Recent content by RazeByFire

  1. Jimmy Two: America in Carter's Second Term

    Uhoh, Jimmy gonna take Holtzman to the wood shed. He doesn't forget things like that.
  2. Galaxias by Baxter, literally chilling to read. There will be spoilers, probably.

    Hey, he also had a few of them on a ship exploring the stars. And one Ark was implied to be either time and/or dimensionally displaced. At least that’s what I thought was implied. So there’s that. Yeah. I was pretty let down.
  3. LEVIATHAN Rising: An Alternative Space Age

    Is there any chance that all this shuffling will get a civilian ONLY power reactor built? Thorium isn't all that useful for creating nuclear fuels, which IIRC most of the civilian reactors were either made to do or were modified from designs that did. Or maybe no one looked into Thorium at all...
  4. LEVIATHAN Rising: An Alternative Space Age

    It's kind of funny to me to see Eisenhower's comment about Heinlein not being that stupid, considering the short that he wrote about a mutiny among the rocket men on the Moon being stopped by one clever guy with belief in the chain of command.
  5. Boldly Going: A History of an American Space Station

    Have they found water ice at the South Pole yet? Also, I laughed at how quickly that 'excess fuel' got around. Even made it's way to the Moon! Any thought given to using the Hydrogen fuel tank to start testing hydroponic food production or trying to introduce biological life support systems for...
  6. What if nuclear weapons never existed?

    I’m not sure going for full on ICBM’s with a chemical payload would be viable. You can easily launch chemical attacks through ‘conventional’ artillery or shorter range mass rocket attacks and aircraft. With a nuke you have to make sure all of gets there in one piece to kill the target. I think...
  7. German atom bomb after D-Day, irrelevant to the outcome of the war?

    Maybe not, but even with the bombs someone on the General Staff might do what needs to be done in that regard. Especially if THEY know there are no more bombs.
  8. Hitler dies in the july plot

    Would this change at all if the Western Allies somehow got evidence that Stalin had no intention of ever leaving the overrun countries and would indeed forcibly induct them as satellite nations? Like, he's already drawing up which monuments he will destroy to put new monstrosities the glorify...
  9. WI: Superconducting Super Collider Fully Funded

    I'm not even going to touch arguments about pure research ' not benefitting the real world'. Instead I suggest that fusion and other projects might also be advanced by an increased demand and experience in building superconducting magnets and other assorted developments as well as the...
  10. WI: Superconducting Super Collider Fully Funded

    1 TeV is pretty powerful in my book. The all-wise Wiki lists the LHC at 4-6 TeV. Even accepting 13 for years LHC a difference of 7 TeV is still much more. Any suggestions of what physics puzzles the SSC would be cracking?
  11. WI: Superconducting Super Collider Fully Funded

    Like the title says, what if the SSC had been fully funded, even in it's over-budget form. When would it have actually finished? It would have been much more powerful than the LHC and built sooner, so when could it have revealed the Higgs Boson? Are there other particle physics mysteries that...
  12. How dystopian can a Ron Paul presidency get?

    I think the country might be better off after RP gets thrown out on his ear. He would end the War on Drugs, generally by directing funding away from those agencies and directing them to prosecute specific acts during his term-like say instead of concentrating on 'stopping drugs at the border'...
  13. PC: United 93 Safely Lands on 9/11

    What happens if a large bloc of them speak out against going to war with Iraq when there were attempts to link Saddam to 9/11?
  14. North American Wins the FX Competition

    I like that the called for specs and physics mandate that both designs have f*ck-off huge intakes for the twin engines.
  15. What happens if the VP-elect is killed after election but before inauguration?

    The Lame Duck speaker probably stays President long enough to oversee the installation of the new Congress and hands power over to the newly elected Speaker. To the ire of schoolchildren everywhere.
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