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Forgive me if this is ignorant, but the Habakkuk mockups that portray a ship of even remotely comparable scale to a conventially-built ship seem foolish. Ice is not nearly as buoyant as air is, the best illustration being how little of an iceberg sits above the surface. Wouldn't a ship built...

Wow, this really slipped away, to say the least. I've got a really full schedule lately, but I can't get this story out of my head. Would there be any interest in a reboot?

I don't remember them, and that's the point.

Damn, I wish I could remember what the hell direction I was taking this TL in. Moore seems to be alluding to some kind of major change in Sega's direction and I do not know what it was. And discussion of Halo is weird, since whether the XBox even exists in a world with a surviving Dreamcast is a...

I just watched a doc last night that pretty much said that the looming super-resistant bacteria crisis can probably be averted, but making new antibiotics isn't profitable so none of the big pharmaceutical companies do it anymore.

The obvious bullshit backwards-answer would be for Christianity to be eradicated from everywhere but the HRE. Perhaps a scenario where the HRE continues to include France and Italy, and Christianity never takes hold in Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, or the British isles; the Byzantines swiftly...

What on earth are you talking about? The electoral college decides the presidential election, period, and no SCOTUS would ever rule anything but unanimously this way. For the popular vote to be the determinant would require a constitutional amendment, which would be 9 kinds of impossible to...

It's pretty much impossible for the Shah to not fall eventually, since he was a foreign-installed universally-hated tyrant. Those tend not to have a super great life expectancy. :eek: For the US to keep him in power would require a far greater expenditure of resources (and potentially...

It's a 1979 POD, butterflies probably mean Kirk Cameron never gets cast in Growing Pains at all, let alone follows the life trajectory that leads him to becoming a fundie. Also planning to continue (not reboot) my Quebec sovereignty timeline at some point. Right now very busy with my YouTube...

I've never been super keen on celebrity politicians in TLs, to be honest. The reason I had that as Jodie Foster's fate in the original thread was that I felt it was solidly justified for her: she could campaign against gun violence as an ATL James Brady analogue, and her paralysis would derail...

Hi everybody. Some of you might remember I started a (:cool:Turledove nominated:cool:) TL a while back called Jesus Walks, it was about the Iranian Hostage Crisis going tits-up and turning into a massacre, which provokes a US invasion of Iran. It was pretty clear to everyone from the get-go...

Ah, I forgot to account for there being a lot of Lieutenant Generals at any given time, so the death of one isn't necessarily something I'd be casually aware of. Thanks! :)

Something just occurred to me: am I forgetting something, or would this make Chuck Beckwith the first American general killed in action since the Civil War?

Updates might be slightly more regular now, since I've been agonizing over how to do that chapter ever since Act 2 started. It was probably the biggest thing between me and just writing the damn story.

Chapter 24 Chapter 24: Drain You “One baby to another says - I'm lucky to have met you I don't care what you think Unless it is about me” --------------------------- October 15th, 1981: The convoy rumbled through the streets of Tehran, carrying its precious cargo. The streets...

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This is a definite, though understated possibility. While writing Jesus Walks, I had to come up with a reasonable justification for the Iranian government claiming some form of responsibility for a massacre, and I really couldn't. (It doesn't help that the government probably did not actually...

Sorry for the lack of updates, I've been busy with other things. Expect an update tomorrow. (Or, technically, later today, since it's after midnight where I am.)

Sorry for the delay in updates, I'm still kinda working out what order certain events will be presented in. The next update will very likely concern the start of negotiations. PS: Thoughts on Ireland being first to recognize Quebec? They have common ground as regional sovereignty movements...

Speaking as a Mennonite, we're not a very politically inclined bunch. Many Mennonite and Amish groups outright prohibit running for public office, though liberals groups do exist (such as mine). Vic Toews is probably the most powerful Mennonite in history, and I seriously doubt any of you have...