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This weird thought came to me last night.Bare with me for a moment... Has anyone ever read the Amtrak Wars? Its a post-apocolyptic sci-fi series. The general plot of the books isn't important here but there is one occasion where the lead character meets the president of a big underground...

I've just been reading a paper on historic Japanese knowledge of geography and it really jogged my mind on some interesting points. Before Japan closed itself off to the world it was doing pretty well in modernising, too well even, hence the reason for its closure. It was sending ambassadors to...

What if Japan won the battle of Khalkhin Gol and the Soviet-Japanese border wars continued? What if they developed into a full scale war? The implications here are fairly interesting, the Soviets really have their attention stuck in the east against a major power so no Winter War seems...

This is one which I can't recall having seen for a while but has the potential to be pretty major. What if Russia won the said war? The effects could be pretty large, Russia gains hegenomy over Korea rather than Japan leaving Japan stuck on its island and expansion into China quite a bit...

Our civilization seems to have a thing about people who die in their prime...They never grow old and wither away, they remain eternally at their peak. There are loads of such people to think about it. Here are some obvious ones which I can come up with with the minimum of thought. WI they did...

Because of a little ASB TL I'm working with now I'm reading up a lot on the history of science. One thing which is standing out to me with this is: Wow....we were sure late with electricity weren't we? IOTL electricity was never really harnessed until well into the industrial revolution...which...

A bit of a different one here, and I'm afraid to non-Brits it might be rather 'WTF?' We all know and hate Sky, led by the evil overlord Rubert Murdoch they throw around huge sums of money to dominate the TV market. bSkyb has not always been the scary big behemoth they are today though, they...

I recently rediscovered strange maps having thought the site lost. Amongst what I caught up on was this post: http://bigthink.com/ideas/20991 And in particular This led me to read up on the annexation of Savoy into France and...well. Its not pretty. A vote was held to decide whether Savoy...

A little challenge- how do we make the best UK possible starting from after WW2? Assume WW2 goes completely as per OTL however as soon as the war is over changes can start being made. The post war period...was quite a horrible time. It started nice and bright with the formation of the NHS...

The most often forgotten parts of the Napoleonic Wars were the happenings in Scandinavia (well....outside Scandinavia at least). In 1808 French alligned Russia invaded Britain friendly Sweden and conquered Finland. Though we may look at later times and think Sweden never stood any chance in...

I was reading in the paper the other day about the South American Union planning some sort of united currency in the next few decades which really got me thinking; what if there were a European Union? Some sort of economic and political union between the countries of Europe much as the Latins...

<Many of us really hate the one-upmanship RPathons that DBs are. FBs are amongst the worst. So an idea comes to me; a real DBWI is speaking of OTL from the POV of another time line where something went different. So a real FBWI? Clearly the usual sort of fun of predicting the future from the POV...

This is in before 1900 but if you can have the communists or someone in the 20th century doing it then even better! How can we best have the Chinese deciding to adopt a real alphabet? (or a syllabary if you must) Its often said that its very hard to learn Chinese even for the Chinese...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_Germanic Ouch, yes, one of those threads based off something someone randomly foudn in wikipedia. But bare with me. But notice the map. Mainland Denmark is dominated by people more similar to the Frisians and English than to modern Scandinavians. So...

IOTL that the eastern block fell and the PRC soldiered on is considered quite a surprising turn of events. Looking from 1989 it seemed that China was by far the most likely place to undergo a democratic (or at least anti-regime) revolution. So...how could we get the 'Tiananmen Square'...

During WW2 there were some pretty nasty plans floating about as to what to do with Germany after the war. IOTL the east/west partition and the huge losses in the east though harsh wasn't the worst it could have been. What if- another option was taken? The original Morgenthau Plan was rather...

Yes, this is ASB. But its a very serious, 'hard' ASB so it'd being posted here. As we all know the moon takes 28 days to orbit the earth and it also takes 28 days to rotate itself hence we on earth always see the same side of the moon (note to the nitpickers- I know its not exactly this)...

We don't get the Vietnam war too much I've noticed, which is odd. So a WI I've thought of; WI at the height of the war following the north's constant interferance and support for the viet-minh it is decided to take the fight to the north? Now. Of course this isn't a quick solution to the...

Another perspective on my 'England wins' the HYW TL as I planned to do ages ago but never got around to. Its still rather bare and needs fleshing out but I figure I should post it in this stage anyway just to see what people think. -Zaragoza, 12th July 1453- “…so then he said, a horse...

Yeah, its not AH but it does make for a good ASB scenario doesn't it? What does everyone make of this programme? The first few episodes I felt to be a rather lame, crappy twilight rip off and the accents just couldn't be took seriously but...it grew on me. I love it now. And what of the...