I used to think the world as seen from space was just the outer shell. People, cities and even the sky were inside the globus! So then it made sense to me why nuclear rockets would destroy the world: they would shoot up and pierce the world's outer shell.
A childhood belief about outer space
others believed things like this
- When I was really little I used to belief that fireworks dropped out of the sky from outer space.— davesgrl2001
- I used to think that up in outer space the sun was a gigantic baby that never grew up like in Teletubbies.— WeirdButProud
- As a child I used think if I jumped too high on a trampoline I'd be sucked up into outer space.— Jenn
- I thought the airport was a place that you get chopped into pieces in order to go to outer space! lol!!!— I don't know why you get chopped...
- I used to think that eggs were made in a factory. The oval shell made them fit perfectly in the egg cartons.— Sherry
- I used to believe that we lived inside of the world. I asked my Dad who lived on the outside of the world. — Pauline