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  1. Would A Surviving Soviet Union Have A Internet Or Intranet?

    The .su domain (su for Soviet Union) does exist in OTL (and there also used to be .dd for East Germany and .yu for Yugoslavia). As the 1980s wore on it did seem like the Soviet Union was increasingly, if cautiously, opening up to the wider global economy, and internet adoption would inevitably...

  2. Solar Age: A Revolution in Space

    Definitely looking forward to seeing where this one goes. The SPS program is an idea that I've been reading up on a lot ever since I got my hands on a copy of The High Frontier (where the first orbital habitats are built with the purpose of building up an industrial base in space, initially to...

  3. WI: The Nazi leadership evacuates to Norway?

    The best bet for a Nazi holdout in Norway would likely be one led by Josef Terboven (Reichskommissar of occupied Norway), who by all accounts seemed to be a power-hungry tyrant who was much more of a hardliner than any of the leaders of the Flensburg government. Even Goebbels was annoyed with...

  4. For All Mankind (AH Tv series at Apple TV)

    If I'm remembering correctly (I might not be) one of the recaps at the start of this season mentioned that the Oslo Accords have held in this world.

  5. For All Mankind (AH Tv series at Apple TV)

    I'll admit I did think the show would end with them crashing the asteroid on Mars (perhaps they miss the chance for an orbital injection burn and just opt to turn and aim it directly at the planet) to give a reason to settle the planet itself (lots of surface mining towns could pop up around the...

  6. For All Mankind (AH Tv series at Apple TV)

    What we hear about the Middle East through the series seems to confirm that things are going pretty badly there. There was the beginning of Season 3 where President Hart refused to intervene militarily to liberate Kuwait from Iraq. They mentioned that with fusion power and electric cars, the US...

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  8. For All Mankind (AH Tv series at Apple TV)

    The news report in the first episode of this season said Canada and China were two space powers that were invited to join the M7 but declined, saying they wanted to pursue their own projects in space independently for now. The fact that they were mentioned at all suggests to me that this is...

  9. For All Mankind (AH Tv series at Apple TV)

    So long as it's aimed at the other side of the planet or whereabouts, I think Happy Valley would probably be fine. Ed did mention in passing when he was showing Dani around that they grow most of their food on the base, but it's in hermetically sealed greenhouses, and given they'd by necessity...

  10. For All Mankind (AH Tv series at Apple TV)

    Dev seemingly just has a low enough opinion of most humans and society at this point that he doesn't see any reason to stay on Earth among it (every once in a while he reminds us that he's partly based on Elon Musk, including the bad parts). I don't think he's already dying; if he was I'm...

  11. For All Mankind (AH Tv series at Apple TV)

    Most likely. Weed helps relieve the symptoms of Parkinson's, so that's probably why he's self-medicating with it.

  12. How would a US invasion of Saudi Arabia have gone in the 1970s?

    I did start thinking of this as a possible way to make the SPS program viable, so I certainly do hope they go all-in on renewable energy in response (and especially given battery tech wasn't as good as the present day, it's the only kind of renewable energy that's not intermittent)...

  13. How would a US invasion of Saudi Arabia have gone in the 1970s?

    I definitely think the invasion won't be able to last ten years as they estimated it would need to; the domestic political situation would never allow for it. Not that I really think a full-scale revolution is likely, but what certainly is likely is a massive amount of civil unrest that makes...

  14. How would a US invasion of Saudi Arabia have gone in the 1970s?

    It would have likely been launched from a US naval force operating out of the Indian Ocean, so probably Diego Garcia. They're going to need the Strait of Hormuz kept open to them for the initial invasion and for resupply, so Iranian alliance or assistance is definitely needed (it was suggested...

  15. How would a US invasion of Saudi Arabia have gone in the 1970s?

    There is the big question of what to do with the territory once it's taken, perhaps trying to break it off as a puppet state, or telling the Saudis that they'll give it back if they lower oil prices. Eastern Saudi Arabia has some religious differences compared to the country's centre of power...

  16. How would a US invasion of Saudi Arabia have gone in the 1970s?

    For a bit of context, while thinking of some ideas of how to make the Solar Power Satellite program of the 1970s plausible, I figured that it would require the 1970s-era fears of the future to come true, to some extent. It was an idea born out of the energy crisis, of the dual shocks of the 1973...

  17. For All Mankind (AH Tv series at Apple TV)

    The Polaris shuttles from last season (or newer similar vehicles) are probably what people take from Earth to orbit and back. We saw them bring guests and employees to the hotel and back, and later the construction crew (and Dev, Karen, and Ed) to the Phoenix when it was being built. So travel...

  18. For All Mankind (AH Tv series at Apple TV)

    I bet Pravetz is still going pretty strong in this world. I feel like there would be a danger of them getting outcompeted by the Western computer industry when the Soviets opened themselves up to the global economy. Then again OTL China has a strong computer industry with Lenovo, Xiaomi, and the...

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  20. How ambitious can alternate space histories get?

    He wrote more than one version of it over the years. The one you read would be the last one, taking the form of a novel in the then-future 1980s. I was thinking of the first iteration, written in the late 1940s and published in the early 1950s.
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