What strange misconception did you have as a child?

7 years ago

That uppity garden gnomes shouldn't be punched on sight.

That vacuum cleaner salesmen make a valuable contribution to society.

That Nelson Mandela would die in jail (despite the fact he hadn't been put in jail yet).

I know better now.

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tagiscom

7 years ago

Misconceptions, ok...

I couldn't figure out why Atari 2600 games costed $50 each, and had seriously terrible resolution?

Why l couldn't go and see Alien, because it has a silly R rating, for 18 years and over?

Why Gray and Grey, mean the same thing, and ONLY shows that our planet is big, and some terms can be spelt differently?

Why people religiously cling to ideas that are clearly false and becoming more false by the day?

Why kittens have the string issues?

Why certain 4 letter institutions are lying scum, and others lap up their pre-school answers to said lies?

Why most countries put the dollar above, health and wellbeing?

And why we continue to p*** away 10's of millions of dollars into dodgy ways to generate power, when magnetic systems should get the lions share.

And the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?

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whateverpedia

7 years ago

Originally Posted by tagiscom

And why we continue to p*** away 10's of millions of dollars into dodgy ways to generate power, when magnetic systems should get the lions share.

So, as a child you had the misconception that millions of dollars were being wasted on technologies which didn't exist back then instead of a technology that still doesn't exist.

To any lifeforms from elsewhere in the universe who were wondering what that loud bang was coming from the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy.

It was the sound of seven billion humans facepalming and headdesking all at the same time.

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7 years ago

Originally Posted by whateverpedia

So, as a child you had the misconception that millions of dollars were being wasted on technologies which didn't exist back then instead of a technology that still doesn't exist.

To any lifeforms from elsewhere in the universe who were wondering what that loud bang was coming from the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy.

It was the sound of seven billion humans facepalming and headdesking all at the same time.

I was going to let it go..

But you handled it beautifully.

If only I could read this kind of wit from Riffle.

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lanfear63

7 years ago

Originally Posted by whateverpedia

So, as a child you had the misconception that millions of dollars were being wasted on technologies which didn't exist back then instead of a technology that still doesn't exist.

To any lifeforms from elsewhere in the universe who were wondering what that loud bang was coming from the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy.

It was the sound of seven billion humans facepalming and headdesking all at the same time.

"To any lifeforms from elsewhere in the universe who were wondering what that loud bang was coming from the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy."

GOT YAAAAAA

We are not in the Outer Western Spiral Arm of the Galaxy, according to history, we never have been. We are 80,000 light years over the other side (Eastern) of the Galaxy, closer to the center in a short arm called Orion's spur. Check it out.

https://www.google.com/search?q=posi...3u_xWNqdMB6FM:

The thing is Whatti, I was always an Astronomy buff and it was always talked about and shown in literature and text books where we were, the outer western spiral arm. (outer part of the Sagittarius Arm) Not anymore.

Out of all the the Mandela Effects, this ones probably the biggest.

Double take, I hope so.

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whateverpedia

7 years ago

Originally Posted by lanfear63

"We are not in the Outer Western Spiral Arm of the Galaxy, according to history, we never have been. We are 80,000 light years over the other side (Eastern) of the Galaxy, closer to the center in a short arm called Orion's spur. Check it out.

Bollocks. According to The Guide:

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.

Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

Douglas Adams: The Foreword to the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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lanfear63

7 years ago

Originally Posted by whateverpedia

Bollocks. According to The Guide:

Douglas Adams: The Foreword to the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

That's just one reference to it, paying lip service to what the text books said. Carl Sagan made reference to as did our latest popular Astronomer, Tyson. Here's a clip from one of his science shows just a couple of years ago giving our address in the Galaxy. I wonder what he would say now if asked.

Neil Degrasse Tyson remembers we were in the...

And a still from the science fiction movie, "Starship Troopers" also paying lip service to our position. Where we are now would be much closer to the giant ants planet.

https://www.google.com/search?q=star...5e6aoJvP1fZxM:

I'm sorry man, I was brought up and taught in school that we were in the outer western spiral arm of the Galaxy. This was reinforced by my keen interest in Astronomy. I read a lot of books on it.

So for me, this is one of the greatest contradictions that has been lumped in with being part of the mandela effect examples.

I also remember a more friendly yellow tinted sun growing up, not that brilliant white, super hot thing we can not even bring ourselves to get near to looking at just for a second now. It looks wrong, The sun's rays look wrong.

Anyway, putting Mandela effects aside, I am genuinely puzzled as to how we could have got it so wrong.

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whateverpedia

7 years ago

Originally Posted by lanfear63

bollocks snipped

You do realise that the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy is classified as "humour" rather than "science" don't you? I used the quote in the same context that the book does. Everyone else seems to have interpreted it in the manner which I intended. Except you. Never mind.

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lanfear63

7 years ago

Originally Posted by whateverpedia

You do realise that the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy is classified as "humour" rather than "science" don't you? I used the quote in the same context that the book does. Everyone else seems to have interpreted it in the manner which I intended. Except you. Never mind.

Except it was paying poetic lip-service to the accepted reality at the time.

Tyson said we were, Sagan said we were and I read about it so many times myself. but we are not now anywhere near close.

You can choose to call it a bit of a mystery or just sleep and ignore it because you could never conceive such a thing happening.

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