London Event 1908, meteor fall and burn capital of UK, instead of Tunguska (Russia)

(catholic) Ireland Independecy war?
nobody try to conquer the Channel Isles?
Gibraltad?
the british empire go on intact?
Germany and Britain are in a tecnology war race in the 1900 and when one of them magicly fall
pass and future british nobel winners die, but german Eistein is intact

Why do you think other nations would automatically declare war on Britain? Far more likely that they send aid. It makes everyone look good. Might even butterfly away a 1914 Great War, or move it a decade or more into the future.

Ireland: Again, there needs to be some groundwork and preparations for a war of independence. A sudden catastrophe like a meteor impact doesn't give any prep time. Perhaps it could be used as an opportunity for more local governance until central government in England is restored.

Were most or any future British Nobel winners in London on that day, rather than Cambridge or elsewhere?
 

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And the U.S. =/= America, but its a nickname.

That's different. United States of America. United Kingdom of Great Britain. You don't see people calling America New York, or Kansas, do you?

As a side note to the actual topic of this thread, I think it would be far more interesting for the comet to hit the capital of a neutral country. Imagine if it crashed into Berne or Stockholm or Madrid (come to think of it, check out the 1900 mapgame in the ASB forum - has Tunguska hitting Madrid).
 
look ok to this TL?

Thanks for the new desktop picture :) Where do you find pics like that?

Edit: Just read an article somewhere....says these type/sized object come our way every 2-12years....most are destroyed very high up. Thought I should add something that actually related to discussion ;)
 
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New York becomes the center of global finance much sooner, particularly if the Great War breaks out. No other nation has even close to the amount of capital as the United States does, particularly if the British banking system is left in tatters after the main branches of those banks are destroyed (along with their critically important records). The US stops being a debtor nation an entire decade earlier probably (instead of part way through World War I). The US financial system is not equipped to handle this role at this point in history (nor was it when it got the role in 1918.. a major contributor to the Great Depression). So likely a major depression in 1908-1912 period, and the Great Depression could come as early as the mid-1920s. Even without World War I.

Don't know about that, NYC became the financial centre as assets were transferred from London and Paris to America, here the vast majority of London's financial information and capital just went up in smoke. NYC would de facto be the worlds control station, but it wouldn't be any bigger than OTL.
* 2/3rds of the Worlds investments have just be scrambled
* The worlds greatest insurers have just be wiped from the face of the earth.
For the next ten years business becomes massively more risky and hard to find capital for and the world falls into a Great Depression that makes the OTL one look like forgetting your wallet at home. Hardest hit is South America and Russia, but no one is even going to be contemplating war until the economy picks up (unless the governments are overthrown by revolutionary movements due to the ecomonic problems)
 
With the British Empire effectively decapitated, would this shake the US out of their isolationism? Otherwise, you'll have a Central Powers-wank come *WW1.

Or, you don't have WW1 for some time, as European courts, which are family-related, would most probably rally around stricken Britain. The extraordinary nature of the event - London razed by an exploding meteor - would probably stop governments dead in their tracks.

The British King is dead - his nephews Wilhelm and Nikolai would gather in London to mourn, along with every head of state. Who knows what dynamics could be born out of this meeting of astonished Emperors, Czars, Kaisers and Presidents?
 
More nations look into space and realize that this could happen again at any time, and there is nothing they can do about it.....YET! ;)

TO THE MOON! :eek::cool:

I have my doubts if NASA and/or the USAF could do anything about it NOW in 2010.

On a second note, if the meteor did hit London, I'd think the meteor was AIMED, as on a global scale London is miniscule.
 
Were the Royal Family in London on that day? It's pretty important to the scenario IMO.

There's an interesting scenario; Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes King William V of Great Britain & Ireland. :eek: Granted someone ahead of him was probally mulling around in their country house when London was crushed, but still.
 
I have my doubts if NASA and/or the USAF could do anything about it NOW in 2010.

On a second note, if the meteor did hit London, I'd think the meteor was AIMED, as on a global scale London is miniscule.

You mean the nucleus of Eneke's Comet did not partially break up in Earth's atmosphere, but remained intact to impact London...
(The remainder of the nucleus, according to a recent report by Russian astronomers, indicate the remnant could hit Earth sometime in 2029, as it went into a extremely elliptical orbit...).
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Maybe the US contributes massive amounts of help to their "British brethren" leading to earlier American global influence? I also find it hard to believe that Germany would be that dickish to go to war with a Britain that just got millions of its citizens wiped out. Perhaps Germany will also try to take advantage of this by donating aid to their fellow Saxons.
 
You mean the nucleus of Eneke's Comet did not partially break up in Earth's atmosphere, but remained intact to impact London...
(The remainder of the nucleus, according to a recent report by Russian astronomers, indicate the remnant could hit Earth sometime in 2029, as it went into a extremely elliptical orbit...).
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Oh, no, that AND Apophis?

Remind me to make sure I have a will written by 2028. (Not that it will likely matter, as if I die from one of those it's likely any non-financial assets I have would be destroyed too, and possibly the financial ones depending on how massive the destruction.)
 
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