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  1. What would Iran look like in the event Pahlavi dynasty retains power

    Oh Parterre's thread looks really really interesting. I'm personally fascinated by the possibilities of a post-Shah revolutionary government that heavily tries to change class relations and reduce inequality in Iran but an alternate Pahlavi dyansty- as more of an MbZ style developmental, long...

  2. What would Iran look like in the event Pahlavi dynasty retains power

    One of the best Iran revolution takes I've read on here was like...15 years ago at this point? But the poster was saying that with a very limited democracy, powerful and shadowy security services, and the Shah acting as an occasionally very involved ultimate authority & symbolic figurehead, and...

  3. Proxima: A Human Exploration of Mars

    I can't believe that this TL started with Skylab. I've seen a lot of space TLs come and go, a lot with sweep and ambition but very few have produced so much with such consistency and actually gone through with all of it. Absolutely incredible stuff.

  4. What are some alternative leaders of the Iranian revolution?

    Ali Shariati dying just two years before the revolution is an all-time POD. An anticolonial intellectual and Islamic Socialist, I actually have a pretty detailed outline for a TL where he lives just a few more years; there were longstanding rumors of poisoning. The butterflies are immense...

  5. KINETIC: The Battle Above

    Opening a TL by annihilating Belgium is quite a move- the 20th century is going to be totally unrecognizable. The specific timing of this disaster is quite interesting as well; 1908 is just early enough that people will not just know what the disaster was but also realize that they can work...

  6. Proxima: A Human Exploration of Mars

    Oh wow so Baochuán is a spaceship. That's absolutely wild. if the insides are fried it probably isn't worth fixing up but if they can get the design to work it has amazing potential.

  7. Proxima: A Human Exploration of Mars

    so was Baochuán launched in a free-return trajectory? and was it chemical-powered only or was there also a SEP element? it obviously isn't going to fly again but I'm interested in the intended mission profile vs. what actually happened; it seems to be implied that Shenzhou flew in manually at...

  8. Proxima: A Human Exploration of Mars

    Fantastic chapter, and I like how the human element is incorporated into the story. One technical question- how was the flight data brought back to earth? With the loss of signal during emergencies/aborts, and delay of transmission, do the MTV's have a cache-and-transmit system of data storage...

  9. A Sound of Thunder: The Rise of the Soviet Superbooster

    I love the thread so far. I'm super interested in how the longer term economics of keeping a heavy lift vehicle in the stable of a major space power will work out.

  10. Peace terms in a 1982 Iran-Iraq war Iranian victory?

    Haha, on man you read my mind. I'm philosophically interested in this TL because it would be about Ali Shariati living to become the figurehead of the Iranian revolution and fundamentally change both Socialism and Islamism in the late 20th century, as well as an Iranian revolution which led to...

  11. Peace terms in a 1982 Iran-Iraq war Iranian victory?

    Interesting- so not quite a status quo ante bellum, but a status quo to 1975? That kind of control over the Shatt Al-Arab, especially a de facto veto over Iraqi use of the waterway and a payment of tolls, would be satisfactory to the ATL Iranian govt. The Iraqi retreat from all territories and...

  12. Peace terms in a 1982 Iran-Iraq war Iranian victory?

    I have been playing around with the idea for a TL where the Iranian revolution plays out differently and the post-Shah government is an Islamic Socialist regime that is less immediately fanatical than Khomeini and more committed to pursuing long-term social change within in Iran. IOTL, Iraq sent...

  13. WI: Khomeini's letter to Gorbachev had a wider impact?

    I don't think by the 1980's a letter alone- or even an Islamic revivalist movement- would make many inroads with the ethnic russian population of the USSR. On the outside, maybe some of the Central Asian nations which have historically been in the Iranian cultural sphere (Tajikistan) may have...

  14. How powerful could a surviving modern day Ottoman Empire be?

    A great post with a lot going on but there's something important buried in here that I wanted to highlight: the capitulations. While not as extreme as say, China, by the late 19th century the Ottomans had via losing wars and various financing missteps/ bankruptcy crises wound up with a whole...

  15. The Stomach of Man Under Socialism: A Culinary History of Socialist America

    Yeah I don't like "communism bad grey building bread lines lol" timelines and I don't think that's what you were doing at all. If you look at the history of US food quality and especially US beer your description of ATL whiskey production isn't that far off from the postwar hegemonic reign of US...

  16. The Stomach of Man Under Socialism: A Culinary History of Socialist America

    This is absolutely incredible on several levels. I'm super interested in the history of industrial food culture and in daily life in hypothetical alternate socialist Americas so this is hitting on all cylinders. I love it.

  17. What if ISKCON continued to grow significantly in the United States from the 60s to 2020?

    I think you've hit on something here in re: ISKCON's popularity in the west; in short, the hippies ruined it. What made ISKCON grow in the west was it's position as basically a fad, a part of the overall countercultural movement's turn towards spirituality and lifestyle and away from politics...

  18. AHC: Better Arab performance in the Yom Kippur war

    This would do it. Really just a Syrian plan to initiate a grinding attritional fight in the Golan, based on seizing local high ground with smaller "bites", bringing up infantry with antitank weapons to dig in, extending the SAM umbrella to cover them, repeat might have worked. The OTL Egyptian...

  19. Which countries would have been most likely to fall to Communism during the 20th Century?

    Well then, Indonesia is probably the biggest one, if the mass killings of Communists in 1965 aren't given the tacit go-ahead by DC. Italy of course is where a Communist party could have been elected into office most readily in W.Europe although that would have triggered an instant coup or at...

  20. Could a reactionary coup in Turkey restore the ottoman empire?

    Ah! Okay. I guess I was confused. I think restoring the monarchy once it is abolished is a long shot, BUT, the Ottoman monarchy could easily have survived the end of the first world war if they had just embraced the anti-Sevres nationalist resistance. It's not highlighted much today, but the...
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