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I have always loved a good Jutland timeline. My first attempt at writing a coherent one was a response to a junior high (8th grade) essay contest. We were asked to write an essay changing one small thing, and I had discovered a reference to the telemobilescope. It allowed the Germans to form...

This could be good. LOTS of possibilities here.

That is the point of my "Reach for the Skies," to get an ongoing war level push for technological development while reducing the wars. That does mean that the next war the United States is in will be a RUDE shock to the Europeans, who underestimated how MUCH the "rocket technolgy" they were...

It's not so much winking and nodding--though there IS some of that--as that the demands of the two environments are extremely similar in many ways. If the navy expends skywatch funding for something unrelated, like guns, three will be hell to pay--but dual use, like gyro guidance, life support...

I always thought a SI was when the author's mind is inserted into another personality, as opposed to someone being transported bodily.

A one person ISOT: Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen is a classic.

I second the above nomination forBest Spaceflight and Technology Timeline: Ocean of Storms: A Timeline of Scientific America by BowOfOrion

The NKVD is sadly good at making people behave, even if it's just making them lie quietly--very quietly. Their best musicians won't be composing music for resistance, they would be decomposing. However, I don't see the Soviets getting it; they would need a FLEET, and they don't have PEZ...

Following this--it's interesting :) Not a time I know much about, though...certainly using the red cross for targets is unlikely, but propaganda films can sure claim it. (And the people making the films might believe it, depending on how the claims were made.) Spain's government is going to be...

One ISOT I thought would be interesting, but lack the skill or time to do: A major shopping mall from the mid '90's, with parking lot, is ISOTED to 1550--70 years before the pilgrims landed. No animal life, including people, go, but the seed section in the Sears store does. Doors fail open, so...

Not necessarily. All they have to say is that prominent members of the "patriots" are being killed. They might not even know that the dead ones were involved in that. I'm just saying that there's no certainty that the murders will never be found out...they might be, they might not be.

What is, IMVHO, quite possible, is for the ones that don't get murdered to note a pattern of deaths and, as conspiracy theorists do, jump to the same conclusion they always do...someone's trying to kill/oppress us. Some of them are not stupid--and this time, there's a genuine pattern. (Look at...

They would say no to them operating outside the states as well. I would be surprised if they don't manage to kill some disgusting people that are not criminals--and the US allows people to hold whatever views they want. I am VERY MUCH looking forward to this blowing up in someone's face. Even...

Teeth of the Tiger is a later Tom Clancy book, and IMVHO a waste of paper. Of course, Clancy sort of overlooked the fact that premeditated murder is usually prosecuted at the state level, and thus not eligible for presidential pardon. It was the last of his books that I read. The only ones I...

It won't be able to stop there. This will make Watergate look like a minor disruption when it gets out. What would be worse is if it doesn't get out, since the perpetrators will know that they have that available--and some might just use it on political opponents. FRIGHTENING!