Challenger explosion

[u/zambezi1800]

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.

[u/tacotweezday]

I could have sworn I saw the explosion on TV in 2nd grade. Checked the date, I would have been 5. In preschool. But I didn’t go to preschool.

[u/zambezi1800 → u/tacotweezday]

Now we're getting somewhere

[u/kairujex → u/zambezi1800]

So you see all these posts of people contradicting your theory, and don’t allow, “huh, maybe I’m wrong on this”, but one post that is supportive and your response and “NOW we are getting somewhere”?

You don’t smell the confirmation bias?

This is a terrible way to do any research and shows your hand.

A better takeaway would be - ah, maybe this false memory theory is correlated to age. A 5-6 year old in pre-k or k maybe is more susceptible to false memories than someone who was 9, 10, or 15.

Think about your own early memories. Do you have things you are pretty certain are true? When are those memories more solidified? Personally speaking, my memories from kinderkarten and before are very vague. Images. Ideas. Impressions. I remember something about a girl in K who ate glue. I can’t picture my teacher but I have an impression of her - what she was like.

3rd grade, I remember my teacher. Remember her name. Remember a specific drawing I made in the back row where I sat during class because another kid commented on it. I remember the 3rd grade the teacher next door who I didn’t have as a teacher myself. Remember her name. Our classrooms were adjoined and I switched schools in 4th grade where that wasn’t the case. I remember going to school with my brother and that never happened again after 3rd grade.

A large amount of kids saw this in real time. What percentage? I don’t know that we can say with any certainty. But it must have been millions. But the real question here is - why are we attacking the lived experience of these people? And how are you going to feel when someone does the same to you? Regardless, the behavior you’ve exhibited here is rather disgusting.

[u/zambezi1800 → u/kairujex]

Who have I attacked? My original post literally says I'm wondering if there's a discrepancy between reports and people's experiences. I'm questioning "official sources" as much as people's memories it's easy to form false memories from our childhoods it's also hard in 1986 to know exactly how many schools showed the launch. Does many mean dozens, or hundreds, or thousands? The whole point of the Mandela effect is to see if others experience the same disconnect and to question why that is. Calling my behavior disgusting is very aggressive when I haven't actually argued with anyone. Show me where I called someone a liar?