I always believed one day they would build a lift(elevator) into space. According to science news they can now do it. Firsties.
A childhood belief about physics

others believed things like this
- I believed Walter Cronkite knew everything, that's why they let him do the news.— Dixon
- I use to think i heart attack was when you got stuck in an elevator. I have no idea how i came to believe thisAnon
- I thought Aerosmith's 'Love in an Elevator' was 'Loving a man like Victor'.— Tracy Miller
- I always believed that we lived in Manchester (we didn't) but it was always the main place on the local news!— Richard M
- I totally believed my siblings when they told me the family was aliens and had a space ship in the garage.— cully
- i used to think that vacuum cleaners had little piece of space inside them because space is a vacuumAnon