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  1. The Space Race Never Ends

    That's a fair point, but just because a project won't actually work doesn't mean that it won't get funding. And what bureaucrat won't grasp at straws to justify funding for their projects? I could also see it pushing smaller countries into moving towards closer defense alliances with countries...
  2. The Space Race Never Ends

    Touche. I suppose there's also the possibility of suitcase nukes. One potential advantage that a captured asteroid might have though is that the rock itself could become part of the structure, basically you could dig bunkers into it at the same time that you were mining metal out of it. That's...
  3. The Space Race Never Ends

    Which further drives SDI-like proposals and thus orbital space travel in a feedback loop. It doesn't seem too much of a stretch that the increased political tension in this TL could prevent the ABM treaty from being signed, as well. If a major SDI program becomes feasible early on that could...
  4. The Space Race Never Ends

    This article in “Comparative Strategy” argues that a driving reason for slowing and ending the momentum of the space race was a series of UN treaties starting in 1967 which declared that all of space was collectively owned by mankind and that space was not to be used for weapons platforms. The...
  5. The DaVincian Revolution

    This is a bit I wrote a while ago. I could go on about its flaws and adjustments I'm considering for a while, but I'd like to hear your input first. Near the end of the fifteenth century a young and ambitious Niccolo Machiavelli discovered the potential of Leonardo da Vinci's engineering...
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