science: technology

I thought the carpet cleaner on the vacuum was a "special pump". That's why it made that noise. At least that's what my dad told me.

I thought tranquilizing animals put them to sleep instantly and didn’t realize it takes several minutes for an animal to fall asleep after being tranquilized. I also thought automatic tranquilizers existed and you could harmlessly put people to sleep by tranquilizing them multiple times in rapid succession, like in action movies and comedies.

I used to believe tasers were just tranquilizer guns that use electricity instead of drugs. I didn't realize that electricity had to be applied directly to the head to cause unconsciousness.

I used to believe that scientists were robots and they had some kind of chip in their brain.

I used to believe…

When I was a little girl I thought I was going to see flying cars in 2022 because I saw cartoons that said that year, but now that I'm older I realize that it doesn't exist.

i used to think that i was a technopath like ryan walker from mech x4 one time i discovered i could lock and unlock a car by staring at its door handle i could also control the car stereos volume through thoughts and even change the stereos channel by moving my hand in the air and this one time i activated an animatronic skeleton through staring later my technopathy stopped working till i was 17 i even thought that the government would take me away from my house not for experimentation but rather to make me pilot a giant robot hidden in a secret government base re engineered or built from alien technology that can only be piloted by someone with my power kinda like mechx4 maybe the government are building giant robot mechsuits from otherworldly technology hiding them in secret government areas and recruiting technokinetic people to fight interdimensional monsters but ive i also heard other requirements for being a mech pilot in mechx4 which i mentioned earlier you have to be a technopath but in shows like rahxephon you have to have strange alien markings for you to pilot a mech

I used to believe…

When I was a child I believed that in the future we will have maid robots.

I used to believe…

When I was a child I believed that in the future we will have flying cars, and that we could travel to the moon.

I used to think that when you had to give your 'daytime telephone number', it meant that your number would change when people called you at night!

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When I was seven, my dad went on about how liquid made computers short out, so when a character in a YouTube video I was watching started to cry, I was worried that'd make the computer short out!

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When I learned from Jon Lee in S Club 7 that tanning beds are meant to be unhealthy because they can burn your skin and give you cancer, or even kill you if you get stuck inside and burnt to death, I thought they were just another term for deckchairs, before I knew what they actually were. Would make more sense to call them machines instead of beds. I kept thinking 'why is it bad to lie on a deckchair with a towel, everyone does that in Summer!'

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One time, I was playing in the living room while my mother was watching something and a character on the TV said, "Oh! I forgot to close the fridge door!", and so Mum turned to me and said something along the lines of, "Don't you ever forget to close the fridge door."

Then later, I saw an episode of "Spongebob Squarepants" (which is this wacky cartoon about a talking sea sponge) where Spongebob gets sick from leaving his fridge open.

Both of those made me think that every time you left the fridge door open, something random, but always very bad, would happen.

I used to think that in order to top up your mobile phone you had to open the back of the phone and put actual money in it. And I thought that when you phoned people the phone would actually eat your money.

I used to believe that hitting the Break key on the keyboard would cause the computer to be ruined.

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When I was little I thought there really were aliens on mars.

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Up until was 11 I used to think that in order to get an email address you had to phone up an email address office and they would give you a random address and password