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  1. TheKutKu

    WI: Dassault-Aerospatiale Merger in 1997?

    In the second half of the 20th century, successive French governments had repeatedly tried to acquire control of Dassault. Notably, in 1981, following Mitterand's election, the socialist government attempted it, but effective lobbying, fears of disrupting the company's effectiveness and Marcel...
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    Time After Time: Imprints of the Space Transportation System Booster

    Phenomenal update! I love the effects on the Reykjavik summit, great drawing too. Doesn't sound like the Griffin is ever made sadly
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    How would a modern 21st century Nazi Germany look like?

    Sure, but it'd take longer, you then move from one generation to several ones. Nazi germany would still be extreme on the year 2000
  4. TheKutKu

    How would a modern 21st century Nazi Germany look like?

    A nazi victory in the early-mid 40s would be an incredibly stronger proof of Nazism ideological and system supremacy than Stalinism taking control of half of europe after 10 years of famines and purges and 25 millions death in a war that was almost lost. While nazism has inherently much less...
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    Miscellaneous >1900 (Alternate) History Thread

    The second woman to go to space, and first non-Soviet one, could have been french If Françoise Varnier had made it through the selections for the first french astronaut in 1979-1982, she apparently had presidential preference among the 5 finalists, but a broken leg during a parachuting in front...
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    AHC: Four African Tigers

    Ivory Coast seems a more likely choice than Ghana in this period
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    Time After Time: Imprints of the Space Transportation System Booster

    Would it really be? IRL most one-off large payloads like say those monolithic Alpha proposal used purpose-built side-loaded SDLV like that But TTL’s STS has the two ET specifically arranged on both sides of the fuselage, restricting the diameter (or at least, one axis) of the SDLV’s bay...
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    Time After Time: Imprints of the Space Transportation System Booster

    Very nice, I love the effects in the boosters, i can’t wait to learn more about the practicalities and economics of booster reuse . Is the IUS still a thing ittl? Shuttle-Centaur in 86 means that the Nasa planetary IUS was cancelled, did the USAF one suffer the same fate? There were some...
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    AHC: More Countries With Pre-Colonial Borders In Sub-Saharan Africa

    Neither is Madagascar, the Merina definitely did not control enough of the island to count. This is a weird challenge, you can’t directly apply modern borders to 19th century africa
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    WI: Falcon Heavy to Mars

    Looking at news article from just before his resignation, it does seem that most people were expecting him to stay at least until the Shuttle RTF, and of course there really was a lot of opposition to his decision he may have to change his position, I think there’s some room to work with. I...
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    PC: Precolonial settlement in the Congo basin

    Eric Tollens, 2010 "In the humid rainforest of Central Africa, it is nearly impossible to raise cattle economically because of the presence everywhere of tsé-tsé flies, which transmit trypanosomiasis, the deadly sleeping disease of cattle. Although some trypanotolerant cattle breeds exist, such...
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    WI: Falcon Heavy to Mars

    Yeah now that I look at the timeline (SpaceX also getting funding for F9 circa 2006), it’s unlikely any better off SX would go for the F5 stopgap, maybe a spacex with much less NASA And DOD support and funding in the 2000s would be forced to scrap the barrel and do it, but not in this case...
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    WI: Falcon Heavy to Mars

    Necessary read on Red dragon https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26270977 Falcon heavy’s 63t to LEO payload is highly theoretical, it probably needs significant structural changes for that I’d say however Make spaceX more successful in their early F1 days, have them transition to F9 a bit...
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    WI: Ukraine Economic Powerhouse

    You do know what a deterrent is, right? An "Ukrainian economic powerhouse" has incredibly less brain drain and infrastructure decay in strategic sectors, an "Ukrainian economic powerhouse" would be able to produce modern ballistic missiles, an "Ukrainian economic powerhouse" would also Be by...
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    WI: Ukraine Economic Powerhouse

    By having a deterant? Not nuclear of course, but an "Ukrainian economic powerhouse" would eventually have the capability (after a transition period to decouple from Russian industries) to keep mass Producing IRBMs and even ICBM There is no Russian invasion of Ukraine, no Donbas war if any...
  16. TheKutKu

    Germany launches Manned V2 (or Woman) into space in 1944

    I’m not too concerned about the mass budget, the megaroc return capsule was supposed to be 586kg, I’m more concerned about development time, making a reliable crewed return capsule takes time that the German don’t have. Any early start of the project is probably unlikely because this may move...
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    Time After Time: Imprints of the Space Transportation System Booster

    Yeah if usaf wanted it but required it to be flyable unmanned you eventually get buran style full autonomous flight, which probably Doesn’t get used that much. An actual USAF shuttle, at least after the 70s, would probably look like the x-37 but with a Horizontal take off and landing first...
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    Time After Time: Imprints of the Space Transportation System Booster

    A Recoverable Zenit-2 (which was considered) could roughly have the performances of Soyuz-U to LEO (but significantly worse to higher orbits)... But then why wouldn't they use the already mass produced Soyuz... A RD-170 alone already costs more than a whole soyuz S1+Boosters! I'm glad the...
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    Time After Time: Imprints of the Space Transportation System Booster

    From a purely technical point of view I agree with you, S1 Flyback can probably be done as early as you have some autoland and variable geometry wings and enough hypersonic flight experience, probably 70s, even S1 Boostback can probably be done in the 90s, it need GPS and some throttlable and...
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    Time After Time: Imprints of the Space Transportation System Booster

    I think the earliest you can get a high cadence RLV is the 90s, ideally in a continued cold war scenario, technological maturity + telecom boom + no military and nasa funding drop + some SDI launches and you can probably reach current F9 or Long March/historical soyuz launch rate, may not be a...
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