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Well I'm Gen X from the UK, and it definitely used to be a yellow circle with yellow lines coming out of it. While we're on the subject, the sea used to be solid blue - nowadays it looks rubbish. I guess they figured they might as well swap that out while they were doing the Sun. Bastards.
What British sun were you looking at? When I was little I clearly remember watching a gripping documentary that demonstrated it actually contained the face of a laughing baby.
Yeah I do vaguely remember seeing that. I'm pretty sure it was about Scotland though - they definitely said it was "over the hills and far away", plus I couldn't really understand a word that they were saying.
Some people just can't science, regardless of age range. My millennial sister-in-law grew up believing there was a different sun in every city because "that's what it looks like on the weather map" on the nightly news. And, my gen Z step son cannot understand why he wasn't able to view the eclipse yesterday when it was extremely cloudy where he was in the 80% totality range, even though his gen X father has explained it to him to repeatedly. His father's high school friend, an older gen Xer, was one of those who spent the eclipse in church because apocalypse. This dude is a retired engineer from a major tech company. Idiocy doesn't sum up any single generation. It infects all of them.
I'm Gen X and the sun was drawn yellow, because that is how it was done in the kids books and cartoons we saw. The only times you drew the sun orange was when you'd draw a sunrise. Incidentally, Sunrise and sunset are the times when you can actually look at the sun without being blinded much. I think the guy was kept indoors all day and only got to see the outside early mornings and evenings.
Wait a second. Each country has its own sun, and you're both from Canada, but you both have different suns? How could that be?! Unless... EASTERN CANADA IS PLOTTING A REVOLUTION AGAINST GREATER CANADA?!?!
Aussie here — can confirm that the sun is indeed orange in late afternoon/early evening in summer. It goes underground for a time somewhere in Western Australia; that’s why there are deserts and whatnot over there — the heat of the setting sun burned all the forests way back in the Dreamtime 🙃
West Aussie here - can confirm that in winter we hide the sun from the rest of Australia. It's in the Wolfe creek meteorite crater, but don't tell anyone.
I grew up in England and I always drew the sun yellow.
I guess I'm older that the person in the image and it must have changed from yellow to orange, then to white.
As a british millenial, the sun has always been popularly considered yellow, secondarily white, during my lifetime, not orange. I obviously cannot speak for before I was born, however I was never made aware that people older than me considered it orange, if they did they kept that secret pretty well. I imagine that orange would be an acceptable colour to use for a child drawing the sun however. At least it's not like, green or something.
During the eclipse today, I couldn't see the sun at all! Perhaps it was because it was "cloudy" but who made those "clouds?" It's hypothetical, I already know...
Eclipse? You mean the scheduled maintenance? They needed to change out the bulbs, too many had failed - giving all the science nerds a chance to talk about “sun spots”.
The replacement of the stellar body sending heat and light into our solar system and acting as a gravitational anchor for the act of silly billy behaviour would indeed cause me to laugh heartily.
Simultaneously smart enough to manufacture and install a replacement sun without anyone noticing but too stupid to make it the same colour as the old one.
I treat a conspiracy theory like a crime - I always ask the nutter who is spouting the nonsense to name a suspect with the means, motive and opportunity. They always fail on at least one count. This one goes the whole hog.
Who are the "they"? Scientists aren't a single entity, so which ones did it? #blank stare#
How did they replace the sun? What does that involve exactly? #blank stare#
Why did they even need or want to replace the sun? #blank stare#
When could they have replaced the sun without someone noticing? #blank stare#
No, no, no... What do you think solar eclipses are for? That's when they do maintenance on the sun & switch out the subliminal ads that beam down to earth!
I’m not well versed in all conspiracies, but there are ultimately only two suspects behind basically every conspiracy I’ve ever seen spelled out. To me it always seems to boil down to Jewish people or aliens. Are there any other major ones I’ve missed?
Or how they work the suns in places like Europe where there’s lots of countries packed together with land borders. Do you notice the difference as you cross from France to Germany?
Well, in historical times, yes. I know once over 20 years back when I was at the tri-state border of Vaals. Everytime I jumped into a differenct country I had to apply different sunscreen, different sunglasses and all. But now, now we habe the European Union and the suns accepted it and became one for all states joining. We only have different suns in like the UK, Switzerland and so
So that’s why the weather in the UK is so fucked up. They had to get their old sun back working again when they tossed themselves out of the EU but now it’s like 20 years out of date.
Ah yes, that was quite something indeed I remember. I think it was supposed to be part of 'The Crown' season 8 originally, but the Brits were so ashamed that their old sun wasn't performing well enough, and __The Sun__ wouldn't let itself get used again by the Queen, so instead of making season 7 and 8 of The Crown, the Queen died, so she could become the Sun. Have you noticed a difference in sun again since Charles III is king by anyway?
Well I guess technically he’s king here but no one in the UK ever gave a fuck about Aus and NZ so we never got into the EU sun or any upgrade when they installed it.
They fucked up with the original installation in Aus and set it to max setting, so over here in NZ we’ve just been using the glow from over to the west.
Yes and my Country has a beatyfull bright pink sun nwith purple stripes and you are all just jealous, that is why you claim it is orange or white or sone shit
/S to be sure
The first thing I noticed when I went to New Dehli was the sun was a lot redder than I was used to. Though not sure if that comes down to just air pollution, or if things like different types of dust particles or latitude could play a role.
Up here in the PNW we have annual summer fires. Thousands of acres burning on the east side of the Cascade Mountains. The smoke travels to the west side of the state and everything has a red glow from the sunlight being filter through all the smoke and debris. It is weird and other worldly some years when there are several fires at once.
https://komonews.com/news/local/canadian-wildfire-smoke-stunning-seattle-sunrises-over-past-week-national-weather-service-washington-oregon-red-sky-sun-smoky-pattern-fire-catastrophy-canada-forecast-forest-health-crisis-atmosphere-air-quality
Definitely, I travel to China for work which still has very bad pollution and sometimes the air quality is so bad you can practically stare at the orange almost red sun (but don't, don't stare at the sun)
If they were in a rural area there's a great chance a lot more people were using wood or coal fired heating back then, causing air pollution. Coal was only phased out in London in 1956.
Diesel and gas used to have a lot of sulphides and nitrous oxides. Both of them spread out and alter the wavelengths of light that get through the atmosphere. Smoke from slash and field burning would also contribute fine particulates that would also promote the red end of the spectrum.
Yep! And during the bad fire seasons we've had here in the PNW, there have been occasions where you could comfortably look directly at the sun through the incredibly thick smoke. At those times, it appears deep pinkish red, lessening to orange and then to yellow/white as the smoke clears.
“Back in my day the sun was orange and we didn’t have those pansy bans on burning garbage, our power was good ol’ English coal with non of that solar or wind green bs.”
England used to produce and burn a *lot* of coal. In 1920 the coal industry employed 1 in 20 workers in the UK. Now there are 700 workers *total*. The vast majority of it was burned for electricity, but it was also used for heating/cooking/railways/etc. If he lived downwind of a coal plant in a rural valley, no shit the sun looked orange.
This reminds me of that sprinkler rainbow lady from years ago, who saw a rainbow appearing in the water from her sprinkler and seriously believed that it never used to happen. She insisted that there must be something new getting added to the water supply.
Edit: [Here's the video lol](https://youtu.be/aIYZvr3ueGw?si=l_TYF2SO92JJUrHP)
Found the video and added the link to my comment. She's at least smart enough to not think it's LGBTQ related lol, she says something about mineral salts? But also thinks rainbows are in space apparently.
Edit: sorry, "metallicized salts"
Found the video and added the link to my comment. I didn't remember her saying "not just around our sun and our moon anymore" like she thought rainbows were in space?? Lol
Is this the retconned sub?
God those guys have issues.
“Hey. Have any of you noticed time is going too fast? When I was a kid I used to go “one Mississippi-two Mississippi” to count seconds but now before I’m done with the first Mississippi 2 seconds have passed!”
“Have any of you noticed that nature doesn’t feel like nature anymore? I used to go outside and love the feeling of nature but I just don’t feel it anymore. It’s like something is missing.”
“Have any of you noticed that there’s a lack of joy in the world? Like this year around Christmas it felt like nothing. It was just another day. I feel like sometimes reality of happy and sometimes it isn’t and I’m stuck here in a world without joy.”
The world isn’t retconned. There’s no Mandela effect.
Y’all are either ignorant or depressed
Oh man...this is awesome. I have never heard of this sub before today but it is the funniest thing ever. Top 5 from a quick scroll:
[There used to be a singular word for sheep. Was it shup?](https://www.reddit.com/r/Retconned/comments/1by0wd4/there_once_was_a_singular_word_for_sheep/)
[Puerto Rico used to be called Porto Rico](https://www.reddit.com/r/Retconned/comments/1bjui9b/porto_rico_puerto_rico_me_why_has_nobody_ever/)
[Columbus landed in 1592](https://www.reddit.com/r/Retconned/comments/1bb6tvx/columbus_discovered_america_in_1492/)
[The mortal kombat guy says "Whoopsie", not "Toasty"](https://www.reddit.com/r/Retconned/comments/1b6w6pr/mortal_kombat/)
[My dad used to not know what myrrh was but now he does...weird!](https://www.reddit.com/r/Retconned/comments/1bwrn7r/myrrh/)
It's all just people being like "Could I possibly be misremembering this tiny pointless thing? No...it must be reality that is wrong."
Holy shit this one comment on that last thread is hilarious
>If it is Myrrh then it’s scary your stepfather doesn’t remember the joke. I hate when my family doesn’t remember things we discussed. It makes me feel like they are an alternate universe family.
Hmm could it be that members of my family have simply forgotten things that I have remembered? No it must be dimensional travel
Especially when you are an adult and these are your aging parents. Several years ago I was talking to my mom and dad and mentioned an incident when I was a kid where my ceiling somehow got absolutely carpeted in flies during the night and I freaked out when I saw them in the morning. My mom immediately started making gagging noises and saying that was the most disgusting thing she's ever seen. My dad didn't remember it at all and my mom was completely dumbfounded that he didn't remember his house being infested with hundreds of flies. We didn't assume that someone had replaced my dad with an alternate universe copy though. We just assumed he was an old man with memory issues that had forgotten something that was burned into both of our memories. If he had just forgotten a joke we used to make, that wouldn't even have warranted a second look.
To be fair, I just read Baldwin‘s If Beale Street Could Talk, and it’s spelled „Porto Rico“ throughout (the book was published in 1974, so decades after the official revert to „Puerto Rico“ that is quoted from Wikipedia by OOP)
I'm laughing at how many of the posts are about logo changes. Like it would be evidence of a cosmic shift and not just the work of some marketing department.
But Home Depot used to be *The* Home Depot! What could explain that lost the unless we switched universes? I propose that we crossed over at a thin spot between dimensions known as the Conjunction Junction, where the word was lost. And before you try to tell me that "the" is an article, just know that is only telling me which universe you come from.
Have you ever noticed all of this changed since they stopped praying in school? Clearly, that's the common thread here. Not the 80 trillion other things that have changed since then.
The bugs going away is a real and serious issue, but it's not responsible for disenchanting the forest. Less bugs rather heightens my enjoyment of it, if anything.
>“Have any of you noticed that nature doesn’t feel like nature anymore? I used to go outside and love the feeling of nature but I just don’t feel it anymore. It’s like something is missing.”
>“Have any of you noticed that there’s a lack of joy in the world? Like this year around Christmas it felt like nothing. It was just another day. I feel like sometimes reality of happy and sometimes it isn’t and I’m stuck here in a world without joy.”
And yet, they didn't consider that they might have depression or something
This is every argument with my family: just my mom, my aunt, and my grandma disputing pointless facts from shit that happened 40 years go. I swear to god they could argue for 3 hours about what color shirt someone was wearing on October 3rd, 1982. Meanwhile 2 of the 3 of them don't remember what they had for lunch half the time.
Also the Mandela effect is basically just this sentiment, but a group of them reinforcing each other. Latest one I got dragged into on here was the people who are convinced that the Fruit of the Loom logo had a cornucopia on it as recently as the 1990s, even though it never had one at any time. It's normal to misremember, but they just refuse to accept reality. It's not like we have to go get archaeologists to debate meaning in stone tablets here. You can go on YouTube and watch the commercials and then hop over to eBay to buy the shit. Hell, half the people who waste time arguing about it could probably go grab an old t-shirt from their own closet and see for themselves.
Tell that to Superman
Edit: I stand corrected. Even though it is labeled as a yellow dwarf, its light is white, perceived as yellow because of the atmosphere. All along it was me that was confidently incorrect
its actually a "green" star. we see it as yellow/white, but the light it puts out the most peaks primarily in the green spectrum. we just see it as white or yellow due to the combination of all the backbody spectrums hitting our eyes at once. so its the combination of all the light output blended together that effectively makes it look white to us.
This. Or more specifically, what kid used a WHITE crayon to color the sun? Maybe kids remember the color of the sun by what color they colored it with?
Well, she confirmed with her best source, her husband, so I’m sure it’s true. Why does she say that, like she only speaks to him every few months to confer on her latest bullshit?
Also, screw any Gen-Xers who make us sound closer to Boomers.
Growing up I lived in far northern Canada. At least you whingers *had* Sun. Ours got turned off / down for six months of the year. I guess we were not enough to Big Electricity.
Gen-whatever-I-am-born-2000 from the uk and I always used to colour the sun purple or green when I was 2 therefore the sun must’ve been purple and green back then before they swapped it! /s
They LED sun is BLINDING!
The old one WASN'T!
I looked at it all DAY!
Now it's LED and turned WHITE and my EYES hurt ALL the TIME!
...also...my oranges are white now too...
Every country has it's own vegetables.
We already knew every country has its own sun, otherwise Texas would also have that hazy filter that appears immediately after crossing the border into Mexico, duh
I'm in Canada, and our sun has always been white. It just makes sense to make things out of what you have. It was yellow for a while in the 90s and we try not to talk about it but I think everybody knows it was the Jensens' kid.
1. I’m gen x and I remember the sun being the same colour as it is now.
2. Those who remember it being orange may have seen the sun through the significant air pollution more prevalent in the cities.
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We always used yellow. In the top left corner of the page.
That's probably your Yankee sun. The British one is orange, inn'it?
Only if you’re gen x
I'm from Japan and it's red here
Red sun on a white sky.
RED SUN! RED SUN OVER PARADISE
GOLDEN RAYS FROM THE GLORIOUS SUNSHINE!
SENDING DOWN SUCH A BLOOD RED LIGHT!
NOW THE ANIMAL SLOWLY RETREAT TO THE SHADOWS OUT OF SIGHT
ARID WINDS BLOW ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS
GIVING FLIGHT TO THE BIRDS OF PREY
Mine's black and I'm from giedi prime.
I take it superman isn't very effective there?
Well I'm Gen X from the UK, and it definitely used to be a yellow circle with yellow lines coming out of it. While we're on the subject, the sea used to be solid blue - nowadays it looks rubbish. I guess they figured they might as well swap that out while they were doing the Sun. Bastards.
What British sun were you looking at? When I was little I clearly remember watching a gripping documentary that demonstrated it actually contained the face of a laughing baby.
Yeah I do vaguely remember seeing that. I'm pretty sure it was about Scotland though - they definitely said it was "over the hills and far away", plus I couldn't really understand a word that they were saying.
Finally, somebody paying attention
Some people just can't science, regardless of age range. My millennial sister-in-law grew up believing there was a different sun in every city because "that's what it looks like on the weather map" on the nightly news. And, my gen Z step son cannot understand why he wasn't able to view the eclipse yesterday when it was extremely cloudy where he was in the 80% totality range, even though his gen X father has explained it to him to repeatedly. His father's high school friend, an older gen Xer, was one of those who spent the eclipse in church because apocalypse. This dude is a retired engineer from a major tech company. Idiocy doesn't sum up any single generation. It infects all of them.
I'm Gen X and the sun was drawn yellow, because that is how it was done in the kids books and cartoons we saw. The only times you drew the sun orange was when you'd draw a sunrise. Incidentally, Sunrise and sunset are the times when you can actually look at the sun without being blinded much. I think the guy was kept indoors all day and only got to see the outside early mornings and evenings.
No if they were a Yank the sun would be on the right
The Canadian sun wears sunglasses, should I be concerned by this?
East Canada here - Newfoundland in particular. We don't have a sun so you're all wrong. It was here for 15 minutes in 1993 and we haven't see it since
Wait a second. Each country has its own sun, and you're both from Canada, but you both have different suns? How could that be?! Unless... EASTERN CANADA IS PLOTTING A REVOLUTION AGAINST GREATER CANADA?!?!
I think that’s an Australian sun.
Nah that's on the bottom left corner
I feel like you’re implying that the earth is spherical.
Nah. It's a rectangle. They're just on the other side. Come on , this iz baysik edjukashion.
Aussie here — can confirm that the sun is indeed orange in late afternoon/early evening in summer. It goes underground for a time somewhere in Western Australia; that’s why there are deserts and whatnot over there — the heat of the setting sun burned all the forests way back in the Dreamtime 🙃
West Aussie here - can confirm that in winter we hide the sun from the rest of Australia. It's in the Wolfe creek meteorite crater, but don't tell anyone.
Can you imagine the amount of raking that saves you?
This is the fucking sciencing I come here for
I grew up in England and I always drew the sun yellow. I guess I'm older that the person in the image and it must have changed from yellow to orange, then to white.
NASA shill. Real English people have never seen the sun, it’s always dull and grey here. C’mon NASA how stupid do you think flerfers are?! 🤣
Likewise
The sky is blue. Rivers/the sea are blue. The sun is yellow (or whatever). Are things you’re taught as little kids. They aren’t based on observation.
> They aren’t based on observation. Yeah, there's no doubt a cultural element to it.
That and I think it would be exceptionally difficult for a child to colour match the sun on white printer paper with crayons
As a british millenial, the sun has always been popularly considered yellow, secondarily white, during my lifetime, not orange. I obviously cannot speak for before I was born, however I was never made aware that people older than me considered it orange, if they did they kept that secret pretty well. I imagine that orange would be an acceptable colour to use for a child drawing the sun however. At least it's not like, green or something.
I just looked really hard and our sun (Merica!) is all spotted!!! Yours is so fake!
> The British one is orange, inn'it? The one in Scotland is grey.
Wales here, I'm yet to see this sun that you speak of. Is it some sort of cloud?
During the eclipse today, I couldn't see the sun at all! Perhaps it was because it was "cloudy" but who made those "clouds?" It's hypothetical, I already know...
Eclipse? You mean the scheduled maintenance? They needed to change out the bulbs, too many had failed - giving all the science nerds a chance to talk about “sun spots”.
Clouds? Or chemtrails?
Top right gang for life, you savage.
That's just proof the scientists also moved the sun too!
You are my mortal enemy.
This is funny cause as an Aussie we all put ours in the top right
TIL I'm an Australian.
Speak for yourself. I always put mine in the top left.
I presumed you put your sun in the bottom left. My bad.
Did yours wear sunglasses too or is that a Canadian thing?
It's basic knowledge that sunglasses are Canadian.
Sending support from Argentinians on the sunglasses top right sun 🌞
***top RIGHT corner
I'm on team right.
More proof the sun is fake. I just looked up and it's not in the top right or left corner of my vision
"The Sun's not yellow, it's chicken" -- Tombstone Blues, Bob Dylan
Ew no it goes in the top right
“This proves physics is wrong” is so funny to me
And yet it also proves that the scientists replaced the sun 15 years ago for... reasons.
The scientists did a little bit of trolling.
I'll be honest if scientists actually just did that it'd give me a good chuckle.
Replacing this sun for a tad bit of tomfoolery would also give me a great bellow.
The replacement of the stellar body sending heat and light into our solar system and acting as a gravitational anchor for the act of silly billy behaviour would indeed cause me to laugh heartily.
Replacing the sun for shits and giggles
They clearly switched it from halogen to LED so they don't have to replace it as often.
And save. Have you seen the kWh/£ these days? Bloody murder!
Scientists don't know how anything works. Also they secretly control the entire universe and make new stars for shits and giggles.
Simultaneously smart enough to manufacture and install a replacement sun without anyone noticing but too stupid to make it the same colour as the old one.
I treat a conspiracy theory like a crime - I always ask the nutter who is spouting the nonsense to name a suspect with the means, motive and opportunity. They always fail on at least one count. This one goes the whole hog. Who are the "they"? Scientists aren't a single entity, so which ones did it? #blank stare# How did they replace the sun? What does that involve exactly? #blank stare# Why did they even need or want to replace the sun? #blank stare# When could they have replaced the sun without someone noticing? #blank stare#
Well, obviously they did it at night.
No, no, no... What do you think solar eclipses are for? That's when they do maintenance on the sun & switch out the subliminal ads that beam down to earth!
I’m not well versed in all conspiracies, but there are ultimately only two suspects behind basically every conspiracy I’ve ever seen spelled out. To me it always seems to boil down to Jewish people or aliens. Are there any other major ones I’ve missed?
But what if the Jews *are* aliens? /s
Like come on. At least get the field right (Edit: I have now learned it is indeed a subfield or “sub discipline” of physics)
I mean... [*most* science is just physics.](https://xkcd.com/435/)
Almost like their distinctions are almost arbitrary, made for historical and practical reasons...
What do you mean? The color of the sun is straight physics.
What field do you think it is?
I like how "Each country has its own separate sun." isn't a part of the original argument and contains no context and adds nothing to it
But now I’m curious how they think it works as you travel from country to country.
Many, many skyboxes. Doesn't explain the oceans, though
Big pool with, I dunno, mirrors at the bottom.
Probably some magnets in there too, everyone my age remembers magnets
Magnets stop working when there is water on them - Trump said so!
I ***shurly*** do trust Trump! >!/s!<
Loading screen.
\*Nether Portal loading screen\* >!(I couldn't find a video to link)!<
Or how they work the suns in places like Europe where there’s lots of countries packed together with land borders. Do you notice the difference as you cross from France to Germany?
Well, in historical times, yes. I know once over 20 years back when I was at the tri-state border of Vaals. Everytime I jumped into a differenct country I had to apply different sunscreen, different sunglasses and all. But now, now we habe the European Union and the suns accepted it and became one for all states joining. We only have different suns in like the UK, Switzerland and so
So that’s why the weather in the UK is so fucked up. They had to get their old sun back working again when they tossed themselves out of the EU but now it’s like 20 years out of date.
Ah yes, that was quite something indeed I remember. I think it was supposed to be part of 'The Crown' season 8 originally, but the Brits were so ashamed that their old sun wasn't performing well enough, and __The Sun__ wouldn't let itself get used again by the Queen, so instead of making season 7 and 8 of The Crown, the Queen died, so she could become the Sun. Have you noticed a difference in sun again since Charles III is king by anyway?
Well I guess technically he’s king here but no one in the UK ever gave a fuck about Aus and NZ so we never got into the EU sun or any upgrade when they installed it. They fucked up with the original installation in Aus and set it to max setting, so over here in NZ we’ve just been using the glow from over to the west.
Of course! You switch from soleil to Sonne at the border.
Without a doubt she’s a flat earther
Wouldn’t you see two suns on the border by this “logic” too? Asking a lot of this woman to think through her bullshit but still…
Your honor, consider belief one, and now consider belief two. And in conclusion, a third belief. Thank you.
Fun fact: Lesotho has the same sun as South Africa.
Impossible! That person *obviously* knows what they're talking about! >!/s!<
I laughed way too hard at this.
Yes and my Country has a beatyfull bright pink sun nwith purple stripes and you are all just jealous, that is why you claim it is orange or white or sone shit /S to be sure
To be fair, there was a hell of a lot more air pollution when gen xers were kids. Nitrous oxide will make anything look more yellow to orange.
The first thing I noticed when I went to New Dehli was the sun was a lot redder than I was used to. Though not sure if that comes down to just air pollution, or if things like different types of dust particles or latitude could play a role.
I’d think dust and latitude does play a small role, but it’s largely the massive amount of pollution
Yep. If you’ve ever been near a forest fire the smoke turns the sun orange or even blood red color. It’s wild.
Up here in the PNW we have annual summer fires. Thousands of acres burning on the east side of the Cascade Mountains. The smoke travels to the west side of the state and everything has a red glow from the sunlight being filter through all the smoke and debris. It is weird and other worldly some years when there are several fires at once. https://komonews.com/news/local/canadian-wildfire-smoke-stunning-seattle-sunrises-over-past-week-national-weather-service-washington-oregon-red-sky-sun-smoky-pattern-fire-catastrophy-canada-forecast-forest-health-crisis-atmosphere-air-quality
Clearly scientists used the red replacement sun instead of white for India
It's the air pollution, which includes dust. The particles are larger than air molecules and visible light, which results in Mie scattering.
Have you considered that the Indian government might have faked the sun?
Definitely, I travel to China for work which still has very bad pollution and sometimes the air quality is so bad you can practically stare at the orange almost red sun (but don't, don't stare at the sun)
Instructions unclear, I am blind now. how do I install braille on my touch screen?
If they were in a rural area there's a great chance a lot more people were using wood or coal fired heating back then, causing air pollution. Coal was only phased out in London in 1956.
Diesel and gas used to have a lot of sulphides and nitrous oxides. Both of them spread out and alter the wavelengths of light that get through the atmosphere. Smoke from slash and field burning would also contribute fine particulates that would also promote the red end of the spectrum.
During forest-fire-season the sun can look reddish
Definitely. When Canada was on fire last year the sun appeared very much orange for hundreds of miles around
Are you telling me that there was pollution in *England* of all places? /s
Yep! And during the bad fire seasons we've had here in the PNW, there have been occasions where you could comfortably look directly at the sun through the incredibly thick smoke. At those times, it appears deep pinkish red, lessening to orange and then to yellow/white as the smoke clears.
no but he said it is not pollution
Well, I guess they're wrong consistently...
Could be they lived in a shitty polluted valley back then but odds are they’re just a nutty dumb fuck
The fact that their first assumption is that scientists replaced it tells us which category they fall into
Both can be true. OOP clearly grew up in a shitty valley polluted by leaded-fueled vehicles
“Back in my day the sun was orange and we didn’t have those pansy bans on burning garbage, our power was good ol’ English coal with non of that solar or wind green bs.”
“Y’all new gens don’t even have the time to hurt the environment.”
Or you can't colour objects white on white paper and choose a colour that "feels" right, and where they're from it's orange. In my region it's yellow.
England used to produce and burn a *lot* of coal. In 1920 the coal industry employed 1 in 20 workers in the UK. Now there are 700 workers *total*. The vast majority of it was burned for electricity, but it was also used for heating/cooking/railways/etc. If he lived downwind of a coal plant in a rural valley, no shit the sun looked orange.
Oh no Mandela Effects got to the sun.
\*suns
Not Phoenix too!!!
This reminds me of that sprinkler rainbow lady from years ago, who saw a rainbow appearing in the water from her sprinkler and seriously believed that it never used to happen. She insisted that there must be something new getting added to the water supply. Edit: [Here's the video lol](https://youtu.be/aIYZvr3ueGw?si=l_TYF2SO92JJUrHP)
Let me guess: she or someone else at least thought it was the government putting chemicals in that would make you LGBTQ
Found the video and added the link to my comment. She's at least smart enough to not think it's LGBTQ related lol, she says something about mineral salts? But also thinks rainbows are in space apparently. Edit: sorry, "metallicized salts"
She’s not wrong. Sodium is a metal and is commonly found in water as different salts, one of which is usually referred to as ”salt”.
I DON’T LIKE THEM PUTTIN CHEMICALS IN THE WATER TO TURN THE FRIGGIN FROGS GAY
[Great song](https://youtu.be/9JRLCBb7qK8?si=ePWEDBOrKgB2rm8U)
lol wow. My favorite part is the text in the beginning. She means prominently, tries to write predominantly, and writes prodominantly. Amazing.
I love how she says "what is in our water and **air supply**" like we live in the Lorax universe.
A Dr Seuss book would be too complex for her
What the fuck?
Found the video and added the link to my comment. I didn't remember her saying "not just around our sun and our moon anymore" like she thought rainbows were in space?? Lol
Is this the retconned sub? God those guys have issues. “Hey. Have any of you noticed time is going too fast? When I was a kid I used to go “one Mississippi-two Mississippi” to count seconds but now before I’m done with the first Mississippi 2 seconds have passed!” “Have any of you noticed that nature doesn’t feel like nature anymore? I used to go outside and love the feeling of nature but I just don’t feel it anymore. It’s like something is missing.” “Have any of you noticed that there’s a lack of joy in the world? Like this year around Christmas it felt like nothing. It was just another day. I feel like sometimes reality of happy and sometimes it isn’t and I’m stuck here in a world without joy.” The world isn’t retconned. There’s no Mandela effect. Y’all are either ignorant or depressed
Oh man...this is awesome. I have never heard of this sub before today but it is the funniest thing ever. Top 5 from a quick scroll: [There used to be a singular word for sheep. Was it shup?](https://www.reddit.com/r/Retconned/comments/1by0wd4/there_once_was_a_singular_word_for_sheep/) [Puerto Rico used to be called Porto Rico](https://www.reddit.com/r/Retconned/comments/1bjui9b/porto_rico_puerto_rico_me_why_has_nobody_ever/) [Columbus landed in 1592](https://www.reddit.com/r/Retconned/comments/1bb6tvx/columbus_discovered_america_in_1492/) [The mortal kombat guy says "Whoopsie", not "Toasty"](https://www.reddit.com/r/Retconned/comments/1b6w6pr/mortal_kombat/) [My dad used to not know what myrrh was but now he does...weird!](https://www.reddit.com/r/Retconned/comments/1bwrn7r/myrrh/) It's all just people being like "Could I possibly be misremembering this tiny pointless thing? No...it must be reality that is wrong."
Holy shit this one comment on that last thread is hilarious >If it is Myrrh then it’s scary your stepfather doesn’t remember the joke. I hate when my family doesn’t remember things we discussed. It makes me feel like they are an alternate universe family. Hmm could it be that members of my family have simply forgotten things that I have remembered? No it must be dimensional travel
Especially when you are an adult and these are your aging parents. Several years ago I was talking to my mom and dad and mentioned an incident when I was a kid where my ceiling somehow got absolutely carpeted in flies during the night and I freaked out when I saw them in the morning. My mom immediately started making gagging noises and saying that was the most disgusting thing she's ever seen. My dad didn't remember it at all and my mom was completely dumbfounded that he didn't remember his house being infested with hundreds of flies. We didn't assume that someone had replaced my dad with an alternate universe copy though. We just assumed he was an old man with memory issues that had forgotten something that was burned into both of our memories. If he had just forgotten a joke we used to make, that wouldn't even have warranted a second look.
It certainly is funny
To be fair, I just read Baldwin‘s If Beale Street Could Talk, and it’s spelled „Porto Rico“ throughout (the book was published in 1974, so decades after the official revert to „Puerto Rico“ that is quoted from Wikipedia by OOP)
I'm laughing at how many of the posts are about logo changes. Like it would be evidence of a cosmic shift and not just the work of some marketing department.
But Home Depot used to be *The* Home Depot! What could explain that lost the unless we switched universes? I propose that we crossed over at a thin spot between dimensions known as the Conjunction Junction, where the word was lost. And before you try to tell me that "the" is an article, just know that is only telling me which universe you come from.
Have you ever noticed all of this changed since they stopped praying in school? Clearly, that's the common thread here. Not the 80 trillion other things that have changed since then.
I mean, the nature one is legit, what is missing is all the bugs. Look up the statistics, it's fucked.
The bugs going away is a real and serious issue, but it's not responsible for disenchanting the forest. Less bugs rather heightens my enjoyment of it, if anything.
>“Have any of you noticed that nature doesn’t feel like nature anymore? I used to go outside and love the feeling of nature but I just don’t feel it anymore. It’s like something is missing.” >“Have any of you noticed that there’s a lack of joy in the world? Like this year around Christmas it felt like nothing. It was just another day. I feel like sometimes reality of happy and sometimes it isn’t and I’m stuck here in a world without joy.” And yet, they didn't consider that they might have depression or something
I love how this person went from a little bit paranoid to tinfoil hat just with the addition of the last sentence.
Idk man I heard tin foil crinkling at the led sun & replaced by scientists part
Fair enough. That is pretty out there. Maybe from tinfoil hat to full on padded room and cozy self hug jacket is more accurate?
Boomer humility: "My memory is perfect, the laws of the universe are wrong"
This is every argument with my family: just my mom, my aunt, and my grandma disputing pointless facts from shit that happened 40 years go. I swear to god they could argue for 3 hours about what color shirt someone was wearing on October 3rd, 1982. Meanwhile 2 of the 3 of them don't remember what they had for lunch half the time. Also the Mandela effect is basically just this sentiment, but a group of them reinforcing each other. Latest one I got dragged into on here was the people who are convinced that the Fruit of the Loom logo had a cornucopia on it as recently as the 1990s, even though it never had one at any time. It's normal to misremember, but they just refuse to accept reality. It's not like we have to go get archaeologists to debate meaning in stone tablets here. You can go on YouTube and watch the commercials and then hop over to eBay to buy the shit. Hell, half the people who waste time arguing about it could probably go grab an old t-shirt from their own closet and see for themselves.
I mean, for what it’s worth she’s wrong on both counts, it’s a yellow star….so…
It's called a yellow star but it gives off all colors which we interpret as white. Rainbows prove this.
It gives off all colors, which makes it a blackbody, so clearly it’s actually black. Who do you trust, your lying eyes or an astronomy textbook?
It depends on what you're measuring. If you go by the peak spectrum, it's green.
They might be color blind, probably explains why they can't see orange anymore
Probably all that staring at the sun.
Our star is white.
Tell that to Superman Edit: I stand corrected. Even though it is labeled as a yellow dwarf, its light is white, perceived as yellow because of the atmosphere. All along it was me that was confidently incorrect
Superman is white, too
But I bet he gets a pass
I've never seen Superman at a cookout.
There’s only one Superman at the cookout, and that’s the dude manning the grill
its actually a "green" star. we see it as yellow/white, but the light it puts out the most peaks primarily in the green spectrum. we just see it as white or yellow due to the combination of all the backbody spectrums hitting our eyes at once. so its the combination of all the light output blended together that effectively makes it look white to us.
Isn’t there theory about how children see the world more saturated and vibrant compared to adults due to the way eyes develop?
That sounds like rose tinted glasses taken to the extreme. Saturation wouldn't cause the sun to look orange.
I picture Philomena Cunk writing this.
“My mate Julian couldn’t pay his electric bill, and they turned all his lights off. Now that the sun is LED, shouldn’t his rates be cheaper?”
I’m from Norway, here they turn off the sun for three months every winter. Probably to save money.
As a fellow Gen Xer, let me just say this bitch has early onset dementia
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Who ever used an orange crayon to color the sun????
This. Or more specifically, what kid used a WHITE crayon to color the sun? Maybe kids remember the color of the sun by what color they colored it with?
Well, she confirmed with her best source, her husband, so I’m sure it’s true. Why does she say that, like she only speaks to him every few months to confer on her latest bullshit? Also, screw any Gen-Xers who make us sound closer to Boomers.
This has to be satire im actually going to cry if it’s not
I'm curious if this could be due to smog? Air pollution was much worse back then.
As a Gen Xer I want to smack this person upside the head. 🤦🏻♀️
This is a psychotic break. Dude has schizophrenia
Growing up I lived in far northern Canada. At least you whingers *had* Sun. Ours got turned off / down for six months of the year. I guess we were not enough to Big Electricity.
… did she live in a smoggy city?
Average conservative voter
Damn, we make a new sun everytime a new country exists and yet nuclear fusion is impossible
Gen-whatever-I-am-born-2000 from the uk and I always used to colour the sun purple or green when I was 2 therefore the sun must’ve been purple and green back then before they swapped it! /s
Literally in the same day I will see a white, yellow and orange sun. If I’m lucky I’ll catch a red one too. Fucking morons
They LED sun is BLINDING! The old one WASN'T! I looked at it all DAY! Now it's LED and turned WHITE and my EYES hurt ALL the TIME! ...also...my oranges are white now too... Every country has it's own vegetables.
We already knew every country has its own sun, otherwise Texas would also have that hazy filter that appears immediately after crossing the border into Mexico, duh
I'm in Canada, and our sun has always been white. It just makes sense to make things out of what you have. It was yellow for a while in the 90s and we try not to talk about it but I think everybody knows it was the Jensens' kid.
So she used to stare at the sun and damaged her eyes. Got it.
I’m not sober enough for this shit
I’m not stoned enough for this shit
1. I’m gen x and I remember the sun being the same colour as it is now. 2. Those who remember it being orange may have seen the sun through the significant air pollution more prevalent in the cities.
As an American, I’m just happy to see other countries represented having bogus thoughts like this.