombs inside ang when it exploded it was dead bits of rabbits— lala