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11. If we survived the potential MAD from the Cuban Missile Crisis in this world

Mon Oct 7, 2013, 04:46 PM

Oct 2013

Chances are MAD wouldn't have worked there either

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Thought Experiment Time: What if Rome never fell? [View all] Taverner Oct 2013 OP

The United States of Britannica... CJCRANE Oct 2013 #1

I'd live here: Taverner Oct 2013 #2

Roman Paganism was dying anyways. Chan790 Oct 2013 #3

Ah but Islam only spread because of Christianity Taverner Oct 2013 #6

It really is amazing to realize exactly how all this is interelated. Chan790 Oct 2013 #9

I was thinking too, if Christianity was a small cult Taverner Oct 2013 #10

Everything would be radioactive. hunter Oct 2013 #4

No need to reinvent the bikini jakeXT Oct 2013 #5

If Rome never fell Bunnahabhain Oct 2013 #7

What is known as the Dark Ages, I don't think was really dark Xyzse Oct 2013 #8

That's assuming Roman Culture never changed Taverner Oct 2013 #12

You may be right. Xyzse Oct 2013 #15

OK imagine this... Taverner Oct 2013 #16

It would be nice to have a more optimistic point of view. Xyzse Oct 2013 #18

Why do you hate Romanica? CJCRANE Oct 2013 #13

Yep! Xyzse Oct 2013 #23

Magic thinking needs to be toppled--religion. That's not gonna valerief Oct 2013 #25

present day utopia AustinActivist435 Oct 2013 #14

There was a Star Trek episode based on that premise csziggy Oct 2013 #17

When do the changes start? NewJeffCT Oct 2013 #19

Oh, this is hard. a la izquierda Oct 2013 #20

The Empire Never Ended Orrex Oct 2013 #22