AH Challenge: POD 100 years before your birth

I read an interesting quote from Aldous Huxley. The proper time to influence the development of a child is 100 years before the child is born.

Okay. The challenge is to come up with a POD which is on your birthday, 100 years before you were born. It has to be exactly your birthday.

10 bonus points if the world is a better place as a result.

100 bonus points if you know the time of day and use that exact time as your POD.

1000 bonus points if no ASBs are involved.

10,000 bonus points if you trace where your parents, grandparents and great-grandparents were in the AH and demonstrate that you could have been born in the ATL. (Also your great-great grandparents, if you need to include them.)

I'm not sure if the number of points is appropriate to each condition, but oh, well.

Everybody knows the number of points is meaningless anyway, right?
:D:rolleyes:
 

Michael Busch

Okay. The challenge is to come up with a POD which is on your birthday, 100 years before you were born. It has to be exactly your birthday.

100 bonus points if you know the time of day and use that exact time as your POD.

1000 bonus points if no ASBs are involved.

Okay - November 28 1887 (at whatever UT time is appropriate for my birth certificate). A micrometeorite hit dislodges a few cobbles on the Tunguska impactor. Its trajectory is slightly changed, and in 1908 it hits over St. Petersburg rather than Siberia. No ASB required.

10 bonus points if the world is a better place as a result.
Depending on the details of the impact, this can go either way. A while back, I considered a line where the surviving Russian royals implemented effective constitutional monarchy reforms; and later ended up allying with the British and starting a much-accelerated space age.

There was no World War and environmentalism became a powerful force much sooner; but there was also racism and much stronger class distinctions than we have now. It was both better and worse - does one outweigh the other?

10,000 bonus points if you trace where your parents, grandparents and great-grandparents were in the AH and demonstrate that you could have been born in the ATL. (Also your great-great grandparents, if you need to include them.)
All of my ancestors were in the US by this point. A butterfly net then permits "my" existence, where "me" is defined as someone with the same ancestors and genome born at the same time and place. Without the net, the probability of that is something less than a google to one against.

Since there won't be many toddlers using this board, everybody now alive can use a Tunguska-impactor POD.
 
John Howard Lawson (IOTL a Communist American playwright) is dropped on his head as a child. This changes his entire life. He ends up becoming a psychopath, and he joins an anarchist group at the age of 15. He ends up killing Woodrow Wilson by throwing a bomb at him during a speech in the 1912 elections, causing major damage. The man dies the next day (which happens to be the first day of elections), and eventually Teddy Roosevelt achieves the title of the first President to serve three terms, and the second President to serve non consecutive terms. World War I ends early when the Americans jump in it immediately, and this butterflies away WWII, the Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany. Possibly even the Depression (although I doubt it).
 
January 24, 1895, 7:22 PM, EST: 3-week old J. Edgar Hoover contracts pneumonia and is dead within a week. No ASB required.

Does it make the world a better place? Hopefully. J. Edgar was one ruthless SOB who had a certain degree of corruption.

Would I be born? Not likely. The loss of J. Edgar will lead to a stronger Mob in the USA, possibly a less ruthless Subversive-Hunter will lead to changed political circumstances in the USA, and, as a result, the USSR. Butterflies resulting can change any number of Interwar and WWII events. For example, Hermann Goering joined the Nazi Party because a hot blonde walked by when he was waiting to join the Freemasons. ITTL, the Blonde does not walk by, Goering becomes a Freemason, is killed in the Holocaust, and the war goes differently. Maybe the Germans wipe out the British army at Dunkirk, without Goering there mucking things up. Maybe the UK signs a seperate peace with the Reich. Then, focusing on the USSR, they drive the Russians back to the Urals, leading to Nazi-Victory TL. And my parents and grandparents are either fed into the gas chambers or used as slave labor. For want of a Hoover, Goering became a Freemason.
 
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