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Joseph McCarthy can kiss his chances of even getting near the US Senate good bye. General public knowledge of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment and that on Ip-Earth is lasted until 1972 is definitely not going to go well. Learning about MkUltra and similar programs may result in the CIA never coming into being or having a closer oversight. Then there is the issue of radio signals coming from Ip-Earth (nearly everybody has converted to digital TV broadcast by 2012 so at least that isn't an issue...yet) Quote:
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Oh, yes. Of course, Churchill is trying to save as much as he can of it, but there are limits to what he can achieve (and he knows this), so helping Stp-Britain might make him feel a little less bad about it.
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If anyone is interested I have consolidated much of the general information on this to the GURPSwiki with Five Earths, All in a Row as the main reference page.
I just started gathering the timeline and it will take a while as there were revisions and I am having some issues with figuring out which is the latest version. There also appear to be continuity issues with the timeline. Because it could easily turn into a wall of text I have broken up the timeline into manageable chucks of a month each. Last edited by maximara; 08-10-2018 at 02:14 PM. |
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EDIT: Something relevant to the setting, though not to the current discussion: In the PBY Catalina thread, there's a link to a long photoblog showing how a Catalina 'Landseaire' laid out as a luxury air-yacht looked, and how it was advertised in Life Magazine, in 1950. Post-war Dsp-American space yachts are likely to have a similar look, at least internally, and be advertised in a similar way (because sex sells, and sexism on the other Earths isn't going to vanish just because people on Earth-1 are more progressive). A rocket similar to Consolidated's PBY is already in development on Earth-2, though I haven't decided what to call it, and much like the Catalina, is likely to be a good 'home away from home' or 'traveling base' for bands of wandering adventurers.
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I have gotten (as far as I know) all the major information on (or links to) the Five Earths, All in a Row material as well as "flavor text" on the GURPSwiki.
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Just the timeline entries is a fair bit of work, so thank you again.
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First it doubtful that the vacuum tube technology (I am assuming even at TL(6+1)^ the transistor is a few years away) would be able to allow converters to be built with stuff from the local RadioShack (founded 1921). Second there is the little issue of the amount of stuff that has gone into the war effort. Supplies to John Q. Public are going to be rare and that is assuming they are even available to those with the very limited A cards (3 to 4 US gallons of gasoline per week.) It is is going to take time to shift production back to peace time. Finally TV really didn't became a mass media thing until after the war in OTL and so I expect that things are to be much the same on Dp-Earth. Last edited by maximara; 08-16-2018 at 07:06 AM. |
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(When I started work on this setting, I was actually pretty surprised how common TV sets and shows already were in our 1930s and '40s; Wikipedia has a helpful List of years in television, though I'm not sure if the page was there already in 2012. Some of the articles were, though.) In the US, New York has a fair number of TV sets, and so do other major US cities; transmission was only briefly stopped due to the war, though new consumer televisions and radio sets are in very limited production due to the aforementioned need for war materiel (in OTL, they were stopped for consumer use completely from April 1, 1942, to October 5, 1945, but a fair number of sets and spare parts were already in circulation by then). Countries that are not so involved in the war do also have some TV sets, though - they're pretty common in Dsp-Switzerland, for example, even in some middle-class households, and a number of bars and other businesses in many countries (both those in the war, and those out of it) had already gotten the idea that a TV is a good way to bring in customers. So, TV sets are uncommon and expensive, but not so much of either as you seem to be suggesting.
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Size, weight, power consumption, and durability are the transistor's main advantages over the vacuum tube. Atompunk is a weird concept as it can be argued that it ran parallel to Dieselpunk with the "atomic power" gizmos of Flash Gordon and Buck Rodgers and really hit its stride by the 1950s but by then it had shifted its tech gears. The TL(6+x)^ gizmos were effectively gone with TL7^ or TL(7+x)^ gizmos replacing them; GURPS Atomic Horror IMHO gives a good slice of Atompunk. |
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