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    Alt Armstrong first step speech

    There is a story that for the Apollo 11 mission, Neil Armstrong was having trouble coming up with a suitable first step speech, and NASA is on record as having refused to give him a script. So he was brooding about it on the way out. At this point the Command Module pilot Michael Collins was...
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    Gulf Arabs deal with Syria Chemicals

    Apparently the Saudi's have over 300 combat aircraft, including a large fleet of F-15D's and Tornado's, refueling planes for it all etc. Jordan has a couple of dozen F-16's, mostly A and B models admittedly. The Gulf states have been throwing money around on defence for a while now, I don't...
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    WI: No Nazi slave labour

    What if Germany in WWII had calculated that maximum possible production of appropriate quality weapons meant avoiding slave labour? From the statistics I have seen and one or two people I have known who had family working as slaves in those factories the slaves did as little as possible, as...
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    South China Sea war of 2013 What If?

    Foreign Policy magazine online currently has an article entitled "A Maritime Balkans of the 21st Century" - http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/01/30/a_maritime_balkans_of_the_21st_century_east_asia?page=0,1 - which directly compares East Asia now to the Balkans in 1914. There has been a...
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    If Fidel Castrol had signed on with the New York Giants in 1947?

    In 1947 Fidel Castro was a young Havanna college student who played baseball REALLY well, enough so that he was offered $5000 to sign up with the New York Giants as a pitcher. He spent a couple of weeks discussing it with friends and associates before deciding to reject the offer. Ten years...
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    Midway captured due to intel failure, NOW WHAT?

    Say the Japanese capture Midway WITHOUT a major naval battle, just steam up, hammer the defences and take the place while the US Carrier fleet is off somewhere else. Intelligence didn't work out what was really going on. Now they have to defend the blasted place,:eek: a long way from other...
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