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  1. Alternate Planets, Suns, Stars, and Solar Systems Thread

    Looking at the above I'm picturing someone took a look at the klemperer rosette of the Puppeteer Fleet of Worlds from Larry Niven's Known Space series and said "Five Worlds? Hold My Beer."

  2. Map Thread XX

    Not sure if this should go here as it's of a fictional world but this is a quick mockup I did of Vezos IV (Planetos) for the Halo : Reach / ASOIAF-GoT Crossover "The Eternal Black Wolf" I've been working on. This was mainly as a visualization tool as well to help me place where the protagonist...

  3. Alternate Planets, Suns, Stars, and Solar Systems Thread

    One program which may help out with generating a 'relatively realistic' solar systems, complete with all the data on orbits, mass, atmosphere compositions, etc... even moons to some extent is the Stargen program. It's based on the old ACCRETE program I've used it in the past (grabbed the...

  4. Alternate Planets, Suns, Stars, and Solar Systems Thread

    Gas Dwarf or Mega-Earth slightly less 10 Earth Masses but can be similar in size to Neptune or Uranus (up to 3.9 Earth Radii). It would have significant pull on the hot Jupiter (not sure how big you're making this guy) but you'd definitely have heating. Tidal forces would also force volatiles...

  5. Alternate Planets, Suns, Stars, and Solar Systems Thread

    The biggest issue I think with Number 7 is the atmosphere and obtaining that atmosphere Enough mass and you'll have some more internal heating even out to the Snow Line. Problem you end up with is 'How do I get the atmosphere I want?' A hot Neptune will start off as pretty much the same...

  6. Alternate Planets, Suns, Stars, and Solar Systems Thread

    At the risk of being labelled the snarky nitpicker who ruins a party, you may wish to check your planet order and distance as far as temperature/environment as far as your seventh. Your 2nd and 3rd are most likely within the normal habitable range and distant enough not to be tidally locked...

  7. Map Thread XIX

    Texas? I thought this was bands, not pop star groups which were a vehicle for one of the members backed by producers. Not sure why they said in the article that it skewed against artists since they seemed to make a stretch of an exception here. Why not ZZ Top ? Or Selena Y Los Dinos, who...

  8. Blue Skies in Camelot: An Alternate 60's and Beyond

    Just a slight nitpick. The photo on the left is actually a still of the actor Sam Riley portraying Ian Curtis in the Joy Division BioPic 'Control' . This is Ian Curtis:

  9. Map Thread XVIII

    Or correction IMHO....way too green for that much land. ;-)

  10. "Project Normandy:" Failed D-Day Invasion Story Idea

    Just my two cents. A little bit about Switzerland I think folks may be missing; Switzerland's neutrality was (and still is to an extent) less 'We're sitting here passively so it will appear we're not taking sides' and more 'We don't care what you do to each other. We'll help all as much as...

  11. Future Map Thread

    I'm trying to get my head around a Central Islamic Republic which unifies Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan but not Iraq. I'd expect maybe Iran to merge with the Shi'ite areas of Iraq but does Pakistan/Afghanistan somehow unite under some Wahhabist-Taliban flag and miraculously kick Iran's ass for...

  12. DBWI: What if the TV sitcom "Makin' It" didn't make it?

    Actually I think most folks remember David Naughton as actor who portrayed the protagonist who turned into a wolf (and got some hot Jenny Agutter action ;-) ) from American Werewolf In London. I missed the sitcom actually although I don't remember it. I'm assuming it was 'spun off' if you...

  13. What if American Presidents were elected for life?

    Outside the issues brought up about a backlash to 'dynasticism' and Congress' different behaviour with a 'President for Life', I'm thinking there would be a lot of events butterflied out mainly due to the differences in policies and mindsets of the current presidential 'lineage' in the OTL...

  14. WI: French India?

    Hmmm....the language of all the Bollywood films today would be in a mixture of French and the various dialects of the Indian Subcontinent ?

  15. Alternate NASA administrators

    I'm trying to see where this would be going since it really wouldn't have too drastic an effect in changing how the US Space Program turned out. You'd have to basically change the presidential succession from the founding of NASA until now in order to really change things; the NASA administrator...

  16. Iran-American War

    Actually the main reason for the hostage crisis you can boil down to Zbigniew Brzezinski convincing Carter not to essentially extradite the Shah to Iran after he was overthrown, essentially convincing Carter that the Shah was still worth something politically to the US (which at the time he...

  17. AH Challenge: Negroid state to Europe

    Hmmmm....are we talking Europe being substantially all 'dark-skinned' like sub-saharan peoples in Europe or the establishment of a state in Europe which is primarily of that racial makeup through colonization? If the former, Neanderthals are substantially more aggressive towards Cro-Magnon...

  18. WI: Neanderthals Survive

    heheh...funny...but given Neanderthal's physical dimensions, if they survived to this day, I'm guessing they'd actually be a lot like Tolkein's dwarves: Short, stocky, really powerfully built and a bit enigmatic (being a different species and thus different way of thinking and communicating with).

  19. WI: Neanderthals Survive

    You'd basically have to get rid of all the factors which got rid of all the other species within the hominid genus. At one time there were probably about 5 or 6. POD would probably involve such things as no Toba Catastrophe around 75000 years ago, lessened migration of Cro-Magnon man into...

  20. Minor changes in human evolution

    I'll second the five digits max for tetrapod fact. One odd thing however might be what those digits are. A more likely scenario for a different sort of hand would be perhaps primate evolution favours two opposable thumbs per hand (two thumbs, three fingers) due to mechanically being better able...
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