RichardWhereat
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What was that song that either Paragon or Renegade sang about Liberia?
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A few years ago, I went looking for the most interesting people I could find on Social Media.
I found a few no-shit, Mein Kamph reading, Adolf Did Nothing Wrong Nazi's.
They were much more reasonable than the Communists.
Sure, they said the Holocoust didn't happen, and their idea's about economics were, hum, shortsighted. But, they honestly didn't think genocide was part of their philosophy. Delusional? Yes. Monsters? Not so much.
Hitler and crew, back in WW2, were loonie monsters. However, there are people today who took the cover story of those long dead monsters, and beleve.
Don't hate them for being wrong.
Yeah, that's the bunny. Cheers.
Heh, I know that reference.
With the secondary crime of annoying me with her Nazi bullshit.
Now looking at Donner's article in the link, I think it's odd that she is a former neo-nazi and also gay, makes me wonder if Donner back in Earth 10 has some proclivities. Also, is it just a weird coincidence that Donner's girlfriend is named Blitzen when there's also a Blitzen on the New Reichsmen? Or is this alternate-reality shenanigans for saying that Earth 10 Blitzen has some skeletons in her closet?
That's likely the case, Though it could also just be an alternate version of them, so who knows. I mean there's Calvin Ellis, African-American Superman, but we'd still call him Superman, so why not an alternate ethnicity Blitzen in Earth-10? Either way just baseless speculation, probably just a coincidence.I dunno. It'd be kind of dumb to say a person must be secretly gay just because their superhero name is the same as that of a completely different person.
Blitzen is literally just one of the German words for Flash.
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Also, I can't help but wonder why Paul is assuming the Earth 10 Nazis never discovered the Danner formula. Especially when Earth 10 Gerri was considered suitable for providing Overgirl with combat training.
Kind of sounds like the kind of thing you'd want someone with super strength and toughness to do.
Not necessarily. The probability of a Nazi Earth could be zero, which means that out of an infinite number of possibilities only at most a finite number of them meet the selection criteria.
After all, there are infinitely many even numbers, and infinitely many prime numbers, but the probability of a prime number being even is zero -- yet 2 is prime.
Correct, that's what I meant."The probability of a prime number being even is zero" Do you mean say, "the probability of grabbing a random number out of a set of all prime numbers and have it also be an even number"?
This is incorrect. Your argument is exactly equivalent to claiming that .999999... is not equal to 1, and it suffers from the same flaw. In the real numbers, the reciprocal of infinity is identical to zero.Because if you do, the probability isn't zero, it's one out of infinity.
Again: That's not strictly true. Consider a Weeble. There are an infinite number of points on the Weeble's surface. If you pick one of those points and place it in contact with a table and release it with some defined velocity, the Weeble will follow a chaotic trajectory. Each possible point and each possible initial velocity results in a different trajectory. However, when it comes to rest, the Weeble will, with probability 1.0, have been pulled into its most stable configuration, with the broad heavy end on the bottom and the narrow light end on the top.The usual interpretation of the idea of an infinite multiverse, is that everytime there's an event with multiple potential outcomes, new universes are generated wherin each individual outcome is the one that occurred. Assuming this to be the model that the multiverse operates under, than one Nazi Earth will spawn an infinite number of other universes, mostly with minute differences between them.
Not necessarily. The probability of a Nazi Earth could be zero, which means that out of an infinite number of possibilities only at most a finite number of them meet the selection criteria.
It's possible. I wasn't going to assert any particular probability. (Though I think it's a little bit lower than that, because different outcomes from World War I would change the initial conditions leading into WW2. Preventing the rise of the Nazis in the first place would have only required a little bit of foresight by the drafters of the Treaty of Versailles.) My point was only that an infinite multiverse doesn't necessarily imply that every variation occurs infinitely often. It PROBABLY does for anything realistic, but it's not a fundamental guarantee.No, unfortunately Nazi Earth is probably a fairly high probability in infinite Earths. I'd guess somewhere around 20-30%.
Unfortunately merely holding Nazi ideology is not a crime. Nor should someone who's never been exposed to any other ideology necessarily be judged for it. Normally I'd add that it's just stupidity, but in her case, where she's never had any reason to question the ideology held (or, at least, espoused for fear of legal consequences) by literally everyone she's ever interacted with, it's not. Try thinking of her less as a Nazi and more as a victim of brainwashing. It would be closer to the truth.
Annoying you is not and never will be a crime. Sorry.
Since sexual orientation is mostly an epigenetic trait (that is to say biological but not necessarily inherited) and gays were on the Nazi's list of undesirables, that seems likely.
So, hypothetically speaking, long-term Nazi success could be so unstable that there are only a finite number of conditions starting from a Nazi victory in WW2 that don't lead to a chaotic cascade resulting in the Nazis' downfall.
Sadly on infinite Earths I don't think the probability of Nazis winning WW2 would be anywhere near 0. The Nazis lost in large part because Hitler was an incompetent micro-manager. And he got more micro-managy as the war went on. It's possible that they still would have lost if Hitler had let his generals do their jobs, but the fight for the allies would have been much more difficult. And as bad as Hitler was most of the people who could have possibly taken over had any of those sixty-someodd assassination attempts succeeded were both both worse people and more competent.
No, unfortunately Nazi Earth is probably a fairly high probability in infinite Earths. I'd guess somewhere around 20-30%.
Unfortunately merely holding Nazi ideology is not a crime. Nor should someone who's never been exposed to any other ideology necessarily be judged for it. Normally I'd add that it's just stupidity, but in her case, where she's never had any reason to question the ideology held (or, at least, espoused for fear of legal consequences) by literally everyone she's ever interacted with, it's not. Try thinking of her less as a Nazi and more as a victim of brainwashing. It would be closer to the truth.
Nah.Unfortunately merely holding Nazi ideology is not a crime. Nor should someone who's never been exposed to any other ideology necessarily be judged for it. Normally I'd add that it's just stupidity, but in her case, where she's never had any reason to question the ideology held (or, at least, espoused for fear of legal consequences) by literally everyone she's ever interacted with, it's not. Try thinking of her less as a Nazi and more as a victim of brainwashing. It would be closer to the truth.
No, no. Annoying me with Nazi bullshit. Big difference.
That's annoying Super powered Maxx with Nazi bullshit Noob.
Sadly on infinite Earths I don't think the probability of Nazis winning WW2 would be anywhere near 0. The Nazis lost in large part because Hitler was an incompetent micro-manager. And he got more micro-managy as the war went on. It's possible that they still would have lost if Hitler had let his generals do their jobs, but the fight for the allies would have been much more difficult. And as bad as Hitler was most of the people who could have possibly taken over had any of those sixty-someodd assassination attempts succeeded were both both worse people and more competent.
No, unfortunately Nazi Earth is probably a fairly high probability in infinite Earths. I'd guess somewhere around 20-30%.
I think there was an Elseworld were the USA government got Superman's spaceship and studied it soon after it crashed. Now add pre WWII mentality to it.
No. I don't think I could get back into my own teenaged head.Hey Mr. Zoat quick question are there any plans or ideas that involve a younger version of Paul whose in his teens than the standard SIs being in their mid 20s or 30s?
How about making a pact with all the people who hated the Soviet Union and only fighting them?
If you're looking only at discrete branch points, it's not technically countless at all. Very very large, yes, but individual branches with a finite number of resolutions results in a finite multiverse -- a number doesn't become infinite just because you multiply it a lot. If there truly are an infinite number of universes out there, then the universes that branched off of a finite number of original universes defined by Nazi victory are still so sparse that there's a zero probability of randomly picking one of them from the list of all possible universes. (You might still encounter one -- probability zero doesn't mean that something is ACTUALLY impossible, only that you shouldn't expect to ever encounter a specific example by random chance unless you have a way of controlling the outcome in some way.)There are also countless points of deviation that would spin off new universes without having any impact at all on the stability of a victorious Nazi government. For example... a person's food choices at breakfast: in one universe they have pancakes, waffles in another, bacon and eggs in a third, etcetera. Multiply that by every person in the world, each meal they eat in a day, and every day they're alive. That's trillions of new universes a week, distinguishable only by peoples meal choices, and that's before you begin to factor in things like the actions of wild animals and other random occurrences, or what beings on other planets like Mars, Tamaran, or Thanagar are also doing
Pretty sure this is a law of the internet and not just spacebattlesSpacebattles Law Number 492: If an alternate version of world war 2 is mentioned, the next ten pages minimum of the thread are given over to armchair historians re-litigating the entire thing. There are no exceptions, even if the thread topic was originally unrelated. Bonus points for Hearts of Iron screenshots.
There was 'The Nail' Storyline, for an Elseworld comic run.
Short version, The Kent family run over a nail, blowing a tire on that fateful day, and never discover the young Kal-El.
Lexcorp ends up with an empty kryptonian pod, and experiment with grafting the cell samples found inside to humans, as well as poking around the technical and historical data in the pod.
Flash forward a few years and the JLA have formed sans the iconic hero of Metropolis. Things start going rather badly when it turns out that there is a anti-metahuman conspiracy run by Mayor Lex Luthor and his army of bizzaro clones. But it turns out it's really his experiment a kryptonian/human hybrid Jimmy Olsen that's running the show, trying to remake Krypton on earth in his own image.
Jimmy takes on the League leading to a punch up on a farm field...a young amish family comes out only to get fried by jimmy....save for the Amish Kal-El, who rather takes issue with Jimmy. They Fight, Jimmy's DNA unravels and he goes poof, and Superman joins the League as it's newst member.
Pretty sure this is a law of the internet and not just spacebattles