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  1. Legless midgets in space

    The space program could be thought of as a first step to a lot of things: orbital weapons platforms research and development towards long range ballistic missiles more efficient satelite deployment So, lighter and faster just to say "first to put person in space" kind of misses the point...

  2. WI: Massive Plague kills off 90-99% of people on the world in 1944?

    Let's really make it interesting What if the "plague" we were talking about were to disproportionately impact certain races or ethnicities - say that some have the necessary genetic predisposition or mutations to survive. As a straw man, let's say that more Asians & Jews have the mutations...

  3. No such thing as nuclear weapons

    what about the BC in NBC I think the one thing we may not be considering is that there are other WMDs that may be researched in such a timeline - bioweapons & chemical weapons. You may still be able to create a near apocolypse with a bioweapon or one that poisons the water or food supply. The...

  4. An almost as sensitive subject

    In retrospect and in hindsight, my old grandmother was correct. We should have learned from the negative lesson of World War I and the positive lesson of World War II - when you go to war, your job is to finish off your enemy. A drive to Baghdad in 1991 would have made clear that the...

  5. A sensitive subject

    No, the sad part is that the dots were all there to connect, we just never did. I will grant you that Turkey has been VERY important in the region for, oh, the last 55 YEARS! It is important, and I think that their reluctance to go along with the invasion speaks volumes for how little...

  6. A sensitive subject

    At first, I was going to question this, but the CIA factbook put the 2003 literacy rate at around 40%. That maybe a lowball estimate, but it probably is still pretty poor. I agree that this was not Germany. My suggested partitioning of the country had more to do with isolating the Sunni's...

  7. A sensitive subject

    As you see in the US, we are all free to choose our path; however, there are consequences to those choices. The Kurds had it bad under Sadam before the US came along. We are just helping out an ally. Well, having the chaos of a civil war leading to a terrorist training amusement park I see...

  8. A sensitive subject

    First, I want to make clear that I would not have gone in in the first place. We were asked how to make this work... Sealing off the area in question is a bit simpler than putting troops on the ground over every inch of the "border" in question. You control the roads & rails and patrol the...

  9. A sensitive subject

    I have to admit that (4) seems like a good option. The only other POD I would ask is to get rid of the "axis of evil" rhetoric - this was inflammatory and only alienated a potential ally in Iran. Here is the way I would have executed the war: Do the invasion per OTL - a bit more planning on...

  10. Create a bizarre But Realistic Catastrophe

    No...I'm saying that there does not appear to be a relationship between a state's teen pregnancy rate and Bush's margin of victory (or defeat). On the liberal v. conservative issue (I'm less qualified on this one), I considered myself a conservative for years and yet I voted for Kerry...

  11. Create a bizarre But Realistic Catastrophe

    I believe I'm qualified to speak on that. Let's remember that there are degrees of "redness" - some states went overwhelmingly for Bush while others less so. We have a continuous measure of "redness", the percent differential between John Kerry & W's poll results as well as a continuous...

  12. Weaker Intelectual Property law

    Well, as somebody who works in the drug industry and has worked on both preclinical and clinical projects, I can tell you it takes about 8-15 years to go from test tube to NDA/BLA approval. If you cut profit protection down, then you take a lot of the money out of the drug game. An extra year...

  13. AH Challenge: USSR stays out of war with Japan

    How about more aggressive FDR at Yalta Perhaps one way to obtain it is for FDR to play hardball with the Soviets. Rather than allow for a clear partitioning of Germany, make it a quid pro quo allowing America to have the Japanese to themselves. FDR can leave it open and, once American forces...

  14. More West Virginias during ACW

    New states would have to be pro-Union Part of the reason for the division of Virginia was that the Northwest part of the state was pro-Union. Dividing up the South, once the states are re-admitted, would lead to more political power for the SOUTH because each state would get two senators while...

  15. Iran-Iraq War expands- Saudi Arabia gets involved ?

    This could get interesting. Ol Ronnie had cozied up to the Iranians in the arms for hostages deal and this was the middle of Iran-Contra, so this could go one of two ways: (1) either he and his administration play it soft hoping that the Iranians reign themselves in all whilest providing the...

  16. WI Humans had some intelligent competition

    Why does the Ren & Stimpy "Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen" song suddenly come to mind? Maybe that can be their national anthem. :D

  17. Battle of Britain result reversed

    Talking about things not raised yet, has anyone else thought that the so-called OTL plan for SeaLion may have just been a ruse? I think that I brought up such a point about Sea Lion being a fake by the Germans to pressure a British surrender about a million posts back. I was proposing that...

  18. Battle of Britain result reversed

    Has anyone considered that Sea Lion might have been a ploy. Suppose that Hitler manages to bomb the airfields & hangers to the point that the RAF decides to re-form in Northern England. He then "fakes" Sea Lion in much the same way that Patton's army later "faked" a potential amphibious...

  19. What if the Moon could sustain life?

    Well, that blows my idea out of the water. Are you sure there is no possible way for the Moon to have an Earth-like atmosphere and remain the same size? Yea. I can confirm that. The gravity is what keeps the lighter air molecules from drifting out into space. The current composition of the...

  20. U.S. Military Academies

    First, it looks like TTL merged the land grant college act (due to all of the A&Ms) with a military slant (having associated military academies). How about earlier development of advanced weaponry such as tanks coinciding with the Land Grant Colleges. Then, add military threats from Canada and...
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