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Same period as that Swedish train was tested they ran an ICE on the NEC.

I agree that given the North American market you are much more likely to the tradition automakers move into military production. Hell, aerospace by the car makers is more likely that the other way around. That said, I'd say that the best chance for it to happen actually isn't so much any...

Everything I've seen suggests that was was almost certainly the case.

Somehow I the idea of Mountbatten plotting a coup just makes me roll my eyes.

I must say that I'm finding an amusing parallel in the thinking here to the thinking at the time. 100 years on and the ideas being kicked around for breaking out of the trenches just don't change much and still seem to center on ideas for putting more artillery on target. I'd point out that...

And I have to agree that training had a lot to do with that. As has been said, the British Army as it existed was almost incomprehensibly inexperienced by today's standards, and was being asked to do the impossible. I'm not convinced that giving low level officers more authority was the...

It's been brought up ad infinitum that any real union of Britain with an Indian colony would have to amount to India swallowing Great Britain, but I don't recall that ever being explored in any serious way. Combine that with a fairly vague idea of Anglo/Indian relations before the 20th century...

Basically. Though I would be a bit more cautious both in determining the concept was solid that early, and that it wasn't workable by 1918. Certainly it was being discussed, but my understanding is that it wasn't taken especially seriously until after the Somme. Beyond that, I believe the...

My guess is not very. We'd have ship based seaplanes, but the concept of a dedicated for launching land based aircraft is really going to have to wait. Between all the folks who will enjoy pointing out how unproven aircraft are, the high cost and what I suspect will be a trend toward larger...

I agree that an American Canada means that the Ottawa canal gets built, but I would ultimately expect it to the this TLs equivelent to the seaway project, not built until the 20th century. As far the Seaway route itself, and the Welland, yes, they are both going to happen much sooner. I'd...

Successful Arab Federation in the 70s close enough? And why is this thread making me gag?

Anything plausible to be handed off in that list would be more likely to end up Australian. It's the Caribean that the British had ideas of Canada grabbing colonies in, but that probably would be more connected to a successful West Indies Federation than WWI.

One of which is made infinitely more likely when you are communicating real time with text, a medium that was realistically never used, let alone intended for, until the last few decades.

I tend to agree. The rise of realtime text based communication clearly will have an impact on the language, and things like extra punctuation that clarifies intent when deep context is lacking seem pretty likely.

They'll be making contact with someone pretty soon after warp no matter what. So far as I can tell the Star Trek universe is REALLY densely populated. Frankly it's a bit odd that whatever the Vulcan's called their proto prime directive was never violated by anyone else given what we've seen of...

Let me start out by apologizing for this. I started off thinking this would be a quick post, but five years of planning school and the late hour kicked and, and well… You can see the wall of text below. I want to get this posted so I can get a night’s sleep without it churning in my head, but...

Not sure what was so idiotic about it. No, the speeds weren’t all that high, but it was essentially a short minimum operable segment to demonstrate the concept, and realistically the distances in Florida don’t need extraordinary speed. Moreover it most definitely wasn't rejected by the voters...

You've also got to realize that whatever numbers you come up with the AR 234 is a distinctly mediocre bomber. Better than a 262 yes, but ultimately carrying a rather light payload that it needed to place itself in a vulnerable low altitude low speed position to use effectively. It was as a...

I tend to think it wouldn't particularly accelerate the Shenzhou program, which would make their participation interesting but not all that significant.

Shenzhou has already demonstrated unmanned docking capability, so at this point Chinese supply is down to stripping whatever they can for increased payload.