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  1. Possible ways to keep Battlestar Galactica (1978) going for at least three years?

    Take all the ABC executives who ruined the show and send them to the island from Lost. Be kind, and eliminate the really weird shit going on. That should get you at least two seasons. Also help if Carter, Begin and Sadat didn't decide that the night of the big,massively promoted premier was...
  2. Was Hitler "that good" or just "that lucky" ?

    What. THE. F###? Hate the Jews because of the 1918 German Revolution? Lots Jews are in the Banking Business? Everyone was against the Nazis because of the two issues above and "money talks"? Wow. Just wow. You have two previous kicks for racism. Considering that, this is WAY past a kick...
  3. What if Japan continued its "hearts and minds" campaign it attempted pre-Sino War into WWII?

    It is truly appalling to see someone attempt to whitewash the war crime driven practices of Imperial Japan. As last as August of 1945 ten of thousands (some sources indicate 100,000+) of civilians in occupied territories were being killed by Japanese policies and brutality. You dared to tell...
  4. What if the falklands were American territory during the argentine invasion?

    All of which, except for Congress, would take around 72 hours.
  5. What if the falklands were American territory during the argentine invasion?

    Lot easier to consider taking on the U.S. when you had the USSR providing the nuclear weapons. You will notice, however, despite that support, the best Castro has been able to do in the last 50+ years is not cash the rent check the U.S. sends every year (a massive $4,085.00 annually in AMERICAN...
  6. What if the falklands were American territory during the argentine invasion?

    Thatcher was a true hard case. Reagan was the U.S. President at the time, and had a killer rep, but Thatcher made him look like a cub scout.
  7. Airborne Ebola Virus

    Possibly. Although the population of San Francisco is 21.4% ethnic Chinese (172,000+) and as a major Pacific Rim port/Silicon Valley anchor airport site has considerable contact with China (and a high number of immigrants). As I note, the reason has, to this date, proved to be elusive.
  8. Mehrzweckpanzer instead of Panther?

    Please don't drag in drama from elsewhere.
  9. Airborne Ebola Virus

    Measles is the real deal when you get to infectious diseases, of the "common infectious diseases it is pretty much in a class by itself. An R naught of 18 means every case can be expected to cause 18 new cases assuming 100% of the population is susceptible. This, of course, is very rare, and...
  10. Airborne Ebola Virus

    The problem with this sort of scenario is that the Basic Reproduction Number (aka R0) is never discussed, nor are the other changes that are needed to make the virus a reasonable infectious agent. The R0 of Ebola is 1.5-2.5 in its current form, that puts it at the low end of spread (influenza is...
  11. A southern victory

    There are any number of attempts. The problem with them is that the ground is so thoroughly plowed and pretty much every possible angle has been examined, in almost heartbreaking detail, that the obstacles simply can not be overcome. It is simply a math problem, and there is no way to avoid the...
  12. A southern victory

    Be gentle people. To the OP: You would be well advised to at least come up with a "How" the South won. Beyond avoiding arguments on that issue, or at least minimizing them, the manner of the victory will have massive impacts on the post war world. To use an extreme example: The Northern States...
  13. Japan doesn't go to war in 1941?

    This was the Final U.S. position aka: The Hull Note(it should be remembered that this was AFTER the U.S. had received Intel that the Japanese were adding force in Southern Indochina, prior to that the U.S. had be ready to present a much less harsh deal including oil for civilian use)...
  14. Mehrzweckpanzer instead of Panther?

    The lighter tank wouldn't be PERFECT. That was the basic issue. The standard was PERFECT. It was impossible, not just because of the obvious, but because they had a friggin' corporal with the attention span of a ferret trying to personally dictate design details.
  15. Mehrzweckpanzer instead of Panther?

    One thing I would question is the idea that this would result in the Reich rationalizing their production. Unlike their opponents, who would find a basic design they liked and ride it with continual improvements and sub variants, for years (resulting in versions like the P-47N, M4A6, Spitfire Mk...
  16. German (seaplane) carriers WWII

    Look like? Wreckage at the bottom of the Atlantic. If the KM wanted to do something like that the better idea would have come up with something like the IJN Tone class. They could carry 7 floatplanes.
  17. AHC/WI: Japan takes Ceylon

    Regarding Saipan, there is also the reality that the Japanese were limited by the South Seas Mandate which allowed them to govern the islands and the rest of the "Mandates" in what they could perform in the way of military preparation. The requirement was full demilitarization, and the League...
  18. different admiral class bc

    Hood was, by all accounts, slowly falling apart. Her condensers were pretty much shot so she couldn't make anywhere close to designed speed. The steam pipes throughout the ship were mainly held together by the coats of paint. She was such an impressive ship (she had the highest displacement of...
  19. AHC/WI: Japan takes Ceylon

    Yes I did miss the "not". As to how much the Capabilities exceeded the Japanese, both the invasion of the Philippines and the plan for Midway are useful guidelines. The Philippines invasion of Luzon was conducted by 14th Army (2 divisions), at a distance of roughly 250 miles from a series of...
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