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  1. Space Shuttle, meet Skylab...

    ...so this one got me thinking. There were a lot of cancelled Space Shuttle flights, especially in the early days. Alot of the cancellations were mostly a confluence of NASA spitballing missions it'd like to see the Space Shuttle used for, and the Space Shuttle not being able to do anything...

  2. No Chernobyl, and no 3 Mile Island...

    ...just a thought I was having after I mentioned the attempt to by the Canadian navy to buy SSNs. Let's suppose for an instant that there's no Chernobyl meltdown (none at all) and 3 Mile Island doesn't happen, either. What would the effects on the development of nuclear projects be around the...

  3. STS-400

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-400 I think this was pretty cool. You don't want to know how I found this. It's really creepy.

  4. The Western Invasion of Cuba, 1898...

    ...I'm watching Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, at the part where they're watching a lynch mob get ready to run them down while they're getting drunk in a bar. Butch says: "When I was a kid, I figured I'd grow up and be a hero. Why don't we enlist? Go fight the Spanish? You and me in the...

  5. A Falklands What-If?...

    ...straight from my dad, who remembers wars so far back he was listening to reports of the Six Day War on the radio while driving to the machine shop: We were talking about the 30th Anniversary of the Falklands War yesterday, and he said something very interesting: "I was always worried they'd...

  6. Some alt.hist for the Iowans...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_War Can you say Missourian Invasion of Iowa, 1839? BECAUSE I CAN.

  7. The Portuguese Invasion of Brazil...

    ...just a weird thought. I had this weird story idea of Portugal somehow having it's colonies in Africa go independent and the only one they've got left is Brazil, so they concentrate on that. Then there's an insurgency in...say...the 1950s/60s/70s. I don't know. Just figured I'd pitch it. I...

  8. John Wayne on Gunsmoke...

    ...so apparently John Wayne was offered the role of Marshal Dillon. He said he didn't want to do a "television Western." So he instead suggested a guy by the name of James Arness, who made the character his own. So...what if John Wayne had taken the offer? (by the way, I just wanted...

  9. Beverly Hills Cop...

    ...so I'm watching a doc on the Casting of Beverly Hills Cop. Apparently, the script was around for almost six months with a different lead...SYLVESTER STALLONE. Now, if you'll remember, Axel Foley ends up going to Beverly Hills after his friend (who comes to see him) is killed by a mob hit...

  10. A Rwanda question...

    ...I'm reading Shake Hands With the Devil for about the millionth time, and also watching some docs on PMCs. So it turns out about a week into the genocide, while the rest of the Western world was complaning that they couldn't go to Rwanda because they had a yeast infection or their pussies hurt...

  11. The Soviet Invasion of Europe, 1945...

    ...I was wondering what the basic feeling is on this site regarding that. Suppose the Soviets decide somewhere around November-1944 that they're going for it. What's your take on their chances? (I'm going to keep my opinions to myself for now)

  12. Operation Keystroke

    This was something I wrote down while I was working on a story. I figured I'd post it here. I was thinking of turning it into a story. 1975: Soviet economists and mathemeticians pitch "Coldstone Project": where the Soviets will buy almost a billion dollars in Western stocks through front...

  13. The Minneapolis Giants?

    I'm watching Baseball by Ken Burns, and he interviews the GM of the Giants at the time of their move to San Francisco. It turns out that the original plan was for them to go to Minneapolis. They had a farm team there apparently, and the idea was basically to take the place of that team...

  14. Operation Galaxia: The Spanish Coup, 1978...

    So apparently, in 1978, several high ranking officers in the Spanish Army concocted a plan to launch a military coup as the country was making the transition out of Franco-esque fascism and into democracy. Unknown to some of the officers, two of the junior lieutenants that they included in...

  15. Americans in the Confrontation...

    ...so...suppose that for some reason (let's just butterfly out the reason for that) the mandated Vietnamese elections go forward as per usual. Perhaps Ho Chi Minh has a tummy ache and Vo Nguyen Giap doesn't live to see it. So...the American government is still incredibly freaked out about...

  16. Vietnam with Kennedy...

    ...so, let's suppose that Kennedy lives for two terms. Completely healthy, or at least healthy like he was when he got shot. How does he deal with Vietnam? More troops? Less troops? About like LBJ did? I've got my own opinions, but I'll throw it open to the floor first.

  17. A Vietnam/Konfrontasi thing I was thinking about...

    ...I've been looking up a lot of stuff from just about every anti-insurgency campaign that ever happened in the 20th Century for my Alternate Kenya story. This has led me to a lot of research into the Malayan Campaign, Indonesian Confrontation, and Vietnam, probably the three major...

  18. Canadians in Vietnam...

    ...as good a place to put this photo, I think. I'm sure most Canadians have seen it. This is Private Heath Matthews, a signaler in A Company, 1st of the Royal Canadian Regiment in Korea. I was reading about the contribution of Australian and New Zealander troops to the Vietnam War, and it...

  19. The ZIPRA Invasion of Rhodesia, 1979...

    ...from The Rhodesian War: A Military History by Paul L. Moorcraft and Peter McLaughlin: So...let's suppose that internal Rhodesian or external South African political pressure (as it had before) puts Ian Smith in a position where he doesn't let the SAS or RLI raid the army forming on the...

  20. AH Osprey books...

    ...you get the idea. Books that Osprey Publishing in other realities (or this one) would or should publish, like...for example... Elite: Canadian Airborne Regiment 1968-1997, from a world where the Airborne Regiment wasn't disbanded. (the publishing date being, of course, 1997) New Vanguard...
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