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  1. Plausibility Check: WWI delay

    Supposition: The Great War is delayed. For some reason tensions aren't as high in 1914. Question: Can the war be delayed long enough such that technological advancement would rule out trench warfare as it occurred in OTL?

  2. Plausibility Check: Sony enters videogame industry early with Betamax addon

    Plausibility Check: Sony enters videogame industry early with Betamax addon What if Sony decides not to concede defeat to VHS in the format war and decides to release a Betamax VCR with video game capability? Betamax GameStation VCR-VGC Released: Japan: Mid 1985 North America: Mid 1986 ...

  3. A Divided Australia

    Suppose in the lead up to Federation, that there were some intractable differences. Mainly in the rivalry between New South Wales and Victoria. The former want Sydney to be the capital, the latter Melbourne. And the OTL compromise doesn't occur - they continue to be obstinate... Ultimately...

  4. Latest Discovery of X-Rays

    Suppose that Roentgen doesn't discover X-Rays in 1895. When is the latest that the discovery could be made. What effect would this delayed discovery have?

  5. Plausibility Check: Latin America in the Scramble for Africa?

    Would it be possible for a Latin American country to be involved in the Scramble for Africa? How would it be possible if it the required events are of a low plausibility?

  6. The Daria Comic Books

    The Daria Comic books The Daria Franchise Animation Comic/Graphic Novel/Sequential Art Note: Timelines are real world release dates. 'Present' is October 2010, the series so marked are continuing. Daria (1997 - 2002 [including Is it College Yet?]) The show as seen in OTL. It is identical...

  7. The Danish Play

    What if it was Hamlet rather than Macbeth that had a 'curse' on it? (So that the superstitions that surround Macbeth in OTL would surround Hamlet instead) What sort of POD(s) would be required for this to happen? How would this change to the effect of Shakespeare's plays change the English...

  8. Plausibility Check: A Soviet Sealion

    In a situation where the Soviet Union reaches the Channel (by any scenario) would it be possible for them to pull of Sealion in any form?

  9. DBWI: When did the last vestiges of the Alexanderine Empire collapse

    When did the last vestige of the Alexanderine Empire collapse? OOC: Alexanderine: as in the Empire established by Alexander the Great.

  10. WI: German Samoa given to Britain?

    What if instead of going to the United States, the German portion of Samoa was instead given to Britain? What would be needed for this to be plausible? Would Britain unite the Samoas (which leads to a United Independent Samoa after decolonisation) or not? What effect would a United Samoa...

  11. Plausibility Check: Earlier colonisation of Iceland

    Is it plausible that there would be a permanant settlement of the island that would become Iceland in OTL prior to the 9th Century. What would be needed for this to take place?

  12. British Northern Territory

    What if the British do not hand over control of the Northern Territory to South Australia in 1863? What if it remains under British control into the 20th Century? What happens now? Is this plausible?

  13. Sub-national Unit Name Game

    OK, here are the rules. The first player names a political sub-unit of a sovereign nation, (States, Provinces, Cantons, Governorates, Counties, Substituent Nations/Countries, Territories, Colonies, Crown Dependencies, Duchies, Capital Regions, Federal Subjects, Districts, Parishes...

  14. ST: Voyager production WI: A 'Future's End' season arc?

    What if 'Future's End' had lasted for a season? Instead of in the middle of the 3rd season it is the entire 4th Season. The absence of the 2 parter in the middle of the 3rd season changes the layout of the 3rd season a bit... Darkling Before and After Now become 2 parters...

  15. DBWI: Queen Victoria a Haemophillia carrier

    WI Queen Victoria was a carrier of Haemophilia. (Assume that genetic recombination in her mothers ovaries puts the gene in the egg cell destined to become her, the egg cell is otherwise the same [as is thesperm]) What effect would this have if some members of Europe's Royal families had...

  16. AH WTC Disaster

    Sept 12 2001 - From Armidale in New England, Australia Headline - New England Daily News Horror as 2 fully laden Airships plough into the sides of the 85 story twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York City The resulting explosion as the Hydrogen in the Airships gas envelope...

  17. WI: A Cold War between the British Empire and a Far-Eastern former Russian Colony

    A Scenario for pondering. The scene is the late 20th Century and the world is largely divided into 2 different 'camps' between which there is a Cold War over ideology. On one side is a group of nations lead by a British Empire which includes most of North America. On the other is a group of...

  18. Medvedev warns America not to recognise Georgias Breakaway States

    I have just heard on the radio that Bush has signed a decree, in which the American Federation has recognised the independence of East Alabama and Savannah. Medvedev has been on record as saying that the Union of Russian States does not condone this sort of unilateral secession, and that the...

  19. DBWI: Nation Name Game III

    OK, here are the rules. The first player names a sovereign nation, (though autonomous regions, crown dependencies associated with constitutional monarchies, and protectorates will count as well). The second must name another, but it must begin with the last letter of the first state. For...

  20. WI: American Samoa ceded to The Independent State of Samoa

    What if the United States ceded the Territory of American Samoa to the Independent State of Samoa? What would the reason for this be? What would the effects be of this?
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