I believed many of those sparkling things in the sky were satellites. Every company, every satellite tv, radio, and telephone company had at least a dozen of them. It wasn't until I was in my early 20s that I learned in a college astronomy class that satellites are extremely hard to see. ... During a lab outdoors at night I pointed out to my professor (who happened to work for Nasa in his free time) what I though was a satellite. He informed me it was a star. I then proceeded to ask why it was flashing red, white, and blue then (because, American satellites flash lights that we can see, right?). He very flatly said "it's twinkling."
A childhood belief about outer space
others believed things like this
- I used to think that satellites were launched from satellite dishes.— Mike
- When I was a kid I thought that the newsreaders on satellite TV lived in the satellites.— Mat
- Once, at night time, I saw the flashing lights from an aeroplane and I thought it was a UFO.Anon
- I thought that the insurance company Aflac was owned by Ben AffleckAnon
- I used to think that the crickets chirp at night was the stars twinkling.— James the Great
- I believed that the inside of a tomato was a small, living creature and I flatly refused to eat that bit.Anon