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    Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    I once carved my initials into a moose with a toothbrush.
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    Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    And now you know the plot!
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    Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    Mmm. We lock them in the tower whenever they get caught...
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    Sunbeams, a History of the Space Based Solar Power Project

    Really enjoying what you’re doing here, especially with the Space Freighter/Star Freighter being developed! It’s one of my favorite shuttle-adjacent designs, and I’m really hoping to see if fly and fulfill its objectives. Eager to see what the Soviets are cooking as well…
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    Small Steps, Giant Leaps: An Alternate History of the Space Age

    Help, help! We’re being repressed!
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    For All Mankind (AH Tv series at Apple TV)

    Japan was one of the two nominally US-aligned countries in FAM which didn’t get on board with the joint Mars/space program in season 4, right? Maybe that affects the creation/production of post-90s Gundam shows as well?
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    Small Steps, Giant Leaps: An Alternate History of the Space Age

    And Saint Atilla raised the Hand Grenade up on high, saying, "O Lord, bless this Thy Hand Grenade that, with it, Thou mayest blow Thine enemies to tiny bits in Thy mercy." And the Lord did grin. And the people did feast upon the lambs, and sloths, and carp, and anchovies, and orangutans, and...
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    A Sound of Thunder: The Rise of the Soviet Superbooster

    Dude. You’ve made your point. You’re not wrong, but we need to move on from this topic or someone is going to get a kick/ban, and I’d really prefer it wasn’t you.
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    Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    So far as I understand, it’s just rather impractical in some ways— you can’t bring both of your main batteries to bear on a single target, for example. I only really call it absurd because, for some reason, I find it as strange-looking as I find it visually interesting, but there were plenty of...
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    Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    Hmm, so less overall tonnage but more ships that could reasonably stand up to something built by a European power, if anything like that were to wander into American waters with hostile intent? I could see it, though having to be a two-ocean naval power means that sooner or later, the USN is...
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    Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    You know, I’ve mused a time or two in regards to the development of the U.S. Navy in the Reconstruction/Post-Reconstruction eras ITTL, particularly in regards to potential effects on development and hull construction, whether any sort of Spanish-American conflict would arise in this world, and...
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    A Sound of Thunder: The Rise of the Soviet Superbooster

    All of us have been sleeping on the obvious higher calling the N1 has ahead of it, and I have been a fool not to connect the dots BeanHowitzer has left for us— after all, how can the Soviet Military pass up the proof of the power and glory of the Communist System made manifest by the might and...
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    A Sound of Thunder: The Rise of the Soviet Superbooster

    Clearly, you’ve never tried grocery shopping in a Reliant Robin.
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    A Sound of Thunder: The Rise of the Soviet Superbooster

    Oooh boy. As much as I’m all for going back to the moon, “quick and cheap” sounds a lot like “flags and footprints” to my ears. And here’s me pulling for at least a lunar outpost…
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    Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    Broadly speaking, Irish Catholic soldiers and their families who fled English rule of Ireland and took up service in Continental European armies in the 16th through 18th centuries. More specifically, I mean the mercenary unit which served King Philip III of Spain under the command of the son of...
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