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FYI, I made an ASB spin-off thread based on my US and Them map.

I'm really amazed. How can someone know so many little details about geography, like the fact that the US border is a straight line until it gets to a bump, or know the exact shape of Michigan, without knowing that the U.S. is a pretty big country. Okay, now I'm looking at it more and I'm...

I refuse to take credit for setting Texas at 4 the first time around. Uff, that's awful. It's so unfair for one state to dominate that much. I'm glad I live in the U. S. of A.

Thanks! That's exactly the kind of attention I was hoping for. I can only hope you're right. I don't like when things are so skewed to one state. It's not fair to the other states. I'm on my lunch break at work right now, so I don't have the numbers I used on hand. I know I used 7.5 billion for...

I saw a political cartoon over 10 years ago dividing the world into US and Them. I can't find the exact one, but below is a similar photo from an article on the topic in The Onion. I decided to make a map on a more peaceful premise. An alien space bat got tired of all the conflicts between US...

I guess I didn't give you context. Thanks for the compliment!

If anyone wants to help flesh out a list of U.S. presidents, here's a list of what we've established so far, organized by four-year term even if the president was replaced during that term. The color denotes the OTL party, blue for Republican and red for Democrat, orange for Whig, and black for...

Hey, thanks, Charlie! I had a lot of fun with the idea. I see I messed up, and I accidentally left a pink dot. That means there's also a rump Canada consisting of Kenora, Ontario. What an interesting turn of events that is for the world. A couple weeks ago, I found some writing I started for a...

I agree. I think the best understanding of it is that Newfoundland left Canada in 1949, so the order of events is: 1861: Some eastern provinces form the Maritime Confederation, and the Province of Canada (Quebec and Ontario) stays separate. 1869: Newfoundland joins the Maritime Confederation...

I'm thinking that now is a good time to post a timeline summary as a reference, since we are on page 5. 5 is a number that's easy to remember. If we make it to page 10, I'll post another summary then. I've listened to feedback, and made the summary more readable. Now there are fewer colors to...

In the twenty-second century, there was a greater enthusiasm for global cooperation. One by one, the nations of the world decided to join the burgeoning World State. When the U.S. Congress voted to dissolve the U.S., millions of Americans spoke up. A quote from the governor of Texas, "If the...

Thanks. It wasn't matching my artistic vision, but I decided to just submit it already rather than become an expert image editor. I promised I'd provide sources. Here they are The lion was taken from a photo of one of these mass-produced statues sold by Alibaba...

Yes, such a thing is undoubtedly necessary for protecting our national security and promoting American interests in a wide variety of thought experiments. Yes, this is a serious academic work, not some frivolous crossover fanfic. Notwithstanding the Twilight Zone characters I added to the...

A few new timeline entries on the history of time travel in this universe. If you're a new reader interested in the time travel storyline, check out these posts, which I think are the best in the thread: Post #21 where Einstein discovers an old secret in 1905 Post #30 by Brady Kj which is a...

Thanks. That matches this map of Minuteman sites as of 2014: http://www.npr.org/news/graphics/2014/07/map-icbm-missile-fields-inactive-624.png. I had no idea nuclear launch sites were distributed across large areas like that.

What are the big black splotches in western North Dakota, central Montana, and the intersection of Colorado/Wyoming/Nebraska? Are they oil fields, or uncertain missile silo locations? And if these areas are important enough to hit that hard in a 2000 warhead scenario, why are there no attacks...

That's really cool. Yes to weird theories of slavery, and yes to crazy psychic projects. One thing I like about the history of science is how some scientists took psychic powers seriously. Alan Turing thought that ESP could complicate the Turing test. In this timeline, it might not be off-base...

I'm not the best source of this. Hapsburg used to make a lot of uniforms with Nazi-era influence, and maybe he knows a source of later German uniforms. MovingTargeT has a series of future North American uniforms based on the current U.S. uniforms, but I don't know the source of any of those. I...

My last post came from the examples used in the Chrononauts patent. The patent shows a set of event cards, starting with Bob Oversleeps and ending with Bob Crippled in Car Crash. I decided to take a real Bob and make him a time travel researcher. Sorry for the delay. In September I had a...

Lab notebook number: 15 Assignee: Robert Heinlein Title: Research Engineer General Chrononautics, Inc. THIS BOOK IS NOT TO BE REMOVED FROM GENERAL CHRONONAUTICS PREMISES -------------------------------------------------- PAGE 172 DATE: Tue. Mar. 3, 1959 9:19 am Started...