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  1. Quick Draka Series Question

    I've forgotten the term used for dropping big rocks from space on to parts of the Earth deliberately. Can someone remind me so I can use it in a conversation I'm having? Thanks.

  2. AHC: More Single Strip British Comic Books

    As you probably know comic books in the UK have tended towards being anthologies. Publications based around a single strip (or single strip plus back up) are so rare that I can think of only one (Mick Angelo's Marvelman in the 50s and 60s). So... What would it take to either make the single...

  3. What Would A Realistic Draka Timeline Look Like?

    Most attempts at alternate Draka timelines seem to be constructed solely for the purpose of giving them a bloody good hiding around about the time of OTL WW2( :D). But what if we start the reconstruction from around the time of the ARW and assume that the British conquest of Cape Colony goes...

  4. Weird Dream AHC

    Last night I dreamt that there was a dark skinned (as in brown) European king during the late 17th/early 18th century Your challenge is to make that true without altering the fundamental nature of European civilisation (no Islamic or Mongol conquests beyond OTL)

  5. Possible Russian & Japanese WW2 Super Weapons

    The USA developed the atomic bomb. Germany developed the rocket. So what kind of super weapon would the USSR and Imperial Japan have developed. If they could have been bothered/had the funds? Let your imaginations run free :D

  6. Any Good Royalists Win The ECW TLs On This Forum?

    Someone elsewhere is curious, so I thought it'd be nice to point him this way.

  7. WI: Pythagoras Met Siddhārtha Gautama.

    According to WP they were contemporaries. So how would that conversation have gone? Assuming they're accompanied by interpreters.

  8. AHC: Keep The UK Leading The World In The Production Of Home Computers

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSmfD7zmEAQ According to the future Sir Clive (at around 30 secs in) we were once the world's largest producers of computers... even outdoing the Japanese. So how could we have kept that edge?

  9. The Tour of The Merrimack By R M Meluch

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.M._Meluch#Tour_of_the_Merrimack Space Romans! :D And an all-consuming Hive! :eek: So who's read it? And is it good?

  10. Kings/Leaders Buried Under Rivers.

    So far I have Alaric of the Goths (historical) and Leir of Britain (mythological). I'm wondering if there's a connection since Leir's interment is pretty atypical for a supposedly paramount leader in pre Roman Britain. So... Can anyone name any other rulers, real or legendary, whose tombs are...

  11. Small UK Military Projects That Shouldn't Have Been Cancelled

    Yeah, it's all very well banging on about the TSR2 and the CVFs. But what about the stuff that the everyday soldier/sailor/airman relies on? Which projects that were killed at birth by the MoD/Treasury should have gone ahead?

  12. AHC: Welsh Tudors

    Yes, I know, I know. Technically the Tudors were Welsh nobility. But, let's face it, they dropped every trace of Welshness as soon as Henry 7 rolled into Winchester Cathedral with one slightly used crown in his hand. So the challenge is to have the Tudor dynasty be a little more Celtic than in...

  13. WI: No Tea?

    I know, I know, it's a nightmare scenario. But what would certain historical events and British culture look like if the tea bush had never evolved? And what would a certain US political movement call itself?

  14. Earliest Possible Bicycle

    Or something like a bicycle (a hobby horse?). What's the earliest that all the technology (sans pneumatic tyres for now) needed to put one together was available?

  15. WI: The Amerivision Song Contest?

    Would it be as camp and as focused on national pride as the European version or would it concentrate more on serious song writing? Would the Latins all block vote to deny the Anglos?

  16. WI: Acorn Shakes Off The School Computer Tag?

    As we all know Acorn computers came to prominence with their BBC models A & B, which were originally designed to be used as part of the BBC's computer literacy project and which soon found themselves being installed in schools across the nation (we also know that the BBCs were quite a bit more...

  17. AHC: A British Team Wins The World Series Before 2010

    Believe it or not, baseball was once quite popular over here. Not as popular as football, the two rugbies or cricket, I'll grant you that, but certainly popular enough to be pulling in 5 figure crowds. So... How can a British team achieve the ultimate prize in the sport? Bonus points if it's...

  18. AH Challenge: Adolf Hitler... Judaism's Best Mate

    What are the consequences and how could it possibly happen!? :confused::eek:

  19. WI: 68K and PPC Survive And Thrive

    As we all know the battle of the processors was won by the Intel x86 series on the CISC side and various flavours of ARMs on the RISC side. Motorola's 68K chip was pretty much doomed to obscurity once Apple dropped it in favour of PPCs (which they later dropped in favour of x86s) and Atari and...

  20. Maximum Ottomans

    What's the greatest number of upholstered... No wait, wrong Ottomans Okay. What's the greatest realistic extent the Ottoman Empire could have reached if certain battles had swung in their favour? Sans any intervention from Extraterrestrial Megachiroptera, time traveling Muslim fundamentalists...
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