jedidia
shoemaker without legs
...as you were a kid. It's sometimes rather hilarious how ones logic works at the age before ten. 
so here are mine:
first, after seeing astronauts weightless in space, I concluded "the further from earth, the less gravity there is". I didn't know that other planets had gravitiy too, so I imagined a mission to jupiter, and all the people had to be secured all the time and move very carefully, because any sudden movement could send them hurtling of into space, since jupiter was soooo far from earth! (remarkably though, I seemed to have grasped the concept of conserving momentum...)
another one was confusing weightlessnes for masslessnes, thinking that mass didn't matter in space whatsoever.
And the best one I found in a comic book I drawed somewhere at the age of nine or ten (right after seeing my first star-trek episodes). This comic book had an incredibly inteligent storyline, which went something like this:
10 galaxies were about to collide and would fuse into a giant black whole in the process which would devour the whole universe! The valiant crew of the enterprise finally solved (quite literally) the problem by dissolving one of the ten galaxies with acid... spraying it all over said galaxy by one of these old soda-bottles out of the airlock :lol:
Talk about scale here... :blink:
so here are mine:
first, after seeing astronauts weightless in space, I concluded "the further from earth, the less gravity there is". I didn't know that other planets had gravitiy too, so I imagined a mission to jupiter, and all the people had to be secured all the time and move very carefully, because any sudden movement could send them hurtling of into space, since jupiter was soooo far from earth! (remarkably though, I seemed to have grasped the concept of conserving momentum...)
another one was confusing weightlessnes for masslessnes, thinking that mass didn't matter in space whatsoever.
And the best one I found in a comic book I drawed somewhere at the age of nine or ten (right after seeing my first star-trek episodes). This comic book had an incredibly inteligent storyline, which went something like this:
10 galaxies were about to collide and would fuse into a giant black whole in the process which would devour the whole universe! The valiant crew of the enterprise finally solved (quite literally) the problem by dissolving one of the ten galaxies with acid... spraying it all over said galaxy by one of these old soda-bottles out of the airlock :lol:
Talk about scale here... :blink:
