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In July 1960, during a Green Bay Packers practice, a large, 1000 pound tower, fell atop Ray Nitschke, lengendarily, he pulled the bolt out of his helmet and asked the equipment manager for a new helmet before returning to practice. However, what if he would have been injured or killed by the impact?

Hypoxia after accidental disengagement of autopilot due to oxygen "drunkenness"

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are stranded on the moon due to an explosion attempting to re-fire the engines. They are stuck. What do they do, what does the government do, and what does NASA do? I was planning on writing a T/L but I want your input first.

Hairog, how are people going mentally at this point? I'd assume that both sides (NATO&Soviet) would be mentally fried, sick of death and destruction. You can't put a gun to a head, American, British, Russian, or French and tell them to keep killing after a certain point.

So long child, it's awful dark, And I've never felt the sun, I dread to think of when, When the wind blows NARVIK, NORWAY 34TH AVIATION BRIGADE "Good God, Lieutenant. It's fucking freezing, everyone is dead, we've shot two cannibals, and we can't even go home." said the sergeant, trying to...

Stillwater "Minneapolis. Check in. Minneapolis. Check in. We have reports of multiple units heading south from our radar near the bridge. We need all available assets to scan the skies. We do not want a repeat of the gas attacks. Stay awake. We're looking into it."

The point of alternate history (accurate, AH, that is) is to have a story that is explainable, understood, and avoids handwaves as much as possible. This story is increasingly relying on handwaves, and we don't have to stop criticizing Hairog on his story, that just allows for more hand waving...

Nazism progresses like it did in real life, however, Hitler bothers not with expending high amounts of resources into sending Jews to death camps, and only sets up hard labor camps, a Jew or few hundred die in accidents/executions but not on the same scale as the Holocaust in our time, Jews are...

You act as if the Russians haven't already gotten die rolls of sixes in a game of Risk in this already. The fact that they've made it to the Pyr. already, destroyed the US nuclear program, are pounding in the RAF should make it obvious that they're getting pretty lucky. They will be beaten...

Lets say, for reasons uncertain or schedule delay, the MN Twins are atop the I-35W bridge when it collapses. What happens to sports? Baseball in Minnesota? Politics?

Sport: Hockey Team Name: Milwaukee Roughnecks League: National Hockey League Division: Western Year Founded: 2000 Stadium: MECCA/U.S. Cellular Arena History: After the move of the Phoenix Coyotes to a more hockey friendly state, this team joined the same year as the Minnesota Wild did. Facing...

Lets say that Clinton balls up and continues Operation Gothic Serpent after he has lost those 19 troops in Mogadishu, what happens? How does Somalia in general and the UN react?

The challenge here is to make the Vatican join the axis or the allies, bonus points if you can do it without Hitler/Mussolini capturing Pius XII/Collegiate of Cardinals.

There have been reported stories of Soviet officers being shot in Korea, and Americans being hit by Soviets. Your challenge is to cause the most Soviets killed by Americans/Vice versa without starting WWIII, some good hotspots are Korea, Nicaragua, and various African countries.

I'm going to start this back up again! Buffalo Pete: I use the terms west Minneapolis and east Minneapolis, while the "west" is more subjective, I refer to the east mostly as downtown and the border between that and St. Paul The AA guns are placed in shielded rubble positions, but...