Douglas,
We seem to be missing each others' points.
You said: "if you aren't on Great Britain's side, or not Germany post-1914, you will lose because you can't import nitrates from Chile."
I then assumed, a shocking habit, that you were talking about Germany and the Central Powers...
Thande,
Not in the slightest.
Let me quote a sentence from my own post, and a sentence you yourself quoted, with an added emphasis:
As we both note, "nitrates are obviously also used in peacetime as fertiliser" and we both note, "importing them from Chile is enormously cheaper than...
Douglas,
That could very well be true, but the process you originally wrote about is known by other names.
Behold the Power of the Search Function:
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=2990851&postcount=21
You'll be interested to notice that the process you've been...
Altamiro,
Yes, there was a race, just as there was a race for gold reserves and other materials. There wasn't a race however because Germany suddenly realized the war would last over 4 years and the British blockade would eventually prevent nitrate imports.
It would have been a trivial...
Douglas,
Where to begin... sigh...
This "third" process you "discovered" is occasionally mentioned in the threads you referred to. Someone brings up the nitrates issue, someone brings up the technological demands of the Haber Process, someone casts about for alternatives, someone...
CalBear,
It is a great line, but it's not mine. Some actual creative member, whose name currently escapes me, came up with it.
I borrowed it from another thread, one discussing Imperial Japan and involving Our Dear Friend IIRC.
Bill
CalBear,
I don't think so. As execrable as the Destroyermen series is, and it is so bad it makes mass produced romance novels look good, typing the series, maintaining some shred of coherence in the narrative, and then dealing with what passes for editing these days is surely beyond the...
Yes I did and it's even more of a steaming pile of gibberish than your usual efforts.
As I previously explained in an earlier thread about Hitler's chances of building an atomic bomb, you know a few words and phrases but are wholly ignorant of the topic at hand.
And so in response to this...
It's the Spanish Flu, not anthrax. :rolleyes:
In the OTL, the USN had ships at foreign stations which lost enough of the crew to the Flu that they required additional crews be dispatched to steam the vessels home.
Take your own advice.
Why would a flu outbreak require Britain to seize...
Tom,
That's sounds similar in form, if not degree, to many of the claims made here about the same POD.
In earlier threads and in addition to other wild-eyed postulates, posters suggested Britain would require a million more troops thanks to the longer supply lines or that Germany would be...
Dale,
I understand that and reading this exercise in "time line archeology" has been fun.
What I was attempting to do was reinforce your musings on plausibility vs. implausibility by pointing out the implausible results of the time line's Torch, the reasons why they were such, and how that...
Dale,
Not less plausible, more like less recognizable.
As long as the initial changes are plausible, the following events are plausible, and the decisions made by the various parties are plausible for their time and place, there can be no real complaints over the path a time line takes...
Alratan,
Leaving aside the extreme technical difficulties in developing a warhead which can safely disperse anthrax spores from a missile traveling at thousands of miles an hour, what of the Allies "No First Use" policy?
The initial post also specifically mentions "throwing rocks". I...
Aracnid,
True, and a one-use "Howitzer" still isn't a better choice than a multi-use B-29.
Even given the terminal guidance solution, the missile still has a far worse "CEP" than the B-29 and carries a smaller bomb load too. When you remember that B-29s during this period are not...