Recent content by jon

Any chance that J. West and A. Gordon will be among their first hires?

I will be interested to see the longer-term consequences of this. The "Arabian Peninsula" does not strike me as a natural political boundary, and adding even more disgruntled populations does not bode well for long-term stability - though I realize you're going for a lighter and happier history...

Is the Equality Act an allohistorical document, presumably leading to earlier, better treatment of the Maori population? My impression from afar is that OTL NZ has had generally better relationships between settlers and natives than many other British colonies, perhaps proceeding from the...

Should there be two Chp 5 in the threadmarks (Nov. 18 / Dec. 13 updates)?

There are still the Queen's Guards at the gates. Who have more spectacular headgear in any event.

My one regret of this timeline is that Bertie did not take the opportunity to steal Captain Saunders' helmet as he fled Buckingham Palace.

Lucifer's Hammer had a brief bit of that as the megatsunami hit Los Angeles. Ending with a wipeout against a skyscraper, IIRC.

Not quite the ask, but there was the recent naming dispute between Greece and Macedonia => "North Macedonia".

A few general comments on the TL: The biggest reason companies like Sun (in particular) was highly unlikely to achieve success in the consumer market is what Christensen called The Innovator's Dilemma. One aspect of it is that a company that has been very successful, innovative, and focused on...

There were plenty of other networking technologies than those used by the early ARPAnet, and a strong university presence from the very first days of it. ISTM very unlikely that "government patents" could prevent the emergence of alternative large computer networks - particularly in Europe...

The Margo thread will be interesting. Presumably she's still an unwilling spy for the Soviets in S3, but how high has she reached in the US government in the meantime? This is potentially far more damaging than Aldrich Ames.

I don't think there are any uranium isotopes with half lives anywhere near that short - what mechanism are you thinking of here?

Excellent teacher, too. The Asteroids & Comets course he co-taught with Marcia Neugebauer was one of the high points of my time at Caltech, especially the field trip to the Barringer Crater. There's a great scene in one of the NASA mission films - I think Apollo 15 - showing him looking...

Who had "Lunar Cave Bears" on their pool entry? Great TL. I hope Gene Shoemaker gets a chance to go up in the ATL.

Perhaps they'll be the first discoverer of the linkage between SNC meteorites and Martian origins. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_meteorite