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- Tue May 18, 2021 3:23 pm
- Forum: The History Forum
- Topic: The Alternate History Thread
- Replies: 16
- Views: 38327
Re: The Alternate History Thread
A German WWI victory would have also accelerated the timetable for European political and economic integration by decades. I have no illusions that this would have initially served German interests over those of other groups, but the establishment of the framework was the most crucial thing. It cou...
- Tue May 18, 2021 2:54 pm
- Forum: The History Forum
- Topic: The Alternate History Thread
- Replies: 16
- Views: 38327
Re: The Alternate History Thread
I think the most plausible and consequential alternate history scenario is Germany winning WWI. The odds were against it at almost every stage of the War, but it was far likelier than the French winning the French and Indian Wars, the CSA surviving the Civil War, or Germany winning WWII. A victoriou...
- Tue May 18, 2021 2:41 pm
- Forum: The History Forum
- Topic: The Alternate History Thread
- Replies: 16
- Views: 38327
Re: The Alternate History Thread
The most interesting alternate history scenario for me is what if America lost the Revolutionary War. I cannot even think how different world history would be if this actually happened. Well, there might just have been another Revolutionary War at a later date ;) I think that's what would have happ...
- Tue May 18, 2021 2:41 pm
- Forum: Off Topic & General Discussion
- Topic: Scary, Strange, and Unusual Media
- Replies: 508
- Views: 392306
Re: Scary, Strange, and Unusual Media
I'm a bit embarrassed to admit it, but I like this channel's creepy videos. Many of the stories are unproveable, but I enjoy scaring myself.
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- Tue May 18, 2021 12:05 am
- Forum: The History Forum
- Topic: The Alternate History Thread
- Replies: 16
- Views: 38327
Re: The Alternate History Thread
How could France have won? English colonists vastly outnumbered French ones in North America.
- Mon May 17, 2021 7:39 pm
- Forum: Science & Technology of the Future
- Topic: The Singularity - Official Thread
- Replies: 278
- Views: 1479978
Re: The Singularity - official thread
My official stance is that the technological singularity won't happen because new developments in science, technology and other domains will never get so rapid that unaugmented humans will not be able to keep track of them. This will even be the case after artificial general intelligence is created....
- Mon May 17, 2021 7:22 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: I made it
- Replies: 3
- Views: 10885
Re: I made it
The discontinuity between the end of my old account and the start of my new one makes me wonder if my consciousness was transferred, or if I am merely a copy of the old me with his memories implanted.
- Mon May 17, 2021 3:06 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: I made it
- Replies: 3
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I made it
I arrived at the old version of the Futuretimeline forum as a refugee from KurzweilAI.net, but I arrive at this new version on the first day of its existence, as a founding member. It's a good day.