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  1. The 30 mm HE shell. The ideal weapon for use by WW2 Allied fighter planes?

    That is entirely the point. To be able to consistently destroy enemy fighters with only one or two hits. Just by hitting almost anywhere on the airframe which forgives the less then precise aiming by the pilot. Now, to achieve that without having too detrimental problems due to the gun...
  2. AHC: is it feasible if the world started diversfying away from fossil fuels much earlier

    That I completely agree with, and is a fair point. Just the same as hydro power is only available in certain areas. FWIW, I don't think any country can be majority green electricity by 2000, but certainly most could be more green than OTL; more nuclear, more wind, more hydro, more district...
  3. Sapa Inka Wiraqucha

    Collectivist western society?

    Large segments of it were stuck in the Stone Age. Take South Africa and the Congo, for which we have plenty of accounts and artifacts which tell us quite clearly that they had very, very little infrastructure and technology. It wasn't through any fault of their own -- they just lived in the...
  4. AHC: Save a notorious flop

    I loved the prequels as well but like you said there are things that could have been better. Among them no Jar-Jar, an older Anakin in TPM (Hayden is fine) or one that is taking "Jedi classes" after school and fix the dialogue.
  5. AHC: The US with a high speed rail system as prolific as in East Asia or western Europe

    In a lot of shorter trips, yes I agree with you. The only things I'd disagree would be travelling in to major cities, where traffic and congestion can quickly turn to standstill and thus it might be quicker even with a 15 minute station wait to take the train. And also for 150 mile+ trips, where...
  6. Planet of Hats

    Moonlight in a Jar: An Al-Andalus Timeline

    The dragon rising from the sea is a nice touch. Now all we need is a kitty rising up, too.
  7. WI Germany goes South in operation Barbossa

    It kind of depends, the first couple months of Barbarossa anywhere near the advancing Germans, yeah it was often bad because well everything was! And there were some issues after that (shock armies not having food for instance). But in general no I agree with you. The point being German...
  8. Emperor Norton I

    Revival of Mongolia as a military power

    Mongolia becoming a modern military power is basically like Montana becoming militarized.
  9. Crazymachines

    Moonlight in a Jar: An Al-Andalus Timeline

    I was bored today, so I drew MIAJ western europe
  10. America Be Watching With The Popcorn: A Sino-Soviet War TL

    That depends on the politics of the WP countries at the time as well as how desperate Brezhnev and/or his successor is. I said before he could be “encouraged” to step down over this debacle and his OTL successor didn’t have a great record on most anything save for learning that violence against...
  11. Gentleman Johnny

    Photos of the Kaiserreich

    It definitely is
  12. SunKing105

    DBWI Alexander III of Macedon victorious at Gaugamela

    What?! There was no such thing as Persian nationalism, or any kind of nationalism, until millenia later? There was an extremely vague conception of "Aryans", but the level the average peasant cared about the war remained the same as in any other pre-industrial society, as in none. Darius didn't...
  13. Little Rock Nine Massacre

    and especially in live television/radio or with a massive presence of journalist in the zone
  14. A Hippie in the House of Mouse (Jim Henson at Disney, 1980)

    Or... the TV show is a testing ground for the new Freddy, so they can judge audience acceptance before he gets an entire movie. Also I thought the point of the third and fourth movies were to separate Robert Englund from the franchise. Englund believed he'd conquered Freddy in the third movie...
  15. Resurgam

    Impact on Japan if the Emperor and Imperial monarchy was dismantled following WW2

    Which also explains the difference the US took in democratizing West Germany vis a vis Japan...
  16. What would the Treaty of Berlin look like if Germany chose to back Russia's claims?

    Actually, "liberation" of Bulgaria was not an "explicit purpose" of the war because both Reichstadt agreement and Budapest Convention had been secret. Officially claimed purpose was to stop the Ottoman atrocities and to provide the Slavic territories with some degree of autonomy. The...
  17. GauchoBadger

    WI Germany goes South in operation Barbossa

    I'm sorry but i'll have to hit the serious "Doubt" button on that one.
  18. Mary Tudor bears a son and lives till age 60

    So, with a living Mary married to Philip and a Prince of Wales born in 1555, who would inherit the Netherlands, how would go the Dutch Rebellion, if it still happens? Would the Protestants be even more persecuted? Also, I think that France would feel even more threatned, and try to help even...
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