I used to think that hair grew when it was watered - like a plant - and therefore showering was what allowed your hair to grow. No one ever told me that, I just assumed it to be true at a young age.
That Pluto is a planet.
That’s more a function of us not having the current definition of what a planet is growing up than anything.
Pluto got “downsized,” because we had to refine the definition of what is and isn’t a planet. Not our fault, and also not the fault of the previous scientists.
Kinda the one thing that I hate about the public’s understanding of science. Most people do not grok the concept that, “no one can ever prove a theory correct, but one person can prove that, at least in specific circumstances, it is wrong.”
That god(s) exist(s).
We found a dead baby bird. Was told most animal babies don’t live to adulthood. Knew people were animals so it was likely me and most of my friends would be dead by 21
If you happen to find a dead bird in particular, please don’t pick it up. They have mites on their feathers (skin?) that will absolutely jump on you and absolutely fuck up your skin. You can literally jump in the shower once the itching starts, and you will be in for something like localized poison ivy where those little microscopic (probably not, but they were so tiny I couldn’t see them) assholes were, or at least wherever they bit you.
I would generally caution against actually touching anything that is dead. Too many pathogens, nasty bacteria, and potential touch contracted illnesses.
I mean, that would have been true up until very recently in history.
That the Mormon god was totally real
You can accomplish anything if you put your mind to it and try hard enough.
I mostly believe that
I used to think that the whole world was in black and white, just like all the old pictures and movies I had seen, then at some point we discovered color and turned it on! After that there were no more black and white pictures and movies anymore.
The world can be a complicated place to a kid…
Its weird that this is top answer and I was about to post the same thing.
I’ve met a few people that believed this as a kid. My daughter actually just asked me about it a few months ago too! So we’re not alone!
The crust on bread had more nutrients than the center. My dad didn’t want to cut my crusts off lol.
My uncle always swapped the words breast and best so my cousin mixes them up sometimes to this day. He said ‘breast friend’ at his brother’s wedding
The crust doesn’t, but for the love of all that is good and scientific, stop peeling your veggies people! Carrots and potatoes especially. Almost all the nutritional value is in the skin of those two, and probably most other, other than peanuts, legumes.
Just remember to thoroughly wash the skin, and cut out any “eyes” on the potatoes or potential small scale rotting. Pesticides aren’t something that your gut wants anything to do with.
Almost all the nutritional value is in the skin
Uhhhh, you might want to look that one up. For some veg, there is more fibre in the skin, but that’s about it.
I’m a chef that has studied nutrition as much as I can, for green and leafy veggies that is absolutely true, but those aren’t the ones that people normally skin.
The legumes that I specifically pointed out have a ton of vitamins that concentrate in the skin specifically, and those are the “vegetables” that the layman has a tendency to skin. The center is mostly starch and sugar.
Right. Carrots and potatoes are legumes now are they? The commenter replied to you summarised it for you, and you don’t know as much as you think you do.
That prayers appease god to make things better.
it still blows my mind on a daily basis, the arrogance of humans to think they not only know what their creator-god wants but can sway “Him” with some fucking magic words
I mean… If I was playing like The Sims and one of the Sims was like “yo can I get a new bike?” I might be like sure bro. From their perspective I’m a god that exists outside time and space.
That’s not really how Christianity talks about its God though, usually. But also like the story of Job does seem like a kid and his friend fucking with their game.
The more complex computers get, the greater probability that we are actually living in a simulation!
I don’t think we could classify it as “false belief” since we can’t verify that statement.
I’m completely on board with that, except for the “wish fulfillment”. I don’t know how it got twisted around that you could presume to tell God what to do or that he would - it seems so entirely inconsistent with anything else about religious beliefs
So we have this all powerful and all knowing supreme being , right? And he’s got a plan for the entire universe and all of time, right? But he’ll disrupt all of that to grant you a favor if you wish hard enough? Or you can blame him if something bad happens to you specifically, out of all the universe over all time? What hubris, what ego could make us think we’re in control and can use it for personal gain?
Sure you can!
Get a coin, and flip it 100 times. Record each time it lands on heads/tails.
Now get a devout believer, and have the believer continuously say devout prayers petitioning God to make the coin read heads. Then, flip the coin 100 times, and record heads/tails.
Do statistical analysis to see whether there is a statistically significant difference between the control group and the prayer group. Pretty easy to verify if true.
That line of thinking led to the “docudrama” ‘What the bleep do we know?’ and the extended version “What the bleep, further down the rabbit hole.” Both of which can appear to be rational to most laymen, but are basically religious BS forced on a quantum physics foundation.
I can’t believe we’re still talking about that shitty propaganda! I remember anticipating an interesting documentary about quantum implications, then went to see it with some other physics nerds and being disgusted by the hamfisted mix of fundamentalist religion framed as “science”. What have they done to us? WHAT DID THEY DO TO US
We can verify that prair has no effect and is at best a placebo.
Even a recent book advocating the efficacy of prayer in treating disease (Larry Dossey, Healing Words) is troubled by the fact that some diseases are more easily cured or mitigated than others. If prayer works, why can’t God cure cancer or grow back a severed limb?
– Carl Sagan, The Demon Haunted World (1995)
I thought rabbits and hares were the same species but just the male and female name similar to cow and bull.
Bugs Bunny has a lot to answer for.
For too much or too little lipstick usage?
Too little when dealing with Hitler.
That democracy was real.
I used to believe that if you just work hard you’ll get ahead in life
I used to think “change” you got from a store was just the business being nice and making sure you didn’t walk away without any money.
Lul nice. I used to think that the cars turn blinkers were a form of rudementary GPS. You just hit the lever and the arrow would tell you what way you needed to go.
That is some amazing kid-sized fridge logic. I love it!
I feel like there’s some truth in that.
Lol they would take every penny if they could
That Europe is a separate country where all the politicians live
To be faaaaaaaaiir. They might as well
That I could dig to China
Technically you could. It would be a marvel of engineering and would cost billions of dollars, and you couldn’t go through the center of the Earth, but technically it is possible
Do we have the technology to do that considering the increasing heat, gravity, and magnetic force as one goes deeper? I feel like anything we could do would involve lots of nukes that would basically destroy the planet in the process.
Nobody said how deep the tunnel has to be. Could be just below common tunnel depth.
You’ve got me there!
There’s a reason we don’t have a tunnel between North America and Europe. Don’t think we’re there yet.
A Bering Strait tunnel/ bridge network has been proposed, and it wouldn’t cost too much for the US to build. Only a few billion dollars, which Congress can sneeze and accidentally spend that much. The real issue is that connecting The US and Russia with the interstate highway system has political problems that seem to be insurmountable at the current time.
I personally would support the plan. That would allow the US to deploy HIMARS systems to the Ukrainian forward fronts in Siberia and Chukotka.
Edit: if such a highway network were to be completed, it would theoretically be possible to drive/ take trains to get from anywhere in North America to anywhere in Europe, Africa, and Continental Asia. Connecting South America, and Australia would be the challenges at that point.
A few billion? Vancouver BC is spending that on an new sewage treatment plant.
How could a tunnel like this be built and functional for a few billion? Perhaps hundreds of billions… maybe.
It may have been a hundred or two billion. I haven’t read the proposal in over a decade, and I just remember that the number, while large, was still a rounding error compared to the US budget.
