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Actually, the best cabs I've ever seen and used are the classic black London Taxi cabs. They're huge and roomy inside and can comfortably accommodate people and baggage in the cabin for airport runs, and there are extra, fold-down seats so that people can face each other. They're easy to enter...

I grew up in the Fort Wayne area, so to see a thread on it piques my interest. If Fort Wayne were Indiana's largest city, would its airport be much busier and larger (and maybe even have a European flight or two, like the current Indianapolis airport has)? Would the proposed highways through...

That's right. I am a scientific researcher myself, and we have to be careful not to make any claims or conclusions without the data or evidence to back them up. If they are preliminary results or there's not enough to make a conclusion from, we say so.

The Russians once had their own proposal for a superjumbo jet that may well have dwarfed the Airbus A380. Sukhoi KR-860, double decker, with built-in escalators. Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_KR-860

Don't forget the proposal by Thomas Wilson in 1820 for a "Metropolitan Sepulchre" (aka Pyramid of Death), a giant 950-foot, 94-storey brick pyramidal mausoleum in London, with a capacity for five million bodies. https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2016/08/06/unbuilt-london-the-pyramid-of-death/

We might see more modern pyramidal architecture, perhaps, such as more Luxor style hotels and other buildings.

Who wrote Swan Song? There are multiple books with that title on Amazon, so I want to find the right one.

I was 8 in 1983, living in Garrett, a small railroad-yard town north of Fort Wayne, Indiana. Fort Wayne was a nuclear target. I don't know how many warheads or what yield/warhead were assigned to Fort Wayne, or whether surrounding towns would also be hit (such as the aformentioned railroad-yard...

Actually 3 decades ago ;) At the time, in the early 1980s, I was in early elementary school. I remember watching this on TV that long ago, and have re-watched the miniseries, the TV series, and The Final Battle. I have V: The Miniseries and The Final Battle together in a combined box set on...

A Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Angel One", features a long-standing matriarchical government on a planet, a society whose males are second class/subservient to the females.

My old hometown, Fort Wayne, is the second largest city in Indiana. Its population is around 250,000 (and MSA about 400,000), second only to Indianapolis' 1 million urban population. What could have made Fort Wayne a significantly larger city? Would the downtown expressway (proposed in the...

Were they targeting them to blow up mid-Atlantic, or closer to their destination cities (eg, on approach)?

In August 2006, there was a plot to use liquid-fuelled bombs carried aboard flights bound from London-Heathrow to multiple US and Canadian gateways to blow them up in midair. IOTL, these terrorists were caught by British authorities just before they launched their plan. What if they hadn't been...

Would Fort Wayne (Indiana) have become a commuter suburb of a significantly enlarged Chicago?

I briefly mentioned the possibility of a longer life for the ocean liner as transportation in the thread about a delayed jet age; I asked whether the delay of the start of the jet age (meaning no commercial jet air travel until a later time). What could keep the ocean liner longer in service as...

With the delay in starting the jet age (ie, jet airliners appear later than they did OTL), might the ocean liner have kept going longer as the main means of transoceanic travel?

Macaroni & cheese chain? Macaroni and cheese is finally getting the respect it deserves in restaurants; more and more of them are serving gourmet mac & cheese entrees with increasing variation in style. There are even restaurants in the USA devoted strictly to mac & cheese (and some even...

This past Saturday, at an antique mall in Aurora, CO, I picked up a Rawlings official 1994 World Series baseball--an official baseball produced for a World Series that never happened IOTL due to the 1994 MLB strike that truncated the season. Or, maybe, just maybe, someone came back with this...

Soviet airliners in US carrier colours? Regarding the Soviet airliners painted in US airlines' colours: How did US carriers get these aircraft? Were they war prizes, or part of Soviet war reparations required to be paid to the US? Or how else did Soviet/Russian aircraft manufacturers get...

In 1961, the Soviets tested the world's biggest H-Bomb, "Tsar Bomba" (King of Bombs), at 50 (or was it 57) megatons (MT). Its blast sent shockwaves around the world 3 times. The bomb was originally designed and built for 100MT, but a lead tamper was substituted for the last stage uranium...