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What would have happened if it hadn't been a juice-box Rachel had rolled over?
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What would have happened if it hadn't been a juice-box Rachel had rolled over?
cybrxkhan
Asian Xwedodah
crud! yeah.
0.25% of the world would be Christian, 0.25% of the world would be Zoraostranistist, 0.25% of the world woulod be Hindu, and 0.25% of the world would be Buddhist.
What if... gunpowder was accidentally invented by the Chinese not c.900 AD, but c. 225 AD, by Zhuge Liang of the Shu Kingdom (from The Three Kingdoms)???
What about the other 99%?
Martacus
World's Greatest Warrior
What if Theodoric of York (Medieval Barber) didn't say "nah", and actually went through with all his crazy ideas?
Portugal
Yaaarr!
0,25 x 4 = 1 (1 whole is equal to 100%).
0.25% is 1/400.
cybrxkhan
Asian Xwedodah
you know what i mean. 
West 36
Can count up to 4
What if General Anthony McAuliffe hadn't said "NUTS!" but something less funny, if defiant at all?
What if Jesus liked being a Jewish magician too much to spread God's love?
What if Jesus liked being a Jewish magician too much to spread God's love?
mythmonster2
BEC NOIR! RUN!
What if the Ottomans didn't join the Central Powers in WWI?
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What if 1 man, as unimportant, lonely and isolated as you want, who was born 200 years ago had not been born?
Answer:
Answer:
Spoiler :
cybrxkhan
Asian Xwedodah
^yes, i am very well aware of that concept.
But anyhow...
What if... Neanderthals didn't die out as a species, but instead grew to numbers equal to that of humans?
But anyhow...
What if... Neanderthals didn't die out as a species, but instead grew to numbers equal to that of humans?
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
What if I had chosen Salt & Vinegar crisps today, instead of Cheese & Onion! All of history, beggining today, would be totally different. Unrecognisable.
Everything is history, therefore anything can change history. It's all relative.
Besides, the assertion that history would be unrecognisable is somewhat presumptuous- the point is that history could be changed dramatically, not that it will be. Most people really don't matter very much in the grand scheme of things. And even if history was extremely different, it would take more than 200 years to create an unrecognisable world.
Considering that Neanderthals inhabited a different ecological niche than humans, it would imply that climatic change over the last 40,000 years had been considerably different, making that a hard question to answer.
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
Accidental double post- ignore.
cybrxkhan
Asian Xwedodah
Let's just assume the Neanderthals were able to adapt to an environment not too harsh, but similar enough to ours so that we could posibly coexist... or not...
"Mr. Bush, Ugga Ugga Bin Laden wants to talk with you!"
or...
"Genghis Khan meets his barbaric match"
Without the stereotypes, of course.
oh, and good job on 1100th post, traitorfish!
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That's a very narrow-minded view, IMHO. 1 person counts immensely in the "grand scheme". Do you realize that 1 child walking on the street will totally change who accidentally met who in what day, and that will have huge effects on events from there on? In fact, a person is much more than enough!
It would be "could" change if I said "me walking out of this room will have an effect on the history 10 years from now". That, indeed, is only an assumption. But do you really not realize the huge, uncalculably (sp?) huge impact every single person has? For example, only a few weeks ago, I got to have a concert in Germany in 1 month from now because I met an old friend on the streets, which sparked a (if I may say so) great idea in my mind which caused this to happen, while if ANY of us would have taken a different street, or miss the bus, this would be totally different? This is 1 event of the thousands (literally) that could go different in 1 day of the life of 1 person!
Really, I thought saying "1 person not born would affect history beyond any calculable limits" is stating the obvious!! Even if that person is a poor peasant from central Asia who never went out of his village his whole life.
cybrxkhan
Asian Xwedodah
^agreed, but i think Traitorfish misinterpreted your statements, believing that what you said was that the entire world would be RIDICULOUSLY unrecognizable.
of course it would be unrecognizable, but only to a degree - most likely, Caucasians will still look caucasoid, and China will probably still be alive one way or another (even if it means not as a political entity).
However, if there was a small change in 4000 BC as compared to 1740 AD, then the changes would be quite drastic. A change in the year 1995 probably wouldn't be so drastic as a change in 1800 AD.
of course it would be unrecognizable, but only to a degree - most likely, Caucasians will still look caucasoid, and China will probably still be alive one way or another (even if it means not as a political entity).
However, if there was a small change in 4000 BC as compared to 1740 AD, then the changes would be quite drastic. A change in the year 1995 probably wouldn't be so drastic as a change in 1800 AD.
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Well, I understand now where the misunderstanding was. Yes, I do believe Caucasians would still look Caucasoid, and China will still be alive, and the Nile would still exist, etc.
cybrxkhan
Asian Xwedodah
^then again... Space ALiens could have had a different look on things and blasted us to pieces and mated with our men...
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^then again... Space ALiens could have had a different look on things and blasted us to pieces and mated with our men...
Pink Gay Space Aliens, anyone?
cybrxkhan
Asian Xwedodah
Anyways, back on topic -
What if, in the year 2006, some unlucky guy at the place where they command nuclear weapons of the US accidentally got a little too sleepy, hit a couple of buttons, and a minute or so later, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Nanjing were completely obliterated?
What if, in the year 2006, some unlucky guy at the place where they command nuclear weapons of the US accidentally got a little too sleepy, hit a couple of buttons, and a minute or so later, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Nanjing were completely obliterated?
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