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  1. WI First World Ebola Outbreak

    Ebola also is NOT all that easy to catch. You need direct contact with the infected bodily fluids and more than just casual contact. It would be all over the media & scare the #$@^ out of people for a few days, until the next media event came along, but that would be it. BTW: No reason it...
  2. WI "Grunge" music scene never develops

    Hmmm... No Grunge = No Seattle Scene No Seattle Scene = No Coffee House rebirth So.... No Grunge = No STARBUCKS, No Peete's Coffee, no $5.00 Cup of coffee Just think of all the extra disposable income available to buy industrial output. GM might have never stopped making a profit. The...
  3. Red storm rising

    To build on the Bond comment, Larry actually wrote much of the actual combat scenes (at least that was the statement way back when, what the story is today is anybody's guess). If you read other Bond novels, his style is pretty clear in RSR's battle sequences while the same can be said for the...
  4. Red storm rising

    Second book actually. He published Hunt for Red October first, starting, effectively, the entire techno-thriller gerne as we know it. As noted the USSR never attacked the Middle East. Ivan wanted to eliminate the NATO threat before taking the gamble.
  5. A Desert Called Peace

    While I admit I rather enjoyed WotR, Kartman is, IMO, a major wack-job. His absolute hatred for anyone who strays even the slightest bit from the most far right NeoCon position poisons his work to the degree that it is almost unreadable (and this is from the guy who's is described on his Wiki...
  6. The Much-Reviled Red Dawn

    Hmmm... Russian tanks prone to blowing up when hit with the right weapon. T-34 Check T-54/55 Check T-62 Check T-72 Check T-80 ?
  7. Just how fanatical were the Imperial Japanese/how aggressive were the Allies?

    I would have to disagree. While I am not anywhere as convinced of the bloodlymindedness of the Japanese as our two most recently banned Members, I do not believe that a demonstration, not matter how impressive (given what 1st Generation weapons were capable of), would have moved the Japanese...
  8. The Invasion of Japan

    The Japanese had roughly 10,000 aircraft held as Kamakazi platforms (including trainers and other light aircraft). In July of 1945 the USN estimated that the Japanese might have, including trainers and light aircraft, 10,800 Kamakazi platforms available (this figure is available from numerous...
  9. The Invasion of Japan

    Something of an overstatement. MANY, perhaps even a majority, of the Japanese MALE population would have put up stiff resistance, even if all they had were spears or clubs (much like was seen in Russia, Yugoslavia & especially, Germany), but the entire Japanese PEOPLE? Hardly. The propaganda...
  10. Robert A. Heinlein live to present day

    Very much so. His Sixth Column is more or less a warning about the potential of combined China/Japan. Again, I have to agree. Real life had caught up to much of his "future history" and the results hadn't been pretty. He also harbored, even as late as Friday a belief that America was bound to...
  11. Nagumo sinks Halsey's carriers at Doolittle Time

    The point of using the Mitchells was to launch outside of what Japan condsidered to be strike range. The plan had been to launch around 400 miles out, but when they ran into the Japanese pickets they launched at around 600. The Japanese didn't move to attack when the force was discovered because...
  12. The Much-Reviled Red Dawn

    Well, you can see that in Russia today!:p
  13. Turkey Becomes a lite Islamic Republic (Iran 2)

    Chance of getting into the EU? Way less than Zero. Middle East? Possibly fairly large since Turkey & Israel are de facto allies with Syria as a common foe. World? It would give the Chicken Littles fearing that Islam is looking to take over Europe more fuel for their fires. Given the...
  14. Different Allied 'Ace' policy.

    Again, without belaboring the details, the biggest problem with the RAF making the huge numbers similar to the German, Finns, or Japanese, it still the lack of missions to fly (Malaya & Greece were short term events, especially compared to the Finnish experience or the Eastern Front for the...
  15. Different Allied 'Ace' policy.

    It is true that several Soviet aces outscored both British and American top aces. The Soviet pilots also flew many of their missions against bombers, IL-2’s and transports. The top Soviet ace, Ivan Kozhedud, also flew 330 missions in just over two years, far in excess of his Western counterparts...
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