Back in the day, the kids would say, "Ethiopian Chicken". That was unkind, but kind of went along the same lines of an old 1980s Sam Kinneson routine with him screaming. He wasn't really a nice or Godly guy.
I was in 6th grade in Nevada... TV wheeled in and multiple classes all brought their chairs in to watch it. I think I was just young enough to not be traumatized about it and yet old enough to fully appreciate that ol' Head & Shoulders joke. While, yes there have been some folks that look the same I'm pretty convinced there was indeed a tragic accident that cost a teacher her life along with the astronauts. There are some excellent debunks of this myth out there pretty easy to find, but this is a flat-earth go to conspiracy theory that's for sure.
I graduated in 1985, teachers would bring a TV into at my school. We had one or two at school. When the AAC championship was on many teachers watched instead of holding class. We didn’t complain! This was a small private school, probably less strict. I don’t disagree with you, everything is planned.
Yep. They're all still alive too.
"The matrix is a system, Neo..."
Q749: "Coincidence the Matrix (movie) grew people as a crop, used for energy, and controlled their mind? [...]
Deeper we go, the more unrealistic it all becomes."
I was home from elementary school because my mom was going to take me out to lunch for my 10th birthday. I saw it happen live on the tv while she was getting ready. Years later this question was asked during one of my college classes... someone else said it was his birthday too and he was also home to celebrate his 10th birthday... weird.
My thoughts too. This shuttle was multi-multi-millions of dollars, and obviously back in the '80s that would have been ultra expensive. You don't purposely blow up something like that, literally burning a mountain of money. I think even the elites/deep state didn't want to waste money on something like this, not when it put such a bad taste in everyone's mouths about space exploration, which they had been pushing since the '50s.
And it's not like this was the only time an accident of this scale happened. In 2003, the Columbia shuttle was torn apart on re-entry into the atmosphere because one of the heat-resistant tiles tore/fell off when they launched, and exposed critical wiring inside one of the wings to the intense heat of re-entry. There was no saving or surviving that one. The debris field was miles long over Texas.
The re-use of these shuttles made them very susceptible to damages, and took forever to repair. Even when they did get fixed, they were still weaker each time they went up. And there were obviously flaws in the design, such as in the Challenger's rocket boosters. The flexible rubber O-rings in the boosters were not approved for use in freezing surface temperatures (you may say, "well it's freezing in space!" and you're right (if you're not facing the sun), except the rocket boosters are meant to be ejected from the shuttle well before they reach such a height where the temperature would be a problem), which is what happened to Challenger, since it was launched in January during a cold snap that brought surface temps down below freezing--in Florida!
Even the engineers for Challenger warned the higher ups not to launch in such cold temps, but they wouldn't listen. They figured "everything will be fine" and didn't want to waste more money pushing the launch date back. Ironically they ended up losing more money than just on a late launch date. They lost a multi-million dollar shuttle, and 7 lives. One of whom was a civilian. And it also brought the shuttle expeditions to a screeching halt, ultimately costing them more money.
Any way you slice it, I honestly don't believe this disaster was actually on purpose. The huge losses of money, lives, and reputation for the space program is not something I believe the elites/deep state would do on purpose. The only thing that was on purpose was launching on a date that the engineers warned was dangerous. Higher ups only had dollar signs in their eyes, but ended up losing so much more than that. Ultimately, mistakes happen, and not everything is controlled by humans. After all, only God is fully in control.
I was in the fourth grade watching it happen with my own eyes. Not on the tell-a-vision, mind you, but literally with my own eyes, outside, with the rest of my elementary school. We didn't have class for the rest of the day, either. The teachers and administration we're too shook up to do anything useful.
Was Challenger really crewed for that flight? I don't know, but I saw the thing explode myself, so I know at least that part is real.
Edit: the jokes started immediately, too.
So, how do you filter jokes to an elementary school within 10 minutes of it happening back in 1986?
Sorry, no, 1986 would have been a completely different set of people and location. I very distinctly remember where I was and who I was with in 1984. Mandela effect.
I recognize that you have your recollections of it being in 86. In 84, I was at a very small junior high in 84, in 86 I was a sophomore in high school. I didn’t see it live on TV in high school in 86. I’m not the only that remembers it occurring in 84. Apparently there are quite a few of us that remember it occurring in 84. Look up Mandela effect examples and the challenger disaster is one of them.
It was hyped for all the schools as that was supposed to be the first teacher in space. I was in high school algebra. The entirety of Gen X was privy to that gem. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.
Nope, 1986. I was a freshman in high school. No way this happened in ‘84. I vividly remember skateboarding home after school was let out early due to the traumatic event.
Look up Mandela effect. No way it happened in 1986. I vividly remember the kids that I was standing with watching it happen, we were crowded in the cafeteria. I remember the teachers. 1986 was a completely different school and different set of kids and teachers.
No offense but I’m looking at a page in my 1986 freshman yearbook for the year in review…. “Challenger disaster.” I can even post a picture of the page if you’d like but you’d probably claim it was photoshoped. You can have your “Mandela effect” argument with yourself. Have a good day fren.
No worries, I’m not upset about it. But I know what I saw and when I saw it, very detailed. It was the only time that the TV was wheeled into the cafeteria and we all sat/stood around to watch the launch. By the way, I’m not the only one that remembers it happening in 1984.
We were in the cafeteria. Small rural school, only 1 TV available. I remember the teachers got quiet when the Challenger blew up. We all then had to go back to our classrooms. It does seem to have been a mass traumatization event.
Same, 3rd grade. The whole elementary school was outside on the black top looking up. Until the explosion when the teachers got quiet & rushed us back inside to our classrooms.
Circa 1986 I was selling TV’s in a local Kmart. All the TV’s were tuned in to the launch because they were making history by sending the first teacher into space…which is likely why schools across the country were showing it in classrooms. When the explosion occurred people gathered around all the televisions watching the “major malfunction” over and over in disbelief.
I was in math class watching live. It blew up and the teacher turned off the TV and just said "OK, let's get out our text books and get to our lesson" Noone even talked about it fir the rest of that day.
Losing my grandmother, while saying happy birthday to my brother all on the same day. All in all, it was a terrible day for our family, but not because of nasa. Them fools are right up the highway from me. Could not have cared less about them.
CNN and the rest of the MSM were at Butler, and for some odd reason that was the rally they aired. Feels like the same concept when the public schools just happened to air the challenger blowing up.
Everything is fake and ghey. All conspiracies r true.
I was with my father in Florida, caring for him, we had the tv on. I was doing hospice care, I remember the sadness in his face. Now, Dad was born in 1910, he had terminal cancer and I was spending his last months with him. He had worked with CBS as an audio tech for 30 years. After the sadness, he was furious. Furious that they pushed the entire thing as a media event. He was never conspiracy driven, but he did know the news industry from a special perspective, he did audio with Walter Conkrite, he knew what was edited, he knew what was staged. His take was that it happened because the media push to cover it and make a big hoopla compromised safety.
I was driving around Utica, NY. Signs were put up on same day "we honor our heroes" and stuff like that. Everyone very down. Gives me the shivers to think it might have been totally fake.
We had the "cart TV in school" for the Apollo 11 launch July 16th 1969.
Watching it live in school...
It wasn't long before NASA meant Need Another Seven Astronauts around the school yard...
Then in recent days, the "discovery" that 6 of the seven were twins surfaced...
It was at that point...I knew...Our cranks had indeed, been yanked.
the very bad news for our overlords is that they are losing their ability to fool all of the people all of the time…
They say once a person believes one conspiracy theory, they tend to believe other conspiracy theories…
That’s just a derogatory way of saying that if you notice bullshit in one arena, you might notice bullshit in another arena
Not only are people quicker to call bullshit on a new story…
Other people are quicker to believe them when they call bullshit on new story
All we have to do is say crisis actors, and everybody instantly knows what the heck’s going on
Charlie Kirk is a crisis actor
Hey did you hear the one lady had blew eyes?
Yeah… one blew one way, one blew the other way
In retrospect, i wonder if these “jokes” weren’t all cooked up in advance, and deployed as part of the psyop…
How do you know the astronauts had dandruff? There were Head n Shoulders all over the beach.
The NASA/Challenger jokes were ubiquitous in the 80s, along with the Ethiopian jokes.
What did Christie McAuliffe tell her daughter before she left? You feed the dog, and I’ll feed the fish.
What’s the fastest animal in the world?
Back in the day, the kids would say, "Ethiopian Chicken". That was unkind, but kind of went along the same lines of an old 1980s Sam Kinneson routine with him screaming. He wasn't really a nice or Godly guy.
That is true as many of these people were tracked down after the so-called accident and lived full lives.
Apparently they took the escape route down underground prior to the rocket lift off to nowhere.
Entire school watched it on tv.
I have been following these conversations about Challenger, and it seems 100% of american students watched it on TV, at school…
This was coordinated.
no way in hell 100% of the teachers out there just randomly decided to wheel a TV cart in so the students could watch a shuttle explode…
First teacher in space.
And where were the solid boosters by Morton Thiocol made ?
Charlie should have known, or did he ?
The o ring was in promontory utah
And where is NSA ?
7up with a splash of Teachers
Interesting- I was in second grade, and yes they wheeled a heavy tv in and we all watched. Interesting theory you got there 🧐
I was in 6th grade in Nevada... TV wheeled in and multiple classes all brought their chairs in to watch it. I think I was just young enough to not be traumatized about it and yet old enough to fully appreciate that ol' Head & Shoulders joke. While, yes there have been some folks that look the same I'm pretty convinced there was indeed a tragic accident that cost a teacher her life along with the astronauts. There are some excellent debunks of this myth out there pretty easy to find, but this is a flat-earth go to conspiracy theory that's for sure.
Yeah... in hindsight it really makes you wonder who "strongly suggested it"...
This was in "Science class" in Catholic School
I graduated in 1985, teachers would bring a TV into at my school. We had one or two at school. When the AAC championship was on many teachers watched instead of holding class. We didn’t complain! This was a small private school, probably less strict. I don’t disagree with you, everything is planned.
Proof it was a "show" intended to traumatize.
Yep. They're all still alive too.
"The matrix is a system, Neo..."
Q749: "Coincidence the Matrix (movie) grew people as a crop, used for energy, and controlled their mind? [...] Deeper we go, the more unrealistic it all becomes."
Loosh
4th grade, watched it in class on a tube television that was strapped down to a cart.
5th grade, same
I was working for a contractor at Cape Canaveral AFS, and I watched the launch from there. Very sad day.
I was home from elementary school because my mom was going to take me out to lunch for my 10th birthday. I saw it happen live on the tv while she was getting ready. Years later this question was asked during one of my college classes... someone else said it was his birthday too and he was also home to celebrate his 10th birthday... weird.
Why would they fake this?
My thoughts too. This shuttle was multi-multi-millions of dollars, and obviously back in the '80s that would have been ultra expensive. You don't purposely blow up something like that, literally burning a mountain of money. I think even the elites/deep state didn't want to waste money on something like this, not when it put such a bad taste in everyone's mouths about space exploration, which they had been pushing since the '50s.
And it's not like this was the only time an accident of this scale happened. In 2003, the Columbia shuttle was torn apart on re-entry into the atmosphere because one of the heat-resistant tiles tore/fell off when they launched, and exposed critical wiring inside one of the wings to the intense heat of re-entry. There was no saving or surviving that one. The debris field was miles long over Texas.
The re-use of these shuttles made them very susceptible to damages, and took forever to repair. Even when they did get fixed, they were still weaker each time they went up. And there were obviously flaws in the design, such as in the Challenger's rocket boosters. The flexible rubber O-rings in the boosters were not approved for use in freezing surface temperatures (you may say, "well it's freezing in space!" and you're right (if you're not facing the sun), except the rocket boosters are meant to be ejected from the shuttle well before they reach such a height where the temperature would be a problem), which is what happened to Challenger, since it was launched in January during a cold snap that brought surface temps down below freezing--in Florida!
Even the engineers for Challenger warned the higher ups not to launch in such cold temps, but they wouldn't listen. They figured "everything will be fine" and didn't want to waste more money pushing the launch date back. Ironically they ended up losing more money than just on a late launch date. They lost a multi-million dollar shuttle, and 7 lives. One of whom was a civilian. And it also brought the shuttle expeditions to a screeching halt, ultimately costing them more money.
Any way you slice it, I honestly don't believe this disaster was actually on purpose. The huge losses of money, lives, and reputation for the space program is not something I believe the elites/deep state would do on purpose. The only thing that was on purpose was launching on a date that the engineers warned was dangerous. Higher ups only had dollar signs in their eyes, but ended up losing so much more than that. Ultimately, mistakes happen, and not everything is controlled by humans. After all, only God is fully in control.
I was in the fourth grade watching it happen with my own eyes. Not on the tell-a-vision, mind you, but literally with my own eyes, outside, with the rest of my elementary school. We didn't have class for the rest of the day, either. The teachers and administration we're too shook up to do anything useful.
Was Challenger really crewed for that flight? I don't know, but I saw the thing explode myself, so I know at least that part is real.
Edit: the jokes started immediately, too.
So, how do you filter jokes to an elementary school within 10 minutes of it happening back in 1986?
I remember this event as occurring in 1984, I can recall who I was with and where we all were standing when we watched it on the only available TV.
1986
I was in University at the time. Somethings you never forget.
Sorry, no, 1986 would have been a completely different set of people and location. I very distinctly remember where I was and who I was with in 1984. Mandela effect.
Nope, 1986 for sure. I was overseas when it happened and I didn’t even live there in 1984.
Guys, can we compromise and agree that it was 1985?
Kek, still 1984 for me. 1985 would have been a different school for me.
I was at work in '86 pouring a cup of coffee when I heard. In 1984 I was still in school.
I recognize that you have your recollections of it being in 86. In 84, I was at a very small junior high in 84, in 86 I was a sophomore in high school. I didn’t see it live on TV in high school in 86. I’m not the only that remembers it occurring in 84. Apparently there are quite a few of us that remember it occurring in 84. Look up Mandela effect examples and the challenger disaster is one of them.
It was hyped for all the schools as that was supposed to be the first teacher in space. I was in high school algebra. The entirety of Gen X was privy to that gem. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.
I think we may have found “our thing”
The “They Figured Out The Challenger Hoax” Generation
were you in school?
Yes, I was. Teachers wanted to show it because 1st teacher astronaut.
Every single teacher in the country??
Nope, 1986. I was a freshman in high school. No way this happened in ‘84. I vividly remember skateboarding home after school was let out early due to the traumatic event.
Look up Mandela effect. No way it happened in 1986. I vividly remember the kids that I was standing with watching it happen, we were crowded in the cafeteria. I remember the teachers. 1986 was a completely different school and different set of kids and teachers.
No offense but I’m looking at a page in my 1986 freshman yearbook for the year in review…. “Challenger disaster.” I can even post a picture of the page if you’d like but you’d probably claim it was photoshoped. You can have your “Mandela effect” argument with yourself. Have a good day fren.
No worries, I’m not upset about it. But I know what I saw and when I saw it, very detailed. It was the only time that the TV was wheeled into the cafeteria and we all sat/stood around to watch the launch. By the way, I’m not the only one that remembers it happening in 1984.
we went out and watched it in central Florida, i was in grade school
Up until recently, I didn’t really realize that my Challenger experience was a shared experience…
I was in a classroom, with the TV cart at the front of the room. We watch TV for a while, the Challenger blew up…
I guess I never thought about it… that maybe my experience was shared with like the other kids in my classroom…
But what has recently come to my attention Is that every kid that was in any classroom, anywhere in America, had a TV in front of their classroom…
And we all saw the exact same thing at the exact same time
this exposion was planned
and i strongly suspect the mass traumatizing of all of our children was also part if the plan
Interesting. I agree. Everyone I know my age was watching it in a classroom, now that you mention it.
We were in the cafeteria. Small rural school, only 1 TV available. I remember the teachers got quiet when the Challenger blew up. We all then had to go back to our classrooms. It does seem to have been a mass traumatization event.
Same, 3rd grade. The whole elementary school was outside on the black top looking up. Until the explosion when the teachers got quiet & rushed us back inside to our classrooms.
Circa 1986 I was selling TV’s in a local Kmart. All the TV’s were tuned in to the launch because they were making history by sending the first teacher into space…which is likely why schools across the country were showing it in classrooms. When the explosion occurred people gathered around all the televisions watching the “major malfunction” over and over in disbelief.
I was in math class watching live. It blew up and the teacher turned off the TV and just said "OK, let's get out our text books and get to our lesson" Noone even talked about it fir the rest of that day.
I was working. Didn't hear about it till my wife and I came home and I turned on the TV.
Losing my grandmother, while saying happy birthday to my brother all on the same day. All in all, it was a terrible day for our family, but not because of nasa. Them fools are right up the highway from me. Could not have cared less about them.
CNN and the rest of the MSM were at Butler, and for some odd reason that was the rally they aired. Feels like the same concept when the public schools just happened to air the challenger blowing up. Everything is fake and ghey. All conspiracies r true.
9th grade library - Dayton, TX
Watching it on tv at home in Wichita
1986, co-op program in college…was working at Philips ECG factory that was producing color CRT picture tubes for TVs and computers.
I was working, we watched it live on a TV at the place.
I was working at a company assembling computer print circuit boards. We watched it live on tv while it happened.
I was with my father in Florida, caring for him, we had the tv on. I was doing hospice care, I remember the sadness in his face. Now, Dad was born in 1910, he had terminal cancer and I was spending his last months with him. He had worked with CBS as an audio tech for 30 years. After the sadness, he was furious. Furious that they pushed the entire thing as a media event. He was never conspiracy driven, but he did know the news industry from a special perspective, he did audio with Walter Conkrite, he knew what was edited, he knew what was staged. His take was that it happened because the media push to cover it and make a big hoopla compromised safety.
I was driving around Utica, NY. Signs were put up on same day "we honor our heroes" and stuff like that. Everyone very down. Gives me the shivers to think it might have been totally fake.
We had the "cart TV in school" for the Apollo 11 launch July 16th 1969.
You’re better at this than I am. Very effective approach.
I remember it like it was yesterday. I was at college, freshman year. I had just walked in from taking a shower & saw it on the TV.