The thread where Jenny is the most attractive woman on the Internet

[BitVyper]

Originally Posted by Smarty McBarrelpants

Pretty much nothing different?

Well, we might have better WWII horror stories.

[Geminex]

Oh come on. D'you know how close Britain was to starvation during the first happy time (or whatever that period's called when U-boats were hitting shipping and convoys hadn't yet been formed)? Had the Third Reich attacked agriculture with even primitive methods (I'm talking stuff like baking Anthrax into cow treats and scattering them across pastures here; Great Britain was actually preparing such an operation, it would've been possible) and they might've collapsed. This'd require more reallocation than just dedicating more research to bioweapons, I'm aware, but employing a new strategic weapons system lies at its core.

Y'know, a few posts ago I was gonna write IN THIS THREAD WE NOW DISCUSS WORLD WAR TWO, but this is much more effective.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Germany was nowhere close to winning World War 2. It is amazing that hey survived as long as they did.
Also I'm not sure waht bioweapons they could have made that would have been more effective than just bombing them considering the industrial outlays and technical knowledge of the 40s. Anthrax into cowtreats is nearly as stupid as when the US military investigated "gay bombs" that would turn people gay and htus prevent them fighting effectively.
The first happy time wasn't particularly that bad, sure people were hungry but nowhere near collapse and die. It was no potato famine.

[BitVyper]

Plus there's that pesky Russian front.

[Amake]

I imagine if Germany had done better in the war America would have joined in sooner, and there would be less resentment about them only showing up to save the day when practically all the work was already done.* (Which may or may not be true.) Maybe there would even have been a lasting Russia-America alliance and we could have done something better with the last fifty years of the twentieth century than trading insults and building walls between socialism and individualism.

In an optimistic analysis.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Nah we all know the Americans won World War 2! The Russians did nothing! I saw it in a movie.
You can't tell lies in movies. They have to sign a contract before hand saying they won't.

Really the only situation I can see Germany winning involves time travelling robots.

[A Zarkin' Frood]

So, what if Nazi Germany stole Einstein's time machine?

[Amake]

Then we'd get Dean Koontz' novel Lightning. I've been reading that just now because Life Unexpected reminded me of its excellent orphanage action.

The machine here has some funny traits by the way:
* It takes fantastic amounts of energy to open its portal, but then it can be kept open infinitely for cheap while still changing destinations.
* You can only go to the future, but then it takes the same effort to go one minute into the future as six billion years. You can carry as much junk both ways as can fit through the portal, about 2 meters in diameter.
* Returning can be done from anywhere, at any time, by pressing a button on your belt. You always return 11 minutes after departure. (Unless the plot demands otherwise.)
* You can't go to the same time twice, so you'll never meet yourself. Even though there are at least two ways to get around this rule it's decidedly impossible, and it never happens.
* You can only go further than 1988 if you're the protagonist. That's not an official rule, but there must be some reason it never happens.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Use of a time travel machine to change the outcome of a whole war is surprisingly difficult unless they can go to the future and get some kind of device which just murders opposition soldiers and not their own and plugs into a 1940s electrical socket.
I don't know if they oculd pull it off.

[CABAL49]

The United States could have never gotten along with those godless Soviets. The only reason we tolerate the Chinese is because they make toys for happy meals.