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Old 09-30-2018, 12:04 PM   #1091
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This parallel is pretty much Captain Future's 21st century. The twist is that even with flights to Mars, undersea cities, household robots, telepathy, flying cars, and all the rest of the Pulp Sci-Fi tropes, this is our world's 2018. The culture is the same, we even have the same celebrities.

Homeline is freaked out and wants to find out why this is happening.
Oh please. They've found plenty of high-inertia parallels.
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Old 09-30-2018, 05:10 PM   #1092
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Oh please. They've found plenty of high-inertia parallels.
High, yes, but this world's inertia is orbital.
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Old 09-30-2018, 06:00 PM   #1093
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High, yes, but this world's inertia is orbital.
_Nothing_ is more high inertia than the United States of Lizardia. After that, Infinity does not "freak out". For that matter your new world is much like Caliph in its' technology and havign medieval Islam survie that is about as weird as having our culture do the same.

It's like small California towns where they have to worry about whst the plural of "Apocalypse" is. After a while it's "Been there, done that. Got the shirt and the hat.".
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Old 10-01-2018, 08:11 AM   #1094
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Yes, the only thing that would worry Infinity concerning high inerti is if they ran into a parallel with sapient fungi or intelligent bacterial masses that inexplicably mimicked the history of Homeline. I imagine that a few of their scientists would go insane trying to explain that one.
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Old 10-01-2018, 10:05 AM   #1095
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Smirnoff 1

Yakov Smirnoff is best known for starting the whole trend of "In soviet Russia" themed jokes. The core of these jokes is to take a usual description of an action and turn who the actor is on its head.

For example "You watch TV" turns into "In Soviet Russia TV watches you".

In this timeline this is literally how it works, it is a complete mess that quickly causes incredible confusion, fear and frustration in "normal" people. Cars drive drivers, food eats people, the sun is powered by plants and more.

This complete mess still, somehow is an echo of OTL history, with the exception of Yakov Smirnoff. He is the most famous man in the world, and makes jokes that are just normal statements to OTL people, but funny jokes to the people of this timeline.
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Old 10-01-2018, 12:56 PM   #1096
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Also that could be a useful worldline. After all, People carry conveyors.
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Old 10-01-2018, 02:38 PM   #1097
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Diseases spread people. Who didn't learn about smallpox infecting the Americas with Columbus?
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Old 10-02-2018, 03:51 AM   #1098
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Diseases spread people. Who didn't learn about smallpox infecting the Americas with Columbus?
Yeah exactly! Man I'm just imagining plagues duplicating people en-masse instead of killing them.
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Old 10-02-2018, 04:22 AM   #1099
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And Limeys are so coined because they were kept by limes on their ships. The limes would eat the sailors, cutting back the ever growing numbers of the scurvy dogs. The ships seemed fine with the limes, as they never ran out of Limeys to float on, despite the reduced number.
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Old 10-02-2018, 05:15 AM   #1100
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I am just imaging some of the horrible things that would happen to an agent when their clothing wears them...in all seriousness, such a world would be instantly lethal to humans, as they would be slaughtered en masse by inanimate objects.
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