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Based on Entertainment from 2020 Isoted to 2000 by @Deathsheadx, X Marks the Spot - A Nintendo and Microsoft console timeline by @the_idiot, and Burying the Hatchet: A Nintendo/Sega TL by @Gaminguy010
Heres what the GyroPod is for those curious.
N-Sports and Netverse are what they're based on.
You know, I'll just pop in Everything Everywhere All at Once. Worth a rewatch every once in a while.
Wait... where's Michelle Yeoh?
Wait... where's Michelle Yeoh?
"No Malarkey!" - A Joe Biden Presidency in 1988
(Before everyone asks, yes, this is based on the Campaign Trail mod of the same name, I just thought it'd be fun to map out, that's all, the results you see are the exact ones I got in my second run through of the mod, as I lost the first one)
Sam Raimi has a specific brand of humor and horror that wouldn't fit well with an Everything Everywhere All at Once version. The Daniels duo are the best fit for this alternate iteration of the film.
“Mom there are two multiverse movies out this summer, I want to watch both of them”
”We have EEAAO and MoM at home”
EEAAO and MoM at home:
2024 Election Wikibox Leak (My dad works at democracy, trust me bro)
Nazi Space Spy
Banned
I'm working on a gumbo spinoff, and was wondering if I could steal this (of course you'll be credited as creator!) for my timeline when I get it posted. It'd be useful for the prologue post!did something for fear loathing and gumbo's 1972 election (in its full glory):
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Tom Clancy's The Bear and The Dragon
The Trans-Siberian War was a conflict fought between the People's Republic of China and the NATO alliance in the late autumn of 2000. It was the culmination of a years long campaign by elements within the Politburo to weaken the United States and usher in a period of Chinese geopolitical hegemony. Clandestine PRC support of the Japanese oligarch Raizo Yamata helped precipitate the Mariana Islands Crisis, resulting in the brief conflict between the United States and Japan in early 1996, as well as the ill-fated attempt by the short-lived United Islamic Republic to seize Kuwait and Saudi Arabia during the Second Persian Gulf War.
The near-simultaneous discovery in early 1999 of vast gold deposits near the Zeya Dam in Amur Oblast and the Chumikansky oil field near Khabarovsk accelerated plans by senior PRC Minister-without-Portfolio Zhang Han San to seize the Russian Far East. The Chinese economy had been in turmoil as boycotts resulting from death of a Vatican diplomat in the DiMilo Affair had driven much foreign investment out of the country, especially after the recognition by President Ryan of the ROC government on Taiwan. The perceived weakness of the Russian Federation and the Grushavoy government during its struggle towards democracy and the dilapidated state of the Russian military only encouraged the war faction in the Politburo.
The PRC moved quickly to position nearly a half million troops along the Amur River border with Russia under the guise of its regular fall military exercises. Western Intelligence agencies began sounding the alarm that the Chinese intended to seize the newly discovered mineral deposits along with all of eastern Siberia and the Russian Far East. President Jack Ryan, knowing that Russia could not hope to defeat the Chinese through conventional means, took the bold step of offering NATO membership on November 1st to Grushavoy in hopes of deterring the PRC. Grushavoy graciously accepted during an emergency meeting of the North Atlantic Council at the Black Sea resort city of Sochi. President Ryan would later detail the at times contentious behind the scenes negotiations in his first round of memoirs, memorably his intervention in a shouting match between Chancellor Schröder and the Russian defense minister after the possibility of German troops entering Russia was discussed.
The PRC, having fully committed to war, chose to ignore the accession of Russia into NATO and eventually began ignoring all attempts at diplomatic communication. The Russians, having reduced much of their military power in the Far East in after the dissolution of the USSR, had only a token force to oppose the Chinese in the region consisting of 1 regular understrength division (the 265th Motor Rifle) and a hodge-podge of reserve formations wielding equipment going back to the Second World War. The Russian commander, LTG Gennady Bondarenko, one of the most renowned Russian commanders since the Second World War, devised a plan to trade space for time, utilizing the vast steppes of the region to give time for the main elements of the Russian army and NATO reinforcements to make their way east down the Trans-Siberian railroad. The NATO expeditionary force (EFOR) consisted of the American 1st Armored Divsion, the British 7th Armoured Brigade, the French 6th Light Armored Brigade and the German 37th Panzergrenadier Brigade. The German troops were only allowed after it was agreed that their inclusion into the EFOR would not be publicized in either Western or Russian news sources until after arrival in theater.
The Chinese casus belli would take the classic form of a false flag border incident, when the Chinese claimed that Russian forces had shot up the border crossing at Heihe and launched their invasion in the early morning hours of November 11th, 1999. The Russian border troops, under Bondarenko's orders, provided only a token resistance and began pulling back deeper into the frontier, hoping that the Chinese would overextended their supply lines in their race to the mineral fields. NATO aircraft began arriving in the theater on November 13th, but found themselves limited to interception duties as it was found they could not use Russian munitions and that building up war stocks via airlift would take several days. In the meantime, NATO and Russian air forces would settle for seriously degrading Chinese air assets in preparation for reinforcements from the West.
After nearly 3 weeks of almost uninterrupted Chinese advances and with the mineral fields within a day's ride of the lead elements of the 34th Shock Army, the NATO/Russian counteroffensive began on December 1st. Airstrikes by American stealth aircraft on November 30th had destroyed or incapacitated most of the rail bridges in Northern Manchuria supplying Chinese forces, leaving them only limited fuel to maneuver once the counterattack began. US drone aircraft were used to pinpoint MLRS and tube artillery barrages to devastating effect, paving the way for an extended air assault on the Chinese lead elements. NATO's practice of eliminating enemy command elements seriously disorganized Chinese forces, leading to the almost the complete destruction of 65th Shock Army in only 72 hours.
The reversal of fortunes in Siberia, coupled with the near total destruction of the Chinese navy by the US Pacific Fleet, caused a near panic in Beijing. After word arrived of a joint Spetsnaz/Rainbow 6 operation to eliminate the Chinese ICBM base in the Qinling mountains, Defense Minister Luo gave the order to launch. Only one missile managed to leave the silo successfully, targeting Washington DC. An experimental ABM system aboard the USS Gettysburg stationed at the Navy Yard in Washington managed to intercept the missile before impact. Once this news was broadcast into China by Western intelligence agencies, an ad hoc mob lead by student dissidents managed to breach the Zhongnanhai and forced the removal of the war faction, leading to the December 6th ceasefire.
The Trans-Siberian War was a conflict fought between the People's Republic of China and the NATO alliance in the late autumn of 2000. It was the culmination of a years long campaign by elements within the Politburo to weaken the United States and usher in a period of Chinese geopolitical hegemony. Clandestine PRC support of the Japanese oligarch Raizo Yamata helped precipitate the Mariana Islands Crisis, resulting in the brief conflict between the United States and Japan in early 1996, as well as the ill-fated attempt by the short-lived United Islamic Republic to seize Kuwait and Saudi Arabia during the Second Persian Gulf War.
The near-simultaneous discovery in early 1999 of vast gold deposits near the Zeya Dam in Amur Oblast and the Chumikansky oil field near Khabarovsk accelerated plans by senior PRC Minister-without-Portfolio Zhang Han San to seize the Russian Far East. The Chinese economy had been in turmoil as boycotts resulting from death of a Vatican diplomat in the DiMilo Affair had driven much foreign investment out of the country, especially after the recognition by President Ryan of the ROC government on Taiwan. The perceived weakness of the Russian Federation and the Grushavoy government during its struggle towards democracy and the dilapidated state of the Russian military only encouraged the war faction in the Politburo.
The PRC moved quickly to position nearly a half million troops along the Amur River border with Russia under the guise of its regular fall military exercises. Western Intelligence agencies began sounding the alarm that the Chinese intended to seize the newly discovered mineral deposits along with all of eastern Siberia and the Russian Far East. President Jack Ryan, knowing that Russia could not hope to defeat the Chinese through conventional means, took the bold step of offering NATO membership on November 1st to Grushavoy in hopes of deterring the PRC. Grushavoy graciously accepted during an emergency meeting of the North Atlantic Council at the Black Sea resort city of Sochi. President Ryan would later detail the at times contentious behind the scenes negotiations in his first round of memoirs, memorably his intervention in a shouting match between Chancellor Schröder and the Russian defense minister after the possibility of German troops entering Russia was discussed.
The PRC, having fully committed to war, chose to ignore the accession of Russia into NATO and eventually began ignoring all attempts at diplomatic communication. The Russians, having reduced much of their military power in the Far East in after the dissolution of the USSR, had only a token force to oppose the Chinese in the region consisting of 1 regular understrength division (the 265th Motor Rifle) and a hodge-podge of reserve formations wielding equipment going back to the Second World War. The Russian commander, LTG Gennady Bondarenko, one of the most renowned Russian commanders since the Second World War, devised a plan to trade space for time, utilizing the vast steppes of the region to give time for the main elements of the Russian army and NATO reinforcements to make their way east down the Trans-Siberian railroad. The NATO expeditionary force (EFOR) consisted of the American 1st Armored Divsion, the British 7th Armoured Brigade, the French 6th Light Armored Brigade and the German 37th Panzergrenadier Brigade. The German troops were only allowed after it was agreed that their inclusion into the EFOR would not be publicized in either Western or Russian news sources until after arrival in theater.
The Chinese casus belli would take the classic form of a false flag border incident, when the Chinese claimed that Russian forces had shot up the border crossing at Heihe and launched their invasion in the early morning hours of November 11th, 1999. The Russian border troops, under Bondarenko's orders, provided only a token resistance and began pulling back deeper into the frontier, hoping that the Chinese would overextended their supply lines in their race to the mineral fields. NATO aircraft began arriving in the theater on November 13th, but found themselves limited to interception duties as it was found they could not use Russian munitions and that building up war stocks via airlift would take several days. In the meantime, NATO and Russian air forces would settle for seriously degrading Chinese air assets in preparation for reinforcements from the West.
After nearly 3 weeks of almost uninterrupted Chinese advances and with the mineral fields within a day's ride of the lead elements of the 34th Shock Army, the NATO/Russian counteroffensive began on December 1st. Airstrikes by American stealth aircraft on November 30th had destroyed or incapacitated most of the rail bridges in Northern Manchuria supplying Chinese forces, leaving them only limited fuel to maneuver once the counterattack began. US drone aircraft were used to pinpoint MLRS and tube artillery barrages to devastating effect, paving the way for an extended air assault on the Chinese lead elements. NATO's practice of eliminating enemy command elements seriously disorganized Chinese forces, leading to the almost the complete destruction of 65th Shock Army in only 72 hours.
The reversal of fortunes in Siberia, coupled with the near total destruction of the Chinese navy by the US Pacific Fleet, caused a near panic in Beijing. After word arrived of a joint Spetsnaz/Rainbow 6 operation to eliminate the Chinese ICBM base in the Qinling mountains, Defense Minister Luo gave the order to launch. Only one missile managed to leave the silo successfully, targeting Washington DC. An experimental ABM system aboard the USS Gettysburg stationed at the Navy Yard in Washington managed to intercept the missile before impact. Once this news was broadcast into China by Western intelligence agencies, an ad hoc mob lead by student dissidents managed to breach the Zhongnanhai and forced the removal of the war faction, leading to the December 6th ceasefire.
Mejico (Spanish: Méjico, /ˈme.xi.ko/; English pronunciation: /ˈmɛ.d͡ʒɪ.koʊ/), officially the Mejican Empire (ME; Spanish: Imperio Mejicano, IM), is a country located in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the Kingdom of Louisiana and the Kingdom of Oregon; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by the People's Democratic Republic of Central America and the Caribbean Sea; and to the east by the Gulf of Mejico. Covering over 4,220,000 square kilometers, Mejico is the 2nd-largest country in the Americas by total area and the 4th-largest independent state in the world. With an estimated population of over 223 million people, Mejico is the 4th-most populous country in the world and the most populous Spanish-speaking country.
The Mejican Empire is an executive monarchy. The current monarch is Agustín VI, of the House of Bourbon-Iturbide, who reigns since his father's death in 2014. The Imperial capital is Mejico City, which is classified as a global city and has a metropolitan population of 23,662,622. Other metropolises in the country include Los Ángeles, San Francisco, Guadalajara, Monterrey, Puebla de los Ángeles, Mecieres, Espíritu Santo, Nueva Alcalá, El Paso del Norte, San Antonio de Béjar, Sacramento, Alburquerque, Toluca and Culiacán.
Human presence in pre-Columbian Mejico goes back to 8,000 BC and is identified as one of six cradles of civilization. In particular, the Mesoamerican region was home to many intertwined civilizations; including the Olmecs, Toltecs, Teotihuacans, Zapotecs, Mayans, Mexica, and Purepecha before first contact with Europeans. Last were the Aztecs, who dominated the region in the century before European contact. In 1521, the Spanish Empire and its indigenous allies conquered and colonized the territory of the Aztec Empire from its politically powerful base in Mexico-Tenochtitlan (now part of Mejico City), which was administered as the Viceroyalty of New Spain. Over the next three centuries, Spain and the Catholic Church played an important role in expanding the territory, enforcing Christianity, and spreading the Spanish language throughout, converting millions of Indigenous people to the faith. With the discovery of rich deposits of silver in Zacatecas and Guanajuato, New Spain soon became one of the most important mining centers worldwide. Wealth coming from Asia and the rest of the New World helped connect New Spain to the proto-globalized economy, contributed to Spain's status as a major world power for the next centuries, and brought a price revolution in Western Europe. The colonial order came to an end in the late 18th century with the Spanish plan for American Independence of the Count of Aranda, resulting in the independence of New Spain under the leadership of Gabriel I, one of King Carlos III's children, who was crowned King of New Spain in 1788.
Mejico's early history as an independent nation-state was mostly marked by political and socioeconomic prosperity, both domestically and in foreign affairs, but also saw problems in the Central American region, with multiple rebellions and uprisings in Guatemala and Honduras, together with border clashes with the British Empire in northern San Fulgencio. Gabriel was succeeded by two monarchs with short reigns, his child, Pedro I -who fought off an attempted coup and a small-scale civil war between supporters and detractors of Napoleon Bonaparte, during which Louisiana obtained the Nacogdoches Strip-, and his grandson, Gabriel II, who was ousted in a non-bloody coup in 1825, which saw the installation of the House of Bourbon-Iturbide under Emperors Agustín and Carlota, aunt of Gabriel II, giving rise to the legitimist group of the Gabrielists. Political stability and economic growth followed, but also ideological conflict between Conservatives and Liberals.
In 1843, gold would be discovered in San Fulgencio, giving way to the San Fulgencio Gold Rush, with the accompanying San Fulgencio Genocide, the mass migration of hundreds of thousands of Mejicans, Europeans and Asians into the area, the creation of additional provinces in the New North, the construction of the Transcontinental Railway and several universities. Between 1850-1863, Mejico faced problems within Central America once more, resulting in the independence of the short-lived theocratic, Maya nationalist polity of Chan Santa Cruz, and the independence of the Socialist Republic of Central America. General Miguel Miramón would be crucial in the re-conquest of the Yucatán Peninsula, leading the Crusade for Yucatán before becoming Prime Minister in 1875, before the Three Liberal Decades period, during which Vicente Riva-Palacio, Porfirio Díaz, José Yves de Limantour, and Francisco I. Madero modernized the country's economy and greatly expanded its infrastructure, before the murder of the latter.
The magnicide and attempted regicide on Madero, Agustín IV, his wife Mariana of New Granada, and his three children by anarchists would send the country into a frenzied state, with the outbreak of civil war and the ensuing power vacuum. Constitutionalists, communists, anarchists, republicans, Protestant independentists, and Gabrielists were involved in a power struggle that saw power change hands on five occasions in a seven-year period, before the Constitutionalist President Plutarco Elías Campuzano, of anti-clerical and harshly secularizing attitudes, was murdered in 1928 in the midst of the Christiad, a religious war, after which José Vasconcelos, a prominent figure in far-right Mejican politics rose to power, establishing a dictatorship that would last until 1959, being succeeded by his right-hand man, Salvador Abascal.
Economic growth, National-Catholicism, political repression, and a new Constitution, characterized the Vasconcelist and Abascalist Eras, with the latter ending in 1975. The restoration of democracy would not last long as the country fell once more into chaos, with Emiliano III, and Fernando II, then Prince Imperial, acting as Regent, holding absolute power for an eight-year period during which they confronted bloody uprisings in the provinces of Oajaca, Chiapas, Tejas, Sinaloa, Yucatán, Nuevo Santander, Nuevo León, Mejico City, San Fulgencio, Tizapá and Valladolid, fighting against anarchists, separatists, organized crime syndicates and communist groups.
Mejico has the 2nd-largest GDP by purchasing power parity. The Mejican economy is strongly linked to those of its 1994 American Free Trade Agreement (AFTA) partners, especially British North America and Brazil. In 1966, Mejico became the first Iberoamerican member of the OECD. It is also part of the Iberoamerican Commonwealth of Nations, a National-Catholic international community together with other Iberoamerican nations, and the rest of the Lusosphere. Mejico is classified as an upper-income country by the World Bank and an industrialized country by several analysts, while also being considered a global power. Due to its rich culture and history, Mejico ranks first in the Americas and seventh in the world for the number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Mejico is an ecologically megadiverse country, ranking 4th in the world for its biodiversity. The Empire receives a huge number of tourists every year: in 2018, it was the 3rd most-visited country in the world, with 49 million international arrivals. Mejico is a member of the League of Nations (LON), the World Trade Organization (WTO), the G20, the Uniting for Consensus Group of the LON, and the Pacific Alliance trade bloc.
Would've posted this far earlier but I had to fix my computer, and an entire Wikipedia-length article I had prepared for this Mejico (all with its entire history laid out in detail, especially the 20th century, demographics, religion, sports, culture, cinema, philosophy, music, dance, and even space exploration included) which I had saved as a notepad file, disappeared. The one I wanted to keep the most, and the only one that suffered such a fate. Fell to my knees and tore my garments when I tried opening it and found it completely empty. Anyway, I've been writing a LOT less on my Mejico's lore but I managed to whip this up. Enjoy, hope you like it.
The Mejican Empire is an executive monarchy. The current monarch is Agustín VI, of the House of Bourbon-Iturbide, who reigns since his father's death in 2014. The Imperial capital is Mejico City, which is classified as a global city and has a metropolitan population of 23,662,622. Other metropolises in the country include Los Ángeles, San Francisco, Guadalajara, Monterrey, Puebla de los Ángeles, Mecieres, Espíritu Santo, Nueva Alcalá, El Paso del Norte, San Antonio de Béjar, Sacramento, Alburquerque, Toluca and Culiacán.
Human presence in pre-Columbian Mejico goes back to 8,000 BC and is identified as one of six cradles of civilization. In particular, the Mesoamerican region was home to many intertwined civilizations; including the Olmecs, Toltecs, Teotihuacans, Zapotecs, Mayans, Mexica, and Purepecha before first contact with Europeans. Last were the Aztecs, who dominated the region in the century before European contact. In 1521, the Spanish Empire and its indigenous allies conquered and colonized the territory of the Aztec Empire from its politically powerful base in Mexico-Tenochtitlan (now part of Mejico City), which was administered as the Viceroyalty of New Spain. Over the next three centuries, Spain and the Catholic Church played an important role in expanding the territory, enforcing Christianity, and spreading the Spanish language throughout, converting millions of Indigenous people to the faith. With the discovery of rich deposits of silver in Zacatecas and Guanajuato, New Spain soon became one of the most important mining centers worldwide. Wealth coming from Asia and the rest of the New World helped connect New Spain to the proto-globalized economy, contributed to Spain's status as a major world power for the next centuries, and brought a price revolution in Western Europe. The colonial order came to an end in the late 18th century with the Spanish plan for American Independence of the Count of Aranda, resulting in the independence of New Spain under the leadership of Gabriel I, one of King Carlos III's children, who was crowned King of New Spain in 1788.
Mejico's early history as an independent nation-state was mostly marked by political and socioeconomic prosperity, both domestically and in foreign affairs, but also saw problems in the Central American region, with multiple rebellions and uprisings in Guatemala and Honduras, together with border clashes with the British Empire in northern San Fulgencio. Gabriel was succeeded by two monarchs with short reigns, his child, Pedro I -who fought off an attempted coup and a small-scale civil war between supporters and detractors of Napoleon Bonaparte, during which Louisiana obtained the Nacogdoches Strip-, and his grandson, Gabriel II, who was ousted in a non-bloody coup in 1825, which saw the installation of the House of Bourbon-Iturbide under Emperors Agustín and Carlota, aunt of Gabriel II, giving rise to the legitimist group of the Gabrielists. Political stability and economic growth followed, but also ideological conflict between Conservatives and Liberals.
In 1843, gold would be discovered in San Fulgencio, giving way to the San Fulgencio Gold Rush, with the accompanying San Fulgencio Genocide, the mass migration of hundreds of thousands of Mejicans, Europeans and Asians into the area, the creation of additional provinces in the New North, the construction of the Transcontinental Railway and several universities. Between 1850-1863, Mejico faced problems within Central America once more, resulting in the independence of the short-lived theocratic, Maya nationalist polity of Chan Santa Cruz, and the independence of the Socialist Republic of Central America. General Miguel Miramón would be crucial in the re-conquest of the Yucatán Peninsula, leading the Crusade for Yucatán before becoming Prime Minister in 1875, before the Three Liberal Decades period, during which Vicente Riva-Palacio, Porfirio Díaz, José Yves de Limantour, and Francisco I. Madero modernized the country's economy and greatly expanded its infrastructure, before the murder of the latter.
The magnicide and attempted regicide on Madero, Agustín IV, his wife Mariana of New Granada, and his three children by anarchists would send the country into a frenzied state, with the outbreak of civil war and the ensuing power vacuum. Constitutionalists, communists, anarchists, republicans, Protestant independentists, and Gabrielists were involved in a power struggle that saw power change hands on five occasions in a seven-year period, before the Constitutionalist President Plutarco Elías Campuzano, of anti-clerical and harshly secularizing attitudes, was murdered in 1928 in the midst of the Christiad, a religious war, after which José Vasconcelos, a prominent figure in far-right Mejican politics rose to power, establishing a dictatorship that would last until 1959, being succeeded by his right-hand man, Salvador Abascal.
Economic growth, National-Catholicism, political repression, and a new Constitution, characterized the Vasconcelist and Abascalist Eras, with the latter ending in 1975. The restoration of democracy would not last long as the country fell once more into chaos, with Emiliano III, and Fernando II, then Prince Imperial, acting as Regent, holding absolute power for an eight-year period during which they confronted bloody uprisings in the provinces of Oajaca, Chiapas, Tejas, Sinaloa, Yucatán, Nuevo Santander, Nuevo León, Mejico City, San Fulgencio, Tizapá and Valladolid, fighting against anarchists, separatists, organized crime syndicates and communist groups.
Mejico has the 2nd-largest GDP by purchasing power parity. The Mejican economy is strongly linked to those of its 1994 American Free Trade Agreement (AFTA) partners, especially British North America and Brazil. In 1966, Mejico became the first Iberoamerican member of the OECD. It is also part of the Iberoamerican Commonwealth of Nations, a National-Catholic international community together with other Iberoamerican nations, and the rest of the Lusosphere. Mejico is classified as an upper-income country by the World Bank and an industrialized country by several analysts, while also being considered a global power. Due to its rich culture and history, Mejico ranks first in the Americas and seventh in the world for the number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Mejico is an ecologically megadiverse country, ranking 4th in the world for its biodiversity. The Empire receives a huge number of tourists every year: in 2018, it was the 3rd most-visited country in the world, with 49 million international arrivals. Mejico is a member of the League of Nations (LON), the World Trade Organization (WTO), the G20, the Uniting for Consensus Group of the LON, and the Pacific Alliance trade bloc.
Would've posted this far earlier but I had to fix my computer, and an entire Wikipedia-length article I had prepared for this Mejico (all with its entire history laid out in detail, especially the 20th century, demographics, religion, sports, culture, cinema, philosophy, music, dance, and even space exploration included) which I had saved as a notepad file, disappeared. The one I wanted to keep the most, and the only one that suffered such a fate. Fell to my knees and tore my garments when I tried opening it and found it completely empty. Anyway, I've been writing a LOT less on my Mejico's lore but I managed to whip this up. Enjoy, hope you like it.
Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs are among one of the most iconic of primordial creatures. The exact time period they first arose is made fuzzy by the temporal anomalies and time travelers who have helped scatter them across history, but mainstream paleontologists such as Ross Geller and Eva Jain have concluded dinosaurs arose first in the Triassic period circa 252 million years ago. Throughout the Mesozoic era, dinosaurs dominated the ecosystem alongside similar species of marine reptiles, pterosaurs and the earliest proto-dragons (whom often engaged in predation of the dinosaurs, especially the slower, lumbering species of semi-aquatic sauropods and hadrosaurs). Some dinosaurs were largely peaceful herbivores while others were vicious and at times voracious hunters. The exact form dinosaurs could take varied wildly, even among many who through fossils were labeled identically. Some dinosaurs were slow-moving, lumbering behemothic lizards, slow-witted and inefficient. Other dinosaurs, however, were swifter, more agile and intelligent. In the Jurassic period, a subspecies of Ornitholestes developed Stone Age-level technology and intelligence. While this sentient species of dinosaurs did not make it to the end of the period, by the Cretaceous period, some dinosaurs had managed to develop sentience and various forms of society. This includes one that curiously mirrored the human society that would exist millions of years later and another with a level of scientific knowledge that enabled them to develop multiple time machines including one that operated as a train that traversed the Mesozoic era. It is theorized these sentient dinosaurs were uplifted by the time traveler Captain Neweyes.
The Mesozoic era is, of course, most famous for its vicious end. One factor behind the Cretaceous extinction was time travel. The Trans-Time corporation sought to farm dinosaurs for meat and, despite several containment breaches, was able to inflict a severe dent in the dinosaur population. A powerful superweapon developed by a cult leader was sent back in time by a group of scientist-adventurers led by Benton Quest, which further devastated the planet. Alien incursions also battered the dinosaur population. The Predators hunted dinosaurs for sport and the Nesk flung a meteorite at the planet to deal with a rival species known as the Mecora. The Achuultani also flung several asteroids into the planet, wrecking the environment. These two causes linked when the Brainspawn visited Earth and proceeded to ravage the dinosaur population. Beyond outside forces, sentient dinosaurs also inflicted severe damage themselves by triggering large-scale climate catastrophe. Dragons also ravaged sentient dinosaur populations after evolving past the so-called ‘Prehistoric Dragon’ form. A small portion of intelligent dinosaurs were able to evacuate Earth and set up colonies beyond the Solar System, while non-sentient dinosaurs were preserved in an ark created by the Silurians. Despite the seeming extinction of the dinosaurs on Earth, however, in fact many dinosaurs managed to avoid extinction.
The migration of numerous dinosaurs to a ‘great valley’ in the south where a microclimate protected against the worst climate effects of the Cretaceous disasters and its hidden location guarded against intelligent species targeting the dinosaurs protected some of them. Other dinosaurs were able to survive in deep caves underground, accessible only through passages into Earth’s interior. A few dinosaurs emerged from these underground caverns during the Ice Age, leading to brief periods where dinosaurs coexisted with later megafauna such as mammoths and sabertooths, as well as with ancient humans. Prehistoric man, naturally, tended to greatly fear dinosaurs that they shared the planet with for the most part. However, at various points early humans were able to forge cooperative relationships with dinosaurs. The ancient society known as Bedrock is known to have domesticated numerous species of dinosaurs, keeping some as pets and making use of others as beasts of burden or sources of meat. The contemporary society of Lem also had a cooperative relationship with dinosaurs. Elsewhere, depictions of a caveman who could ride a Tyrannosaurus rex and fought other dinosaurs, humans and various monstrosities have been documented on multiple cave paintings found in Europe. However, conflict did continue more commonly. The alien Yargonians, who attempted to invade Earth nearly 1 million years ago, weaponized dinosaurs against primitive man. Eventually, the large-scale dinosaur presence alongside prehistoric humanity would end amidst a deeper Ice Age freeze, once again relegating dinosaurs to the ‘great valley’ (whose climate remained suitable for dinosaurs despite the general drop in global temperatures) and underground refuges.
As the Ice Age concluded, rapid continental drift occurred. This had significant consequences for the ‘great valley’ that was the last bastion of dinosaurs above ground. The region split apart and drifted into many areas. Much of the valley would become islands later labeled ‘lost worlds’ by observers. The Skull Archipelago, Caprona, Dinosaur Island and Yaanapalu all would be formed in this time. The islands would also enable the formation of other ‘lost worlds’ thanks to the frequent appearance of temporal anomalies on them. It is believed dinosaurs arrived in the Savage Land, Maple White Land, Gwangi Valley and various regions of the Congo thanks to anomalies opening up. Despite dinosaurs’ presence for much of human history, humanity at larve only really took notice of the lost worlds in the late 19th century, on the heels of advances in paleontology. The ‘bone wars’ between Cope and Marsh and Bolt and Cartland helped fuel numerous waves of fossil discovery as well as public captivating, especially as the likes of William Johnson and Deborah MacGuiness added fuel to the wave of fossil-driven dinomania. Dinosaur fossils were used by Stephen Maturin to justify the theory of evolution, an argument picked up by Charles Darwin and other subsequent advocates of the theory. It is likely this that laid the groundwork for adventurous explorers to seek out remnant dinosaur populations.
While the earlier Lidenbrock expedition had encountered dinosaurs in Earth’s interior, it was the Challenger expedition of the 1890’s that was the first to prove dinosaurs still existed. This in turn sparked a wave of exploitation-some dinosaurs were captured and placed in circuses for entertainment beginning with the famed Gertie, a trained Brontosaurus who toured globally for nearly 20 years. Ambitious big game hunters would seek dinosaurs as quarry, a key factor in nearly wiping out the Mokele Mbembe species of carnivorous sauropod native to the Congo. The realm of Dinotopia, inhabited by sentient dinosaurs coexisting alongside humans, was wiped out by Nazi forces in 1937 as part of their attempt to capture and weaponize dinosaurs ahead of World War II. The mass extermination inflicted forced the Nazis to make use of crude cloning techniques in their haphazard attempt to use dinosaurs against the D-Day invaders. By the late 20th century, dinosaurs were reduced to the status of a critically endangered species. Poachers, vengeful hunters, climate change and introduced diseases wiped out most known lost worlds, with only very isolated realms like the Savage Land being left intact. The war against the Dinosaur Empire left many habitats in the subterranean world inhabited by extinct fauna desolated. The biggest subterranean ecosystem to survive was in Canada and would not be discovered until several surprisingly intelligent dinosaurs emerged from it in 2007. Dinosaurs were not technically extinct but as far as everyday people were concerned they might as well be. However, a new solution emerged: cloning. The first large scale attempt at cloning dinosaurs in the postwar era was carried out by Darren Penward in 1979, which led to his creation of a small private zoo of dinosaurs by 1984. Penward’s death at the hands of his clones would not be the end of this, as his research was acquired by operatives hired by InGen CEO John Hammond who envisioned creating a large scale zoological centering on dinosaurs. Hammond set up what he dubbed Jurassic Park on Isla Nublar off the Costa Rican coast, but disaster struck in 1992 before it could open when a disgruntled employee shut down electricity which unleashed many ravenous dinosaurs from containment, killing at least a dozen. Hammond, despite his reputation as a cold capitalist, was shaken by the peril his two grandchildren ended up in during this event as well as his own near-death at the hands of a group of Compsognathus and abandoned the planned park.
However this would just be the beginning of a push to establish dinosaurs in captivity. Hammond’s nephew Peter Ludlow would oust him as CEO and attempt to reopen Jurassic Park in San Diego only for the plan to fail when a Tyrannosaurus escaped and rampages through the city, eventually consuming Ludlow himself. This led to Isla Sorna, InGen’s so-called Site B, being declared a nature reserve by the reinstated Hammond and the Costa Rican government. But the push for dinosaurs as attractions would not end there. Gerry Harding, former veterinarian at Jurassic Park, had made copious note of the healthcare needs of dinosaurs, making the prospect of raising them in zoos more feasible than it had been. This sparked a boom in ‘dinomania’ as dinosaur-centered parks like Enoshima Dinoland and Jurassic World (set up on the same island as the original attempted Jurassic Park) would arise over the next decade. Smaller scale education-centered facilities such as Prehistoric Park would also set up during this period, the latter earning a great deal of attention for its use of temporal travel (based on technology developed by Britain’s Anomaly Research Center) and the documentary series set at it starring Nigel Marven, whom had used the same technology to make similar documentaries on prehistoric life earlier on. Marven’s program would temporarily be handed off to Drew Luczynski after Marven disappeared through an anomaly, thought to be eaten by a Giganotosaurus until reappearing alive almost a decade later, just as the park he built began to franchise out under the name Prehistoric Kingdom.
From 2003 on, many zoos that were not specifically dinosaur-centered would begin to open dinosaur exhibits as the cost of care for dinosaurs dropped. This had a number of causes-the Shiawise decision helping weaken liability risks, the spread of clean energy technology pioneered by the Future Foundation and a general zoo boom prompted by animal-centered reality shows such as The Wild Thornberrys and V.V. Argost’s Weird World increasing earnings for zoos enough to make having a handful of dinosaurs a plausible option. This caused heavy competition for dinosaur-centered parks, especially the aforementioned Jurassic World which was increasingly forced to rely on corporate sponsorship and a luxurious resort experience to remain profitable. It is likely due to this competition that the park resorted to trying to create new hybrid dinosaur species, which in turn led to the disaster of 2015 that saw the park closed down for good. An attempt to evacuate dinosaurs from Isla Nublar during a subsequent volcanic eruption led to a large dinosaur population becoming invasive to California, causing widespread panic and calls from some to render dinosaurs genuinely extinct. For now, those calls have been resisted as moves have been made to get feral dinosaurs out of populated areas and into either captivity or the Isla Sorna and Savage Land reserves.
Dinosaurs are among one of the most iconic of primordial creatures. The exact time period they first arose is made fuzzy by the temporal anomalies and time travelers who have helped scatter them across history, but mainstream paleontologists such as Ross Geller and Eva Jain have concluded dinosaurs arose first in the Triassic period circa 252 million years ago. Throughout the Mesozoic era, dinosaurs dominated the ecosystem alongside similar species of marine reptiles, pterosaurs and the earliest proto-dragons (whom often engaged in predation of the dinosaurs, especially the slower, lumbering species of semi-aquatic sauropods and hadrosaurs). Some dinosaurs were largely peaceful herbivores while others were vicious and at times voracious hunters. The exact form dinosaurs could take varied wildly, even among many who through fossils were labeled identically. Some dinosaurs were slow-moving, lumbering behemothic lizards, slow-witted and inefficient. Other dinosaurs, however, were swifter, more agile and intelligent. In the Jurassic period, a subspecies of Ornitholestes developed Stone Age-level technology and intelligence. While this sentient species of dinosaurs did not make it to the end of the period, by the Cretaceous period, some dinosaurs had managed to develop sentience and various forms of society. This includes one that curiously mirrored the human society that would exist millions of years later and another with a level of scientific knowledge that enabled them to develop multiple time machines including one that operated as a train that traversed the Mesozoic era. It is theorized these sentient dinosaurs were uplifted by the time traveler Captain Neweyes.
The Mesozoic era is, of course, most famous for its vicious end. One factor behind the Cretaceous extinction was time travel. The Trans-Time corporation sought to farm dinosaurs for meat and, despite several containment breaches, was able to inflict a severe dent in the dinosaur population. A powerful superweapon developed by a cult leader was sent back in time by a group of scientist-adventurers led by Benton Quest, which further devastated the planet. Alien incursions also battered the dinosaur population. The Predators hunted dinosaurs for sport and the Nesk flung a meteorite at the planet to deal with a rival species known as the Mecora. The Achuultani also flung several asteroids into the planet, wrecking the environment. These two causes linked when the Brainspawn visited Earth and proceeded to ravage the dinosaur population. Beyond outside forces, sentient dinosaurs also inflicted severe damage themselves by triggering large-scale climate catastrophe. Dragons also ravaged sentient dinosaur populations after evolving past the so-called ‘Prehistoric Dragon’ form. A small portion of intelligent dinosaurs were able to evacuate Earth and set up colonies beyond the Solar System, while non-sentient dinosaurs were preserved in an ark created by the Silurians. Despite the seeming extinction of the dinosaurs on Earth, however, in fact many dinosaurs managed to avoid extinction.
The migration of numerous dinosaurs to a ‘great valley’ in the south where a microclimate protected against the worst climate effects of the Cretaceous disasters and its hidden location guarded against intelligent species targeting the dinosaurs protected some of them. Other dinosaurs were able to survive in deep caves underground, accessible only through passages into Earth’s interior. A few dinosaurs emerged from these underground caverns during the Ice Age, leading to brief periods where dinosaurs coexisted with later megafauna such as mammoths and sabertooths, as well as with ancient humans. Prehistoric man, naturally, tended to greatly fear dinosaurs that they shared the planet with for the most part. However, at various points early humans were able to forge cooperative relationships with dinosaurs. The ancient society known as Bedrock is known to have domesticated numerous species of dinosaurs, keeping some as pets and making use of others as beasts of burden or sources of meat. The contemporary society of Lem also had a cooperative relationship with dinosaurs. Elsewhere, depictions of a caveman who could ride a Tyrannosaurus rex and fought other dinosaurs, humans and various monstrosities have been documented on multiple cave paintings found in Europe. However, conflict did continue more commonly. The alien Yargonians, who attempted to invade Earth nearly 1 million years ago, weaponized dinosaurs against primitive man. Eventually, the large-scale dinosaur presence alongside prehistoric humanity would end amidst a deeper Ice Age freeze, once again relegating dinosaurs to the ‘great valley’ (whose climate remained suitable for dinosaurs despite the general drop in global temperatures) and underground refuges.
As the Ice Age concluded, rapid continental drift occurred. This had significant consequences for the ‘great valley’ that was the last bastion of dinosaurs above ground. The region split apart and drifted into many areas. Much of the valley would become islands later labeled ‘lost worlds’ by observers. The Skull Archipelago, Caprona, Dinosaur Island and Yaanapalu all would be formed in this time. The islands would also enable the formation of other ‘lost worlds’ thanks to the frequent appearance of temporal anomalies on them. It is believed dinosaurs arrived in the Savage Land, Maple White Land, Gwangi Valley and various regions of the Congo thanks to anomalies opening up. Despite dinosaurs’ presence for much of human history, humanity at larve only really took notice of the lost worlds in the late 19th century, on the heels of advances in paleontology. The ‘bone wars’ between Cope and Marsh and Bolt and Cartland helped fuel numerous waves of fossil discovery as well as public captivating, especially as the likes of William Johnson and Deborah MacGuiness added fuel to the wave of fossil-driven dinomania. Dinosaur fossils were used by Stephen Maturin to justify the theory of evolution, an argument picked up by Charles Darwin and other subsequent advocates of the theory. It is likely this that laid the groundwork for adventurous explorers to seek out remnant dinosaur populations.
While the earlier Lidenbrock expedition had encountered dinosaurs in Earth’s interior, it was the Challenger expedition of the 1890’s that was the first to prove dinosaurs still existed. This in turn sparked a wave of exploitation-some dinosaurs were captured and placed in circuses for entertainment beginning with the famed Gertie, a trained Brontosaurus who toured globally for nearly 20 years. Ambitious big game hunters would seek dinosaurs as quarry, a key factor in nearly wiping out the Mokele Mbembe species of carnivorous sauropod native to the Congo. The realm of Dinotopia, inhabited by sentient dinosaurs coexisting alongside humans, was wiped out by Nazi forces in 1937 as part of their attempt to capture and weaponize dinosaurs ahead of World War II. The mass extermination inflicted forced the Nazis to make use of crude cloning techniques in their haphazard attempt to use dinosaurs against the D-Day invaders. By the late 20th century, dinosaurs were reduced to the status of a critically endangered species. Poachers, vengeful hunters, climate change and introduced diseases wiped out most known lost worlds, with only very isolated realms like the Savage Land being left intact. The war against the Dinosaur Empire left many habitats in the subterranean world inhabited by extinct fauna desolated. The biggest subterranean ecosystem to survive was in Canada and would not be discovered until several surprisingly intelligent dinosaurs emerged from it in 2007. Dinosaurs were not technically extinct but as far as everyday people were concerned they might as well be. However, a new solution emerged: cloning. The first large scale attempt at cloning dinosaurs in the postwar era was carried out by Darren Penward in 1979, which led to his creation of a small private zoo of dinosaurs by 1984. Penward’s death at the hands of his clones would not be the end of this, as his research was acquired by operatives hired by InGen CEO John Hammond who envisioned creating a large scale zoological centering on dinosaurs. Hammond set up what he dubbed Jurassic Park on Isla Nublar off the Costa Rican coast, but disaster struck in 1992 before it could open when a disgruntled employee shut down electricity which unleashed many ravenous dinosaurs from containment, killing at least a dozen. Hammond, despite his reputation as a cold capitalist, was shaken by the peril his two grandchildren ended up in during this event as well as his own near-death at the hands of a group of Compsognathus and abandoned the planned park.
However this would just be the beginning of a push to establish dinosaurs in captivity. Hammond’s nephew Peter Ludlow would oust him as CEO and attempt to reopen Jurassic Park in San Diego only for the plan to fail when a Tyrannosaurus escaped and rampages through the city, eventually consuming Ludlow himself. This led to Isla Sorna, InGen’s so-called Site B, being declared a nature reserve by the reinstated Hammond and the Costa Rican government. But the push for dinosaurs as attractions would not end there. Gerry Harding, former veterinarian at Jurassic Park, had made copious note of the healthcare needs of dinosaurs, making the prospect of raising them in zoos more feasible than it had been. This sparked a boom in ‘dinomania’ as dinosaur-centered parks like Enoshima Dinoland and Jurassic World (set up on the same island as the original attempted Jurassic Park) would arise over the next decade. Smaller scale education-centered facilities such as Prehistoric Park would also set up during this period, the latter earning a great deal of attention for its use of temporal travel (based on technology developed by Britain’s Anomaly Research Center) and the documentary series set at it starring Nigel Marven, whom had used the same technology to make similar documentaries on prehistoric life earlier on. Marven’s program would temporarily be handed off to Drew Luczynski after Marven disappeared through an anomaly, thought to be eaten by a Giganotosaurus until reappearing alive almost a decade later, just as the park he built began to franchise out under the name Prehistoric Kingdom.
From 2003 on, many zoos that were not specifically dinosaur-centered would begin to open dinosaur exhibits as the cost of care for dinosaurs dropped. This had a number of causes-the Shiawise decision helping weaken liability risks, the spread of clean energy technology pioneered by the Future Foundation and a general zoo boom prompted by animal-centered reality shows such as The Wild Thornberrys and V.V. Argost’s Weird World increasing earnings for zoos enough to make having a handful of dinosaurs a plausible option. This caused heavy competition for dinosaur-centered parks, especially the aforementioned Jurassic World which was increasingly forced to rely on corporate sponsorship and a luxurious resort experience to remain profitable. It is likely due to this competition that the park resorted to trying to create new hybrid dinosaur species, which in turn led to the disaster of 2015 that saw the park closed down for good. An attempt to evacuate dinosaurs from Isla Nublar during a subsequent volcanic eruption led to a large dinosaur population becoming invasive to California, causing widespread panic and calls from some to render dinosaurs genuinely extinct. For now, those calls have been resisted as moves have been made to get feral dinosaurs out of populated areas and into either captivity or the Isla Sorna and Savage Land reserves.
The 1987 German federal election was held on the 10th January 1987 to elect the 12th Bundestag. Incumbent Chancellor Anke Fuchs of the SPD was seeking re-election to her second term and the SPD’s third term leading the government.
After the 1983 elections had produced a fractured Bundestag, the SPD had managed to agree a coalition with the KPD and the new Green Party, nicknamed the ‘dreifache’ or ‘triple’ coalition. As all three parties were explicitly left of centre, it was seen as very radical, but Schmidt aimed to allay voter concerns the same way he had in his previous term. Domestically, he worked to balance reimbursements for childcare and job creation schemes by making cuts, most notably through retirement and partial retirement schemes for older workers. Internationally, he counterbalanced acquiescing to the peace movement’s resistance to NATO stationing missiles in the country by keeping up a close relationship with French president François Mitterand and progressing European integration with his support, and by ensuring his Foreign Minister Markus Meckel kept up good relations with the Solidarity movement in Poland and isolating the USSR until the ascent of the reformist President Mickhail Gorbachev in 1985.
Even so, the CDU/CSU and FDP in opposition chided the government for their lack of closeness to countries like the US and UK, pointing to the economic benefits they saw as coming from the more monetarist economics of the Thatcher and Reagan governments. This was a major point championed by the new CDU leader Lothar Späth, but it broke down due to an incident at the 1985 G7 summit in Berlin. On the second day of the summit, Schmidt fell ill and his Vice Chancellor, Petra Kelly of the Greens, briefly took over, privately getting into an argument with Thatcher during which she told the British Prime Minister ‘just because you are a woman does not mean you speak for all women’. In response to this, Thatcher reportedly spat at her, and Kelly immediately went before press cameras with what appeared to be spit on her blouse. While the majority of the British press broadly sympathized with Thatcher and believed Kelly to be lying, the German press mostly took Kelly’s side, and it undermined Späth’s comparisons between himself and Thatcher. In early 1986, with the CDU/CSU’s polling numbers sliding, he was successfully challenged for the leadership by the more moderate Heiner Geißler.
Geißler took a radically different stance to Späth, believing the opposition had to pry the Greens away from the government to have a chance of winning power. His speeches played into the government’s lack of environmental protection measures and concern over the recently-discovered hole in the ozone layer, and though he stopped short of offering the Greens a position in a coalition government, he pledged to support green energy policies as Chancellor if the Greens proposed them in the Bundestag.
Initially this worked well for him, particularly since many in the public were growing fatigued with Schmidt’s leadership since he had now been Chancellor for almost 6 years. Circumstances changed very quickly when the Chernobyl disaster occurred in late April 1986; Germany already had a strong anti-nuclear movement dating back to the prevention of a nuclear plant being constructed in Wyhl in Baden-Württemberg in 1975, but concerns about contamination from Chernobyl (which were soon found to be justified) reignited these, and the Greens sought to fight to reduce the impact of nuclear disaster in Germany.
On the 1st May 1986, Petra Kelly spoke at an anti-nuclear protest in Berlin and announced that the Greens would pull out of the government if Chancellor Schmidt did not agree to begin to phase out nuclear power in Germany and pump funding into decontamination efforts, ending her speech with the famous slogan of the anti-nuclear movement, ‘Atomkraft? Nein danke’ (‘Atomic power? No thanks’). Schmidt hesitated on this ultimatum due to the perceived economic cost, and when it became clear the SPD’s membership in the Bundestag would vote to continue the coalition and acquiesce to Kelly’s demands, he resigned. Geißler sought to issue a constructive vote of no confidence in the government to bring a CDU/CSU-FDP government into office, but after the SPD’s new leader was announced, this quickly became impossible.
Succeeding Schmidt as SPD leader was Anke Fuchs, his Federal Minister of the Interior, who in turn became the first female Chancellor of Germany. Fuchs quickly won the trust of the Greens, helped by her having had an anti-nuclear weapons stance since she was a student activist, and achieved national and international praise for working with Soviet President Gorbachev to formulate a multilateral aid fund for Ukrainian relief following Chernobyl. This significantly revived the coalition’s popularity and helped heal the rift between the Greens and the SPD.
Cooperation with the KPD also proved easier without Schmidt leading the SPD, as Fuchs’s trade unionist credentials and championing of tenants’ rights made her more sympathetic to their advocacy for these groups. Her government also began work on the EC’s Community Charter of the Fundamental Social Rights of Workers, developing a labour policy which was intended to accommodate workers’ rights provisions into the market economy of the Community and later Union.
As a result of this period of successful cooperation, the coalition parties agreed to call a new election for January 1987, particularly as polling had shown a rapid improvement in their numbers. The result was widely foreseen, and is believed to have contributed to the election having the lowest turnout since 1951, at just 85.2%.
As expected, they expanded their majority; in 1983 the coalition had taken 54% of the vote and 352 seats between the three parties to 44.7% and 300 seats for the CDU/CSU and FDP, and this time it took 56.0% and 378 seats to 42.9% and 277 seats for the CDU/CSU and FDP. While the FDP had a fairly middling election, breaking even on the seat count with a small drop in their voteshare, a surprise success for the party was gaining the Waiblingen electoral district in Baden-Württemberg from the CDU, a strong area for the party on the list seat level which they have held on the constituency level ever since this election.
Most of the rise in government support came from the Greens, who went from the smallest party in the Bundestag to the third-largest, and though they still did not win any constituency seats they established a world record for the best result ever seen by a green party at the time. The SPD and Greens had enough for an overall majority on their own, but KPD leader Gregor Gysi convinced his party to remain in the coalition to retain an impact on government policies, which Fuchs and Kelly agreed to in order to cushion their majority.
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Pity to see this Germany phasing out nuclear power, too. I hope they at least will develop alternative energy sources in time.
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