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  1. Grains of Sand and Salt

    Wikipedia and all the other sources I've seen says that this particular species (Zostera Marina) is capable of nitrogen fixation, although a separate supply of fixed nitrogen would probably help, and it grows best in waters with a salinity between 1 and 6%. The map for its distribution also...
  2. Fuzzy Dunlop

    AHC: Save a notorious flop

    For one, the critics lambasted it and hated it with a passion and that's usually a death knell for a movie. Also another Sci-Fi opened in the same weekend . . . 'Bladerunner', and that was also classed as a commercial failure.
  3. WI: The Enterprise completes its five year mission (Star Trek survives for 5 seasons)

    Oh and before I forget, happy birthday to Bill Shatner. 90 years young and still going strong
  4. Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg

    Well, I am not sure if this is still in the HOI4 version of the mod, but in DH, one of the events that the CSA will get when the Civil War breaks out was that the you have members of the middle and upper class who used to work in Detroit's automotive or Chicago's heavy industry fleeing across...
  5. AHC: The US with a high speed rail system as prolific as in East Asia or western Europe

    Inflation isn't the problem, real GDP is considerably higher now than 1950. Now if the legal fees and environmental regs are high enough today it may pay of back then when they were much less.
  6. AHC: The US with a high speed rail system as prolific as in East Asia or western Europe

    The issue is that the railroads were not in good shape financially in the northeast and where apparently losing money on passenger service by the 50's in the northeast. Also the goverment really made it hard for railroads to stop unprofitable lines. By the end of the 60's many railroads were...
  7. Dan1988

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

    Well, in that case I don't think legal costs would be an issue (though, considering the era, it would probably be dressed up anti-Soviet hysteria with how they're still stuck with the slow trains and all that other claptrap - until much later, that is) - not to mention building and operating...
  8. Epsilon Tauri

    'Liberty and Happiness': The British Republic

    I notice the term lengths for Lord President switched around a lot before stabilizing at five years in the 1950s. What were the circumstances that necessitated these changes, and is the modern term length necessitated by law or just by convention?
  9. Sir John Valentine Carden survives.

    Depends if the Brit's think its worth it. Keeping a force in being and Special forces around to tie the Axis in knots is one thing but occupying areas needs troops better used in more important fights. As to West well that's a sign of how different the countries were. Britain had an...
  10. Marco Incognito

    Trying to Please Everyone: Or Converting multiple Pop Culture Utopias into a Timeline.
    Threadmarks: Doctor Who: The Troughton Era(1966-1969)

    Being Revised Doctor Who The Troughton Era(1966-1969) In William Hartnell's own words, he could think of no one better to continue Doctor Who than Patrick Troughton. Peter Cushing and Brian Blessed are among those who turned down the role of the Second Doctor who would play the role later on...
  11. Dunkirk disaster and Spain declares war on Britain.

    The weaker Britain is the more likely Stalin will join the Axis. Stalin was hoping for a long drawn out war between Germany and the West. The war is going to look a lot shorter with the BEF gone. In November, when Stalin listed his demands, the war looked like it might be a long one with the...
  12. Revival of Mongolia as a military power

    Good point How many then at the most you think ? pop 1.7 million per 1980 IISS maybe 40k regular army with 100k militia ?
  13. WI: Queen Elizabeth II was gay

    I agree, we would never know. It would hardly change the big picture (apart from Butterflies), but it should change some aspects of her character and the family dynamics of the Firm. (According to Wikipedia) "Elizabeth fell in love with Philip, and they began to exchange letters when she was...
  14. AHC: The US with a high speed rail system as prolific as in East Asia or western Europe

    That is hard to say, I am not sure how much of it is legal costs. If the legal cost of it is a huge percentage than it might be doable in the 1940s-1950s.
  15. AHC: Longest possible airship age

    I've been told that all the farmer's almanacs had information on where the wind usually goes west, and where it usually goes east, due to the Coriolis effect. But I'm no expert, and winds can be chaotic. I wonder if the chaos of winds would pose a problem in mountains. And is there any way for...
  16. Dan1988

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

    Even if we start working from the '40s and '50s?
  17. Mary Tudor bears a son and lives till age 60

    It’s possible England would have become a satellite of Spain, considering who Mary’s husband was. I also think it was quite likely that a certain Princess Elizabeth would, shall we say, have been separated from her head(she was simply too much of a threat to Mary, & the Tudors never let such...
  18. Sherman von Bismarck

    Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg

    If I'm being honest I've stopped seriously engaging with the KR subreddit beyond a few and far between comments and posting teasers for a submod I'm helping with. There's a lot more toxicity (beyond just Long) on the sub while good posts just don't seem to crop up that much anymore.
  19. Photos from Kentucky Fried Politics

    Ah, I'm an idiot. I really need to stop posting when I'm dealing with insomnia and actually research properly. Will edit that out then
  20. Grains of Sand and Salt

    Eel grass need a lot of nitrate to grow well if I remember correctly as such it’s common in the Netherlands with it shallow water and nitrate rich fresh water arriving from Rhine. It’s also very common in Danish shallow inner sea as the Baltic waters goes through there. As a general rule of...
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