What if Dahak Picked a Different Captain

Louann Miller wrote:

 > Since nobody seems to have objected to this line of speculation, let
 > me go ahead and name my alternate candidate...
 >
 > Neil Armstrong.
 >
 > I haven't gotten very far with this as an alternate history thread,
 > except that (a) the Cold War would be over very quickly and (b) it
 > would give Buzz Aldrin something truly serious to gripe about. "If I'd
 > been in the seat next to the hatch on the LEM, _I_ could have been
 > Emperor of Humankind by now."
 >
 > Louann
 >

Or Dahak could have picked Jim Lovell when Apollo 13 had that problem.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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Colin Whipple wrote:
 > "Louann Miller" <louann_m.TakeThisOut@yahoo.net> wrote in message
 > news:47novvgmfkun64jk9m4t4uqhj8t3j9k14u@4ax.com...
 >
  >>Since nobody seems to have objected to this line of speculation, let
  >>me go ahead and name my alternate candidate...
  >>
  >>Neil Armstrong.
 >
 >
 > How about:
 >
 > Woody Allen?
 >
 > Donald Trump?
 >
 > Or a trifle more seriously:
 >
 > Carl Sagan?

Dahak would be remodelled to be a huge glittering starburst.


 >
 > Colin (picturing Jiltanith dealing with Woody)

NOW I have an image of Woody from Toy Story running Dahak.


 >
 >



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On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 18:26:50 -0800, "Colin Whipple"
<colinwhippleNSPM RemoveThis @adelphia.net> wrote:

  >> Since nobody seems to have objected to this line of speculation, let
  >> me go ahead and name my alternate candidate...
  >>
  >> Neil Armstrong.
 >
 >How about:
 >
 >Woody Allen?
 >
 >Donald Trump?
 >
 >Or a trifle more seriously:
 >
 >Carl Sagan?
 >
 >Colin (picturing Jiltanith dealing with Woody)

But none of the above were on the moon.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 08:25:14 -0800, Loren Pechtel
<lorenpechtel RemoveThis @removethis.hotmail.com> wrote:

 >On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 18:26:50 -0800, "Colin Whipple"

   >>> Neil Armstrong.
  >>
  >>How about:
  >>
  >>Woody Allen?
  >>
  >>Donald Trump?
  >>
  >>Or a trifle more seriously:
  >>
  >>Carl Sagan?
  >>
  >>Colin (picturing Jiltanith dealing with Woody)
 >
 > But none of the above were on the moon.

Yeah, that's really where I was going with that. "Earliest possible
available candidate(s) for Dahak to shanghai." And it turns out, not
all that different in personality type from Colin.

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On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 11:16:31 -0600, Louann Miller <louann_m.DeleteThis@yahoo.net>
wrote:

 >On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 08:25:14 -0800, Loren Pechtel
 ><lorenpechtel.DeleteThis@removethis.hotmail.com> wrote:
 >
  >>On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 18:26:50 -0800, "Colin Whipple"
 >
   >>>> Neil Armstrong.
   >>>
   >>>How about:
   >>>
   >>>Woody Allen?
   >>>
   >>>Donald Trump?
   >>>
   >>>Or a trifle more seriously:
   >>>
   >>>Carl Sagan?
   >>>
   >>>Colin (picturing Jiltanith dealing with Woody)
  >>
  >> But none of the above were on the moon.
 >
 >Yeah, that's really where I was going with that. "Earliest possible
 >available candidate(s) for Dahak to shanghai." And it turns out, not
 >all that different in personality type from Colin.

One of the earlier Apollo missions went around the moon and
was out of radio contact back there.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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What if?
That first chimp or dog the Soviets sent up

Steve

"Louann Miller" <louann_m.DeleteThis@yahoo.net> wrote in message
news:47novvgmfkun64jk9m4t4uqhj8t3j9k14u@4ax.com...
 > Since nobody seems to have objected to this line of speculation, let
 > me go ahead and name my alternate candidate...
 >
 > Neil Armstrong.
 >
 > I haven't gotten very far with this as an alternate history thread,
 > except that (a) the Cold War would be over very quickly and (b) it
 > would give Buzz Aldrin something truly serious to gripe about. "If I'd
 > been in the seat next to the hatch on the LEM, _I_ could have been
 > Emperor of Humankind by now."
 >
 > Louann
 ><!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 18:43:59 -0800, Loren Pechtel
<lorenpechtel.TakeThisOut@removethis.hotmail.com> wrote:

 >On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 11:16:31 -0600, Louann Miller <louann_m.TakeThisOut@yahoo.net>
 >wrote:

   >>>>> Neil Armstrong.

  >>Yeah, that's really where I was going with that. "Earliest possible
  >>available candidate(s) for Dahak to shanghai." And it turns out, not
  >>all that different in personality type from Colin.
 >
 > One of the earlier Apollo missions went around the moon and
 >was out of radio contact back there.

My best-beloved the space buff mentioned that too; Apollo 8, commanded
by Jim Lovell. They could disappear from radio contact behind the moon
on schedule, not come out, and Houston would be sure they cut the
orbit slightly wrong or something and crashed.

Weakness in my own clever scheme: while NASA and their grieving
families would accept the disappearance of Apollo 8 without question,
Anu might well smell a rat. Dahak shooting them down on automatic
would be a real possibility, probably the highest percentage
possibility. But he might also work out the real situation, i.e. Dahak
is alive and well and has shanghaied human help. We have Hector's
assessment that the known existence of a fully functional Dahak would
send Anu completely insane and nuking the Earth just to see it burn,
unless he was marginally saner 70 years earlier than Colin's time.
Which I doubt, with a 50,000 year run-up to it.

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Louann Miller wrote:

> On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 18:43:59 -0800, Loren Pechtel
> <lorenpechtel.RemoveThis@removethis.hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>>On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 11:16:31 -0600, Louann Miller <louann_m.RemoveThis@yahoo.net>
>>wrote:
>
>
>>>>>>Neil Armstrong.
>
>
>>>Yeah, that's really where I was going with that. "Earliest possible
>>>available candidate(s) for Dahak to shanghai." And it turns out, not
>>>all that different in personality type from Colin.
>>
>> One of the earlier Apollo missions went around the moon and
>>was out of radio contact back there.
>
>
> My best-beloved the space buff mentioned that too; Apollo 8, commanded
> by Jim Lovell. They could disappear from radio contact behind the moon
> on schedule, not come out, and Houston would be sure they cut the
> orbit slightly wrong or something and crashed.
>
> Weakness in my own clever scheme: while NASA and their grieving
> families would accept the disappearance of Apollo 8 without question,
> Anu might well smell a rat. Dahak shooting them down on automatic
> would be a real possibility, probably the highest percentage
> possibility. But he might also work out the real situation, i.e. Dahak
> is alive and well and has shanghaied human help. We have Hector's
> assessment that the known existence of a fully functional Dahak would
> send Anu completely insane and nuking the Earth just to see it burn,
> unless he was marginally saner 70 years earlier than Colin's time.
> Which I doubt, with a 50,000 year run-up to it.
>
> Louann
>

That's why it would be better to pick Jim Lovell from the time of Apollo
13. It already had problems and they wouldn't be suspicious if tghey
never made it from behind the moon.
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Steve

"Steve" <methaneman RemoveThis @sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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 > What if?
 > That first chimp or dog the Soviets sent up

"Empress of Dogs Laika"?



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