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  1. Look to the West Volume V: To Dream Again

    Just caught up. I too am lost as to why the non Nova Mundine powers are doing what they're doing. I appreciate your brief digression into Engineering. ATL authors really love to digress on things not quite related to their topic but brought up by curious cross TL minds...

  2. Look to the West Volume V: To Dream Again

    I think that's typical in math. Think of how utterly tortured Newton's notation for multivariable calculus is, or (slightly better) how ungainly using quaternions everywhere us for 3-D mechanics. Or, fun fact, what we call Maxwell's equations are not his at all - the 4 nice ones we learn in...

  3. Look to the West Volume V: To Dream Again

    Yes, and Abel's as well, so the foundations of Algebra will be quite different. I think Gauss will still be roughly the same, assuming that we believe much of his talent is innate. Ironically, although much of the theme for this TL is how different Britain is, British mathematics was already...

  4. Look to the West Volume V: To Dream Again

    Yeah, maths is pretty hard to write about. I've never seen a Math TL, actually, probably because it would be way too much unless you had an actual PhD in Math. Ah well! You're silence on chemistry intrigues me, as always we must wait for more updates. As long as you're done before you die...

  5. Look to the West Volume V: To Dream Again

    Also, another thought, what's the state of Engineering as a discipline in LTTW? There was a long struggle to make it a "Profession" in OTL in the late 19th century, which took off most strongly in the USA and Germany, Britain always lagged behind. Oh, more generally, what languages are...

  6. Look to the West Volume V: To Dream Again

    Extra space. Sorry to nitpick. Edit: A more substantial segment. On Computers: A few observations. 1) I think the most interesting aspect of these alternate computers is that they are made before the theory as opposed to OTL where Turing published his Work in 1936 (and Churchill was there a...

  7. Look to the West Volume V: To Dream Again

    Thande, I'm not quite sure I agree with you about Mendel. There are other things that have nice easy autosomal traits - fruit flies, for instance. It's no coincidence that Mendel became popular around the time that Woodworth and Howard started breeding fruit flies. I mean, the major reason why...

  8. Look to the West Volume V: To Dream Again

    Catching up. Don't think this is quite right, Thande.

  9. Look to the West Volume V: To Dream Again

    Swedish military advisors show up in lots of real places. They were one of the main groups involved in pre WWII Ethiopia.

  10. George Wallace does not select LeMay as VP Nominee in 1968

    Thank you. Done. You didn't use to be able to do that. Nice.

  11. George Wallace does not select LeMay as VP Nominee in 1968

    Woops! Very dumb of me. Can't change the title now. Should probably message a mod.

  12. George Wallace does not select LeMay as VP Nominee in 1968

    What the title says. George Wallace former governor of Alabama, 3rd party candidate in the 1968 election, chose retired Airforce General Curtis LeMay as his running mate. This is widely seen today as a mistake, as LeMay immediately proceeded to talk about how much he wanted to start nuking...

  13. OTL Election maps resources thread

    Huh. When i looked at those years for Pittsburgh and Philadelphia there was no difference, but i guess i didn't notice. Should I get those for you?

  14. OTL Election maps resources thread

    Odd that happens. Certainly goes to show that voting systems aren't everything when you get to party distributions. Interesting though, certainly Australian elections are not something I've really looked into that much, but since it is an odd hybrid of Americna-British election systems, it's...

  15. OTL Election maps resources thread

    Australia is much closer to a two-party system then I thought. I was udner the impression the Nationals were much larger.

  16. OTL Election maps resources thread

    Who was in control of the state legislature in 1992? Dems or Republicans? What were they doing?! :confused:

  17. Map Thread XI

    Yes, the proponent of Sewer Socialism. Wisconsin politics was weird. For most of the middle of the twentieth century it was run by a coalition of Socialists (Milwaukee) and the Farmer-Labor Party (everywhere else). Too bad it never managed to spread itself beyond there. That's right, the big...

  18. Map Thread XI

    Map map mappety. In case it's unclear: Green - Progressive, Blue - Democrat, Red - Republican

  19. Map Thread XI

    Great thanks to Thandeand Kenneth C. Martis for his Historical Altas of the Untied States Congress. Congressional Districts are darn fiddly to do. It is the middle of the Democratic National Convention, approaching the 8th ballot. A slight change in attitude occurs between the representatives...

  20. OTL Election maps resources thread

    Nice! Yeah, for whatever reason North Oklahoma was a Republican stronghold, even voting for Taft over Roosevelt in 1912. Any Okies here to explain why? Also, I've been trying to find data for districts in 1932, and it's pretty difficult. People don't seem to want to give out maps of this sort...
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