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Won't you have to use the same system to slow down at the end of your voyage? Does that mean flying through clouds of radioactive particles, etc?

Bounce the History/Science/NatGeo/Animal Planet channels out of basic cable hell and into the Premium Package pricing stratosphere. More money for mo' better programming. If they try to slide down into the Honey BooBoo gutter to cut costs/increase their profits, it's easy for the cable...

First, have the Japanese still lost the Battles of the Coral Sea & Midway? The defeats there meant calling off the invasions of Fiji, Samoa and the New Hebrides. Wouldn't they then consider their efforts to take New Guinea as nearly vital to their control of the southern Pacific area for a...

Why wouldn't there be a Indian Buffer State along the St.Lawrence River instead of the Great Lakes? I can't see the Americans giving up all the resources that are located there for the sake of a peace treaty. An Indian DMZ from Detroit to the east makes more sense, assuming that the Crown can...

It amazing that you're all missing the obvious suspect. Jackie did it! She's known about JFK's trysts for years and decided to pay him back for his betrayal of her. She uses her connections in the government and the wealthy elite to find and recruit a pliable stooge like Oswald that she can...

The only person I felt sorry for was Alicia Silverstone, cast as Rose, the female lead. How Cameron expected a Jewish girl from California to play an upper-class uptight East Coast WASP convincingly is beyond me. With Cage demanding more and more re-writes on the set to give his character...

I think that you're dismissing FDR's attitude against Hitler or his political will in making policy to support Germany's enemies either overtly or covertly too quickly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FDR#Foreign_policy.2C_1937.E2.80.931941 He's clearly positioning the American military for war...

Does anyone know the actual legalities of conceding an election and then retracting that concession? :confused:

If railroads are developed then look for a huge rail network being built on both sides for transport of raw materials to production centers and ship traffic dropping to zero. The Great Lakes are just enclosed bodies of water that are easily bypassed with these railroads. Who wants to chance...

My Dear Sirs, Never in life have mine eyes beheld such blasphemy! The technologic contrapsuns so described are the works of the imps and demons of Hades, not of the godly! Beware, lest I dispatch a Warning to the Holy Inquisition in Paris! Tho, mayhap a stretch on the rack with the cleansing...

Come back to this topic in ten years. You may wax nostalgic about missing the good ol' days of "Honey BooBoo" compared to what is being made now. :eek: . In fact, I'd bet money on it. :mad:

I guessing that you'll do something about Gore's concession phone call to Bush in the last hours of election day and then his retraction of it? Now that would be interesting! :D

Beware! This insidious hive-mind nation-state is already well established and growing steadily - obviously intending to conquer the world!! If your country falls to them don't say I didn't warn you!!:eek: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Republic

How could anyone have forgotten this one? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Fenwick For shame! :D

...and bring back the Armored Infantry! :cool:

Here's something else to consider. :eek::eek: Winter :eek::eek:. In the colder years the lakes freeze over completely and in milder times there is an ice covering from the shoreline out to X miles. Certainly enough to help close up those chokepoints I mentioned before.The ice should really...

As much fun as this thread sounds, the sad truth is that the Great Lakes are a series of easily defended chokepoints along it's entire length. No navy is moving from lake to lake unless the opposite side of Canada or the US Great Lake is occupied by the enemy...

I wish that everyone would quit saying , "If only Reagan isn't or Humphrey is elected". Politicians are just greasy, opportunistic weasels, willing and able to grab at anything that they think will give them an edge for the next election. Haven't any of you been watching "Boardwalk Empire"...

Unless you've got voodoo dolls of Hitler, Goering and all the rest ready to bend to your will, this sounds almost ASB. So many of the nazi's problems were caused by self-inflicted stupidity and sheer ignorance that is hard to believe to have actually happened. I can't imagine that the British...

A very minor quibble to this excellent timeline, 100,000 rounds works out to less than 100 rounds per rifle supplied. I wouldn't like to fight a war with just 100 rounds in my pocket. :eek: