outer space

I used to believe that I was allergic to the sun, because whenever I looked at it, I would sneeze.

John 117

I used to believe that if I threw hard enough, I could get a penny to land on the moon, after watching something about some fake story on a wedding ring being found on the moon. So I'd throw money up to the sky. The coins i couldn't find anymore I assumed made it.

Daniel Jessome

When I was a little girl, going outside at night was always something that filled me with awe because I believed that the sound of crickets was the sound of the stars twinkling

Mercy

I thought the spectral class of stars (OBAFGKM) stood for: O- Awesome (I couldn't spell very well) B- Beautiful, A- Amazing, F- Fantastic, G- Good, K- Kool, and M- Mediocre

Makron

I used to think Uranus was made of uranium,Pluto made of plutonium,Neptune made of water(cuz of the name and color),and Mercury made of mercury (the metal)

Anon

I thought Jews were people who came from Jupiter.

Anon

I used to believe that the Moon sometimes came out in the day because it was jealous that the Sun was getting seen by all the awake people all day.

RTF

When I was about 4 some one told me the moon was made of cheese and I believed it until my teenage years. Because I never really questiond it too much. I also never understood how the space men brought back moon rocks if it were made of cheese. So I conviced my self that part of the moon was made of rocks and part is made of cheese. I figured out the truth Around High school.

Inchy

I remember when I was very young, I used to beleive the moon would make you crazy, probably an influence from certain old werewolf movies...
I remember having terrible nightmares of me being outside at night, and the moon coming down to get me!

Scott

I believed that if you shone a flashlight at the sun for eight minutes, that the sun would blow up and all life on earth would be extinguished.

John

As a child, I thought that the sun was a 'big ball of fire'.
I wondered why the 'fire' wouldn't go out permanently when the sun 'fell' into the sea every evening.
And if the sun DID fall into the sea, why was the sea not the source of fried fish ?
This belief came from living on the sea front :)

Saranya

When I was about 6, I heard about how the Earth is eventually going to be swallowed up by the Sun. For some reason I became obsessed with this and even though I knew it wasn't going to happen for a billion years or so - I still spent about 6 months in a state of perpetual panic.

Alla

When I was younger, my dad told me that when the moon was yellow it meant that it didn't drink enough milk and it was sick. He said that when it was white, the moon drank a lot of milk and it was healthy.

Anon

I believed that the sun and the moon were two different sides of the same thing, with the sun side showing during the day, and the moon side during the night.

Daniel J

I used to believe that the moon was nothing more than the sun that God put a 'moon pocket' on. The reason why we could only see one side of it was because the zipper was on the other side.

Lindsay Phillips

I used to believe that the moon was a giant mirror and, if I had a powerful enough telescope, I could see myself waving at myself.

James

i don't know HOW i thought this considering i knew the order of the planets since 3, but i thought for a few weeks when i was 10 that you could see titan (one of saturn's moons) glowing (even though titan doesn't even emit light) on a CLOUDY DAY. i blame dumb youtube conspiracy theory videos on this one.

planet knowledge kid

For the longest time, I thought that when I saw the moon in the daytime, that what I was really seeing was the other side of the world. I assumed that was where the Chinese and Africans lived. Never occurred to me how to get there, though...

Cindi

As a child I used think if I jumped too high on a trampoline I'd be sucked up into outer space.

Jenn

I used to believe that my parents once took me to the moon on vacation. We piloted our own spacecraft, and I was very proud over this accomplishment. A great dissapointment when the teachers and kids in kindergarden didn't believe me....

Little Ben Luna