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at some point in the early 1990is, some obscure radical group sums up enough resources to set up a platform in the middle of international waters, say in the south Atlantic, somewhere half way between Africa and South America, and surrounds it with old cargo ships converted to floating...

this would make sence, there were such plans, the catholic church was supposed to send delegations to the Khan and Venice also considered diplomatic relations, all aimed at some kind of alliance against the Arabs, in the context of the crusades, but most of it failed due to lack of European...

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is it plausible that the Bolsheviks lose more ground during 1918 making one or more "white" governments possible, but that the whole "white" movement collapses into another series of civil wars, with both the Bolsheviks and the various blue and green armies playing a role, ending up with a...

Most of these What Ifs grow out of each other as you will see #1; what is in OTL known as the Left Opposition rises to power in the 1920is, Trotsky becomes the most powerful person in the Soviet Union Preobrazhensky becomes one of the people most responsible for economic development Economy and...

all you need is a society whose economy needs concentrated mass use of horsepower, but whose technological level does not allow the development of efficient engines with enough power, so animal power is used instead just change the socioeconomic reality of pre-industrial Europe, a more developed...

no one? its not like uninteresting stuff, its an state sized electronic "inter-network" by 1975 easy, total planed economy, plans of direct participation of voters trough the cyberfolk project my idea is this works, relatively, obviously not all would be ideal, and problems would arise, but as...

what i find strange is how little used are ideology and psychology, in making ATL ideology especially so much obviously depends on the particular form an ideology takes, the segments of the population it presents or draws support from, the class system it proposes or does not propose, its...

if a state or whatever similar entity has 800 million people it can be assumed it can sustain around 7-800 million people, even if a few million are starving, in the end itl have as many people as it can feed, especially if its a totalitarism, which has no problems with population control...

WI a viable system of direct cybernetic management, was applied to the planned economy of the 1970is USSR? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersyn something like this

wouldnt Ukranian independence movements, both leftist and nationalistic, have to play a big part in this? they did fight for indipendence, against the whites in OTL, and the reds, and the germans, and each other, or at least thats how i got it, i might be wrong the hetmanate was allyed, from...

but all 6. are valid points, people really do neglect a huge load of what constitutes the totality of reality when making conclusions about history its just that any which way you approach t you cant avoid simplification, you simply dont have enough facts

http://www.cybersyn.cl/ingles/cybersyn/index.html http://www.cybersyn.cl/ingles/cybersyn/index.html heres another link or two, covers things better

Pinochet does not do the coup, or at least the coup is postponed a few years i dont know if this is ASB, but thats not the issue the question is what could have been the future of project Cybersyn, had it been aloved to operate a few years at full capacity? ramifications...

obviously yes, in fact you could almoust say the many battles and wars are in fact by-products of the rest, sometimes even tips of the iceberg in a way, or critical moments of system overload and crash but it is simpler for people to concentrate on the obvious and supposedly familiar, all the...

it would generally seem many people, not all, regard history as a succession of battles, wars and political parties, with a tendency to just gloss over the rest, unless theres some smart and witty way to use some obscure subcultural fact or indirectly related technical development to somehow...

this is kind of what the original post was about i know attempting to dictate the direction of information exchange in a place like this is a bit of a paradox, but this is kind of the direction i intended the discussion to take, perhaps i should of formulated the original post question...

yes great some people would smoke more, most people probably wouldnt but what about the car industry? furniture too hemp can be processed into something that comes fairly close to fiberglass, can have any number of applications, but is completely recyclable apparently car chassis made from this...

i was thinking more on the lines of alternative car prices and effect on steel industry, industrial production of paper, that kind of thing, but hydroponics is good

Cannabis is legal, in all the western world, and beyond, regardless of THC content use as recreational drug is sanctioned to some extent, but not drastically in many places it is grown industrially, and all kinds of things are made from it, tea, bags, teabags, shoes, cloth, string, not...