When i was a child, i believed autopilot really worked like in the movie Airplane, that it was an inflatable dummy.

  • BananaPeal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    501·
    7 days ago

    That encountering quick sand in real life was a real possibility every day.

    Bonus: My kid doesn’t believe that Santa is magical, he just has really advanced technology.

    • EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      131·
      7 days ago

      Every kid from the 80s & 90s was taught* to believe that, so I don’t blame you.

      &nsbp;

      *By movies & books & games and shit, not by teachers. Well, maybe some teachers…

    • erusuoyera@sh.itjust.works
      16·
      7 days ago

      Clarke’s third law. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Quicksand thing is fucking stupid though.