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Well, it's much, much easier to flyby Mars than to land. We're talking entirely different levels of technology here. With a Mars flyby, it's essentially just knocking a space station into a new orbit: one that loops around the sun, intersects Mars and then comes sweeping back towards Earth...

Sorry I've let this die, but I'm really interested in this. This will probably be, once I've completely rewritten Part 3 of The Lunar Dream, the basis for my new TL. Well, yes. But there's very little practical use to putting a space station at L5 unless it's a huge space station, like...

Very interesting idea for a TL, and one I'd never even heard of before...you are going to continue this, right? So, how do the European Union and Arab League get drawn in? If the EU does nothing, it could do serious damage to their relations with Spain, which could potentially jeopardise the...

Well, they are connected, you know. You can hardly hold together a world state for a susbtantial period without bureaucracy beyond that ever known by the world before. Just arranging the merest aspects of government beyond the superficial (as in, a UN role) would require a degree of competence...

Jeff Bell would bash puppies and sunlight if you could attach NASA logos to their fur/photons.

One of the things I love about Russian space technology is how uniform and yet versatile it is. You've got the Soyuz and Salyut module designs, each dating back 45 and 35 years respectively, and yet both are still in use today (Salyut in the ISS, and Soyuz to get there). With an infinitely...

David bar Elias, have I told you that I love you, and would love to feast upon your sweet, ever-so-productive brains to gain even an ounce of your TL-making abilities?

Ah, yes, but Lincoln was...Lincoln.

The House of Representatives has been been very slim pickings for presidential fodder. Of the 43 presidents, only one--James Garfield--has become president directly from the House of Reps, without having held a more senior office, and even then he was a war hero. So how could more members of...

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I bet nineteen posts, you fascist imperialist. :D Or is that cheating?

The Senate was appointed by the censor, a position generally held by the Emperor, but during the Republic an elected magistracy held by former consuls. There was generally a de facto consensus on who would be appointed--the most powerful and influential men in Rome, with no actual public say...

Hey, that's what we were aiming for. Remember the Coalition Provisional Authority? They implemented US-style financial disclosure laws for political parties. Meanwhile, Baghdad burned. What aspects of Bosnia in particular would you be looking for, though? Would a full-scale Dayton Accord-style...

With a POD of no later than September 11, 2001, make the multinational liberation/invasion/conquest/salvation (I'm very big on balance) of Iraq result in: A non-sectarian multiparty democracy; A safe, relatively harmonious Iraq; A defeated or non-existent insurgency; A degree of economic...

I always include Prime Minister Joh Bjelke-Peterson. Well, except in The Lunar Dream, but that would just be silly. In my first TL, Province of Darwin, I included it just to show how dystopic Australia had become. In The Legacy Continues, I included it even though it was almost impossible due...

Nice ideas. I've always been fascinated by Wilkie; as the only major-party presidential nominee, that I know of, to have never held elected or executive office or to have been a war hero, how he would have governed is much more of a question mark than for most others. He's a real dark horse in...

Presuming that slanderous rumours about Zachary Taylor's conveniently timed death are, of course, just slanderous rumours... ...which they probably are. But I see what you mean.

Actually, the KKK's membership peaked in 1924, and by 1930 was more or less defunct (thanks, to a degree, to the enduring awfulness of David Stephenson).

It requires a whole bunch of PODs. No Eagleton thing. Absolutely not. He needs a charismatic moderate who can win swing states. Teddy Kennedy is probably still suffering the aftershocks of Chappaquiddick. Kevin White, the mayor of Boston, seems reasonable. Hell needs to rain down on the Nixon...

Good point. I'm Australian, so I have the same thing. They only changed it for the 2000 election: before that, networks used the colours inconsistently. I used an older map. Heh. It's good to have a British perspective. I too knew almost nothing about Perot (except from The Simpsons; 'Well...