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  1. Crunch Buttsteak

    What would the Apollo program’s “K missions” have entailed?

    The Apollo program used an alphabetical sequence of mission profiles ending with the “J missions” of Apollo 15, 16, and 17, which featured longer stays on the surface and more complex surface operations than the previous H missions (12, 13*, & 14). So in a situation where the Apollo program...
  2. Crunch Buttsteak

    WI: RMS Titanic collides with SS New York during departure.

    When Titanic was leaving Southampton, her displacement was enough to pull the New York and Oceanic free from their moorings and New York almost collided with the Titanic had it not been for the quick intervention of a tugboat to prevent a collision. What would have happened if Titanic and New...
  3. Crunch Buttsteak

    WI: Apollo 13 service module SM-109 blows up before launch

    Pretty much what it says, during preflight testing of SM-109 oxygen tank 2 ruptures in either the Operations and Checkout Building, VAB, or on the pad. How long does this delay the flight of Apollo 13, what knock on effects does this have on the rest of the Apollo program?
  4. Crunch Buttsteak

    AHC: Skylab reboost mission between 1974 and 1979

    What would it take for NASA to launch a mission to Skylab to reboost it into a higher (but still accessible by the shuttle) orbit sometime between the end of Skylab 4 and when it’s orbit decayed and it reentered the earth’s atmosphere in 1979? Would the reboost mission have to be manned? Does...
  5. Crunch Buttsteak

    DBWI: The Los Angeles River fully channelized

    Back in 1938 there had been a massive push after the flooding of the LA River to encase the river in concrete in order to prevent future floods. This never came to fruition but it did produce some fascinating concept drawings of a fully concrete river, as opposed to the concrete floodwalls we...
  6. Crunch Buttsteak

    DBWI: Avengers Endgame not delayed into 2020

    Pretty much what it says, what would have happened if Avengers Endgame didn’t get delayed and managed to be released in 2019, before the COVID pandemic? How would that have affected the film industry?
  7. Crunch Buttsteak

    DBAHC: Russian-controlled Königsberg

    Exactly what it says on the tin. Can you work out a scenario where the city of Königsberg is in undisputedly within Russian territory by the end of the 20th century?
  8. Crunch Buttsteak

    DBWI: Taft-Hartley veto is overridden

    Looking back, the attempt to pass Taft-Hartley Act is considered the ur-example of anti-union overreach, by passing a bill that would have severely undercut the hard-won power of unions in an attempt to restore the pre-depression status quo. How would history have turned out if that Congress...
  9. Crunch Buttsteak

    DBWI: Rosa Luxemburg assassinated

    Exactly what it says on the tin, how would history have played out if Friedrich Ebert’s collaborationist plot to have the far right freikorps kill Rosa Luxemburg in 1919 had succeeded? Would the SPD have had a greater success electorally if they had successfully killed the KPD’s rising star...
  10. Crunch Buttsteak

    WI: Japan Joins the Non-Aligned Movement after Castle Bravo Incident

    The US “Castle Bravo” nuclear test in 1954 was a disaster due to a shifted wind pattern that day and an unexpectedly high yield. As a result, the inhabitants from several nearby islands had high incidences of cancer and radiation sickness from the fallout. Also caught in the fallout was a...
  11. Crunch Buttsteak

    DBWI: 1968 Election without the Kissinger Scandal

    The Kissinger Scandal that broke in late October of that year obviously sunk the Nixon campaign. After all its hard to win an election when a key figure in a campaign is being publicly accused of treason for sabotaging peace talks. Assuming it doesn’t break until after the election, how would...
  12. Crunch Buttsteak

    DBWI: Heat Vision and Jack not picked up

    If Fox doesn’t pick up Heat Vision and Jack as a mid-season replacement for Titus. How would that affect TV history? Would they still have their Thursday night lineup of surreal and experimental comedy without the sleeper hit that was Heat Vision and Jack?
  13. Crunch Buttsteak

    WI: WWI in 1908

    What would an alternate WWI have been like if the diplomatic crisis caused by Austria-Hungary’s annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1908 had boiled over into war? Would the power blocs have been the same and how would this alt-WWI have played out?
  14. Crunch Buttsteak

    DBWI: Hurricane Ella doesn’t make landfall

    A lot of ink has been spilled over the years about the quote-unquote “terminal decline” of New York City post-Ella, especially after the 1990 census when Los Angeles overtook it to become the most populous city in the United States. If Ella, and the subsequent Citicorp Center collapse, gets...
  15. Crunch Buttsteak

    DBWI: No Goldsboro Incident.

    So obviously the Goldsboro accident is widely regarded as the beginning of the end of the Cold War, with Kennedy rightly using the accident to purge the USAF of Lemay and his “Nuclear Mafia” for extremely obvious reasons following the accident. Without Goldsboro, how much longer would the Cold...
  16. Crunch Buttsteak

    WI: The Empire Strikes Back was an “Irvin Kershner Film”

    At the start of Empire Strikes Back, just before the title card “A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far Far Away” is another title card in a similar style that says “An Irvin Kershner Film.” Everything else about Empire is the same. But because of the title card, George Lucas doesn’t get into a row...
  17. Crunch Buttsteak

    DBWI: Star Trek: The Next Generation gets more than two seasons.

    I know that TNG is considered the red-headed stepchild of the Star Trek franchise, but do you think that they could have turned around the series had it gotten another season or two? I rewatched the episodes and there were some standout episodes (Conspiracy, Measure of a Man, Q Who?) that are...
  18. Crunch Buttsteak

    DBWI: Intel Abandons Tejas and Jayhawk in favor of Conroe

    For those who don’t know what Conroe is, it would have been Intel’s first attempt at a mainstream dual core chip that they had been developing in 2005/2006, which could have easily had the potential to outperform AMD’s Athlon 64 X2 chips, with far lower TDP than the infamous Pentium V chips that...
  19. Crunch Buttsteak

    DBWI: NBC’s Heroes gets a second season.

    I know that the SaveTheCheerleader forums like to talk about what a hypothetical second season of Heroes would be like. But realistically, how well-received would a second season of heroes be? Let’s say that for whatever reason, season 1 never struggles to find an audience and becomes a...
  20. Crunch Buttsteak

    DBWI: Kronstadt Revolution is crushed

    The February Revolution of 1921 (even if it happened in March but that’s besides the point) is considered a turning point for the USSR, with the Left SR’s taking power in the All-Union Congress afterwards. How would history have played out if the February Revolution had been crushed by the...
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