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They only rarely breed in captivity; they need a large range, thus domesticating cheetahs becomes merely very difficult instead of impossible. My wife told me about a story on AOL just a few days ago about a cheetah cub born in zoo...so now it is plausible.

Never having heard of Jared Diamond until I read this thread, I'll just follow the original question. I've heard that cheetas are able to be domesticated, so I'll suggest substituting them for hunting dogs.

If it hits anywhere in Europe, then the ejecta would cause an Asteroid Winter there and screw-up the weather all over the world for a couple of years afterwards...Naval and aerial warfare would be difficult if not imposable during that time...a year long winter in Europe would starve so many...

WTF!? The 1950's When Worlds Collide was so much better!

It's been several years since I've read The King in Yellow; but from what you've asked, no, I don't think that the world you've referenced could have Prohibition...from what I can remember, as the alternant world progresses, the worse the underlying decadence gets, until it can't be contained...

ATL dictionary: 'snuggle' 1.to copulate in a clandestine or illeagle or immoral manner. 2. to copulate with animals. 3. to copulate in an hidden or secluded place out of shame.

Ok, I don't have any pictures :(, but how about a discription? A vehicle that is propelled by a mechanical 'tail'...like that of a snake; it is placed under the center of balance of the vehicle and slithers it forward; multiple 'tails' could also be used. Does anybody want to take a crack at...

Oh, yeah..."humanitarian"...just open us up to even more critizism abroad AND at home! We get crap whether we do something like that or not. Massive protests both foreign and domestic over our actions in all those places. It's just one of those "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situations...

The main reason that convensional forces were drawn down post WWII in OTL was the existance of nuclear weapons. Without them, Western governments would be forced to keep (or even expand) WWII levels of conventional forces in the late 40s early 50s; I don't think a US-Soviet war would have been...

And if the winds shift just a tiny bit? Posably thousands of civilian deaths. Japanese forces suffer even worse defeats and Japanese civilians are bombed not just with HE and incendiaries, but with mustard gas, sarin, chlorine, and tabin, among others. In OTL the atomic bomb ended WWII, but in...

Something like that...ideas that spark wars are the ones that are important; an idea that isn't worth fighting over isn't worth the ink it's written with...wars that are fought for reasons other than grand ideas are usually pretty pointless.

I believe that the Japanese were just as, if not more, influenced by the US Navy's simulated bombing attacks on Pearl Harbor during the 1930's. I think that both Taranto and Pearl Harbor were examples of a common idea being put into practice.

Global Organization for the Defense and Preservation of Super Models (do they make jelly jars that big?)

I think that the answer depends on the ATL. Example one: The strong and highly industrialized Russian Empire fights the expanionalist Chinese Empire over the territory of the totering and ancient Persian Empire, but the Carolinean and Malori Empires (major trading partners of the Persians)...