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Amerigo Vespucci maybe well respected, but there's a couple of things I completely disagree with in regards to Macksey's book: This is wrong for starters. If we're only talking 5 divisions of German troops, there's more than enough Allied units in the UK to stop them on the beaches -...

Imaginary ones ;) Macksey's scenario is very unrealistic. His problem is he keeps far too close to the OTL scenario, but holds it in July whilst the Battle for France is still being conducted! Goodness sakes. There's zero chance of the Germans being able to do both campaigns at the same time...

Clearly MrP is the best person to answer this question ;)

It already is. It's called Homo sapiens... ;)

We'd merely discover something else to screw the environment with...

The thing is in Australia, in realpolitik terms, there's little difference between the Legislative & the Executive. In fact any party, in order to form government (the Executive) here, has to be able to control the majority of seats in Parliament (the Legislature) first. So if One Nation did...

Cassville 1864 Johnston verse Grant for the West by David Atwell Introduction By 1864 the American Civil War had entered its third year. Events in the East had been dramatic, to say the least, and had henceforth dominated the headlines of newspapers across both...

Depends how many coincidences come along. For the Moon Landing conspiracy, well I just laugh as the proof is overwhelming that it took place. And that's despite the fact I remember seeing it happen live on glorious black & white TV. Nevertheless South Africa didn't have a Vannunu either...

I don't think you could get closer to nuclear destruction than the OTL Cuban Missile Crisis IMHO

Oh that's true as there's little skill involved other than slap n giggle as us Australians say. Still it's a spectacle which gets the crowds in. To be honest both bore me. Give me V8 Supercars anyday!

Yes, & it's another interesting clue. There are plenty of them around actually. ;)

Not that I disagree with any of this, but this still doesn't mean that any Australian program still wouldn't learn a signifcant amount of Bomb making information from the original British Bomb program which, in turn, could be used to make an Australian Bomb. Well we did get a breeder...

Actually it wouldn't be that hard to hide plutonium in Australia. After all most of it is desert, plus the northern third of South Australia is a Commonwealth restricted zone ;) There's nothing which the CSIRO couldn't do IMHO :cool:

Actually you've got Twenty20 these days which, although lacks in a number of cricketing skills, certainly makes up for it with all the action.

Actually I would have thought Golf far more sux as a spectator sport than women's tennis. Hell Golf even sux as a participant sport as I see no sence whatsoever in chasing a small ball around, what is essentially, a cow paddock whilst trying to get it into a small hole.

I can't see why that should mean we don't have nukes. After all nuclear science just doesn't stop because a country drops their designs for someone elses. One could equally argue that maybe they "dropped us like a hot spud" because they discovered we had our own Atomic program secretly running &...

Women's Tennis? :confused:

All true, although the JASSM, if memory serves, was developed from the SLAM which was originally meant to be nuclear capable ;) But I doubt there's been any refinement process that's taken place with the Australian arsenal. So we're talking a second or third generation design courtesy of the...

Oh nothing fancy I'd say. It'd be a plutonium based A Bomb, I'd dare say, thanks to the Lucas Heights reactor which is based on an early model British breeder reactor. Needless to say it'd be a Bomb which a Mirage III or, more to the point, an F-111 can carry without much hassle. So an early...

Say NO to a USA Cricket team! :eek: