The Nautilus and the Drunken Boat

 

When I was a kid I had several fundamental misunderstandings. For one, I thought we lived inside the earth. I remember asking my dad, "But how do the rockets get OUT?" "Well they fly through the atmosphere," he answered. "But what about the crust? How do they break through the Earth's crust?" I wanted to know.



(This was only resolved years later.)