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| ====== Airships ====== | ====== Airships ====== | ||
| - | To quote "[[offtopic:In da Gadda de Vita Through A Cracked Dark Mirror]]", | + | To quote the // |
| - | //**LEO**: | + | //**[[offtopic: |
| Airships. The primary mode of travel | Airships. The primary mode of travel | ||
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| There appears to be even a personal version available...// | There appears to be even a personal version available...// | ||
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| Airships are a topic of great controversy on AlternateHistory.com. | Airships are a topic of great controversy on AlternateHistory.com. | ||
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| It is hoped that someday the airship lovers shall rise up and destroy those who currently hold the whip of realism on our forum. | It is hoped that someday the airship lovers shall rise up and destroy those who currently hold the whip of realism on our forum. | ||
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| [[GURPS]] writer and creator Kenneth Hite had this to say about the phenomennon in his article | [[GURPS]] writer and creator Kenneth Hite had this to say about the phenomennon in his article | ||
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| "//All Change Points, from Xerxes to the last presidential election, create worlds with clean, efficient Zeppelin traffic. Changing history may produce Zeppelins as an inevitable by-product, much as bombarding uranium produces gamma rays. Often, the quickest way to tell if you are in an Alternate History is to look up, rather than at a newspaper or encyclopedia. From this premise, it is not outside the realm of Plausibility that our history between 1900 and 1936 was, in fact, an Alternate History. It would, at least, explain a lot.//" | "//All Change Points, from Xerxes to the last presidential election, create worlds with clean, efficient Zeppelin traffic. Changing history may produce Zeppelins as an inevitable by-product, much as bombarding uranium produces gamma rays. Often, the quickest way to tell if you are in an Alternate History is to look up, rather than at a newspaper or encyclopedia. From this premise, it is not outside the realm of Plausibility that our history between 1900 and 1936 was, in fact, an Alternate History. It would, at least, explain a lot.//" | ||
| - | It soon became known as " | + | It soon became known as **" |
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| + | True to his word, of the twelve TLs featured in the two Alternate Earths book, several feature airships - Dixie, Reich-5, Gernsback, Cornwallis, Ming... | ||
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| + | ==== See Also ==== | ||
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| + | The [[AltHist Fandom Wiki]] has a number of pages [[https:// | ||
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| + | **[[Battleships]]** | ||
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