Recent content by Whangadude

Its not that ASB needed. Earth currently grows enough food for 10 Billion people, its just the distribution thats a problem. More farming in the Amazon, better control of water resource etc. If major diseases are cured a few decades earlier and no huge "world wars" then I don't see double our...

If the Great Gatsby movie is anything to go by it would have been marvellous :D

If WWII or atleast war by western powers defeat Japan earlier, not so many people killed in China, less destroyed infrastructure, then have no big revolution and mass starvation, becoming industrialised in the 50s. 1st world by the late 80s, probably double what they have now. But only if...

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What is the latest possible PoD needed to End up with a world population of 14.5 Billion people in 2013, double what it is IOTL? This might need to be in Before 1900 but ends now so I'm putting it in this one. Saw a thread about how many people could Earth support and it seems like it could...

Took me a week to do, but I'm finally up to date with this story. Truly the best story I've read for free on the internet bar none! Bravo Jared, you really should quit your day job, what ever that may be, and write for a living, I know I'd buy your books. And as a Kiwi I just gotta request, more...

The crusades would have probably been more successful. For no schism to happen at all the POD would have to be a few centuries earlier to stop the minor theological points of difference, if this was the case then I could see the crusades earlier and more effective.

Have you been playing EU:IV too? cos that always seems to happen in my games after the ottomans get Constantinople.

What if some tiny bit of geography and geology was different so that the area of Vinland (L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland) settled by the Norse around 1000 AD had had and obvious amount of usable Iron? I've read that the reason the far western and later Greenlandic colonies failed was the...

I'm pretty sure that to the Arab traders, being Christian or Muslim would not have changed their desire for profit and having a controlling monopoly on the spice trade. The shear tyranny of distance is what made prices high, not religion, I think.

I have no doubt this has already been suggested some time ago, but, what if the spanish flu, which killed 5% of the world population in 1918, hit before, and not after the first world war?

Bashar al-Assad is assassinated by a young rouge soldier only a couple of weeks after "The Arab Spring" begins. Does that stop everything happeing now? Do the Alawites' get ethnically cleansed after decades of rule?

With that much time and lack of genetic diversity the Kiwi's would have lost their ability to fly :p . Well I guess they would have been just as un advanced and hunter gatherer as the abbos in tazy. All of the easy bird life would have been hunted to extinction thousands of years before...

Yeah the ß would help too. How many letters are possible if each sound had it own one I wonder?

What would have to happen for the English language to still have the letter Þ? English use to have it but at some stage it was replaced by "th" . Also lazily the front of a word they used the "y" from continental printing presses cos continental Europe didn't have the letter Þ. How do we make...