Yes, the tube was always there in this reality, however, I have memories from another reality where my consciousness once resided and there was no tube. In that reality Australia was in the middle of the ocean with a thousand miles around it with no other land besides New Zealand near it. South America was also about 1000 miles to west of where you see it now. In my other reality There were the Berenstein Bears and not the Berenstain bears as we have in this reality. Sally fields had an s on her last name as did Christopher Reeves. The list goes on and on.