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

    And you hit it on the head. "As public services" - the greatest sin known.
  2. AHC: The US with a high speed rail system as prolific as in East Asia or western Europe

    Here's the problem. The US has 50 states that get a say in how transportation infrastructure dollars are spent. HSR has no reason to stop in, and in some cases even go into, about 35 of those states. That means the funding for it is DOA in Congress. Then there's the fact that planes are...
  3. Your Personal Pop Culture Utopia timeline

    SEGA and Sony agree to collaborate for the upcoming SEGA Mercury, bringing the console market back into competition with a SEGA unafraid to make bold decisions and adapt to new practices. SEGA would eventually be absorbed by Sony, becoming the gaming division of the appliance juggernaut...
  4. The Undying Empire: A Trebizond Timeline

    God Trebizond has just been brutalised. How would this affect David? We know that the leader of the Golden Horde may be assassinated, but David did just lose a war. He also needs to deal with the Neo-Rumites, which will be hard to do. I hope David and his generals use their guns and canons...
  5. Dan1988

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

    Not necessarily - all other countries managed to find a balance between cars and trains, investing in both to accommodate car ownership (which was initially slow-going because sales were initially targeted at more affluent customers) and having the trains keep pace, as public services. So it...
  6. AHC: The US with a high speed rail system as prolific as in East Asia or western Europe

    Then cars and planes should have killed rail in Europe and the and Asia as well. We chose to put our efforts into cars and highways, they chose to rebuild their rail and improve. Rail died because Americans decided that they wanted suburbs and studebaker's.
  7. marathag

    Patton in Korea/MacArthur in the White House

    Or just was just two pieces of shrapnel in dirt, and he went out with a cerebral hemorrhage
  8. The Undying Empire: A Trebizond Timeline

    Are we going to get a United States of Russia through this? The enemy that keeps them together is the Golden Horde and steppe nomads that raid into Russia, so that would work.
  9. Republic of Lamu - Legacy of Japanese colonization of the Horn of Africa

    I don't see Japan gaining a colony in the Berlin Conference, both due to typical European orientalist racism and lack of Japanese naval capabilities at this point in time. As you've said, Japan would need to fight and win a Russo-Japanese type war with a European nation in order to be recognized...
  10. AHC: The US with a high speed rail system as prolific as in East Asia or western Europe

    All of which was dying anyway. The rails were dying since the 1900s. you would have to get rid of the car altogether to do that. Planes and cars made rails obsolete in the US.
  11. As Dreamers Do: American Magic Redux
    Threadmarks: Back to the Future (1985 Film)

    Back to the Future Released by Universal Pictures on July 3, 1985 Directed by Robert Zemeckis Producers Bob Gale Neil Canton Screenplay by Robert Zemeckis Bob Gale Music by Alan Silvestri Select Cast Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly Christopher Lloyd as Emmett "Doc" Brown Lea Thompson as...
  12. What would the Americas be like if the Chinese colonized it?

    Since we're already presupposing an exploratory, naval-oriented China arising from some whatever-POD, why, exactly? (Given that this China has the capability to cross the Pacific and discover the Americas?)
  13. Minnesota_Nationalist

    Map Thread XX

    Commenting this: just last page :P
  14. AHC: The US with a high speed rail system as prolific as in East Asia or western Europe

    By maintaining and investing in the passenger rail system we had circa 1945, instead of becoming the "Nation of Cars". In the 1930's, the US passenger rail network nationwide was top notch, with everything from cross country service to interurban service to suburban rail to municipal trolleys...
  15. Patton in Korea/MacArthur in the White House

    See you in another life, Old Blood and Guts
  16. Dan1988

    What if Russia invested more heavily into American colonization?

    Well, it was, to some degree of another. ;) Though even there, they imported all the horrific colonization policies to the Empire and forced the Aleut to do its bidding, leading to unimaginable suffering among those people - and the policies of the RAC ultimately made Alaska a temptation for...
  17. Amadeus

    How would Woodrow Wilson be remembered without WWI?

    Right....I will delete my prior post.
  18. The Quarter-BAM project

    This is probably low priority compared to getting the historical and geographic maps done, but would someone eventually consider creating a QBAM Borderpool Project style map with accurate groups of historical borders / almost-borders?
  19. What if Russia invested more heavily into American colonization?

    You can try and have the Romans colonize Alaska if you want, but it's not particularly realistic.
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