Two things

[jeriendhal]

How many AU authors are going to use this (backdated 60 years) as a seed for yet another "Nazis win WWII" scenario? Just think if it had occured during the Battle of Britain.

(Actually the end result would be a lot drowned Wehrmacht as the still functional British navy shelled the crap out of their landing barges, but what's the fun in that?)


Also, several months ago I read The Hazards of Space Travel: A Tourist's Guide, which should be accuately titled, "Everything in the Solar System wants to frelling KILL YOU." It makes for a depressing read, especially for folks like me who grew up thinking the time would was coming just around the corner when we could just drop a wheelbarrow full of money off at Cooke's Tours and head to the moon someday. OTOH it makes the accomplishments of the lunar landings, the Space Shuttle and the ISS all the more amazing.

Comments

[ankewehner.livejournal.com]

Huh? I thought it was Germany that attacked Britain by air, so loads of volcanic ashes would have gotten in the way?

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Well the idea was to destroy Britain's air defenses to make the landings possible. Which was prevented in the real history, but if all those aircraft were grounded by a convinient volcanic eruption... :)

[sraun]

IIRC, Germany was trying to get air superiority over England before actually invading. RAF can't fly accomplishes almost the same thing - English planes can't attack the invading forces. It has the side effect of no German planes can support the invading forces - I'm not certain how critical they would have thought that need to be during the first couple of days of the invasion. They certainly need it for Blitzkrieg - but I'm not certain the initial landings qualified as that.