DBWI : A meteorite don't hit Sajevo in 1914?

28 June 1914 a large comet totally destroy Sarajevo an interesting fact about that destruction is that Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was visiting the city (and oblivously he was turned into cinder), WI that didn't happen?
 
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Given the extremely bad relationship between his father and his wife, one wonders if the Archduke would have still been the inheritor to the throne when his father died in 1919.

If he did, I imagine he might have handled the Russian Crisis of '21 differently from Charles I: would he have also refused to take the opportunity to beat up on Serbia? Might Ferdinand have joined Germany's "military aid mission"?

And I have a great deal of trouble seeing the Hungarian-hating Ferdinand having the patience to carry out the long and painful series of carrot-and-stick maneuvers that finally led to the change to Imperial Federation in 1927-1929.

Bruce
 
Well Nikola Tesla's "Technocratic Republic of Yugoslavia" (1936-1942) would have never existed without the fears generated by the "Death From Above" phenomenon that many experienced after 1914. But then can anyone truly imagine a world without the technological juggernaut that Tesla installed? Even today people can see the lights caused by the Tesla Electrical Towers along the Adriatic Ocean....
 
28 June 1914 a large comet totally destroy Sarajevo an interesting fact about that destruction is that Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was visiting the city (and oblivously he was turned into cinder), WI that didn't happen?

He would have gone on to become Habsburg emperor in, oh, 1916 or thereabouts. Face a lot of opposition from the bigger reactionaries at court and in Hungary.
 
Well Nikola Tesla's "Technocratic Republic of Yugoslavia" (1936-1942) would have never existed without the fears generated by the "Death From Above" phenomenon that many experienced after 1914. But then can anyone truly imagine a world without the technological juggernaut that Tesla installed? Even today people can see the lights caused by the Tesla Electrical Towers along the Adriatic Ocean....

One of the biggest white elephants on the planet, I swear. Remember Tesla also claimed they would be self-sustaining (drawing electricity from the magnetosphere) and by illuminating the atmosphere, would eliminate the need for street lighting. As it worked out, the towers never even broke even on energy consumption/production, and the effects on Yugoslavia's ecosystem brought about by the lack of darkness at night - oy. Sure, they keep a few of them along the coast to impress the tourists, but it was an incredible example of what a small country will do out of national ego (it still amazes me that Italy is still funding it's lunar colony).

I suppose I shouldn't be too harsh on Tesla, though: further developments of his technology meant that as unpleasant as the pan-Asian war was, at least there was no sustained aerial bombardments of civilian populations - the development of the Electron Pulse meant that "the bomber always get through" changed to "the bomber always gets toasted."

Bruce
 
Another issue to consider is what the state of the world's environment would be without the peace time sale of Tesla Motor Corp. vehicles to Western Europe and the United States since 1946. Starting in 1973, the Tesla cars gained sudden popularity as a fuel-saver. By 1985, Tesla cars showed that electric cars could also be fast and reliable.

Who knows? We might have even been forced to drive vehicles reliant on diesel fuels....
 
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