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Syko-Elektro: Has it's foundations in the late 1970s and early 1980s, growing out of Disco, Progressive Rock, and Electronic Music. The Name is an intentional miss spelling of "Psycho" referring to it's Psychedelic qualities, and "Electro" referring to the fact that it's almost entirely...

Is it possible for "Assault rifles" as we know then to have been invented in the 19th century? After all, they had rifles, they had gatling guns, is really to much a stretch for someone to say "what if we put the fire-power of a gatling gun in the hands of a single rifleman?" In OTL the AK-47 is...

Your challenge, should you choice to accept it, is to have the Monarch of one nation be marryed to the democratically elected president of another nation.

What if Neandthals, rather then Modern humans became the dominant species on earth? Could civilization still devolop in a species of hypercarnivores with no need for farming? If so what would it look like? In what ways would a Neanderthal civilization be similar, or different then a human one?

What if the global population was roughly 3.5 billion in 2013 rather then the roughly 7 billion of OTL?

As we all know, the majority of cars on the road are Steam/Electric hybrids, a technology that became dominate in the late 19th century thanks to Nikola Tesla's invention of the first Steam/Electric hybrid engine, and the later success of Tesla Motors. So if Steam/Electric technology never took...

Well, it seems old George W. Bush is saying he plans on running agian. This after the death of Old Cheney, and the confirmation of Vice President Rice. I really hope americans aren't stupid enough to vote for him agian in 2016, but then, they where just as stupid when they gave Nixon a fifth...

As we all know, the Nationalist party of China was successful in defeating the Communists on the mainland, with Taiwan being the only surviving outpost of the Chinese Communist Party, a situation that lasts to this day. So my question is, what if this had been reversed, with the Mainland going...

In OTL the explosion of gasoline powered vehicles wouldn't have been possible without advances in the refining of petroleum. Before these advances, gasoline was considered an "expensive by product", and the majorty of cars where either electric, or combustion using a different fuel. Ethanol...

So as we all know, the 1988 Batman movie, "The Dark Knight Returns" was baised on the 1986 graphic novel of the same name by Frank Miller, who was brought on as a production consultant. The film is largely credited with bringing the 1980s "comic revolution" created by DKR and Watchmen (which...

What if the period after the War of 1812 where all political divission disappeared never happened?

As any history class will tell you, George Washington, the First President of the United States, died durring the 2nd year of his third term, and His Vice President John Adams became "Acting President" until the end of Washington's third term in 1801. So, what if Washington hadn't died in office?

What if the North Korean Revolution of 1989 had never removed the Korean Communist Party from power in the North, paving the way for the Korean Reunification of 1992?

Qusay Hussein and Kim Jong Un met in Kabul today, while both their nations celebrated the tenth aniversarry of the failed double invassion of both nations by the United States in 2003.

Ignore this thread, I posted it in the wrong boards.

In OTL the Great North East Blackout of 2003 occured in the middle of summer, greatly limiting it's impact. However, the North American Power Grid was a ticking time bomb, and the blackout would've happened eventually anyway. So, what if a blackout on the same scale as the Great North East...

Dogs, as a result of centuries of selective breeding, are currently the most genetically diverse species of mammals on earth. Is it possible for humans to evolve similar levels of genetic diversity?

I recently read an article that said that the Cornish Language very nearly went extinct in the early 19th century. What if it had? How would this change the culture and indentity of the people of Cornwall, and of Britian as a whole?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citicar Notable for producing battery electric cars in the 70s, two full decades before the EV-1. Like the EV-1 however, the company was a notorious failure. How could they have been saved? What effect would a surviving Citicar company have on the modern car market?

So if Bob Dole had managed to beat Clinton in the 1996 election, then what? What would his policies be? Who would the Democratic Party run against him in 2000?