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What if Standard Oil hadn't been broken up
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What if Aaron Sorkin's political/news fantasies were real?
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Oct 21, 2015 20:04
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:So they sorta led him to the answer. Likewise, a lot of disaffected engineers, software programmers and people involved in QC meticulously led him towards avenues of questioning that they had concerns about -- (like NASA's 1 in 10,000 failure rate for Shuttle missions, which was really more like 1/50-1/100). Here's a chilling one: What if Ruth Bader Ginsberg had fallen ill after the 2004 election
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Oct 21, 2015 22:58
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What if Obama had balanced chakras
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Oct 21, 2015 23:02
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What if GWB had choked to death on that pretzel?
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Oct 22, 2015 01:51
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What if George Washington pulled his usual stunt standing downrange while his men did musket practice and caught a ball to the face
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Oct 22, 2015 06:30
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What if they never passed the 22nd Amendment?
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Oct 22, 2015 06:47
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What would have happened in regards to 9/11 and the aftermath if Al Gore had won the election?
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Oct 22, 2015 09:22
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:What would have happened in regards to 9/11 and the aftermath if Al Gore had won the election? We probably still would have gone to Afghanistan, but we almost definitely would not have gone to Iraq.
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Oct 22, 2015 09:40
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What if Julius Caesar had stayed home that day? What if Richard the Lionheart had ducked? What if we invaded North Korea?
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Oct 22, 2015 16:12
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What if Cleitus the Black was a split second too slow at the Battle of the Granicus and Alexander the Great died in the first battle of his Persian invasion?
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Oct 22, 2015 16:28
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What if Hitler had ignored the Mufti's advice and sent all the Jews out on holidays instead of exterminating them?
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Oct 22, 2015 21:14
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What if Mexico had deported the settlers that moved into Tejas?
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Oct 23, 2015 08:13
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What if Charlemagne had mastered alchemy and never died?
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Oct 23, 2015 11:10
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Reading up about the ISS I wondered what would have happened if, instead of the Cold War, the two superpowers of the world actually co-operated with each other and did some more cool stuff like that instead.
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Oct 23, 2015 13:17
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The Kingfish posted:What if Huey Long had survived his assassination? We'd have an American Peron.
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Oct 24, 2015 19:38
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What if it turned out that Kennedy was a puppet of the Pope and was trying to turn America into a Catholic theocracy? What if freed slaves in America after the Civil War moved en masse to $_Southern_State and made it a 70%+ African American state?
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Oct 24, 2015 20:07
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DrProsek posted:What if freed slaves in America after the Civil War moved en masse to $_Southern_State and made it a 70%+ African American state? Several Southern states were very strongly African American up until ~1910 or so.
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Oct 24, 2015 20:12
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Oops forgot the last part of that What If  "...and then formed large successful communes away from white cities" (And the answer is probably "Tulsa, but bigger," either way)
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Oct 24, 2015 20:52
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What if the Business Plot
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Oct 24, 2015 20:53
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Something I've often wondered about is what would happen if a president or whatever were revealed to be a ____ right in the middle of some pivotal moment. What if the announcement of Japan's capitulation in 1945 was delivered by Truman in drag. What if the first words on the moon were "one small step for a gay man."
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Oct 25, 2015 03:34
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Something I've often wondered about is what would happen if a president or whatever were revealed to be a ____ right in the middle of some pivotal moment. What if the guy who broke the Nazis' codes in WW2 was gay.
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Oct 25, 2015 03:51
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what would happen if that iraqi journalist actually managed to hit gwb with his shoe?
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Oct 25, 2015 05:36
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:What would have happened in regards to 9/11 and the aftermath if Al Gore had won the election? New York Magazine has some fanfiction for you.
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Oct 25, 2015 06:14
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What if Germany had followed up their chemical weapons trickery in WWI with a huge press, forced the French to the peace table, and ended WWI in 1915?
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Oct 25, 2015 08:22
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computer parts posted:What if the guy who broke the Nazis' codes in WW2 was gay.
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Oct 25, 2015 14:43
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Guavanaut posted:I don't know what the Polish attitude towards gay rights was back then. IIRC homosexual activity was legal since the 30s (except during the period of occupation) with the same age of consent as heterosexual activity, but it is very likely that he would have faced some unique challenges from the society of the time. Depending on his desire to conform, he may not have had a wife and child back in Poland, so it may pushed him down the priority list to travel back home after the war was over. What is it with the UK and nicking all the Polish wins in ww2?
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Oct 25, 2015 18:04
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What if Mike Dukakis actually beat HW Bush in 1988?
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Oct 25, 2015 18:32
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What if Carly Fiorina rebrands as IMPERATOR FURIOSA?
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Oct 25, 2015 20:53
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Would anything in regards to civil rights be any different if JFK hadn't been assassinated?
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Oct 26, 2015 06:19
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computer parts posted:What if the guy who broke the Nazis' codes in WW2 was gay. Ok, yeah, forgot about him, though I don't think the leader of a covert operation being openly gay is the same as a dude coming out literally on the moon, while on global TV.
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Oct 26, 2015 11:14
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Here's one that is particularly haunting and sad to me: What if Abraham Lincoln had not replaced staunch Union man Hannibal Hamlin with despicable white supremacist Andrew Johnson on the ticket in 1864?
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Oct 26, 2015 12:24
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JonathonSpectre posted:
Probably about the same, since Johnson didn't do much and after 66 he was overruled by the Radical Republicans at every turn (and nearly impeached).
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Oct 26, 2015 12:29
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What if Phillip Hamilton and Alexander Hamilton had won their respective duels? Follow up: How many insults would Hamilton have lobbed at John C Calhoun?
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Oct 26, 2015 20:49
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What if the F-35 turns out to be a really good airplane that successfully meets the requirements of all of its roles?
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Oct 26, 2015 21:50
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In our reality, America won the Cold War, the Soviet Union collapsed under the weight of unsustainable Communism, and became a lovely capitalist country with a mean authoritarian streak. What would a "the Soviet Union wins the Cold War" scenario look like? How does the United States "collapse" via political and socioeconomic turmoil without the Soviet Union ever having fired a shot in anger?
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Oct 27, 2015 12:39
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gradenko_2000 posted:In our reality, America won the Cold War, the Soviet Union collapsed under the weight of unsustainable Communism, and became a lovely capitalist country with a mean authoritarian streak. "It's the economy, stupid" doesn't win against "Keep us safe from the looming soviet juggernuat", and HW defeats Clinton for a second term but replaces Quayle with Buchanan, and continues on a path of saber rattling and economic ruin. A bitter primary in 96 results in Buchanan getting the nomination over Dole through increased fear mongering. Buchanan looks set to lose by a healthy margin to Jerry Brown in the general, due to a populace that's sick of increasingly paranoid "Keeps us safe" rhetoric, but the bombing of the Atlanta olympics is pinned on Richard Jewell, who is accused of being a communist, and the TWA Flight 800 crash, which is also blamed on soviet agents, and the election swings narrowly to Buchanan, who enters office with a record low approval rating. In 1998 an independent investigation finds that Rudolph was responsible for the Olympic Park bombing, which calls TWA flight 800 into question, and an independent investigation there reveals that it was mechanical failure. Buchanan is impeached, but not convicted, leads to massive nationwide congressional recall elections and calls for a new continental congress, which convenes in 2000, and completely reorganizes the United States
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Oct 27, 2015 17:10
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Most historic events seemed to have played out the same way with out without some historical figures involved, but what if the Spanish Armada did better in 1588 than it did, would there be a Spanish Empire instead of a British one? Or what if the Mongol fleet had not been destroyed in its attempt to invade Japan in the 13th century? Would Japanese (language) be closer to Chinese today? What if the Moon landing, marking a decisive victory in the space race, would have failed? Would the world powers had (tense?) double their efforts to land on the moon, or abandon the idea? What if more of the actual teachings of Jesus had been preserved? Would we be closer to Buddhist spirituality today? What if Socialism/ Communism had turned out to be a less efficient (in terms of productivity) but more humane societal and economic model?
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Oct 27, 2015 19:06
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lllllllllllllllllll posted:What if more of the actual teachings of Jesus had been preserved? Would we be closer to Buddhist spirituality today?
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Oct 27, 2015 22:41
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What if either Ambassador Stevens or Vilerat had made it out of Benghazi alive?
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Oct 27, 2015 23:12
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