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alien_from_Europa t1_ivuop5j wrote
Nice to see the History Channel do something productive and not instantly link it to the aliens at the first Thanksgiving.
Karenomegas t1_ivuqge5 wrote
History always finds a way...
JohnPlayerSpecia1 t1_ivurwsp wrote
amazing!. now let's find the Malaysian airplane.
1320Fastback t1_ivus0od wrote
"large humanmade object," what an odd way to speak.
Practical-Wave-6988 t1_ivus634 wrote
Wait for Season 2.
Available-Camera8691 t1_ivut132 wrote
Well, I'm convinced.
Living_Egg2587 t1_ivut47c wrote
Where you been the last 15 years?
I mean I agree with you, but it’s not surprising.
Flbudskis t1_ivuumiw wrote
Have you watched LEMMiNO video break down " where it could be" If it took 30 years to find this just off the coast. Then it makes sense why that plane will never be found.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd2KEHvK-q8&ab_channel=LEMMiNOHe goes into radio pings, cockpit calls. Such an amazing video.
UncommonArcher805 t1_ivuwixi wrote
Bearing all the semblance of a tall personmade device
idowhatiwant8675309 t1_ivuwpkk wrote
History Channel always has pawnstars!
Successful_Load5719 t1_ivuxfj6 wrote
Did they find the abort button?
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Quincyperson t1_ivv3rh7 wrote
And the history channel uses this find to peddle a show about the Bermuda Triangle. Go figure
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not_suddenly_satire t1_ivv3zj8 wrote
They probably wanted to avoid "manmade." I don't think it's a big deal either way, but they really should have hyphenated it.
Aleashed t1_ivv4gdo wrote
I’m not saying it was aliens but it was aliens
frodosdream t1_ivv6c6t wrote
Better version reported by NBC.
>The shuttle broke apart just 73 seconds into its flight on Jan. 28, 1986. It disintegrated 46,000 feet above the ocean, off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
>The mission, called STS-51L, was commanded by Francis R. “Dick” Scobee and piloted by Michael J. Smith. Other astronauts included Ronald E. McNair, Ellison S. Onizuka, Judith A. Resnik, Gregory B. Jarvis, and S. Christa McAuliffe, a high school social studies teacher in Concord, New Hampshire. She had been selected as the primary candidate for the NASA Teacher in Space Project in July 1985.
The explosion traumatized an entire generation of kids around the country watching the launch live from their school rooms in support of the "Teacher in Space Project."
Rainbwned t1_ivv79ki wrote
Was the show called "The Hunt for Bigfoot's Buried Nazi Treasure"?
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LaunchesKayaks t1_ivvcek2 wrote
My fave moment was when the memed dude kept saying "penis sheathe" at leats once a sebrence for like 2 mins.
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Matthew_C1314 t1_ivvdghj wrote
There would be aliens in the title. Speaking of, did you know that aliens shot down the Challenger shuttle?
Matthew_C1314 t1_ivvdwa7 wrote
One of my favorite comedy bits is a standup comedian doing a set on why "Ancient Aliens" is the most racist show on tv.
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CameranutzII t1_ivve0fv wrote
They were "productive" by accident so it doesn't count.
CameranutzII t1_ivveik7 wrote
The History Channel is a network, not a show, but I get ya.
Not sure when in the hell they went off course with real content involving real history but it was a fall from grace, at least for me. Can't remember when I last watched a show of theirs.
Tritiac t1_ivvgreg wrote
I swear that dude was a psyop for how ridiculous a human being can look and say things to see what people would put up with. He is a parody of a parody.
EVula t1_ivviqsg wrote
Alternate History Hub did a hilarious breakdown of how batshit crazy that show is.
Epcplayer t1_ivvje3q wrote
Next week on “Are we alone”: Did ancient Aliens shoot down the Space Shuttle Challenger because of a possible covert CIA mission?
LaunchesKayaks t1_ivvk2c7 wrote
He's my fave history channel dude. He also said dinosaurs are aliens because they're big and that bigfoot is an interdimensional being just 'cause
Garbagedayblues t1_ivvn6kq wrote
That was hilarious.
FindMeOnSSBotanyBay t1_ivvo6nl wrote
I thought it was alien mind control! Or pod people!
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FindMeOnSSBotanyBay t1_ivvojzj wrote
I miss when my maternal grandpa was alive l, when it was the Hitler Channel. All WW2 all the time.
Matthew_C1314 t1_ivvpaba wrote
Nobody explicitly said it wasn’t…..
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TKFT_ExTr3m3 t1_ivvq9aj wrote
No it's Columbia that the Aliens shot down. Challenger was brought down by a CIA missile from Cuba.
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_Face t1_ivvtfhw wrote
"The Hunt for Bigfoot's Buried Nazi Treasure in The Bermuda Triangle" Would surprisingly be partially correct.
sundogmooinpuppy t1_ivvtl3d wrote
Talk about callous: I was one of those kids and someone came up with the joke…. “ Do you know why they served Coke on the Space Shuttle…..?”
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phluidity t1_ivvw7vo wrote
That is actually pretty on brand for the current History Channel
tunamelts2 t1_ivvwvlx wrote
I think about those astronauts from time to time and how horrific those last few seconds must have been for them. They gave their lives in pursuit of a better future for all mankind.
Acceptable-Print-164 t1_ivvzcj4 wrote
The worst part is that they didn't die until they hit the water and that some of them were trying to take action in the cockpit after the explosion.
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fiordchan t1_ivw0bsp wrote
"Honey Boo-Boo and the Lost Mayan Treasure"
purl__clutcher t1_ivw24yi wrote
I watched it happen live on tv. Nobody could have survived that explosion.
Reep1611 t1_ivw2ech wrote
Because it was completely uncalled for, extremely rude and adds nothing to the discussion while also being off topic?
Kinetic_Strike t1_ivw2een wrote
Was one of the elementary kids. We were West Coast though, so we didn't have it on live, I think we were planning to watch the first broadcast from the shuttle they had set up. A handful of us stayed inside for recess, our teacher was turning on the TV to see what was going on. That's when we found out.
Fast forward a decade and half, and I watched the pieces of Columbia falling through the sky from a breakroom at work. Drove home in a daze listening to the news.
PhilSpectorsMugshot t1_ivw2fru wrote
Do YoUr OwN rEsEaRcH.
Reep1611 t1_ivw2v87 wrote
Identically to a grand work crafted by hominids.
Acceptable-Print-164 t1_ivw3m4c wrote
I hear you, but they did. You can find plenty of resources online that talk more about it, short version is that the crew compartment was mostly intact until it struck the ocean.
fd6270 t1_ivw434a wrote
It very likely happened.
>But that was before the investigation turned up the key piece of evidence that led to the inescapable conclusion that they were alive: On the trip down, the commander and pilot’s reserved oxygen packs had been turned on by astronaut Judy Resnik, seated directly behind them. Furthermore, the pictures, which showed the cabin riding its own velocity in a ballistic arc, did not support an erratic, spinning motion. And even if there were G-forces, commander Dick Scobee was an experienced test pilot, habituated to them.
>The evidence led experts to conclude the seven astronauts lived. They worked frantically to save themselves through the plummeting arc that would take them 2 minutes and 45 seconds to smash into the ocean.
oldgeek123 t1_ivw6m1u wrote
I was one of those kids. I remember that SO clearly.
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purl__clutcher t1_ivwawcp wrote
Well shit :(
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Silver-Shoulder-9184 t1_ivwcfn5 wrote
Is it the first piece? Dude they ever find any body(ies)parts?
navikredstar t1_ivwckdc wrote
There's nothing mysterious about Flight 19, if you look into the case - the lead pilot of the flight group was a control freak asshole, his equipment was malfunctioning and telling him he was in the wrong place, the other pilots kept trying to tell him he was wrong, but he outranked 'em, and basically forced them to keep flying in the wrong fucking direction until they ran out of fuel and crashed somewhere in the Atlantic. There's really nothing weird or supernatural about it, just a shitty CO that nobody dared to stand up to when he was completely wrong, and it unfortunately ended up with a bunch of dead, missing pilots, because of shitty military culture in that particular unit.
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rchart1010 t1_ivwko6o wrote
That day always stays with me.
The teacher had rolled out a TV for us to watch the launch live. Was exciting because if Christy McCullough. We watched all those people, smiling, waving, full of life and vigor.
You could imagine them all taking their places because it had been televised for weeks.
So even though i could only see the outside of the shuttle as it went up, I could visualize them inside flipping switches and each doing their discreet duties.
And then it was like a firecracker. I didn't even register anything was wrong. And the whole shit just exploded. My teacher had no idea what to do. No one knew. The aftermath was devastating. And they found those bodies in some of the most gruesome conditions, suggesting that they had survived the initial explosion which was just...awful.
ReflexPoint t1_ivwkx8q wrote
I was in 4th grade. Christa McAuliffe. I will never forget that name.
SidFinch99 t1_ivwl23t wrote
I was confused, didn't understand what was going on, the Teachers had this confused look on their faces, one reached over real fast and turned the TV off, then we had to go back to class and not really understanding what just happened, I was kind of bummed because I thought we would miss more regular class time for what we were being brought to the library to watch.
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gizmer t1_ivwmy0c wrote
Sounds like an American dad episode
slamdanceswithwolves t1_ivwo1av wrote
Good stuff, but needs more Amelia Earhart
slamdanceswithwolves t1_ivwo50b wrote
Aliens at the second Thanksgiving?
slamdanceswithwolves t1_ivwobr1 wrote
Now we have some new Hitler channels, unfortunately.
TopHatJaguar t1_ivwp9y4 wrote
My mom was in the finals for the teacher on that flight when she found out she was pregnant with me. She still keeps a magnet of the mission patch on her fridge.
Craziness
LukeMayeshothand t1_ivwq8ur wrote
Yeah I remember watching in the common area of my elementary school. My 3rd grade teacher was crying and I guess it made a pretty big impact on me considering I vividly remember it .
howitzer86 t1_ivwq9a9 wrote
Columbia. Ooof.
I was riding in the car with my parents and realized all the flags we were passing were half-staff. Turning to the news on TV was the first thing I did when we made it home.
I watched a lot of reporting on that... but one thing I don't remember from back then is the cabin video. I don't know if they didn't have it yet, or if they chose to wait to release it, but it exists. Reentry burned the film up, so it ends before anything bad happens. It is still eerie as fuck.
forkliftdancer t1_ivwsjf6 wrote
How utterly awful. Thank you for the link. I never looked into the investigation.
timshel_life t1_ivwt7ii wrote
Then they'll go sell it to the Pawn Stars guy who will offer them like $250, best he can do.
SwifferWetJets t1_ivwupqu wrote
Was waiting for someone to mention this lol. Fish were like, "Oh hai guys, yeah this is been here for some time now..."
chicago_bunny t1_ivwuv5w wrote
I was 12 years old and didn't go to school that day because I was sick. My mom dropped me off at grandma's house. We were watching her programs, and they interrupted some game show hosted by Chuck Woolery to show the launch. I remember the confusion of the reporters who weren't sure what to make of the unexpected cloud of smoke they saw after the launch. Oof.
SoSoUnhelpful t1_ivwuvhw wrote
The vagaries of fate let you make it.
SoSoUnhelpful t1_ivwvf3g wrote
For those that witnessed it, you remember exactly what you were doing like it was yesterday. It is one of a handful of defining national memories from our generation. Our innocence was shattered.
sandwhichautist t1_ivwx3fm wrote
Blew up on my birthday. In elementary. While I was handing out cupcakes.
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UsualAnybody1807 t1_ivx0394 wrote
I could not believe what I saw the last time I had the History channel on. Never again. Now the channel is history for me.
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3PoundHummingbird t1_ivx5ou5 wrote
I got out of school early that day. I was in a total daze after watching it happen, and remember going to the playground across the street from my house that was always super busy. I was the only one there. I remember it being a very strange and lonely time on those swings, processing what had happened.
nkdby t1_ivx65o1 wrote
I was also on the West Coast. We watched it live in our classroom on the old metal av rolling stand with a gigantic tv strapped to the top. I was in the young astronauts club at the time. It didn't really occur to us that we had watched people die until after the broadcast was interrupted and the news came on. I think that was the beginning of the end for NASA.
3PoundHummingbird t1_ivx6a7l wrote
The transition from actual History Channel, to the War Channel, to Alien Bullshit Everywhere Channel has been terribly depressing.
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Brunt-FCA-285 t1_ivxmpks wrote
May I try?
Aliens built the pyramids so that the CIA could recruit Amelia Earhart to fly the Columbia back in time to shoot down the Challenger from a secret base in Cuba.
gptop t1_ivxr6s9 wrote
Yeah. That's cool but not the point here
BuckyD1000 t1_ivxrb4s wrote
I saw it happen with my own two eyes. Lived in Central Florida at the time and always excitedly ran outside to watch shuttle launches.
Everything about that morning is seared in my memory.
fsr1967 t1_ivxs0t1 wrote
I was a Freshman in college. I'd just finished lunch and was in the bathroom. The dorm janitor, Manny, came in and said, "So, do you think they'll find any of them alive up there?" (he was a little slow). Confused, I asked what he was talking about. "The space shuttle - it exploded."
I don't think my feet hit the floor between the bathroom and my dorm room, where I turned on my little black and white TV and sat in front of it for the next few hours, skipping classes and watching the coverage.
BLRNerd t1_ivxx6xs wrote
I remember watching the memorial for the Colombia disaster in 4th Grade, right at the height of post 9/11.
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kurbycar32 t1_ivy6m5t wrote
The teacher's spot on the shuttle was almost Big Bird from Sesame Street. Yes, millions of kids almost watched Big Bird go down with Challenger but the suit wasn't going to fit in the shuttle and NASA ultimately sent a teacher instead.
drrhrrdrr t1_ivy7k4u wrote
I heard a boom and the plates in my kitchen rattled. Looked outside and there was a streak across the southern sky that crisp winter morning...
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greentea1985 t1_ivyc3wr wrote
Close. It's something about the spooky Bermuda Triangle.
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TigerNuts1980 t1_ivyl78t wrote
Jesus Christ that would've been awful
BastardInTheNorth t1_ivylr5i wrote
Just looked it up. 11:43 in this clip, pilot or commander commenting on the reentry plasma: “Yeah, you don’t want to be outside right now.”
Yikes.
MUPIL090310 t1_ivyu37q wrote
I have hazy recollection (I believe I was in first grade??) and now basically knowing that as a kid I was not realizing and comprehending fully what I was seeing. Like the blast off happened and then the explosion and the teacher turning off the tv. And I remember just thinking - what was that??? What just happened?
twistedweenis t1_ivz23c3 wrote
Oh I remember. Fifth grade and all of us were old enough to know exactly what happened. My teacher just turned the TV off and sat there for a long moment. :'(
WirelessBCupSupport t1_ivzlnes wrote
But its about the Bermuda Triangle... following American Pickers and Duck Swamp Gold Digging Crabbers!
Bocephuss t1_iw1j726 wrote
Pretty sure it’s was minutes of free fall.
But not to worry, this is a risk, albeit small, you take every time you get on a commercial airplane at 30k+ feet.
Bocephuss t1_iw1joer wrote
Dude, sometimes on Reddit, replies to your comment are not directed toward you but rather expand or add onto your comment.
It’s doesn’t matter if it was your point. A new point was made to inform others.
No_Refrigerator4584 t1_iw5agt3 wrote
Erich von Däniken tried to warn us all…
gptop t1_iw6uslb wrote
Fair enough
ThisistheInfiniteIs t1_ivuoorb wrote
"History channel accidentally covers actual history while making yet another idiotic conspiracy theory show"
FTFY