If they had lived now

[EEPhil]

In Star Trek land it did. High(ish) altitude burst, supposedly an accident, somehow forces the Earth to reconsider nuclear weapons.

 

[trog]

John Logie Baird would own a HDR FoxT2

 

[Black Hole]

...and be an active member of this forum.

 

[Deleted member 473]

Scott's gps would have saved his life. As would the jetski.

 

[Deleted member 473]

Tolstoy would still be writing about War and Peace.

 

[EEPhil]

John Logie Baird would own a HDR FoxT2

No. He would have made a mechanical one out of scrap materials.

 

[prpr]

No. He would have made a mechanical one out of scrap materials.

And he wouldn't have let those nasty English people have use of his invention. He'd have kept it for the natives.

 

[EEPhil]

That's OK, the English could have used the versions invented by the Americans/Russians/French etc.

 

[Trev]

And he wouldn't have let those nasty English people have use of his invention.

But he invented stuff in England. He lived in Bexhill and Hastings (not at the same time silly)

 

[Deleted member 473]

But he invented stuff in England. He lived in Bexhill and Hastings (not at the same time silly)

And living in England makes you English. Well, living in Scotland gives you a vote for their parliament and referenda.

 

[Deleted member 473]

Michel de Nostredame just tweeted the end of the world.

 

[Deleted member 473]

J Edgar Hoover becomes head of the FBI.

 

[Deleted member 473]

Dostoyevsky is released from Guantanamo and writes two new novels, The Daesh and The Donald.

 

[EEPhil]

• Leonard Nimoy would be living long and prospering.
• James Doohan would be holding it [his Scottish accent] together with his bare hands.
• DeForest Kelley wouldn't be dead Jim.

 

[prpr]

DeForest Kelley wouldn't be dead Jim

He's alive, but not as we know it.

 

[EEPhil]

Richard Milhous Nixon becomes head of the U.S. National Archives.

 

[Deleted member 473]

Richard Milhous Nixon becomes head of the U.S. National Archives.

After a long career in sound engineering and surveillance.

 

[EEPhil]

After a long career in sound engineering and surveillance.

Tap, tap, tap, testing, testing, one, two, three, is this Mike working?

 

[Deleted member 473]

Michael Crichton would still be writing novels about dinosaurs.

Thump!

What was that? Oh, an Amazon delivery!

Dragon Teeth by Michael Crichton

Preview copy!

 

[EEPhil]

Thump!

Must get my eyes tested, I thought that said Trump.