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originally posted by: TheMaxHeadroomIncident
a reply to: opethPA
So you are still on the fence I gather?
originally posted by: DISRAELI
a reply to: heineken
For fifty years, I have had my grandfather's copy of Sir Robert Ball's "Story of the Heavens", printed in 1910.
The appendix at the back gives the following diameters;
Earth- 7,918 miles
Mars- 4,230 miles.
This perfectly illustrates the reality of the "Mandela effect". It's a psychological phenomenon, a new way of reacting to the discovery that people have been getting false ideas fixed into their imaginations.
Let me give you another example, for nothing.
In 1940, Winston Churchill told the House of Commons "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat". The text has read that way every time I've ever looked it up. Yet I have never heard it referenced in any other form than "blood, sweat, and tears". For some reason (perhaps because it runs more smoothly), this is the phrase that has entered into the public mind. Sooner or later that's going to be quoted as a "Mandela effect", when someone is curious enough to look it up.
All of them are like that.
originally posted by: Spacespider
a reply to: heineken
ummm.. wth.. strange, I am with you OP
I always been interesting in the universe and I am sure I always been told Mars was around the same size as earth and have been depicted this way
originally posted by: DISRAELI
a reply to: heineken
For fifty years, I have had my grandfather's copy of Sir Robert Ball's "Story of the Heavens", printed in 1910.
The appendix at the back gives the following diameters;
Earth- 7,918 miles
Mars- 4,230 miles.
This perfectly illustrates the reality of the "Mandela effect". It's a psychological phenomenon, a new way of reacting to the discovery that people have been getting false ideas fixed into their imaginations.
Let me give you another example, for nothing.
In 1940, Winston Churchill told the House of Commons "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat". The text has read that way every time I've ever looked it up. Yet I have never heard it referenced in any other form than "blood, sweat, and tears". For some reason (perhaps because it runs more smoothly), this is the phrase that has entered into the public mind. Sooner or later that's going to be quoted as a "Mandela effect", when someone is curious enough to look it up.
All of them are like that.
P.S. I have jusr checked his copy of "Starland", Ball's Christmas lectures for children. There is an illustration of the relative sizes of all the planets (except Pluto, of course, not yet discovered), and Mars looks just as small beside earth as in your own illustration. No reality has changed.
originally posted by: TheMaxHeadroomIncident
a reply to: opethPA
So you have your mind made up and blame others for supposedly having their minds made up?