Recent content by Catmo

There are a few steam trains running in Botswana today, but this may not count as a modern nation. But retro tech Botswana is a better place to live than Zimbabwe. BTW, diesel electric locomotives are an outgrowth of early 20th century submarine tech. The same engines that can run fast on the...

Maybe the best plan would be to load up the 737 with as much communications gear and radar from the 1940s and add lots of communications crew. It could circle above the flak and guide bombers in.

Without 9/11 W, who won in a disputed election and liked to take vacations all the time would bring out the most bloodthirsty batch of Democrats they could muster. Gore might stand down as he did in OTL, Kerry and Wes Clarke might still try, plus who knows who else? 2002 midterms would be an...

The Bible is full of ass-riders. Balaam rode an invisible angel detecting talking ass. David rode an ass. Mary rode an ass. And Jesus rode asess too.

Clay probably does just as well as a boxer, but may not become a draft resistor.

Cats and pigs go back feral in a generation or two, and I think there are epigenetic factors that help pigs go feral so quickly. Don't know if anyone has confirmed my speculations about feral pigs, but the rapidity of physical changes they go through in a couple of generations of feral life...

Much better story now. I like how you have adjusted your ATL. Andrew in New Orleans would have been a huge disaster and would have been a little worse than Katrina. Houston would have still played host to Andrew refugees as we did in Katrina, but racially-laces tensions might have been higher...

I thought the temple was destroyed in the 70's CE, about 40-50 years after whatever historical persons Jesus was based on died and around the time Paul started writing his letters. The Gospels and Acts were codified after this time and the Peter letters are mostly retcons. I really think there...

Let's make this as bad as possible for the UK. They lose a couple more ships than in OTL from the Phantoms. The UK sends a couple more subs. Argentina cannot supply the Falklands as all ships heading there are sunk. This happened in OTL when the Brits sank just one ship with a sub. Maybe with...

I've been to Pellston MI and have toured the UP. The most desolate part of the US I have ever been to. No nukes will fall there except for Sault St Marie, a major trade chokepoint. I don't think the Soviets had that good a plan or capability for a counterforce first-strike. Plausible...

I think the UK sends more subs, against which Argentinia has has no defenses.

A zombie thread seven years in the making! I'll join in: 1979- KWRP in Bellaire. An AM station in independent enclave surrounded by Houston switches from old people music to early goth, punk, and new wave. DJ John Maceo scratches "You're Having My Baby" to play Joy Divisions "Transmission" in...

A limited biological strike that could be traced back to a nation-state would result in that nation state being hit with nukes. If that nation was the Soviet Union, and the US was attacked, I think the soviets would be blasted in a nuclear first strike.

I agree that gliders could be important in a siege. Say you hold one side of a valley, but cannot advance because there is a fortress on the other side of that valley, Run the gliders up your side of the mountains and sail across to drop a bit of fire onto their fort. Walls may be strong, but...

Most communes were not viable, but Twin Oaks has survived for 44 years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Oaks_Community,_Virginia Make it a full scale exchange in the early 70's and you could have the Amish and the Twin Oaks spinoffs fighting for control of the Second Constitutional...