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  1. Earlier non-public religions

    Can we think of any? There are and were thousands of examples because for millennia "non-public" religious practices were the rule and not the exception. Most have been lost to us because they were closely held secrets but, prior to the idea of proselytizing becoming widespread, most religions...

  2. World War III in May 1946

    My opinion of your work has been clear from the first. I have consistently stated that you are writing a work of fiction, not a time line, and this thread is wrong forum. My only "help" was to remind people reading and complaining about the nonsense in this time line that you had met the...

  3. WI No WWII ini Europe until 1946?

    Please accept my apologies. I inexcusably confused Bohr with Heisenberg earlier. :o I'll correct the earlier post.

  4. Challenge: Have the M26 Pershing as the US' Primary Tank

    Because that would require a small amount of work on his part. Complaining about the actual data because is contradicts the postwar anecdotes and Panzer Idolatry he and too many others have been spoon fed for seven decades is far easier. To those bitching about the 1950s AARs, unlike the...

  5. World War III in May 1946

    You've bent, broke, and ignored many different aspects of reality in this time line, but this polonium "attack" is the most egregious example your disregard. Any pretense towards even a shred of plausibility remaining in this fantasy is now definitely gone. Leaving aside the the question of...

  6. WI No WWII ini Europe until 1946?

    No. Delaying rearmament doesn't delay the Nuremberg Laws or the implementation of the rest of the Nazis' anti-semitic agenda inside Germany. Also, about the men you mentioned. Einstein had no involvement in the Manhattan Project beyond signing a letter written by others which alerted FDR to...

  7. Carriers Sink, Torpedoes Work: What US Strategy?

    This post was brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department.

  8. Carriers Sink, Torpedoes Work: What US Strategy?

    I'm in complete agreement with you regarding US torpedoes. Thanks to various institutional and systemic failures they were pretty much utter shit. However, one of the many problems with the aerial version was that it was being dropped at a faster speed and greater height it had originally been...

  9. Nipponese hegemony a tl

    Same here. I've even read it too. Among other places where I've read it, there were a few souvenirs in my grandparent's house purchased in the 1930s by a merchant marine great-uncle which had "Made in Nippon" marked on them.

  10. Carriers Sink, Torpedoes Work: What US Strategy?

    This. As with every other WW2 navy, US pre-war training for sub commanders was lacking, especially the emphasis on tactics which, while worked well in theory, proved nearly unworkable in practice. Quite a bit of "dead wood" needed to be weeded out of the CO and PCO ranks once the war began...

  11. Battle Of Dogger Bank

    It's like the blind leading the blind around here... :rolleyes: First, this subject was discussed not more than a month ago during a topic about expanding the Russo-Japanese War. Second, how about a nice big Reality Sandwich(tm)? The Franco-Russian Alliance was aimed at the Triple Alliance...

  12. Nipponese hegemony a tl

    No it wasn't. As early as 1919 the UK was planning on having to fight Japan. Jellicoe recommended building the Far Eastern fleet base in Singapore for that reason and also recommended basing eight battleships and eight battlecruisers there as a counter to Japan's announced 8+8 building plans...

  13. Portuguese Congo: Effects on Portugal?

    Archangel - The Congo is not the cash cow you want to think it is and having a larger colonial empire just makes Portugal a larger target. In the OTL, Portugal's empire was saved by the outbreak of WW1 and nothing else. If that war had been delayed by only a few years, the plans made by...

  14. Landcruiser: American Civil War

    Nice try. :rolleyes: I always point out that each forum on this site has it's own standards. Steampunk tanks fit quite nicely in the Writer's, ASB, and Books and Media fora and, without substantial PODs which are absent here, don't fit at all on the Before 1900 forum. Each forum has it's own...

  15. Landcruiser: American Civil War

    You do realize I was attempting to explain the complicated relationship between steam pressure and horsepower to the engineering illiterates in this thread? And, if I used small numbers, there would be a better chance of getting that idea across? For Christ's sake... A fucking metric Nazi...

  16. Internet with a surviving Soviet Union

    Seeing as I built my first two computers from Tandy kits, I think I do. I also, unlike you and many others in this thread, realize just how many bits and pieces I had access to with trivial effort that Soviet citizens will not access to whatsoever. We're talking about a country in which people...

  17. Landcruiser: American Civil War

    Good god... it's like playing Whack-A-Mole... Let me return to first principles in the hopes that the explanation of why this idea is ASB will become clear. Don't worry, despite using numbers, there will be no math. :rolleyes: Our first concern is can be referred to as "horsepower per...

  18. Spanish get Harrison's longitude chronometer H2

    No, it isn't and spending a few seconds on the Wiki page the OP referenced would have explained that to you. The H2 design was a developmental dead end which Harrison abandoned after he realized there were fatal design flaws. As for H2 begin "rugged" and "compact", it's only those things...

  19. Internet with a surviving Soviet Union

    Hackers require computers, privacy, and time. We're talking about a nation which kept copy machines locked up, which limited the number of telephones available, which limited the number of connections those telephones could make, and which strictly controlled many other things too many people...

  20. Spanish get Harrison's longitude chronometer H2

    Thank you for writing that. It saved me the trouble.
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