FFS Pete they’re losers. Every last one
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wrote on 15 Jan 2025, 13:34 last edited by Doctor Phibes
And if Napoleon had won the Battle of Hastings (which he clearly would have done if he'd actually shown up) we'd all be speaking Dutch.
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wrote on 15 Jan 2025, 13:37 last edited by
Odd how people seem to think the south could have won and yet we’d somehow have become one nation in time to turn the tide in the world wars. I think it’s at least as likely that had the south won we’d be speaking German.
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wrote on 15 Jan 2025, 13:47 last edited by
For some reason, I'm reminded of Jeremy Corbyn's claims that he won the argument.
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Odd how people seem to think the south could have won and yet we’d somehow have become one nation in time to turn the tide in the world wars. I think it’s at least as likely that had the south won we’d be speaking German.
wrote on 15 Jan 2025, 13:49 last edited by@jon-nyc said in FFS Pete they’re losers. Every last one:
Odd how people seem to think the south could have won and yet we’d somehow have become one nation in time to turn the tide in the world wars. I think it’s at least as likely that had the south won we’d be speaking German.
Good point, I hadn't thought of that. If the south had won, I bed the north would've remained united as we are today, just smaller... and the south would've just been a united set of highly individual states that likely would've eventually led to more fighting. I'd imagine the north would've taken over the westward expansion of the country, too.
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wrote on 15 Jan 2025, 14:34 last edited by
The westward expansion probably would have been negotiated north and south of some parallel. My guess anyway.
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wrote on 15 Jan 2025, 15:23 last edited by
If the Japanese had hit our oil reserves at Pearl Harbor, we would all be speaking Japanese.
Or the Japanese would all be speaking Russian.
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wrote on 15 Jan 2025, 18:04 last edited by
@Doctor-Phibes said in FFS Pete they’re losers. Every last one:
And if Napoleon had won the Battle of Hastings (which he clearly would have done if he'd actually shown up) we'd all be speaking Dutch.
Inspired by SNL, a panel discussion called "What If?" takes viewers' questions about ridiculous topics, including this week's question: what if Napoleon had access to a B-52 Bomber plane?,
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@Doctor-Phibes said in FFS Pete they’re losers. Every last one:
And if Napoleon had won the Battle of Hastings (which he clearly would have done if he'd actually shown up) we'd all be speaking Dutch.
Inspired by SNL, a panel discussion called "What If?" takes viewers' questions about ridiculous topics, including this week's question: what if Napoleon had access to a B-52 Bomber plane?,
wrote on 15 Jan 2025, 19:43 last edited by@taiwan_girl said in FFS Pete they’re losers. Every last one:
@Doctor-Phibes said in FFS Pete they’re losers. Every last one:
And if Napoleon had won the Battle of Hastings (which he clearly would have done if he'd actually shown up) we'd all be speaking Dutch.
Inspired by SNL, a panel discussion called "What If?" takes viewers' questions about ridiculous topics, including this week's question: what if Napoleon had access to a B-52 Bomber plane?,
Luke got me a ridiculously fun book called “What If” where a physicist with a sense of humor answers some bizarrely out there rhetorical questions… I’ll post a couple.
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wrote on 15 Jan 2025, 19:49 last edited by
It’s the xkcd guy. They’re great.
My favorite is the one where he compares the energy your body would take (its its last picosecond of existence) if (a) the sun went supernova vs (b) a hydrogen bomb detonated on the surface of your eye.
The sun going supernova wins.
Which is fucking amazing.
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It’s the xkcd guy. They’re great.
My favorite is the one where he compares the energy your body would take (its its last picosecond of existence) if (a) the sun went supernova vs (b) a hydrogen bomb detonated on the surface of your eye.
The sun going supernova wins.
Which is fucking amazing.
wrote on 15 Jan 2025, 20:10 last edited by@jon-nyc said in FFS Pete they’re losers. Every last one:
It’s the xkcd guy. They’re great.
My favorite is the one where he compares the energy your body would take (its its last picosecond of existence) if (a) the sun went supernova vs (b) a hydrogen bomb detonated on the surface of your eye.
The sun going supernova wins.
Which is fucking amazing.
The guy is actually an alumni from Luke’s college - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_Munroe
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wrote on 15 Jan 2025, 20:12 last edited by
Cool.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in FFS Pete they’re losers. Every last one:
And if Napoleon had won the Battle of Hastings (which he clearly would have done if he'd actually shown up) we'd all be speaking Dutch.
Inspired by SNL, a panel discussion called "What If?" takes viewers' questions about ridiculous topics, including this week's question: what if Napoleon had access to a B-52 Bomber plane?,
wrote on 15 Jan 2025, 21:14 last edited by@taiwan_girl said in FFS Pete they’re losers. Every last one:
Inspired by SNL, a panel discussion called "What If?" takes viewers' questions about ridiculous topics, including this week's question: what if Napoleon had access to a B-52 Bomber plane?,
Those aren't B52s, so it's obviously a ridiculous question.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in FFS Pete they’re losers. Every last one:
And if Napoleon had won the Battle of Hastings (which he clearly would have done if he'd actually shown up) we'd all be speaking Dutch.
Inspired by SNL, a panel discussion called "What If?" takes viewers' questions about ridiculous topics, including this week's question: what if Napoleon had access to a B-52 Bomber plane?,
wrote on 15 Jan 2025, 21:52 last edited by@taiwan_girl said in FFS Pete they’re losers. Every last one:
@Doctor-Phibes said in FFS Pete they’re losers. Every last one:
And if Napoleon had won the Battle of Hastings (which he clearly would have done if he'd actually shown up) we'd all be speaking Dutch.
Inspired by SNL, a panel discussion called "What If?" takes viewers' questions about ridiculous topics, including this week's question: what if Napoleon had access to a B-52 Bomber plane?,
I think I have mentioned this a couple times, a book I would love to write but probably never will. It would be non-fiction, but it would be a series of real world butterfly effects of sorts, where I track one small incident and the ripple effect it has throughout history, for example, the assassination of archduke Ferdinand leading to rocket travel.