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The timeline is all wrong. Think "Yesterday's Enterprise" (Original Post) Faygo Kid May 2014 OP
An alternate history..... LongTomH May 2014 #1
Let me know when you find the portal antiquie May 2014 #2
Me too shenmue May 2014 #3
Me three.... AngryDem001 May 2014 #8
I'm there smallcat88 May 2014 #4
K&R... bvar22 May 2014 #5
We're in the universe where Spock is going to have a beard ThoughtCriminal May 2014 #6
I HAVE to post this.... Spitfire of ATJ May 2014 #7

LongTomH

(8,636 posts)
1. An alternate history.....
Sun May 18, 2014, 05:42 PM
May 2014

If JFK had lived and been able to continue all of his initiatives, from ending the Cold War and the nuclear arms race to exploring the moon with the Russians.

  • Poverty in the US would be diminished, with things like hunger and maternal death rates continually falling;
  • The Cold War might have been effectively ended without the precipitous collapse of the Soviet Union that has brought so much suffering to the people of the Former Soviet Union;
  • We would be well on our war to ending discrimination against our Black and Latino citizens;
  • The power of the Military Industrial Complex would be vastly lessened, and
  • We would be exploring the planets with international crews.

Sometimes I think we're living in the Mirror Universe, an empire ruled by those with an unquenchable thirst for power.

Oh, wait....That's the universe we are living in!

smallcat88

(426 posts)
4. I'm there
Sun May 18, 2014, 08:06 PM
May 2014

Find or make a portal, wormhole, . . . Unfortunately, we are left to fix this mess ourselves. Don't count on it in our lifetimes.

ThoughtCriminal

(14,047 posts)
6. We're in the universe where Spock is going to have a beard
Sun May 18, 2014, 10:05 PM
May 2014

It's the same in all the universes where Dick Cheney was Vice President. There's this really dark one where he became President - that one even scares Evil Spock.

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