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Highly debatable if Downfall would have occurred. Nimitz and King were opposed., and Op. Starvation was really doing the job. One of the better TLs on the subject on this forum put it aptly - sometime in early 1946, Japsn simply lays down and dies.

Next one was already on it's way to Tintian and was likely to have been used in late August - 19th-23rd. 12 more were in the pipeline for September and October, with production expected to be around one a week.

So, what becomes of Gatchaman/Battle of the Planets in this timeline?

It was a HR Giger project. The idea was kind of a cross between Blade Runner and Alien meets Train from Busan - a genetically engineered humanoid gets loose on a weird subway train in a future LA. https://www.inverse.com/article/6266-the-train-the-greatest-movie-ridley-scott-never-made...

Which reminds me - I hope the the whole business of the Millennium Falconmaking the Kessel Run "in less than twelve parsecs", and the stupid retcon, are butterflied. Going with the standard time units of the novelization would be better. Speaking of Jabba, please, please, please tell me that...

No Black Hole - no great loss, IMHO. :) Even as a kid, I realized it was a bad film.

Bump. No interest at all?

A friend who's not big into AH asked earlier today what might have happened had James Connolly not been executed in the immediate aftermath of the 1916 Easter Rising. (One of the suggestions was "32 county Republic Gaelic and free!", hence the reference to that in my reply.) My reply: It's...

The explanation was that he's German-American.

The planned film that never got made in the late 80s/early 90s had Schwarzenegger in the role. The other two considered were Stallone and Willis. Of the three, Schwarzenegger is best suited. And those screenplays (there were at least three different ones over roughly a decade) are better than...

A non-exhaustive assortment of films that get made in my pop culture utopia: Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Dune, complete with all the insanity planned, including design and SFX by H.R. Giger, Jean Giraud, and Dan O’Bannon , soundtrack by Pink Floyd, and starring Mick Jagger, Orson Wells, Salvador...

Heh - you've had several comments on how this TL would affect the childhoods of sone younger posters, so in that vein, a couple of questions about my own: Have the early Herbie films been butterflied? How about the Witch Mountain films? And The Apple Dumpling Gang?

Over the years, I've dropped off the boards a few times, to be drawn back in by a good story. This time it was this. :) One nit pik: the hole in the ozone layer wasn't observed until the mid-80s, so nobody would be asking the Beatles to reunite and play a benefit for an issue that isn't going...

Hence the suggestion of it being a White House expy... ;)

Heh - a Firdos Square (the infamous Saddam statue in Baghdad in 2003) style toppling would be pretty spectacular. Destructive, but spectacular. Maybe in an expy for the White House being shelled by tanks of the 2nd Guards Motor Rifle Division in a TL where the fall was bloodier...

Liquification was my first thought as well. I'm well familioar with it in Japan, where a great deal of urban land is reclaimed, especially in the greater Tokyo area. It was a big part of Peter Hadfield's 1995 book Sixty Seconds That Will Change the World, a examination of what will happen when...

Not true at all.

The suppy chain was just getting started. There wpuld have been a sufficient amount. Remember that the use of 6 atomic bombs was part of the plans for the Kyushu invasion.

As far as I can tell, it's not been a question of which ones *should* have been bombed, but rather which ones *would* have.

Yes.