Recent content by Tovarich

That's the total opposite though, isn't it? The established twin-engine F-5 becoming the single-engine F-20. (Said Tov, whose sole knowledge here is gleaned from playing 'Ace Combat'.)

Adele was always going to make it, everyone in the UK bought her records to encourage her to sing all the while, lowering the chances of hearing her godsfucking awful hideous speaking voice. Joking aside, I reckon Mari Wilson (image especially) and Alf Moyet were far bigger influences on Adele...

I can never fathom why Hattersley is regarded as almost-SDP. You'd need a crowbar to get that guy out of the Labour Party, his contempt for the Gang Of Four (especially Owen) puts mine and other Labour Leftists in the shade.

Miners. Although there was a minors strike once, one we're still proud of and celebrate in my county, but that was long before Arthur Scargill was around. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burston_Strike_School

There was an almost McCarthyist level of paranoia about Militant within Labour at the time, like they were lurking round every corner. I remember a wonderful piece in the 'Sensible Labour' Daily Mirror, about "How To Spot A Member Of Militant In Your Organisation". Ooh, Mr Maxwell sir, I...

Not relevant to the thread topic question here, sorry, but not really worth a thread to itself: Does anyone know why the nuclear-armed satellite's orbit would be highly elliptical? I can see why as a story device (allows the very time needed for the story to take place) but since it's an...

But Disraeli's Conservatives wouldn't enter government just because Liberal PM Gladstone dies.

Indeedy! That's even without the ocean crossing thrown in. I mean to say, I know there's a case for saying Europe 'conquered' the American continent(s), but not all in one go they didn't.

Stab in the dark here, but is there any way at all, under realistic physics & engineering laws, that the 'Davy Crockett'-style mini-nukes could be developed first? Or would the first nuclear explosion have to be at least Trinity size, even gun-type rather than implosion? Even if so, probably...

A very little of the latter, but 99% the former ;)

Whenever I see that, I'm amazed that the ACW had any actual battles at all. Both armies must've been terrified to leave their own barracks, what with all the armed citizens about.

Where was your pocket money paper round when you were a kid, Beverly Hills 90210?

Ah, right. Just out of curiosity, who is the manufacturer in your TL? I've quite often had AH.Com come up near the top of a google search, but this time nothing at all. Although now I think about it, if you wrote it in a non-public section, it just wouldn't (I think?)

I've heard the Gloster Goshawk mentioned before, but my feeble google-fu can only find reference to the aero engine of that name. You wouldn't know of a link to anything about it, would you? Thanks in advance, if so.

Because then the powerful fathers of people who'd joined the NG in order to avoid putting themselves at any kind of risk whatsoever or interrupting their planned career in the oil game too much (yes, of course I'm referencing Dubya) would be very pissed off.