notlamprey Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 (edited) Are time travelers going back and messing with the past, subtly altering current and future events? Certainly not, right? For starters, time travel backwards appears to be expressly forbidden by the laws of physics. But just for funs, let's unpack the theory in a nutshell. I'm talking about something that has been referred to as: The Mandela Effect. The whole thing started when it became widely known that two very different (conflicting) accounts of Nelson Mandela's death were coexisting in the memories of a large number of people. There are plenty of perfectly mundane explanations for this: humans are consummately fallible, technology allows the rapid spread of all information, both accurate and inaccurate, and so on. Somehow, the hypothesis that someone had messed with the past, C&C: Red Alert style, began taking shape. Before you know it, the internet had spawned a robust library of related items that people seem to remember one of two ways. The spelling of the Berenstain Bears children's books, the wording of The Lord's Prayer in the Bible, and so on. I can't bring myself to buy into the "illuminati time travelers" theory, but I'd sure love to know whether all these misremembered items are mostly all products of the same process, or perhaps all happening for their own unique reasons. Getting to the point: did the Lillith node on Europa always have the double L in its name? I remember it only having a single middle L, because starchart nodes were traditionally named after existing Astronomical terms. edit: "Lilith" is technically an astrological term, and not an astronomical one. Also, that one apocryphal "first wife" of Adam. Also, my brain insists that Hilary Clinton's first name also only ever had a single middle L, but I think it's confusing her with a different Hilary. Edited March 9, 2016 by notlamprey accuracy, yo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordOfScrugging Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 ah, that silly mandela, i loved him in the dark knight movies: /joke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(XBOX)Grihaly Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 First: Time travel is not possible, at all. Second: The human brain is extremely prone to suggestion, and commonly makes mistakes. Jack Daniels used to open his safe every day, for years. One day, he forgot the code to unlock it, that was troubling, as he always opens it, every day. In a fit of anger he kicked the steel safe, and broke his toe. Six years later that toe got infected with gangrene and he died. That's a true story. I tried to find a video of the next thing I was thinking of, could only find a trailer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JefPlays Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 For some reason my brain mistook Mandela with Gandhi and I thought you had a sudden urge to nuke everything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notlamprey Posted March 9, 2016 Author Share Posted March 9, 2016 1 hour ago, Jeffrey94 said: For some reason my brain mistook Mandela with Gandhi and I thought you had a sudden urge to nuke everything Or at least denounce them, repeatedly. ...and then nuke everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost333 Posted March 10, 2016 Share Posted March 10, 2016 On 3/9/2016 at 9:58 AM, Jeffrey94 said: For some reason my brain mistook Mandela with Gandhi and I thought you had a sudden urge to nuke everything ... ... ... ... Ready the GDRs.We march on India.Again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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