science

When I was 6 years old I wanted to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs so I wrote it on the side of a video tape, put it in the VCR and pressed record thinking this was going to work. It didn't.

When I was from 3 - 6 I used to believe that when I talked on the phone the person I was talking to was inside the phone so if I dropped it they would fall over or get hurt, so I always made a big apology and was scared to ddrop the phone.

I used to believe there were little Elves inside Poloroid cameras "drawing" us and then giving us the picture right away. I could never figure out how they would draw us so good and so fast.

When I was little, and the USA was still sending astronauts to the moon, I thought they all had to stay on the moon until they could build a rocket and come back. I wondered how many men they would have to send there before any them could come back.

When I was little, when I watched my parents type e-mails or word documents, I would wonder how they typed so fast. I thought they just pressed random keys as fast as they could, and somehow it would piece together to be an e-mail. So when I tried it, I left my parents a message on the screen, telling them I needed more juice. They still make fun of me for it.

I thought the chemicals in chemistry sets couldn't really blow up in real life I thought it was only on the cartoons, so I was wondering why when I asked my mom for a chemistry set when I was eight my mom had said "ARE YOU KIDDING YOU'D BLOW US ALL UP IN HERE"

When i was little i was always dead silent when the telephone answering machine came on because i thought that the person calling could hear me, so if it was a bill collector I would always hush up

I used to believe that when i cut my sandwich, i had a slight chance of splitting an atom in the bread, so every time i made a PB&J sandwich i expected to die within a millisecond and everyone within a half of a mile to get they're face melted off. that lasted until i stopped thinking about it, then i learned that the edge of the knife wasn't precise enough to split an atom, so i stopped worrying about it.

My dad had a very strong flashlight and he told me if I switched it on and opened the window when it was dark outside and dark in the room, the neighbors on other streets could see it - which was probably true. However, what I understood from it was that I could see them too. Until I was 9 or so I thought the flashlight was magic and I only didn't see these people on other streets because I wasn't doing it right.

I had heard that coal can be made into diamonds. I thought this was because there was a diamond inside every piece of coal.

So I did the only logical thing: rinse off a charcoal briquette in the sink until it became a diamond.

I never stopped to think that, if diamonds were this easy to obtain, why we had a whole bag of potential diamonds in our backyard and yet we weren't millionaires. I thought I had made some sort of fantastic, nobel prize-winning discovery.

When I learned about acid rain in school, I thought that it would burn and dissolve everything in its path. I had nightmares about acid rain dissolving my house and burning me to death.

My friends and I actually believed that once you buried fake gold, you could dig it up a day later and it was real. We tried to sell a bunch we dug up to pasisng cars in front of our friend's house.

When I was little I believed that whenever someone would leave a message on a answering machine, but not talk, they could hear everything that is going on in my house.

When I was a little kid I thought that when you called someone, there was a tiny replica of them inside the telephone that talked to you. I wondered how there got to be a tiny replica of everyone in the world inside our phone. It seemed very impractical.

Up until about 14 years old, I never believed that a knife totally cut anything in half. I always thought there was a tiny sliver that got pushed down directly under the blade that was so small it was not visible to the human eye.

I used to believe that the phone company was listening to me whenever I talked on the phone because my mother told me it was illegal to use swear words on the phone. So I figured someone must have the job of listening on all the phones for swears all day and then sending the police to arrest people who had bad language.