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According to the Nuclear Emergency Support Team (NEST) in late 1974, President Gerald R. Ford was warned that the FBI received a communication from an extortionist wanting $200,000. It was claimed that a nuclear weapon had been placed somewhere in Boston, so a team of experts rushed in with...

(OOC: The following POD is based on the recent disclosures by The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power by David E. Sanger, wherein it was revealed that Bush called off plans by Israel to attack Iran's Natanz nuclear facility on August 2008) With the...

OOC: The following thread is based on the idea that the following project had been "greenlit" by CBS-TV: http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Untitled_Star_Trek_animated_series IC: We are now entering Season 3 of the series, and the adventures of Captain Alexander Chase have been said to have...

According to recent spoilers leaked by www.tmz.com, apparently Brian Singer and Oliver Stone are taking a revisionist look at the assassination of Adolph Hitler with the film Valkyrie. They are going to claim that the assassination of Hitler on July 20, 1944 was actually attempt to shorten the...

As we all know, it has been 4 days since President Ralph Nader has declared martial law citing the recent bombings in Denver, CO; Memphis, TN; Chicago, IL; and Phoenix, AZ have beeen attrributed to terrorists. Personally, my belief is that President Ralph Nader, after 8 years in office, can't...

In 1908, the American film-viewing public was treated to the adventures of "Captain James T. Kirk", considered the "Horatio Hornblower of the Skies" and his adventures "...in the distant year 1980". Many people at the time compared the antics of the character to President Theodore Roosevelt...

Well the 2008 presidential election is only a few days away, and the big question that many political strategists and pundits are considering, is whether the perceived failures in foreign policy and the economy of the last 8 years of the Gore Administration, responsible for the success of the...

2002 will be forever known as the "Year in Hell", when in two separate incidents, nuclear weapons were used in anger for the first time since World War II. Things went bad first with the destruction of Mumbai and Islamabad on June 7, 2002 when President Rajnath Singh (BJP) and General Pervez...

It's been 3 years since the series Sliders (FOX-TV/ SCI-FI) ran its final episode "When the Journey Ends..". Considering that series has become the "longest lasting American science fiction series", what do you think were some of the secrets to its longevity? What were the some of the best...

Your mission should you accept is to take the role of the Dalai Lama in Lhasa, Tibet and transform him into a person seen as a villian on par with OTL's Osama bin Laden, bonus points if you can get members of the Tibetan Buddhist sect seen as "fanatical terrorists" similar to Al-Qaeda or at...

On August 9, 1945, the German U-Boat U-234, Type XB under Captain K.L. Fehler sailed into New York Harbor, New York and detonated a nuclear weapon, killing 86,000 people instantly. This was despite the surrender of the Nazi German state four months earlier. According to many historians, when...

Here is a 6-part comic book mini-series that seems to have slipped the notice of the group. Check out Storming Paradise (DC/Wilstorm) which features an alternative history tale of the invasion of Japan during WWIII after a miscalculation kills the scientists of the Manhattan Project. Check...

In 1988, at the end of Reagan administration, there was a proposed FCC bill which would have banned "indecent broadcasts" on network television 24 hours a day. Fortunately, the bill was killed in Committee and fell into further obscurity during the George H.W. Bush administration. As such, how...

You have to check this one out. Imagine a world wherein Crystal Pepsi, New Coke, Howard Dean, Friendster, the XFL, Nintendo Virtual Boy and other items had a better lifespan: http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1748982/ http://digg.com/comedy/If_Fads_Lived_Up_to_the_Hype?OTC-ch If...

In June 1971, scientists at Ft. Dietrick, Maryland accidently released lymphocytic leukemia viruses (LLV) which at the time had a 99% fatality rate, and was easily transmitted by a simple sneeze. Most antibiotics proved useless for the task, and some of the vaccines were often deadlier than...

It's now 2008, and many voters are saying by a 4 to 1 margin (c.80%) that they want a return to the two-party system of c.1990. After 8 years of the Ross Perot Administration (1992-2000), and another 8 years of the Ralph Nader Administration (2000-2008), many Americans want to return to the two...

On September 19, 2007, a meteor, 20m (c.63 ft.) in diameter struck teh town of Caranacas, Puno Region, Peru (near the Bolivian border). For more information, check out the following information: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7001897.stm...

SPOILER ALERT: In the most recent episode of the series Lost (ABC-TV) some tantalizing clues were brought up. First, at an archaeological dig in Tunisia, a group of scientists uncover the skeleton of a polar bear, dating millions of years old. To make things all the more mysterious, the collar...

As we all know the series To The Stars (NBC-TV) was initially created by science-fiction author by L. Ron Hubbard in 1958 until 1964. With the series celebrating its 50th anniversary, J.J. Abrams is planning a To The Stars film which will be the first film of the franchise, since the 1994...

Here is a challenge that can be fun with the new trailers coming out. Reversing the analogies that were used in the Star Trek franchise, what would the world be like if the Cold War period between 1965-1995 resembled the Star Trek franchise: 1965- Capt. James T. Kirk, USN is placed in...