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Does anyone know of any books or stories in any media where computers and medieval weaponry coexist?? I'm thinking of something where everyone uses swords, shields and bows but also have laptops, PDA and satellite navigation to help aim the trebuchet. Anyone ever see anything like that??

Do you tend to like such fiction? Why or Why not?

I've just seen the Budweiser Clydesdales and it got me thinking. Could a horse be made the size of an elephant? In fact, ARE the BC the size of elephants? They looked really BIG to me. Could it be done, plausibly? or is there a square/cube thing, or something else. (Horses are funny...

How and why could silk replace cotton in the South as its main crop? What would be the effects if it did? Would we still have slavery and the ACW, (and how well would the rebels dress?:p )

WI cotton had never evolved on the the earth?

WI there is no civil war and slavery remains in force in the US? Would there have been a revolt by now? Might it have gone the other way and spread into the other races through criminal sentences and debt servitude? How much would the rest of the world condemn the US, or would they? I think...

Is there any way in which the Tokugawa might have kept Japan isolated but remained up to date in certain aspects? The first one I'm thinking of is military but medical and agricultural might be useful also. Is this possible, if so, how, and what would it's effect be?

One of my favorite fantasies, I mean, just think, your own goddam COUNTRY, and a rich one to boot. Me, I'dve just laid back in my Palaces and chilled big time. I'd NEVER have invaded Kuwait, who needs more oil anyway? I'd sell oil for petrochemicals only, mostly, but I'd keep big reserves...

AFAIK Hitler's greatest successes were diplomatic. Militarily, he had good generals. WI he had decided to capitalize on his strengths? How much could he have accomplished through patience and diplomacy, or would it have even saved him at all?

As our much beloved airships show, not all ideas in aviation have been pursued with equal fervor. Let's say that one was the Aircraft Carrier, tried but universally dropped from most militaries after the Collingworth disaster in 1922, where 30 planes crashed into the deck on one windy afternoon...

WI the Aristarchus estimate of the World's diameter (25000 miles and correct) was the universally accepted one at the time of Columbus. The great navigating powers therefore conclude it's 12000 sea miles to China and impossible, (that would be a hard trip today) So they decide to strike east...

WI Peter the Great becomes disillusioned with his plans to turn Russia to the West at the same time he realizes that if you stay very far North you get to Norht Am in just a few thousand miles, over a land route he owns instead of many more miles over a British sea. He hooks up with the...

(thanks for the inspiration) WI there was a secret branch of the military composed of actual wizards using real magic? What part of the military would they be under? how would they be controlled? what special problems might they have, or cause, etc? My understanding is that the Russians...

The Swiss surmise, (or are advised/warned by someone) that after WWII they may face reprisals for being a safe haven for Nazi loot. Once they see that the war is lost for the Germans they abandon neutrality and join the Allies. How does this affect the war and aftermath. (I've left the date...

If there had been no Fourth Crusade might Constantinople had lived on in 1453? My understanding is it was a shadow of its former self, yet still gave a good accounting. How much stronger if it had never been invaded in 1204? Oh, and is there a Renaissance in Europe? (Details, details.)

Legend says he narrowly escaped being killed here. What if he had? Would one of his generals continue the invasion, or would the Greeks withdraw? What would be the consequence of a surviving Persia?

America sits it out. The Japanese never attack Pearl Harbor and Roosevelt is unable to overcome the isolationists without it. Also Hitler never declares war on America.

That's it, in 1996 the courts force Microsoft to make Window's (but not other MS programs) entire code public domain. What happens to MS, the software industry, the data and computer industries, the world?

How could Russia win the Crimean War? And I mean WIN it, with Cossacks in Piccadilly. I know its impossible but I don't care. History is full of strange things, just look at WWII. Without ASB's, how could it happen? I'm thinking some sort of fundamental alliance shift, maybe either France...

I believe this has been done before, and if it has been explored thoroughly I would apologize and ask to be directed to it. If, however, you wish to use this thread then what would happen. Would it start with Eisenhower's third term? And what would be butterflied out of existence as time went on?