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  1. The 20th century with America as a British Dominion

    Even at the time of the Revolution, it was obvious to many commentators that the American colonies would overtake Britain, in terms of population at least, by the mid-19th Century. By that time, the only way Britain can retain 'control' of the American colonies would be to give them what the...

  2. AHC: Make American football as popular as football is IOTL

    At least at the High School level there's a split between offense and defense. I don't know about kiddie levels of play, because I only played in High School. They do. It's just done pretty quickly.

  3. AHC: Make American football as popular as football is IOTL

    That's a large exaggeration. Yes, the NFL has its games interrupted for commercial breaks. No, this is not a necessary feature of the sport. When I played in high school, the game would flow more or less uninterrupted through to half time. Yes, the plays make it stop-start and enable the...

  4. Plausibility Check: Ceramic Armour

    It becomes less effective. There's a reason they tell you to replace your SAPI plates if they fracture. But my understanding of tanks is that the armor is arrayed in tiles which each cover a small area. It's less likely for the tank to get hit on the same tile multiple times, and they can be...

  5. AHC: Make American football as popular as football is IOTL

    Football's kind of a capital intensive sport. Pads, cleats, balls, helmets, etc. Whereas soccer is... not. A ball, some sort of goal. That's a fairly large obstacle to overcome in much of the world.

  6. Most one-sided war

    The conventional phase of some of the United States & allies wars against various nations have been pretty lopsided. How long did ground combat in the first Gulf War last? 100 hours? And how rapidly did we defeat Iraq's conventional military in 2003? The Spanish-American War was rather lopsided...

  7. Map Needed: Area surrounding Boston in the French and Indian War

    This might be helpful. or this. possibly this.

  8. AHC: Underwater Exploration on Par with Space Exploration

    We know way more about the ocean than we do about most of space. After all, space is mind bogglingly huge, and the ocean is just 70% of the Earth's surface, extending down a few thousand meters. We've made decent topographic maps of much of the ocean, we have a general idea what life looks like...

  9. WI: Star Trek Rebooted in the 90s

    They're insidious like that.

  10. WI: Buissnes Plot goes through, but fails.

    Even assuming the whole of the US Army goes along with this coup plot, the US Army in 1933 amounts to under 200,000 soldiers. Many of whom are in the Philippines. I doubt the US Army could hope to actually gain control of the US in 1933. And I doubt most state governments would go along with the...

  11. AHC: Improve ST:TNG Films

    For Insurrection. Stealing inspiration from SFDebris on this, to be clear. We keep the Ba'ku, keep the youthening radiation, keep the So'na. We can even keep the opening with Data being on the fritz and defaulting to his ethical programming. Then, we have the Enterprise come in. Riker and Worf...

  12. AHC- which religious figure had the biggest impact? And what happens without them?

    It depends on whether or not Zoroastrianism had as big an influence on early Judaism as some scholars believe. If it did, then removing Zoroaster removes - or radically alters - all the related religions. Judaism, Christianity, Islam, all become unrecognizable or nonexistent.

  13. US and USSR war against PRC 1969

    Are you a Chinese propagandist or something? What kind of warning do you think China gets when the Soviet Union launches a nuclear strike? China's got a few minutes between launch and impact of nuclear armed IRBMs on any targets the Soviets deem worthy. And while I admit unfamiliarity with the...

  14. US and USSR war against PRC 1969

    What glue? The leaders of the CCP have just been atomized. Local party officials will quickly metamorphose into warlords with communist rhetoric.

  15. White majority in South Africa?

    I don't think it's doable without a level of ethnic cleansing or genocide to make Hitler blush.

  16. Why didn't the US intervene during the Cuban Revolution?

    That's a bit too pessimistic. Cuba's growth has been hampered because it's largest natural trading partner, the US, has been off limits to it for 50+ years. I'd say we're looking at a significant increase in GDP per capita in any situation which sees Castro removed early.

  17. Weirdest plausible sports

    Well, there's buzkashi, in which two teams of mounted players try to get a goat carcass into a goal. Whips and kicking are common.

  18. Is MAD inevitable?

    A single ABM cannot destroy the entire payload of a MIRVed ICBM, you could need up to 15 ABMs to stop a single incoming missile, assuming you have perfect accuracy and can tell decoys from warheads. And then there are maneuverable reentry vehicles, cruise missiles, SLBMs just off your coast, and...

  19. How Does Romney Handle the Ukraine Crisis?

    This is a foolish statement Russia's conventional armed forces are easily matched by Europe's conventional armed forces. I say conventional because I don't think anyone wants to turn that into a nuclear fight. Russia's military expenditures are about $90 billion. The UK and France both spend...

  20. AHC: Have hereditary monarchy the main political theory

    1913 is too late... by then, nationalism and the idea of representative democracy, not to mention Marxism, have already gained credence among portions of the intellectual classes, even in Germany and Austria. Perhaps their monarchies could be saved, but it would evolve in the direction of...
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