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ITT: Scientific 'facts' you came up with when you were little but were later on pissed off by finding out they weren't true.

I thought Humanity had colonized the solar system. I had plans on how I'd move to Jupiter and everything.

>> No.2025024

Thought magic was real and used magnets as evidence.

>> No.2025021

I was pretty sure we could easily use science to influence whether we had male or female children.

>> No.2025025

I thought this board was full of helpful and intelligent mathematicians / scientists / philosophers.

>> No.2025030

>>2025021
we can
its called sperm spinning

>> No.2025034

I thought cybermen could walk in the middle of a park without the public freaking out.

>> No.2025041

>>2025025
I bet you believed that your Uncle Jim was just "playing a special game" with you, too.

>> No.2025042

Magnets attract each other.
Spinning tops repel each other.
Magnetic spinning tops tear through the fabric of reality.

>> No.2025049

>>2025030
that assumes that the mass of the x is a great enough difference than the mass of y.

any evidence that the technique actually works? to what accuracy?

>> No.2025060

I thought Star Wars actually happened, and George Lucas was just retelling a major part of Human History.

Damn, I was stupid.

>> No.2025061

>>2025049
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-sperm-spinning.htm

>> No.2025068

I thought pluto was a planet.

>> No.2025070

I thought all cats were female and all dogs were male.

>> No.2025071

>>2025042
Nice.

>> No.2025078

>>2025013
I always thought Fusion energy existed and the only problem with it's implementation was financial cost. Stupid Jetsons show ruining my perception of reality.

>> No.2025098

>>2025013
I thought all you needed to be strong and intelligent was through sheer endurance and practice. Then I realized most of our talents, especially intelligence was predetermined and our efforts to improve ourselves is very, very limited.

>> No.2025104

When i was in kindergarten, somehow i associated bubblegum with reproduction. I can't recall exactly how that happened.
Captcha: moscoma College

>> No.2025110

>>2025098

Dude, just because you can't get laid doesn't mean your genetics are to blame.

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2025128

>>2025068

Problem?

>> No.2025132

Aliens fucked apes and that's why there are humans
(could still be true)

>> No.2025135

>>2025110
Bro, I'm crippled from the waist below. And no, there isn't a surgery that can any way help my condition. I honestly don't care about being laid, what I care is about walking with my two legs again.

>> No.2025149

>>2025135

Fuck. Well played.

>> No.2025158

>>2025110
What part did he say that he wanted to get laid? I'm fucking short and that limits me to a lot of things I can't do. I just want to be taller but doing so requires intensive, expensive, painful surgery.

>> No.2025169

>>2025158

The point is it's not impossible though.

There are no true limits. There are only points where feasability becomes lower.

>> No.2025240 [DELETED] 

>>2025098
>>2025098

Intelligence isn't immutable, thought, the amount you may gain is relative towards your current cognitive state. If you're impaired you have can make larger gains than a healthy person.

>> No.2025254

little mice lived in the streetlights to turn them on.

>> No.2025257

I thought black holes were tears in the universe like a tear in a sheet of paper. I'm disappointed that they aren't because that would be badass

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>>2025098
>>2025098

Intelligence isn't immutable, though, at the amount you may gain is relative towards your current cognitive state. If you're impaired you have can make larger gains than a healthy person.

In about a decade or so, highly effective cognitive enhancement will probably be a reality.

It, arguably, already is.

>> No.2025264

>>2025013

I has a similar situation to OP's; except i just thought we landed on the moon and mars

>> No.2025266

>>2025013
I thought genetics were kinda like skillpoints you spend to get intelligence, strength, agility, looks, luck etc
I also thought people could go to the moon in airplanes (the space shuttle looking like an airplane and all)
btw i was like 5-7 when i thought about these

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>>2025266
>>2025266

>luck

I've been a materialist since I was 4.

>> No.2025278

When i was little, i thought magnets could be used to deflect light. Must have gotten confused when going to a museum demonstration on cathode-ray tubes. Didn't know that the ray in the tube was composed of negatively charged electrons, and not neutral photons.

>> No.2025292

>>2025273
parents were kinda supertitious and religious
believed in all kinds of shit
I knew all of it was bullshit even when i was a kid but i always thought luck was true
then i realized luck is more to do with probabilities so it isnt entirely a retarded idea

>> No.2025322

I used to think that science could create a theory with complete predictive power.