Frostbite said:
Is there any time your brain ever did a really bad deduction? I remember thinking life could magically appear in a plastic bottle with basic elements such as oxygen and water and some minerals. Another time I thought jet-skis used water as fuel...
With bad deductions like that no wonder I question my own reasonings every day.
[edit] Examples could be from your childhood, or recently. Anything, due to ignorance or temporary stupidity (i.e. hungover).
If you had a way to electroplate water into its elemental constiuents, the recombination of them would make a pretty powerful fuel...
I never had a bike with training wheels. When I was 4, my parents decided it was time for me to ride, so they stuck me on a rusty bike, made me pedal, gave me a good push, and watched me go. Soon I realized that they weren't holding me up. I knew nothing about angular momentum, and the business of staying up seemed magical to me--for the couple of minutes before I crashed into the curb, yelling "how do you stop this thing?" The coaster brake was another bit of magic which I didn't understand.
The bike had rust spots on the front fender more or less in the perfect place to serve as eyes. When I was moving slowly, the idiomotor effect took over and the "eyes" seemed to wiggle around on their own. Nobody would answer my questions about how the thing stayed balanced on two wheels or how pedalling backwards slowed the thing down gradually rather than suddenly putting it in reverse. The only things I'd ever seen which were capable of such tricks were dogs. So, there was a period of a couple of days when I was 4, when I thought the bicycle was alive.
It didn't last, though. The thing wouldn't initiate any behavior on its own.
I learned from this experience that people can be mistaken, and that most people don't want to be bothered by questions which they can't answer.
