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    Freak chance--battleship sunk by bombers om the open sea--in 1917

    Inspired by this thread, I was thinking about how the development of the airplane and defenses against it could be inspired by a great shot--that was one in a million type incident. In late 1917, the Royal Navy rules the seas. Someone gets inspired, and instead of the 14 x 25 KG bombs the Gotha...
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    Better Pre War AntiSub considerations.

    In Reach For the Skies, the weapons being deployed are an almost out of context problem--not quite, as torpedoes are known, but 30 knot torpedoes are not. So, no countermeasures yet. It seems like submarines are not an out of context problem in 1914, but assessment of what they can do almost...
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    Better Pre War AntiSub considerations.

    I'm in the same situation in my "Reach for the Skies" timeline, where some potential weapons are being developed, but countering them is lagging behind. (In other fields, the defensive ideas are ahead of the offensive.) I'm trying to keep a realistic assessment of how offense and defense would...
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    Better Pre War AntiSub considerations.

    Commerce raiding was a possibility, but the Cruiser Rules were assumed to apply. They didn't.
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    Ocean of Storms: A Timeline of A Scientific America

    What a chapter!!! The instant I saw "Black Buck," I knew what the essence of the plan was, but still, gripping.
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    No 26th Amendment - US voting age stays at 21

    The unrest among draft age people will continue to grow IMVHO. It's so easy to portray this as "You are cannon fodder..." I could see someone opposing the draft on 13th amendment grounds. It makes no mention of an exception for military duty.
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    WI : From holy blessing to hellfire : Nicholas II and his family perished in a devastating salute (January 1905)

    IMVHO, it had to be deliberate. the odds of all four guns being that precise, and laid on the same target, are minimal. Furthermore, are the guns of a design where it's even possible to load warshots accidentally? Semi-fixed ammunition involves the shell being loaded separately from the...
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    Alternate Battle of Jutland - 1916 (The Battle of the Battlecruisers.)

    I have always loved a good Jutland timeline. My first attempt at writing a coherent one was a response to a junior high (8th grade) essay contest. We were asked to write an essay changing one small thing, and I had discovered a reference to the telemobilescope. It allowed the Germans to form...
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    The Shot Heard Across Russia | The Assassination of Vladimir Lenin

    This could be good. LOTS of possibilities here.
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    What is the earliest point in history for a viable space program?

    That is the point of my "Reach for the Skies," to get an ongoing war level push for technological development while reducing the wars. That does mean that the next war the United States is in will be a RUDE shock to the Europeans, who underestimated how MUCH the "rocket technolgy" they were...
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    What is the earliest point in history for a viable space program?

    It's not so much winking and nodding--though there IS some of that--as that the demands of the two environments are extremely similar in many ways. If the navy expends skywatch funding for something unrelated, like guns, three will be hell to pay--but dual use, like gyro guidance, life support...
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    ISOT & SI AH (Published books only) List

    I always thought a SI was when the author's mind is inserted into another personality, as opposed to someone being transported bodily.
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    ISOT & SI AH (Published books only) List

    A one person ISOT: Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen is a classic.
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    2024 Turtledoves - (Closes (15/02/24) - Best Spaceflight and Technology Timeline Nominations and Seconds

    I second the above nomination forBest Spaceflight and Technology Timeline: Ocean of Storms: A Timeline of Scientific America by BowOfOrion
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    España No Ha Muerto: If Franco brought Spain into the Second World War

    The NKVD is sadly good at making people behave, even if it's just making them lie quietly--very quietly. Their best musicians won't be composing music for resistance, they would be decomposing. However, I don't see the Soviets getting it; they would need a FLEET, and they don't have PEZ...
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    España No Ha Muerto: If Franco brought Spain into the Second World War

    Following this--it's interesting :) Not a time I know much about, though...certainly using the red cross for targets is unlikely, but propaganda films can sure claim it. (And the people making the films might believe it, depending on how the claims were made.) Spain's government is going to be...
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    What TL ideas do you have that will probably never see the light of day?

    One ISOT I thought would be interesting, but lack the skill or time to do: A major shopping mall from the mid '90's, with parking lot, is ISOTED to 1550--70 years before the pilgrims landed. No animal life, including people, go, but the seed section in the Sears store does. Doors fail open, so...
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    Ocean of Storms: A Timeline of A Scientific America

    Not necessarily. All they have to say is that prominent members of the "patriots" are being killed. They might not even know that the dead ones were involved in that. I'm just saying that there's no certainty that the murders will never be found out...they might be, they might not be.
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    Ocean of Storms: A Timeline of A Scientific America

    What is, IMVHO, quite possible, is for the ones that don't get murdered to note a pattern of deaths and, as conspiracy theorists do, jump to the same conclusion they always do...someone's trying to kill/oppress us. Some of them are not stupid--and this time, there's a genuine pattern. (Look at...
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    Ocean of Storms: A Timeline of A Scientific America

    They would say no to them operating outside the states as well. I would be surprised if they don't manage to kill some disgusting people that are not criminals--and the US allows people to hold whatever views they want. I am VERY MUCH looking forward to this blowing up in someone's face. Even...
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