Hacker News Reader

Comment by flukus | Hacker News Reader

Went through the article thinking "god, I do remember this movie" until I got to the Kazaam part. Kazaam fits fine into my vague memory.

It was always the Berenstein bears though, get out of my universe!

Edit - If anyone wants a good sci-fi novel, the revelation space series touches on the mandela effect a bit.

View on HN

I had pretty much the same reaction — I was actually hoping a little bit to be able to finish the article, run my own queries through Google, have them come up empty, and get a small taste of the supernatural.

But nope, Kazaam is a perfect fit. I had remembered Shaq being in it from the beginning too, and was starting to think that my memory was a a bit faulty.

I would have also guessed "Berenstein", but to be fair, I barely knew how to spell when I read through those books.

>I would have also guessed "Berenstein", but to be fair, I barely knew how to spell when I read through those books.

I didn't know about the Berenstain alternate universe until long after it was a thing, and I this was my first reaction as well. I never really knew how to spell it, and I hadn't see one of those for many years since.

I also think it's one of those easily confused suffices: -ein, -ine, -ien, -een, -urg, -erg, etc.

Only reason I'm positive it's "-stain" is because I remember making a poorly received joke about "bear stains" as a kid.

Are you thinking of Chasm City, or did I miss that subtext in the later books?

I'm only half way through that now so not that one (unless they get to it). I think it was redemption ark, or on of the main trilogy.

I can't remember any Mandela effect. There's group consciousness (mentioned in RS and CC, but covered massively in Absolution Gap and some short stories), and some contact with a parallel universe (in AG/RA), but no independent mass misremembering.

There's some mandala drawings in Revelation Space (Philip Lascaille draws them on the pavement in chalk), and there are huge structures called Mandalas in the second and third parts of the Poseidon's Children series. Is it possible that this is what you refer to?

It goes into it a bit when they go over the history of that mass reducing machine, how a scientist testing it was wiped from history except for one nearby co-worker.

Or does it have to be more widespread to be the Mandela effect?

Close enough for me. That vaguely rings a bell. I'll have to reread those, and pay better attention.

Anathem plays with this as well

Reply on news.ycombinator.com