Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix2.panix.com!panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: =?UTF-8?B?4oCcRGlk?= Hurricane Milton Have Help in Suddenly Becoming One of the Most Powerful Storms in =?UTF-8?B?SGlzdG9yeT/igJ0=?= Date: 11 Oct 2024 13:24:36 -0000 Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000) Lines: 12 Message-ID: References: Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="panix2.panix.com:166.84.1.2"; logging-data="3956"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" Bytes: 1281 Charles Packer 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."