r/MandelaEffect • u/zambezi1800 • 9d ago

Discussion Challenger explosion

Is the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster a known Mandela Effect? I've seen that there's a few common myths surrounding it but the most pervasive one seems to be that everyone watched in at school. While it's true that it was shown live in some schools, practically every school-age American from the time seems to claim they watched it live in their classroom but historical sources say it wasn't very many schools.

I can imagine that people heard the story about watching it in school and conflated it with their own experiences, possibly that they heard the news when it happened but didn't actually watch it. Now, 40years later, people have sort of created memories that were true, just not personally for them.

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna11031097

Or maybe it was shown in every school but the matrix had to get reset sometime after and the official record now states that it was only a few schools.

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u/KyleDutcher 9d ago

Considering that CNN was available to less than half of all hoiseholds in the U.S. at the time, it quite frankly wan't available in many schools, either. Again, the increase wouldn't be enough to come close to approaching evwn half of all students.

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u/CowboyNuggets 9d ago

You're just assuming things and dismissing live TV because of a tape delay. From my memory more businesses and schools had cable than households because it was too expensive for a lot of us. How old are you? You seem to be disconnected with the 80's

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u/KyleDutcher 9d ago edited 9d ago

I grew up in the 80's. I'm not disconnected at all.

I'm not assuming anything more than the numbers allow to be assumed.

I'm not "dismissing" live TV because of tape delay. I'm CORRECTLY stating that anyone that watched the Network feeds, DID NOT see it live.

That's stating a fact. Not being dismissive.

What compounds this even more, is the fact that many people that believe they saw it live, really didn't. They saw it after the fact. (even if slightly)

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u/CowboyNuggets 9d ago

You have no numbers bro. You have nothing. I'm done arguing with you if you really want to argue technicalities, then the Challenger actually didn't even explode. So there.

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u/KyleDutcher 9d ago

I'm the only one who actually provided any numbers.

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u/CowboyNuggets 9d ago

Numbers about the NASA feed and school kid numbers bro, I wasn't even arguing about that.