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  1. AHC: The US with a high speed rail system as prolific as in East Asia or western Europe

    Start early enough and I think you could make the region roughly bounded by Milwaukee-Cincinnati-Pittsburgh-Detroit in the Midwest work well for rail. Distances are short enough that it can be competitve with planes, and there's a high density of urban areas ~200k in size sprinkled in among the...
  2. Socialist/communist USA, is it possible, and likeliest time period to arise?

    Perhaps, but even with an impossibilist faction, would you think it's still be possible to see a socialist USA comparable to OTL in the present day? (at least no prison-military-industrial complex, no widespread eonomic inequality, less if not completely gone systemic and societal racism...
  3. Edward IV and Henry Tudor/VII switch personalities

    Under Henry VI? Probably not, there are too many idiots there. But Edward would definitely have a hard time, *maybe* he'd be deposed eventually in 71 but by then Richard's grown up. Depends on who the OP wants to win, but Edward wouldn't play as large a role in his ascension as he did OTL...
  4. Edward IV and Henry Tudor/VII switch personalities

    Most likely yes - since Somerset would've easily been able to beat TTL Edward of March in battle so Henry VI would reign since his natural death, Edward and George would have their heads chopped off with Richard perhaps being stuffed in church or given OTL Warwick treatment (as all Yorks were...
  5. Little Rock Nine Massacre

    Surely Ike would have federal troops flooding the area to put a stop to this within hours of the kids being killed?
  6. Boldly Going: A History of an American Space Station

    I still shudder when I think about what Lockheed would probably have charged to build that. (The annual GDP of Slovenia, easy.)
  7. marathag

    AHC: The US with a high speed rail system as prolific as in East Asia or western Europe

    But the GG-1 would be there for deregulation. It's a good start, but doesn't mean stick with the 1930s tech for 50 years.
  8. Little Rock Nine Massacre

    Not at all what I meant. See that little yellow box next to my username? THAT is what I meant.
  9. RedKing

    Mary Tudor bears a son and lives till age 60

    Mary's son is most likely called Philip or Henry, maybe Arthur.
  10. RedKing

    Edward IV and Henry Tudor/VII switch personalities

    So do the Lancastrians just win?
  11. marathag

    Boldly Going: A History of an American Space Station

    And watch out for the Space Lot Lizards. You might get the Space Herpes
  12. Dan1988

    AHC: The US with a high speed rail system as prolific as in East Asia or western Europe

    Though towards the latter end of their service life, IIRC the GG1s were getting more and more unreliable. Meanwhile, the state of electric locos was changing rapidly throughout the 20th century, so after a while the GG1s would be already obsolete within a couple of decades. All the more so...
  13. Little Rock Nine Massacre

    To Connor it would be fantastic, since he gets to praise the superiority of whites to the world.
  14. Edward IV and Henry Tudor/VII switch personalities

    He ain't getting the throne then. Edward was perfect for the job (as required in 1461), while Tudor isn't really cut out for this sorta stuff.
  15. The Dead Skunk
    Threadmarks: Interlude: December 23, 1834 (14)

    West Africa West Africa: a land of contrasts. No, seriously. You can find every level of social organization here, from societies where each village is effectively its own state, to feudal aristocracies, to empires that wouldn’t have been out of place in the ancient world, to states with...
  16. McGoverning

    Wouldn't President McGovern try to get a Southerner on the ticket? As a proven election winner and incumbent president it makes a lot of sense to accept if your an ambitious Southern Governor or Senator who wants to be President someday.
  17. God Owes Phillip II Twenty Bucks

    Well, I know that faith was wayyy more important for average XVI-XVIIth century dude than his nation. In this scenario, however I suppose that France would end up mostly Huguenot over time with Huguenot kings, opportunists (who are and will always be the majority of the population) would...
  18. A Hippie in the House of Mouse (Jim Henson at Disney, 1980)

    Simplest way to avoid confusion? Call it Battlestar Dreadnought, or Dreadnought Galectica, or something like it, unless i'm mistaken.
  19. McGoverning

    If it’s down to Muskie, Brown, or Byrne, I’d prefer Byrne - if only because we don’t see much of him in other ATL’s.
  20. Andrew Boyd: Duke of Dank

    AHC: The US with a high speed rail system as prolific as in East Asia or western Europe

    True, but I also think said de-regulation in the 1920s would be a better start. If that's what the PRR was able to do with the NEC IOTL, then imagine the options they'd have under a significantly less regulated environment. One idea I had early on that front was the idea of the NEC having...
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