Really? I thought they introduced IRV/AV in order to ensure Labor didn't benefit from a "split" right. After all, this by-election sparked that.
I believe that was what the good Lord was saying, although in slightly more hyperbolic terms.
Really? I thought they introduced IRV/AV in order to ensure Labor didn't benefit from a "split" right. After all, this by-election sparked that.
Really? I thought they introduced IRV/AV in order to ensure Labor didn't benefit from a "split" right. After all, this by-election sparked that.
I believe that was what Leo was saying, although in slightly more hyperbolic terms.
Ah, I see. Thanks.That was the real reason, yes, but according to CT's logic, that was "disenfranchising" Labor voters by not allowing them to win on a plurality.
Leo?
He probably read your name as Leo Caesius. Easy mistake.
Not to pre-empt Archie (whilst in the process totally pre-empting him) but the two of us worked together on getting that outer system in order; that's pretty much what's going on re: Nemesis. It was basically a matter of taking all those vague predictions of where stuff Should Be in the outer system/beyond the outer system and saying 'you're correct, you're correct, and you, you're definitely correct,' along with some creative license and random number generation.
As for Valkyrie and Daedelus:
High-constant-acceleration rockets like Daedelus are what I believe he decided on for speedy travel, but they're also expensive; non-urgent travel takes slower paths using lower accelerations or taking more time cruising, so if you *really* needed to get to, say, Neptune from Earth, you could do it in a couple of weeks, but if you weren't an urgent packet, you could take a couple months. (Note that to attain its speeds, Daedelus would be running for multiple years; constant acceleration chemical rockets can only go so fast when they need to start stopping halfway through the trip.)
Valkyrie relies on massive amounts of antimatter production which, from what I know of the universe, I simply don't see happening on a large scale in AJND, for pretty much the same reason I don't see it happening on a large scale in OTL at that point; it's expensive as hell. Even in AJND, where you have nuclear-powered cars, the sheer power requirements to produce that much antimatter means that even if there is a Valkyrie, it'll be a unique project, not an everyday occurrence.
Valkyrie relies on massive amounts of antimatter production which, from what I know of the universe, I simply don't see happening on a large scale in AJND, for pretty much the same reason I don't see it happening on a large scale in OTL at that point; it's expensive as hell. Even in AJND, where you have nuclear-powered cars, the sheer power requirements to produce that much antimatter means that even if there is a Valkyrie, it'll be a unique project, not an everyday occurrence.
If there was someone willing to fund it and enough people willing to volunteer for it, maybe.Like some kind of one-shot colonization mission to one of the other stars?
If there was someone willing to fund it and enough people willing to volunteer for it, maybe.
Hey Mike, do you have a basemap for either Mars/Luna in AJND?
At 445 pages, I think it's time to bring this three-year long thread to a close.
Check out the new thread over at Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes II.
All good things must come to an end. Three years is a long time.For gods sake man at least let it go to 500.
All good things must come to an end. Three years is a long time.
At 445 pages, I think it's time to bring this three-year long thread to a close.
Check out the new thread over here: https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=336197
Fascinating. It's always interesting to see different state governments and the like. Why not just go whole hog and make it parliamentary?