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  1. Boldly Going: A History of an American Space Station

    I agree that in COTS is highly unlikely in this tl and that scuppers SpaceX and Blue Origin but I think private space will still develop driven by ever cheaper and better electronics making small sats viable. NASA as in OTL is never going to be interested in the sector so a Rocket Lab equivalent...
  2. Have the BL/Austin Maxi as or more successful as the Ford Cortina

    You may have described the Matchbox model... https://matchbox.fandom.com/wiki/BMC_1800_Pininfarina
  3. China does not take over Tibet

    ...but because no nation had recognized it as independent. The only countervailing force could be India; but to recycle an old post of mine: *** India using force is almost ASB territory as long as Nehru leads India in 1950-51. He was anxious to see the PRC admitted to the UN, anxious to...
  4. RedKing

    A Second Wife, A Second Husband: A Tudor Timeline

    I know, the resemblance is kind of uncanny. She works!
  5. Sargon

    Alternate 'Battle of Midway': RN instead of USN, what's the result?

    I'm not sure why goalposts are being moved with bringing back Ark Royal from being sunk for example. Why can't we just go with carriers and planes available as historical to the British at that time? That would probably be more in spirit of the intended scenario after all rather than trying to...
  6. RedKing

    What if Edward IV lived to the end of 1483?

    List of the Earls of Richmond: Henry Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond (1457-1512) M. Elizabeth de la Pole (1464-1512), had issue Edmund Tudor, 2nd Earl of Richmond (1484-1555) M. Elizabeth Grey, Viscountess Lisle (1484-1526) and Elizabeth Blount (1502-1553) Edmund Tudor, 3rd Earl of Richmond...
  7. Gulf crisis 1990 : Saddam's asymmetric response

    *laughing noises* Good luck with THAT. If you thought the Iraqis were bad in Iran the KSA would make them look like a WP or NATO tier army.
  8. AlanJWhite

    The Forge of Weyland

    AIUI despite being head of state he is not head of government and thus constitutionally cannot sign an instrument of surrender for the nation Also as head of the armed forces, he is under the direction of said head of government He certainly can advise the government to surrender but should...
  9. Dalai Lama assassinated in 1959

    What would have happened had the assassination plot mentioned in the Tibet Wiki succeeded? Note that the man in question is the current Dalai Lama.
  10. WI: No Molotov-Ribbentrop

    I agree with everything else you’ve written (resources!) but would there be a coup so quickly when the Soviets are in the fight?
  11. What were the biggest tech and weapon mistakes and missed opportunities of Germany in ww2

    This, very much. I think that we (me included) are a lot of the time focused on 'shiny' things, like Ta-152, jet-powered aircraft, brutal tanks, elektroboote, while the equation was simple for Germany: unless the UK is 'pacified' in one way or another, opening yet another front against a peer+...
  12. curlyhairedhippie

    A Second Wife, A Second Husband: A Tudor Timeline

    Oh I'm well aware...just saying I don't see it but it's all good
  13. A Second Wife, A Second Husband: A Tudor Timeline

    If Saoirse is playing Mary Tudor then Katie could play Anne of York no?
  14. Vietnam, a unwinnable war?

    ...support their claims for independence from European colonialism. Now obviously we know the world was always going to be more complicated than that* and the US had several priorities in the post-WW2 world going on at once here. But what is not top priority for the US is still top priority for...
  15. Dunkirk Disaster and colonies exchanged for withdrawal from France and Netherlands

    The best Germany is going to get in 1940 is Alsace-Lorraine and Eupen-Malmedy, which they would far prefer to some colonies scattered around the world. And that is going to be a hard sell in London. And it leaves a very hostile revanchist France on Germany's western border.
  16. Dunkirk Disaster and colonies exchanged for withdrawal from France and Netherlands

    So the same situation as during significant stretches of the Napoleonic Wars? If the Brits didn't throw in the towel then I see no reason this will impact their thinking in 1940. No they don't. The Brits outproduced the Germans IOTL by nearly 40,000 aircraft, and the German collapse in aircraft...
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