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  1. Fenians, Brits, Mexicans, Canucks and Frenchies....OH, MY! An alternate American Civil War

    I suppose he might make the tower his seat when he becomes Govenor, but I wouldn't have thought it would be very comfortable.

  2. Boldly Going: A History of an American Space Station

    As far as I can tell, this is an amalgamation of the 'Space Station Columbia' and ET space station concepts. In the Columbia proposal, the ( old, heavy) Columbia would have the wings removed, a habitation and science module built into the cargo bay, and solar arrays and radiators added. this...

  3. Earliest Plausible Manned Moon Landing

    It isn't necessary to use either mechanical or vacuum tube based computers. How's this for a POD: fluidic computing is developed 150 years earlier, around the same time Babbage is working on the Analytical Engine. Suddenly, instead of requiring several seconds to get a result, several thousand...

  4. Independent British nuclear arsenal

    I'm not sure laughing in derision would be polite, so I'll refrain.

  5. To Grasp the Heavens

    Once you're in space,you don't need nukes to hit an immobile target. You just need a big enough rock.

  6. To Grasp the Heavens

    The Moon is a Harsh Mistress?

  7. Hanging Together - A Guide to 21st Century Federalism in the "United" Kingdom

    One question: does Wessex include Hampshire, and if so, why is the capital not at Winchester?

  8. Technology that develops without electricity?

    I don't know about pneumatics, but the London Hydraulic Power Company was a thing; there were similar such companies in cities in Europe as well, IIRC.

  9. Other options besides Churchill?

    Leopold Amery perhaps.

  10. AHC: A country bans Linux and Open-Source software because of its fear of Communism

    "and why free energy? well, free is just another word for socialist. We may have to look into any past Communist party affiliations you might have had..." Captain of Industry, Watchmen. (the film)

  11. WI Super Mario Bros. (1985) had a female protagonist?

    You may have a point. I imagine that this would be happening in the 90s rather than now, so Thompson was more influential, but a gamergate analog is less likely.

  12. AHC: Prevent Global Oil Prices From Soaring

    For some reason, Carter beats Reagan. Instead of trying to cripple the Russian economy by crashing the price of oil, Carter allows the markets to determine what the price of oil should be (slightly higher than OTL for the period). The slightly higher price means some of the energy conservation...

  13. WI solar superstorm in 2012

    IIRC, the control rods are suspended from electromagnets.If there is loss of power, they slide in and kill the reaction.

  14. Alternate First Men on the Moon thread

    name of first man on moon: Captain John Christopher Richard Tolkien. organisation who put him there: Imperial Foundation for the Exploration of Space. name of spacecraft: Newton's Cradle. first words: "I think that's ten pounds you owe me, Jeremy" (to co-pilot) year: 1926

  15. Clems vision.

    not often enough for it not to be frowned upon though, right?

  16. Clems vision.

    this is so dead my posting is technically necromancy, right?

  17. Pykrete carrier

    ignoring your disclaimer, I would have thought that either a) the planes used were planes that had been adapted to land on ice, or b) they put mats down for planes to land on.

  18. Britain and the Bomb, or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the Empire

    its very nice, the only problem that I can see is a more militaristic and reactionary government from 1933, the government may take more of an interest in intervening in, say, the Abbysinian conflict. certainly the rearmament would pull Britain out of the depression faster.

  19. 1908: A WW1 mapgame

    17th-25th February 1909. due to a suprisingly early start to spring, campaigning picks up again. the Russians, after a month long build up, push back the Austrians. the Germans, however, manage to move forward slightly. on the Western front, the French with a mighty effort, retake a small amount...

  20. 1908: A WW1 mapgame

    I cliam next
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