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  1. SF: Firefly

    Good writing, good acting and production values. Originality didn't come thru so well but that was because the backstory was so hard to follow because of problem below. Called "counterprograming" and, while they claim it a standard marketing technique ,yeh, they DO want it to die. At the...
  2. What would the Germans do with a bomb in about March 1945?

    It's my opinion that Hitler would take it into the Bunker's above ground courtyard and then offer to surrender, but only to the highest ranking generals available, as a dramatic gesture it beats cyanide all hollow. Or he'd probably order Doenitz or Goering to do it, and plan to get away in...
  3. SF: Firefly

    That's what I can't feature about these assholes. Even when they have a hot property which makes money they STILL won't back it. I think it goes back to TV's Hollywood mentality which views the public with utter contempt. It just doesn't fit the model that quality can make money so it can't...
  4. April 1945 The Red Army rolls into Western Europe

    Also, Hitler is dead and Germany fallen. The Germans are under the Americans and the British. It is doubtful they would be given any more than Captain rank officers, if that much. Additionally, I doubt any of the execution squads would be among them (at least by design)
  5. DBWI: 'Zion' not a misserable flop

    ASB, purely and completely ASB. Absurd and preposterous. The Jews of all people, the one group that has been truly a globally based ethnicity, the most cosmopolitan people in the world, and they take great pride in this. A homeland?? the world is their home. It is the Jews who will one day show...
  6. Vaders

    So you read this crap stone sober? Do they make the pregnant women alien queens by implanting larvae in the fetuses that then hatch and eat them alive?.....been there, done that. Now if the mayor is making Knicks fans into hamburgers which he then sells at Knicks games, well, yes...
  7. Vaders

    So you read this crap stone sober? Do they make the pregnant women alien queens by implanting larvae in the fetuses that then hatch and eat them alive?.....been there, done that. Now if the mayor is making Knicks fans into hamburgers which he then sells at Knicks games.....
  8. April 1945 The Red Army rolls into Western Europe

    All of this is moot. In July of 45 the first Atom bombs would fall on Soviet Army positions, wherever they were. The Soviets would surrender in a week.
  9. WI the Alaska Panhandle becomes a state? (earlier than OTL)

    Can parks and preserves only be placed within states? My understanding is that the State of Alaska is generally pro exploitation, most opposition comes from the rest of America. I could be wrong on this but my point stands, the main opposition and promotion of Alaskan exploitation is from out...
  10. The C.S.A and its Jews

    Yeh, right, like we don't trade with the Saudis. Pariah/shania:D if you got it, you can sell it. Brazil, meh, much smaller economy and also a HUGE mulatto demographic. Nothing like it in American South. My general feeling is that w/o ACW we'd have slavery now. Up until 60's at least...
  11. What if the British asked that Alaska be secceded after the Crimean war?

    Soon, Swiss smash puny nations. The British had invaded Kamchatka in the Crimean war (anyone know anything more about that?) and 'threatened' Alaska. It was an ongoing thing to block Russian influence in the North Pacific and a major reason why Russia sold it to America. The Brits never...
  12. WI No American or French Revolution?

    WI the French King decides that while Franklin is a very nice guy they just don't have the money for another war with England. America gets no overt help from France in the ARW. As a result, France stays solvent and has money to put through necessary reforms, the French Revolution fails...
  13. Joseph Stalin: centenarian

    If Stalin had started the second holocaust he wanted to he might very well have been unseated by a combination of coup and foreign pressure. I envision him being 'kicked upstairs' as it were, with his position (was he Premier or what?) becoming sort of a ceremonial repository of sovereignity who...
  14. Brian Herbert sues George Lucas

    Sounds fairly peripheral to the main story. Spice and what it does are absolutely central to the whole plot of Dune and, in fact, the whole Dune universe, though only in the first book. I'm sorry, there's simply no case for plagiarism here, not unless everything written having even the...
  15. Colonization begins with Vikings, not Columbus

    The Indians did have one thing the Vikings were known to raid for, Indian maidens. Vikings were prolly the biggest slavers in Europe at the time and the Slavs (which is where we get slaves from, since the Vikings sold so many,) were also not exactly cultural leaders. True, it would be a long...
  16. Casting for 'The Peshawar Lancers'

    Russell Crowe as Athelstane King Johnny Depp as Ibrahim Khan Keira Knightley as Cassandra King Michelle Rodriguez as Yasmini Great movie, written very cinematically and we're well overdue for a Khyber/Indja tale. Has airships too.
  17. Colonization begins with Vikings, not Columbus

    My understanding is that the North Atlantic route, while shorter, was not the most used until early in the 20thc and this was mainly due to large steamships finally taking over fully then. Until that time the NA route was plagued with storms, fog and strong currents in the wrong direction on the...
  18. Brian Herbert sues George Lucas

    Me neither. Tattooine was a desert (the parts we saw of it) but that didn't make it unique in the Universe, as was Arrakis. Skywalker and Vader were both foretold in prophecys but who isn't. The Jedi were a society not a people like the Fremen. There are similarities but only broad ones. Most...
  19. POWs found in Vietnam or escape from Vietnam after 1973

    If anyone would enter into secret negotiations for hostages it would be Reagan. Does the name Ollie North ring any bells?
  20. POWs found in Vietnam or escape from Vietnam after 1973

    Those poor prisoners, held all this time and then sent into parallel realities where the Soviet Union still exists:p I hear it's getting harder and harder to keep the POW camps off the tourist routes:p Likes been said, can you come up with one reason WHY the Vietnamese or Russians would...
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