It took me entirely too long to realize, and I dunno if anyone's pointed it out yet, that the direct inspiration for Pathfinder seems to be the Delta Glider, especially in the wing shape and thickness of the wing. DG has something like 32km/s of Delta-V, which is enough for a Mars-And-Back trip...
I don’t think NASA would reuse names of destroyed ships. Being 2020ish TTL Resilience is both a spirit and a great freakin name during COVID or a similar ATL pandemic, so I’d say Spirit of Freedom, Spirit of Independence, Spirit of Resilience, and rather than Discovery, Spirit of Devotion for...
You actually don't need ice on the Moon with good enough water reclaimers. You can get by with hydrogen tanks and reacting that with the abundant supplies of lunar oxygen. In Artemis by Andy Weir there's an insane overabundance of oxygen due to smelting of aluminum from surface ores on the Moon...
Negative periods in history tend to result in positive media, while positive periods in history result in negative media. IMO, anyway.
The Great Depression saw the first comics and superheroes, then the 1960s again saw a great revival of comic book heroes, and again now in the 21st Century...
I think what stood out to me was Kepler as the weakest link. ESA successfully building a lifeboat capsule and getting it flying seemed very fast for how little institutional experience those guys have at this point. IRL they barely finished design studies for Hermes, let alone fabricate anything...
No. Vietnam was unpopular because it was 9 years long and had no end in sight with young men across the country drafted during peacetime. From Tonkin in ‘64 to ‘73 was a long time, during which there was significant civil unrest to begin with.
TV certainly showed off the conflict, but the...
I find my favorite way to play is to tag to other countries, pick the bad direction, and then play the faction I want to play afterwards. Usually you can do this with focus.autocomplete.
For example, make most of the 3I Totalist or something, or pick all the authoritarian options for the...
IIRC it was this: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/men-of-rome-forward-to-the-middle-ages.242585/
That's a post from 2013 lmfao talk about necro.
I honestly think this is the real answer. Theodosius divided the Roman Empire into two rump states. As soon as the heart of Rome became Constantinople and Mediolanum, not Rome, the Empire ended as we think of it. Byzantium may have continued some traditions, but the Byzantium that died in 1453...
Styriborg - The Town That Was
In another world, the first settlement site of the Vinlander Norse would be called Tadoussac. Home to the French trappers, it was a trading post between natives and Frenchmen for many different furs and other luxuries in Canada.
For the Vins, though, they...
There's a few quotes I've read that have barley growing well into the furthest north of Greenland during the Medieval Warm Period. Perhaps I wasn't fact-checking amazingly while reading about it, but people were living rather comfortably until temperatures dropped in the 14th century.
Nah...
Af Vinland
Foreword
Greenland was green, once. Home to thousands of Norse and Icelanders, Greenland was once home of the exiled Eirik the Red, and barley was farmed as far north as the 90th Parallel. It was from this host that several hundred would eventually travel to Newfoundland and...
Late roman stuff is obnoxious - shitloads of tribes I couldn't care about if I tried.
The 1600s-1700s before the 1770s are also rather bereft.
It's really either timeperiods where not enough happens, or where there's not enough source material - this is a big one for Ancient China...