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  1. PC: Kaiserreich with a cornered Oil-Market

    Cheap petroleum could harm German economic competitiveness in the long run because there wouldn't be a push for efficiency. With petroleum being such a large part of the German economy it could also drive investments away from industry and other sectors towards petroleum and its higher rates of...

  2. AHC: Make Alaska a Democratic state, and Hawaii a GOP state, but....

  3. PC: Kaiserreich with a cornered Oil-Market

    Pipelines on the scale being discussed weren't really a thing until the 1940s, and although they were used to transport natural gas (see the Big Inch/Little Big Inch article on Wikipedia) after World War II for the most part natural gas was a fuel used to industrial and residential heating and...

  4. PC: Kaiserreich with a cornered Oil-Market

    Not necessarily. France can always bring petroleum in by ship, and it does have some petroleum bearing territories. Depending on how things go with European petroleum markets Amsterdam might actually become a major petroleum export (as opposed to import) terminal.

  5. WI: The 'Death Rocket' goes into production?

    I thought this was going to be about Project Pluto, the atomic powered cruise missile from the 1960s. It even featured a burning/molten metal attack in that it was intended for the missile to crash into the ground and shower debris from its reactor all over the enemy after expending its payload...

  6. The Deep refits of the Royal Navy

    The Renown class and Hood were the only capital ships with sufficient speed for escorting aircraft carriers, which made them one of the most important assets of the Royal Navy.

  7. The Deep refits of the Royal Navy

    British warship construction capacity was gutted by the 1930s, to the extent that even armored plate had to be ordered from Czechoslovakia. You could build a new ship, but they wouldn't be able to get any big guns because the pits for the old 15 inch ones were covered out and would need to be...

  8. Where was most of the US industrial capacity during World War 2?

    The Dodge Chicago Plant, the largest building up to that time, was built in Chicago to produce engines for the B-29 bomber. It was later purchased by Preston Tucker for his Tucker Car Corporation and would have been used to produce most of the components for the Tucker 48 (also known as the...

  9. How would the present day look like if the Divine Comedy was accepted as Biblical canon?

    Wasn't the mystery of the Eucharist really more a mystery before the Reformation too, after which it was decided to really pin things down? So if this is pre-Reformation, it seems odd that the Catholic Church would really pin down the nature of the afterlife without pinning down its core...

  10. How would the present day look like if the Divine Comedy was accepted as Biblical canon?

    That's what they've done with the Marian doctrines, and those are more core to Catholicism than depictions of the afterlife. There's also the fact that the Catholic Church doesn't speculate on who ends up in Purgatory and Hell, so it would seem to be an interesting step to speculate on what the...

  11. AHC: A more balanced USN pre WW1?

    The United States Navy was defensively oriented and had few overseas commitments. Its fleet structure was similar to that of the Scandinavian countries, although on a much larger scale (look at the list of cruisers and the list of coastal defense ships on Wikipedia) and with proper battleships...

  12. What if Kurt Cobain remains a Christian

    What if he goes into Christian rock?

  13. Russia keeps Alaska and the Czar flees there after the Civil War

    Here are some links to other threads I've made about Alaska, Rampart Dam, etc. WI: Rampart Dam Built AHC/WI: Alaskan Coal and Electricity Exports WI: Prudhoe Bay Oil Field Discovered Earlier Why Was Naval Petroleum Reserve (Alaska) Created? Alaska's Petroleum Industry Without the Energy...

  14. Alternative International Airports

    Erbil is yet another potential location. It's a new airport built in 2010, but perhaps if Kurdistan had been granted independence it might have become a more prominent aviation hub. Most of the petroleum in Iraq, especially early on, is located in Iraqi Kurdistan.

  15. Alternative International Airports

    Also, if Imperial Iran had survived or the Islamic Republic of Iran hadn't had better relations with Iran then Tehran could have become a major aviation hub. Dubai has become one and it has a much smaller population. Iran is mountainous though, so perhaps Baghdad could have been a major...

  16. Alternative International Airports

    What about the George Washington Air Junction proposal?

  17. WI: Space Shuttle and Space Station switched

    As you point out though, the Space Shuttle's system wasn't capable of automated landing of the spacecraft. My understanding is that it was only ever intended to allow for automated deorbit and destruction of the Space Shuttle if it was rendered incapable of safe reentry. Could the solid rocket...

  18. Which Was More Winnable: Vietnam or Afghanistan?

    Weren't the Republic of Vietnam and the Republic of Afghanistan able to do a fairly decent job holding their ground (in the case of Afghanistan, even coming close to defeating the insurgency) even after the United States and Soviet withdrawals until their logistics system broke down from a lack...

  19. What kind of POD would be needed to make the weaponry and combat of Battlefield 1 accurate?

    In both world wars it was the older battleships that most often provided the fire support. It doesn't much sense to risk the more modern battleships or even just wear out their gun tubes (limited production items that require a while to replace) shooting at targets the other ships can handle...

  20. Alternate Government Involvement in United States Rail?

    How was is it lassiez-faire capitalism for the government to give out such massive land grants and subsidies to private companies though? I'm not sure how complete the map above is, but that rail network is a total mess. What's even going on in Minnesota and Iowa? The density there is far...
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