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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...

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...

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

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...

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...

the legalised, institutionalised, rule of fear a system in which those rule that are able to cause the most fear in some way this can be a organic progression of one of the basic foundations of civilization - extortion and pacification trough threat and terror but this would go beyond simple...

so in an alternate WWI Central powers are victorious, most of Belgium is annexed and hundreds of thousands of Belgians, including most of the military command, the royal family, etc, flee to parts of Congo still under Belgian control what could be expected? and how would history remember the...

in OT the Mongol invasion of Japan failed mainly due to bad weather, later known as the Kamikaze, the divine wind so what if no divine wind? and more generally, WI the Mongols take Japan?

with any number of PODs after 1900 get the Soviet Union to become as close as possible to a socialist/technocratic dictatorship obviously it still keeps practically all communist and socialist ideas, but the idea is that from the beginning the revolutionary movement is more progressive and...

WI the ecology and enviromentalism movements fail before the end of the 1970is, and all their OTL achievements are lost?

Christianised Culture, Not Religion how could the folowing come about and how would it affect Europe? Christianity spreads more or less as it did in OTL maybe Dioclecian is a bit more eficient in his eforts and that slows them down a bit then in 313 christianity becomes official but the...

around the peak of his fame, Dan Brown is attacked and stabbed by an angry art historian wielding a kichen knife sayd historian is a controversial figure known for his atheist worldview and emfasis on historical fact on Dan Browns chest, with a smaller knife he stabes fixed a paper with an...

the phenomenom of capable and averagely inteligent midlle class women, most which even had all oportunityes to get an education and find a decent job, chosing to stay home and be housewifes is probbably one of the most endemic aspects of American culture, rarely seen in any other part of the...

now is 9th month of the year 2008, more than 46 years after the megalomanaical superpowers reclesly anhialated themselves in all out nuclear war, may the bastards be cursed forewer by all who draw breath let this be a place to gather all the stories of us whos parents survived the war, of all...

most of this map is not realy finished, and manny borders are a bit arbitrary but the general configuration is there the point of the map is not to be acurate but to discuss plausability and possible further development the idea is that in 1918/1919 WW1 ends in Central Powers wictory France...

althou i think theid give it a diferent name, like Dymaxionism anyway if you dont know about him just google Buckminster Fuller or klick here; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller lets say it becomes a relatively large movement, some tens of thousands of folovers, more or less...

The chalenge is this; with any number of PODs after 1492 make a plausable state, wich is maintained at least till WW1., in wich coexist parlimentary democracy, split into an aristocratic faction, possibly the remains of a monarchy, oposed to a strong populist political faction made up mostly of...

there was certanly enough contact betveen India, Bactria and other helenised states for this not to be unprobbable by west i mean the general region of the mediterran and the balkans the idea is that it spreads ower between the 3. century BC and 1. century AD rooting itself mostly in...

a TL in wich the historicall territory of the Holy Roman Empire is up to this day divided into five(or more) nation states, with a long and intimate history of wars, political schemes, territorial pretensions, generation long grudges, bloody interreligious conflicts, nationalistic rezimes...

WWI goes badly for the Antante, it could be a draw, but moraly and economically it feels as a defeat France even looses some territory, probbably in the alzase-loraine region, althou these are minor loses of border towns and vilages, in last minute compromises, but are inflated by the press...