Threepony Wrote:"You ever wonder what would have happened if the 'wave showed up earlier?"
"What do you mean, Bob?"
"I'm just saying, what if it had shown up back in the '30s?"
"Christ, I don't even want to think about the craziness actual soviets would have come up with. Stop giving it ideas. I don't want to fly through some dumb time-ripple or other crap like that to find ourselves in some Red Alert crazy-universe."
"Just saying, rocket-punk. Can you even imagine all the loonies in the old US' o' A down on their luck getting the wave? C'mon, Joe, doesn't the idea intrigue you just a little?"
You know, on a meta level I have been having similar ideas myself: What if handwavium had made an earlier appearance (e.g., in the 1950s)? Of course, that's a topic for another thread, but that should be interesting to see!
Anyway, a quote:
"What's so bad about that posting, you ask? Well, to put it in 'Dane terms, imagine some unholy combination of the memetic versions of Australia, Florida, and modern Detroit, and you should begin to get the picture..."