Advertisement
Help Keep Boards Alive. Support us by going ad free today. See here: https://subscriptions.boards.ie/.
https://www.boards.ie/group/1878-subscribers-forum

Private Group for paid up members of Boards.ie. Join the club.
Hi all, please see this major site announcement: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058427594/boards-ie-2026

Change one event in history... what is it?

13

Comments

  • #62
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,624 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    The_Valeyard wrote: »
    Maybe someone has already done this and we are now living in a much darker dystopian timeline.
    20130319.gif

    http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2920


  • #63
    diomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    On August 2, 1939, just before the beginning of World War II, Albert Einstein wrote to then President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Einstein and several other scientists told Roosevelt of efforts in Nazi Germany to purify uranium-235, which could be used to build an atomic bomb. It was shortly thereafter that the United States Government began the serious undertaking known then only as "The Manhattan Project." Simply put, the Manhattan Project was committed to expediting research that would produce a viable atomic bomb.

    If ever there was a case for the postman to feck a letter in the ditch this is it.


  • #64
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,624 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    ED E wrote: »
    Hiroshima contributed to the end of the war, if you prevented it who's to say many times more Japanese would have died under weeks of conventional bombing.
    The Russians were advancing so fast through Japanese occupied China and Korea they had to air drop fuel for their tanks. It's comparable to the German invasion of Poland. You know with Russia kicking in the back door and it's game over.

    It's pretty much why North Korea exists today.


  • #65
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,624 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    The destruction of the Library of Alexandria.


  • #66
    clairewithani
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,270 ✭✭✭clairewithani


    3 for me

    July 1st 2003
    February 24th 2007
    February 28th 2010


    Any one or all 3


  • Advertisement
  • #67
    Ol' Donie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,779 ✭✭✭✭Ol' Donie


    The day yer fella out of Coldplay met...the other fellas from Coldplay.


  • #68
    new splinter group
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 42 ✭new splinter group


    talking hitler out of his suicide


  • #69
    peckerhead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,388 ✭✭✭peckerhead


    The birth of Christ.


  • #70
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Re modern day events, If I could change one event in history it would be to change Blair's mind to act on the spurious WMD/Bad decision to join George Bush in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

    This decision open up a real can of worms + the removal of Gaddafi.
    Two murderous tyrants who kept their respective tribes contained.


  • #71
    Persephone kindness
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Persephone kindness


    peckerhead wrote: »
    The birth of Christ.
    We would all be roman pagans. I am pagan myself still not sure it would be much better. I could be wrong though.


  • Advertisement
  • #72
    keano_afc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,713 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    Religion

    There's always one. Someone give him a thank so he doesnt feel like he completely wasted his time.


  • #73
    Persephone kindness
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Persephone kindness


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    The destruction of the Library of Alexandria.
    Good one Which time though? Manuscripts were probably burned in stages over eight centuries.


  • #74
    This Fat Girl Runs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,776 ✭✭✭This Fat Girl Runs


    My own birth. So it never happened.


  • #75
    peckerhead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,388 ✭✭✭peckerhead


    Ah here. :(


  • #76
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,624 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Persephone kindness wrote: »
    Good one Which time though? Manuscripts were probably burned in stages over eight centuries.
    ALL of them.

    Though if it was just one event then maybe the most recent one because the earlier works would not have survived later fires. Would that Turkish library still be in place in Anthony hadn't donated it to Egypt ?


  • #77
    Persephone kindness
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Persephone kindness


    I wish my mom had married someone different.


  • #78
    silverharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,853 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    kind of silly to want to change any major history before you were born because you would cease to exist most likely

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • #79
    Persephone kindness
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Persephone kindness


    silverharp wrote: »
    kind of silly to want to change any major history before you were born because you would cease to exist most likely
    Nothingness is nothing to fear.

    True though ..we have not though this through ..:D


  • #80
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 11,195 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Abolition of rates


  • #81
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 41,974 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    When the British commuted de Valera's death penalty.

    I'm partial to your abracadabra
    I'm raptured by the joy of it all



  • Advertisement
  • #82
    jeanjolie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 484 ✭✭jeanjolie


    Persephone kindness wrote: »
    I wish my mom had married someone different.

    What happened? Kindly explain to us your situation


  • #83
    RiderOnTheStorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,262 ✭✭✭RiderOnTheStorm


    If I could change one event in my timeline, I would have changed jobs years earlier and not stuck with a soul sucking unrewarding unfulfilling one, just because it paid the bills. MUCH happier in my current job (even at half the prev wages!)

    As for the Hitler option, read the Stephen Fry novel on exact same subject (time travel prevents Hitlers birth) and a bigger (smarter) tyrant fills the gap and Germany win WW2.


  • #84
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    clairewithani wrote: »
    3 for me

    July 1st 2003
    February 24th 2007
    February 28th 2010


    Any one or all 3

    Whole heartedly agree with this.


  • #85
    the_pen_turner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,796 ✭✭✭the_pen_turner


    clairewithani wrote: »
    3 for me

    July 1st 2003
    February 24th 2007
    February 28th 2010


    Any one or all 3
    What happened on those Day's


  • #86
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    the_pen_turner wrote: »
    What happened on those Day's

    Those were the day's they proposed, voted on and confirmed that apostrophe's were allowed to be included in plural's.


  • #87
    keano_afc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,713 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    Roe v Wade. Start of the biggest holocaust in human history.


  • #88
    mackeire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭mackeire


    Your Face wrote: »
    That cold winters night all those years ago.

    Was it a Tuesday in Stoke?


  • #89
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 41,974 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    keano_afc wrote: »
    Roe v Wade. Start of the biggest holocaust in human history.

    Inconvenient fact - Abortions have been carried out for thousands of years.Long before the United States or its Supreme Court were ever thought of.

    I'm partial to your abracadabra
    I'm raptured by the joy of it all



  • #90
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 22,384 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'd go back to the time Natasha Bedingfield first auditioned for a record company and tell her, naaaaaaa, it's not for you. And saved the world from "read some Shelley, Byron and Keats, recited over a Hip Hop Beat".


  • Advertisement
  • #91
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,624 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    What if Moeriscus hadn't opened the gate during the Siege of Syracuse ?
    This was Greeks and Carthage vs Rome for control of the Med.



    What if Norman invasion of England had happened a week later ?
    Harold would have had his full army and may have defeated them.

    Or what if Harold had been defeated earlier , then it would have been Vikings vs. Normans.

    Either way the genocidal Harrying of the North may not have happened.


Advertisement
Advertisement