What if...? Political Fantasies

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Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

Ignatius M. Meen posted:

What if you could make humans literally incapable of hatred with no other effects?

Rule by psychopaths who still have a dispassionate lust for power, but without the hatred needed for the occasional revolution against them.

What if the Torres Strait had a land bridge?

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Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

OwlFancier posted:

Presumably mass suicide in Panama while Suez starts importing massive amounts of (now more accessible) cocaine.

All the coca in Peru would die at that latitude though, which means Central Africa or Indochina would probably take over growing it.

Argentina would start a territory war with South Africa over the Prince Edward Islands.

# ¿ Oct 16, 2015 16:01

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

And the Sasol slurry process would be profitable with out at that price, so South Africa would be a petrostate and Montana would have gone ahead with that Sasol contract to build plants there.

# ¿ Oct 19, 2015 18:45

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

NASA would have kept on sending up the same outdated shuttles until one of the other ones did.

# ¿ Oct 20, 2015 23:05

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

computer parts posted:

What if the guy who broke the Nazis' codes in WW2 was gay.

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.

# ¿ Oct 25, 2015 14:43

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

Time to stock up on theophylline and theobromine?

I can't think of much that is broad spectrum toxic against reptiles that isn't also poisonous to humans and important mammals.

# ¿ Oct 30, 2015 01:34

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

Would it have expanded west of the Appalachians?

# ¿ Nov 1, 2015 03:40

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

That's one small step for mans, one giant leap for manskind.

# ¿ Nov 4, 2015 21:48

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

What if we'd kept wepman and wifman as in the Old English recorded at Lindisfarne instead of man and woman, and had man being gender neutral?

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Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

IIRC the one guy that survived was an officer who left the safety perimeter to smoke a cigarette behind a concrete bunker. I may be confusing that with another Soviet rocket disaster though.

Smoking saves lives! :confuoot:

# ¿ Nov 6, 2015 23:12

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