Recent content by BrianP

Communist coup in Washington maybe?

Not much of a turn out, was it? ;) THANDE - That picture is awesome. :D

I just don't see it happening by 2012. The only three things that could cause a collapse of the United States by 2012: 1.) Large asteroid or comet impact; 2.) A plague on "The Stand" scale; 3.) Zombies

What if, for whatever reason, one or both members of the Soviet crew during the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission in 1975 decided to defect to the United States? This would be done during the actual mission in space (to make a bold public statement) while the Soviet crew was visiting the Apollo...

Lunar Gemini Using either the Republic or Grumman lunar spacesuits.

God is a high-maintenance kind of guy. It takes a lot of work to keep him happy.

I was thinking about a "space-wank" timeline recently, where NASA pretty much gets everything it wants. Apollos 18, 19, and 20 to the Moon are a go. Skylab still goes up, followed by a second Skylab station. Apollo-Soyuz continues as planned, with perhaps a second and longer ASTP mission to...

20 March 2001 A view of Lunar Outpost 1, also known as the Clavius Station, in lunar orbit. This image was taken by the departing Expedition 1 crew, who turned the station over the Expedition 2 crew the previous day. The Expedition 1 crew, consisting of Astronauts William Shepherd, James...

I was reading tonight on Wikipedia about Asteroid 69230 Hermes. As stated in the article, the asteroid passed undetected within 1.7 Moon distances of the Earth in 1942. What if this asteroid collided with the Earth? According to the table on Wikipedia, it is 0.4 kilometers across. I'll let...

In response...Beaker's take on Ode to Joy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpcUxwpOQ_A&feature=related

Austria-Hungary FOREVER!

The 101st Airborne would be called the "Gobblin' Turkeys" and we would have war movies such as "Where Turkeys Dare." ;)

I was only six years old at the time, but I remember when the Commies came into Louisiana from Texas with the objective of taking New Orleans. My father, who was 36 at the time, joined one of the hastly organized militia units and engaged the Soviets west of Lafayette. His unit was...

Name of the President (and anyone else injured/killed): Killed: President Harry S. Truman, Secretary of State Dean Acheson; Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall; Officer Donald Birdzell; Agent Floyd Boring; Officer Joseph Davidson; Officer Leslie Coffelt Wounded: Secretary of the Treasury...

I watched it, and thought it was great. The Persian Gulf War was the first large-scale military action involving the United States that I was old enough to really understand what was going on. I imagined myself in this alternate world, and tried to think about how I would have been dealing...