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Flip this. Steven Spielberg gets his mechanical shark puppet working properly, Jaws loses all its suspense and bombs as a forgettable b-movie taking his career with it. https://www.cbr.com/jaws-original-opening-b-movie/...

I wonder what other points in our history look like backfiring time traveler interventionism? General Patton's car crash? It was an assassination. In the original timeline where he lived, he turned his popularity with the troops into the start of a political career, with unfortunate consequences...

You kidding? He and Edison hated each other. At least, in OTL. Who knows what cycle of the timeloop we're on.

John Wilkes Booth misses his shot, hits Mary Todd Lincoln sitting right next to his intended victim. Abe is suddenly less interested in peaceful reconciliation.

They can probably take western Europe and maybe launch preemptive nuclear attacks with bombers against American cities on the west coast, but their lack of a missile-based delivery system and bottleneck on manufacturing bombs are going to be their weaknesses. Likely this ends with a full-scale...

Not sure. Theoretically, I guess it’d be possible to hotwire a nuclear weapon by bypassing the triggering mechanism to the chemical explosives surrounding the plutonium core altogether. Not sure about delivery system though.

Or you could keep Axis production rates the same but sabotage the Allies. The Americans live with a ticking time bomb on their continent which could remove them as a serious geopolitical contender at any point if it ever detonated.

Reagan's star wars is less of a boondoggle and the US gets an actually semi-viable shield against ICBMs, motivating their rivals to go for alternative WMDs to maintain MAD deterrence.

Joseph Smith had heard the various Solutrean hypothesis/mound builder theories floating around at the time and incorporated them. So Moroni and his civilization were the Solutreans, the giant skeletons people kept supposedly finding were Nephilim, etc. In the event of a Greco-Roman industrial...

I'm seeing it as inevitably getting scrutinized for non-educational purposes. The downtimers wanting anachronistic technologies and knowledge, the uptimers knowing that showcasing the consequences of as-of-yet-untested ideologies will drastically change history.

Poorly.

John Murray Spear's New Motive Power. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2005/feb/03/farout http://www.danbaines.com/blog/tag/New+Motive+Power https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/571569/spiritualist-god-machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Murray_Spear OTL it was a historical footnote...

Occupy Wall Street corresponded with the start of the megacorps targeted by Occupy throwing money at wokeist propaganda to misdirect the left away from them, so your best bets would be to either avert Occupy entirely or have it succeed, split from and attempt to hijack the mainstream left in the...

...turns out, he really hates this copper salesman.

The greatest irony would be if that shark successfully kept America out of WW1 and saved 116,516 lives.

Second dumbest ahistorical presidential death since the time alternatehistoryforum fed Woodrow Wilson to a shark.

Challenge accepted. Muntadhar al-Zaidi's shoe scores a direct hit, knocking Bush over in just such a manner as to snap his neck and kill him instantly.

I think this was one of the alternate paths encountered in Stephen Dedman's From Whom All Blessings Flow* but I might be remembering wrong, it's been ages since I read it. * Missionaries from multiple mutually contradictory alternative timelines arguing over which of them has the one true...

The Sino-Soviet split goes a lot worse/the US doesn't intervene and the USSR actually launches nuclear preemptive strikes on the PRC, either before they can build nuclear weapons of their own or in the certain knowledge that the PRC arsenal is growing so the sooner they attack, the fewer USSR...

On a relate note, what if the Big Lie was true and Trump genuinely was a Russian agent? Never mind the implausibility of Russia getting a spy into the presidency, what would they do with one if they pulled it off?