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  1. Discussion: What if Edmund, Earl of Rutland survives Wakefield?

    Would he? Literally none of the York boys married outside of England, and I can't recall off-hand there even being negotiations for either Clarence or Gloucester to wed a foreign princess (Clarence's short-lived Mary of Burgundy scheme notwithstanding), so why would the situation be different...
  2. juanml82

    Was it surprising Argentina didn't become a decent size power or at least a dominant economy?

    I'm not sure if the auto industry is currently shrinking - overall, there is a bit of industrial growth compared to 2019. In any case, the auto industry will be firing workers worldwide because of the transition to electric vehicles for the simple reason that pure electric vehicles have less...
  3. Native Americans domesticate gomphotheres

    I think the biggest change would be cool diseases mutating from herd animals, essentially mammoth pox and such. Basically the Americas get to share all sorts of cool diseases with the rest of the world just like we shared smallpox and other cool diseases with the Native Americans! It probably...
  4. The Stomach of Man Under Socialism: A Culinary History of Socialist America

    What type of socialism is being praticed? I think the most likely form is some type of council communism or syndicalism with maybe a sort of market socialism.
  5. More Helicopter/light carriers in post ww2 period

    What do we consider as helicopter carriers and how small can they be? RCN build the 12 Halifax-class frigate what if having looked at fighting SSNs even more they committed to more helicopters as a more DDH ship like Haruna-class or even a merchant based light helicopter carrier? This could...
  6. Boldly Going: A History of an American Space Station
    Threadmarks: Part 31: Orbital refit in progress builds a new hangar bay.

    Boldly Going Part 31 Space Station Enterprise’s augmented crews began the work of assembling the new hangar bay fixtures inside the liquid hydrogen tank in 2015. Despite the benefits of working entirely in IVA, crews aboard Enterprise still found the process of welding fixtures to the tank...
  7. A more realistic (IMO) AHC: US Metro/Regional Transit as good as in Europe.

    The reality is the US is simply to big to have good HSR. And we have to low a population density. Only a handful of locations have enough population and cities close enough to make it reasonable and the cost of building it in these locations is prohibitively expensive. Add in that you need to...
  8. Planet of Hats

    Alternate History Combat Aircraft

    Yeah, in some respects I can see it being a different but better option than the Flogger for certain air forces. The Flogger's rear landing gear in particular is pretty bad, and the wing mechanism is a maintenance nightmare. It's got incredible acceleration but it can't turn. Slapping a delta on...
  9. Earthy05

    The Bleeding Edge: An Alternate History of NASA

    For the sake of convince I'm going to say that Caltech accepted female undergrads around 1968 (when Judy started), but thanks for the correction and for the correction on the spelling of Caltech!
  10. Alternate History Combat Aircraft

    that looks like something that would work quite well, maybe even add some forward canard a la viggen or kfir
  11. Have Pontiac Motor Company continue to be a viable company up to the present

    For some reason GM enters Chinese market with Pontiac instead of Buick
  12. Have Pontiac Motor Company continue to be a viable company up to the present

    They need to do a few things. 1) Stop giving Chevy every single vehicle that GM makes, This would give the other divisions some function. 2) Not use the bankruptcy as a chance to pitch divisions. Pontiac went away because GM wanted to cut its dealerships and in the bank had the chance to do it...
  13. A Hippie in the House of Mouse (Jim Henson at Disney, 1980)

    that would be funny also, and could also throw some other scifi ships i think both would be best
  14. Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    The port was wrecked to destroy the KM forces there on June 12 (including 22 tallboys dropped into the port area to swamp the E boats and other craft) - the threat of the KM surface forces to the Landing fleet and ongoing logistical efforts deemed more important than the future use of the port...
  15. Boldly Going: A History of an American Space Station

    Corporate sponsor maybe? I mean it works in politics :) Someone forgot to pack the mayo, that's it, we're going home. I can't live like this... No that I look at it I think the one you are referring to IS the 'follow-on' report: http://spacearchitect.org/pubs/AIAA-2015-4455.pdf The other...
  16. RiverDelta

    The New Order: Last Days of Europe - An Axis Victory Cold War Mod for HoIIV

    If I do Tomsk, I'll probably do Modernist Tomsk. How does Tomsk compare with Men?
  17. McPherson

    AHC: competent Red Army by 1939

    Hmmm. Maybe, not shoot them, but there is an object lesson from another nation that illustrates a war-leader's problems when he finds his military is riddled with apple polishers, incompetents and idiots. I refer to the Americans. They "reassigned" officers into other duty posts, retired...
  18. Planet of Hats

    Alternate History Combat Aircraft

    MiG-23 in a low-wing tailed delta configuration. An export option for air forces without the mechanical expertise or cash to deal with things like variable geometry wings or the 23's funky landing gear. This one's based on the 23-01 prototype's geometry, albeit with the STOL liftjets omitted to...
  19. What if the Soviet Union never existed?

    Russia is not going return to monarchy not even constitutional one. Monarchy was strongly discredited in Russia very widely. And White Army wasn't any kind of unified group. Only thing what they could had agreed was kick Bolsheviks from power. When they would had managed do that, Russia was...
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