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  1. farwalker

    Lands of Ice and Mice: An Alternate History of the Thule

    Allan Savory's theories have been largely debunked. Turns out he rejects the scientific method because "Holistic management does not permit replication". Linky
  2. farwalker

    Land Below the Sunset- A Papuan AH

    Thanks, good article but correct me if I misunderstand but doesn't this support the Melanesian origin theory?
  3. farwalker

    Land Below the Sunset- A Papuan AH

    Just out of curiosity where does that information come from? because i've always assumed they from PNG.
  4. farwalker

    Land Below the Sunset- A Papuan AH

    Very interested, since I was born in Rabaul, anything Papuan tingles my spidey sense :). And I can confirm that winged beans are quite delicious BTW. Suscribed!
  5. farwalker

    Go North, Young Man: The Great Canada

    I'm beginning to think you made all this massive change with a POD back in the 19th Century just to have the Leafs win another Cup!!:rolleyes::rolleyes: I'm wondering about other sports though, are Lacrosse and Rugby bigger in this TL maybe by axing the CFL?
  6. farwalker

    Go North, Young Man: The Great Canada

    Hey you left out "Les Glorieux", if the leafs win in '93 the Habs don't get the miracle of Saint Patrick, do they get another crack at it?
  7. farwalker

    Go North, Young Man: The Great Canada

    OK that makes sense, I must have skimmed over that part in the original Post. I wonder though, won't the proximity of Seattle reduce the importance of Vancouver as a port (or vice-versa). OTL they duplicate many of the same functions, it's hard to believe Canada would need two large deep water...
  8. farwalker

    Tatja Grimm's World

    Admittedly it was one of his lesser works, but even on his bad days Vinge's world building skills are simply amazing.
  9. farwalker

    Tatja Grimm's World

    I've just re-read an old classic of mine from Vernor Vinge Called Tatja Grimm's World, and I've been thinking of setting a my latest RPG campaign on the world described therein. The Planet "Tu" is described as a metal-poor world with a single large landmass covering the north pole and...
  10. farwalker

    TL: The Haitian Renaissance

    Very interesting, there are very few Haiti ATLs on this website (most started after the earthquake and quickly abandoned). I eagerly await more updates, consider me subscribed.
  11. farwalker

    A RED SUN: A TLIAD.

    Consider me intrigued... Please do go on.
  12. farwalker

    Lands of Ice and Mice: An Alternate History of the Thule

    Fantastic update! Great to see this back DV.
  13. farwalker

    Lands of Ice and Mice: An Alternate History of the Thule

    Awesome as usual DV!! It's even beginning to eclipse Green Antarctica as my favourite of your TLs... I think we need a TL where both Jared's Land of Red and Gold and Ice and Mice co-exist, oh the butterflies!!!!
  14. farwalker

    Indigenous Icelandics

    They could always have been colonized from the "other side" so to speak. What if the Dorset cultures had migrated to Iceland probably by walking their accross the ice in a particularily cold series of winters searching for better sealing groundes. I realize they are Hunter-Gatherers but they...
  15. farwalker

    Alternate Olympic sports

    I can see the argument both ways, I'm a bit of a purist in that if you've got 4 athletes competing why shouldn't they get (and have it count for) 4 medals? 20m? Sure, why not. 50m? That seems a little excessive and very dangerous but hey so is jumping off a 10m diving platform... I dunno...
  16. farwalker

    Alternate Olympic sports

    Simplify, Simplify, Simplify. No team sports at all, individual competitions only and only sports that do not need to be judged on a qualitative scale (i.e. no gymnastics, syncro-swimming, diving, figure skating etc..). You could reform such sports so that it be easily determined who the...
  17. farwalker

    WI: Climate Changes

    Well, even during the last Ice Age (which ended around 12000 yrs B.P. give or take a century) the glaciers took literally hundreds of years to advance or retreat so you wouldn't get an ice cap in the Baltic realistically until the 14th or 15th century. However this would have been preceded by a...
  18. farwalker

    Lands of Ice and Mice: An Alternate History of the Thule

    Okay, I'm getting twitchy here, it's been too long since an update. Please don't tell me I have to go through withdrawal again. I barely survived Green Antarctica going into hiatus.:D
  19. farwalker

    WI: The metric system was duodecimal?

    So the consensus is that the push for a duodecimal metric system has to come from the merchant and accounting sectors, right? Now my knowledge of la Révolution may be irrevocably tainted by Franco-Japanese anime of "Les Misérable" from my childhood, but I don't think those two groups had much...
  20. farwalker

    WI: The metric system was duodecimal?

    Engineers in charge of spelling?!?:eek::eek: There's no possible way that could go wrong eh? True numerals are one of the most stable parts of language, but in times of revolution things may change y'know...
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