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I've had the 747 Trijet on my mind the past few days, and have been kind of surprised to realize that I think it would have been a success despite the validity of all the factors that caused it's cancellation (if one even wants to call it a cancelled project given the actual level of...

So acknowledging that there are what seem to be early cases and the virus was quite possibly somewhat global as early as the 60s... How bad could an AIDS pandemic in the mid to late 19th century have been? With an earlier jump to humans it doesn't seem a huge stretch for an outbreak to reach a...

I'm working through my thoughts on making the Canadian Railways work again and am wondering if anyone has ever seen something with any kind of details on the Canadian Northern plans for a tunnel entering Vancouver? It was fairly preliminary when they signed the agreements, but I've never even...

Anybody have thoughts on the potential for Minitel launching in Canada at some point pre-internet? I was looking over a thread about whether Sears might have been able to break into the online market and one of the unfortunate issues is that they had basically pulled out of catalog sales JUST...

So in going through what I want to do with Vancouver in a couple things I'm working on I've come across quite a bit of material suggesting that the Canadian Northern really had a decent amount of potential, in a way that the Grand Trunk Pacific/National Transcontinental system really didn't...

Exactly as the title says... Acknowledging that nothing was really discussed, what sort of direction would White Star Line be likely to go were Britannic to enter service as intended? Presumably Aquitania would force them to build a third first rate express liner, but what do folks verses in...

So this has been in the works forever and I'm still not perfectly happy with it, but if I don't post it soon it's just never going to happen. More or less inspired by the now ancient Transport America TL I've taken a much earlier POD with the idea of doing the same for urban transit in Canada...

I was looking over the Lockheed L-2000 project tonight and it got me thinking about what might have happened had it gone further. Does anyone have some insight into what might have happened with Boeing, especially around the 747, were Lockheed selected for the SST? Ignoring whether this is...

So in short, what kind of effects are we looking at if the broad outcome of the Insular Cases is reversed, and full constitutional rights immediately follow American control of territory?

Just wondering if anyone has taken a decent look at the impacts of eliminating the 1949 Housing Act? It seems to take a lot of the blame for both facilitating sprawl and white flight while also building much of the worst inner city public housing. Interesting TLs could reasonably alter this in...

I'm basically wondering if there are any major impediments to significantly earlier railroad electrification? Sprague's motor does seem to be the first that could realistically be used, but I'm not clear on whether there is any particular reason what he did couldn't be pushed back at least to...

I'm thinking in terms of a contintal generalized war in the vicinity of 1900, give or take a few years. Off hand it reduces the number of armiured cars and trucks quite severely, probably removes tanks from the picture and almost certainly reduces aviation to the odd experiment, but I don't...

So I recently finished Alan Allport's book about the British demobilization following WWII and one of his closing thoughts is a lament to how little was done in terms of creating opportunities for veterans in comparison to the GI bill. Ignoring for a moment how to make this happen politically...

I'm piecing together bits of a timeline mostly about the Oregon Terriorty and a significantly altered Oregon Treaty, but one of the butterflies this is seeming to create is a real possibility the James Buchanan might not be in any position to run in 1856. Assuming his nomination off the table I...

Looking at the dates of the two Comet disasters they match up reasonably well with a state visit by Queen Elizabeth to New Zealand and Australia. While the Comets never actually made it to Australia it wouldn't be too much of stretch for them to make this sort of trip in a VIP configuration...

It's been brought up ad infinitum that any real union of Britain with an Indian colony would have to amount to India swallowing Great Britain, but I don't recall that ever being explored in any serious way. Combine that with a fairly vague idea of Anglo/Indian relations before the 20th century...

How early could a Third World War realistically break out in Europe? I'm thinking that in 1945 there really isn't anyone willing to fight a war to it's conclusion (skirmishes could break out I grant, but I can't imagine much more than a few days of fighting followed by status quo, possibly with...

I'm wondering if there might be a way to arrange for Israel to keep the Sinai permanently, with the Egytian border more or less at the canal that also allows the canal to reopen more or less as OTL without creating WWIII in the process? Bonus points if Israel fully annexes the Sinai to the...

What are people's thoughts on the likely outcome should the Soviet Union land someone on the moon JUST before Apollo 11 without making any other particularly big changes. By this I mean a Soviet space program that is recognizably the same as ours, with more or less the same spacecraft facing...

http://alternatehistoryofthespaceage.blogspot.com/ The author of Beyond Apollo recently spun off his space age timeline(s) into its own blog with some definitely interesting results. I just thought people here might be interested in it.