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Neither seem like bad ideas to me; wasn't the pay-regulation amendment finally passed in the 1990s, though? With drastically more members in Congress we could see an increase in voter participation, as the candidates would be better known to the samller groups. Maybe another effect would be...

At this point, isn't Murat already King of Naples? Everyone seems to be thinkign that the Revolutionary Wars would end the same way they did OTL without Napoleon. As I recall, the Directory was quite happy with keeping the war going (dispite its growing unpopularity in France), as it made...

Atlantis? Thule?

As I recall, Revolutionary France DID have everyone fighting them. Every nation that Napoleon fought, Revolutionary France fought; in fact, Revolutionary France fought more nations than Napoleon, as by the time he came around, many smaller nations had been annexed or pacified to France.

If Louis had had an inch of spine within him, he could have taken the helm of the Estates-General and positioned hismelf as the protector of the Third Estate's rights, and gone down forever as France's most loved king, with the Bourbon's surviving today. Or not have him remove the privilege...

I heard that Aline 3 and Alien: Resurrection were both originally going to deal with aliens on Earth, but they decided to change it. I also heard that Alien 5 will be on Earth, but I will probably not go see it, if it ever gets made...

He (actually, it wasn't him the sub, it was a Colonial Army sergeant named Ezra Lee) tried to bomb only one ship, the HMS Eagle IIRC. It's theorized that the reason it didn't work was that Lee tried to plant the bomb on a brass rivet, and the wooden drill didn't function. Thus, it is completely...

Perhaps as part of the UN. The Allies might want it to help with the Marshall Plan/decolonization, and the Communists would want it to maintain unity in COMECON.

I'm trying to save up for a trip to Tsiolkovskygrad. I've always wanted to visit the Moon, although I've always wondered what would have happened if the Americans had won the space race...

Xenomorphs on Earth? Game over, man! Game over!

Then...someone else became emperor? I find it hard to believe that history would repeat itself so finely with another, presumably less-ambitious general leading France. He probably would have just contented himself with keeping the Consulate government.

I've heard about this...any good? I enjoyed their last collaboration together (The Light of Other Days).

Are these 'Imperial Wars' the same thign as OTL's Revolutionary Wars? If so, why not just call them that?

You didn't like "Mote"? Why not? I thought it was one of his better works, even though it was set in another person's universe.

Just a thought: Since they're antagonized by the Pope, why not have the (or at least, a) Reformation start there? Or even just split from the Catholic Church, a la Eastern Orthodoxy...maybe an African Orthodox Church?

How is it that Napoleon is Spanish?

The point of a democracy, even one so undemocratic as the United States, is that every citizen, no matter what, gets a vote. If criminals and the poor and others aren't allowed to vote, then that pretty much removes democracy. However, maybe there should be a mandatory IQ test ofr lawmakers...

SDI gets called...Battlestar Galactica?

A short story from my favorite SF author, Larry Niven. Basically, William Proxmire, in an effort to slash the space program for good, uses a time machine to go back in time and cure Robert Heinlein of his pneumonia while he's still in the Navy (figuring, without him writing sci-fi, most NASA...

Would there even be an Amidala and Obi-wan in such a prequel? My thoughts on this: Remember in A New Hope, when Obi-wan tells Luke that 'when I first met your father, he was the best starpilot in the Galaxy,' or somethign like that? Before Episode I, I always took that to mean that they met...