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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
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Date: 11 Oct 2024 13:24:36 -0000
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Charles Packer  <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:
>A related line of thinking more congenial to SF is the following:
>What would history have been like if it had been discovered,
>say, during World War II that control like that could have been
>achieved?

Would Stalin have succeeded in converting Siberia to a warm and 
temperate land able to grow many crops?  Or would he have decided
to leave it the way it was so he had a good place to keep gulags?
--scott
-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."