# Weirdest belief/idea you've encountered

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 22, 2021, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-belief-idea-youve-encountered/956485 "2021-12-22T18:09:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Limmin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f04885/32.png) [@Limmin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Limmin)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2022, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-belief-idea-youve-encountered/956485/87 "2022-01-05T17:38:09Z")

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> [@Drum\_God](#):
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> Huh. I don’t think I had heard the story before. I had no idea it had a grain of sort-of truth to it. I cannot imagine how something going that fast could survive passing through the atmosphere.

There is a bit of info, even on this forum, about the famous “manhole cover maybe blasted into space”

[https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atomic-manhole-in-orbit/429809/3](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atomic-manhole-in-orbit/429809/3)  
(Contains further links to more discussion)

[https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across/851674/1639](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across/851674/1639)

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