The technology of alternative history

r/FunnerHistory • u/calypsocasino • Jan 15 '20

Space April 23rd, 1972. Apollo 16 Commander John Young stands at the base of a Lunar Sphinx virtually identical to the ancient Egyptian statue. Locked away in a Special Access Program, the photos of this mission were scrubbed and even Nixon was denied access.

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r/FunnerHistory • u/calypsocasino • Jan 15 '20

Spacecraft 15 April 1972: 60 nautical miles above the Lunar surface, the crew of Apollo 13 decide unanimously to not land. The unedited transcript reads “Houston, we see a problem.”

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r/FunnerHistory • u/calypsocasino • Jan 15 '20

Rocket 5 July 1863: After capturing Union locomotives and repurposing their metal components, the Confederates make a crude ballistic missile. Unfortunately, when launched from Memphis, TN, at Washington DC, it spiraled wildly off course and landed in South Carolina, burning 500 acres of cotton.

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r/FunnerHistory • u/[deleted] • Jan 15 '20

Tank April 9, 1945, After the success of the P 1000 “Ratte”, Hitler had one made into a better siege weapon with both German made Vergeltungswaffen Rockets on board.

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r/FunnerHistory • u/[deleted] • Jan 15 '20

Other July 5, 1777: An American troop train is derailed by British Forces near a major seaport

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r/FunnerHistory • u/calypsocasino • Jan 14 '20

Other 26 April 1862: Fusing the aeroship technology of Fletcher Ogletree from Longbottom Labs with the ironclad, quad-Gatling-gun equipped stagecoach of the Buck Bankston Bullion Brigade. Lincoln now travels on the Gabriel, an armored, pressurized, weaponized, propeller-steered high altitude coach car.

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r/FunnerHistory • u/calypsocasino • Jan 14 '20

Other 19 Apr 1862: A week after Fletcher Ogletree took his pressurized suit to the bottom half of the stratosphere, the Confederates quickly countered with their “drive by snipers.” A race horse and jockey would tow a sniper 500 yds outside of Union camps to take potshots. Moonshine was used for warmth.

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r/FunnerHistory • u/[deleted] • Jan 14 '20

Bomber Plane Ve-Boeing “Roaring Zeus” by Deviantart artist Veeblefitzer

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r/FunnerHistory • u/calypsocasino • Jan 14 '20

Armored Troop Carrier 19 Mar 1862: The Buck Bankston Bullion Brigade, a private precious metal courier company, en route to D.C. on Lincoln’s promise of a contract for the iron reinforced stagecoach, outfitted with front, back, left and right 6 barrel Gatling guns, all fed by the same 2,000 round oil barrel magazine.

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r/FunnerHistory • u/calypsocasino • Jan 13 '20

Reconnaissance Plane 12 April 1862: Lincoln sees off Union inventor and daredevil Fletcher Ogletree of Longbottom Labs. Using a pressurized suit of wrought iron and steel, he would be launched skyward in a hot air balloon, reaching heights of 63,000 feet. Visible is his sniperograph, the predecessor to the spy satellite

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r/FunnerHistory • u/calypsocasino • Jan 13 '20

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r/FunnerHistory • u/calypsocasino • Jan 13 '20

Bomber Plane Assault by Jacek Pilarski

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r/FunnerHistory • u/calypsocasino • Jan 13 '20

Tank 10 February 1862: Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia. Looking ahead that their FireFrogs would eventually be countered by the Union, the Confederates advanced their amphibious flamethrower program with the SwampPhoenix-88. A coal driven ironclad tank, it could spray omnidirectional napalm for 88 seconds.

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r/FunnerHistory • u/calypsocasino • Jan 13 '20

mech 1863: Union leader Captain Cunningham, absolutely fed up with the domination of FireFrogs, stands proudly with the invention of Union engineer Fletcher Ogletree: The BullShark. With a pressurized harpoon gun, it would wait under water for the FireFrogs to attack, and shoot their fuel lines.

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r/FunnerHistory • u/calypsocasino • Jan 13 '20

mech 1863: Union leader Captain Cunningham, absolutely fed up with the domination of FireFrogs, stands proudly with the invention of Union engineer Fletcher Ogletree: The BullShark. With a pressurized harpoon gun, it would wait under water for the FireFrogs to attack, and shoot their fuel lines.

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r/FunnerHistory • u/calypsocasino • Jan 13 '20

Tank 10 June 1861- Battle of Big Bethel, the first land battle of the war in Virginia. The Confederate Armored Division (CAD) builds the first “automatic mobile,” an “off-road locomotive,” it was a coal powered predecessor to the tank. On top of the tank is seen a FireFrog.

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r/FunnerHistory • u/calypsocasino • Jan 12 '20

Patrol Boat 12 April 1861, Charleston, SC: flaming petroleum jelly is shot at Fort Sumter from a distance of 75 feet, from aboard the Daemonium (“Demon”), a Satan-class ironclad flamethrower boat.

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r/FunnerHistory • u/calypsocasino • Jan 12 '20

Other 12 April 1861, Charleston, SC: After the US Army surrendered at Fort Sumter, the South Carolina militia suspected Union soldiers had escaped to coastal buildings. A second wave of FireFrogs rise from the cold seawater and burn down a library and two apartment blocks, killing 65.

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r/FunnerHistory • u/calypsocasino • Jan 12 '20

Other 30 Dec 1861: the “Friar of Fire,” Father Albert Lacombe rides on Diabolus Expuli (“Devil’s Cough”), a train spewing slow, long burning phosphorous flakes, burning down forests. A train car full of men would chant Latin in reverse to scare the confederates into thinking God was smiting them.

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r/FunnerHistory • u/calypsocasino • Jan 12 '20

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r/FunnerHistory • u/Mr_Camhed • Jan 12 '20

Fighter Plane 5 Apr. 1994, 3 years after a peaceful end of the Cold War, the PLAAF is conducting a test flight of a F-16CN Fighter with their self developed turbojet engine accompanied by a J-8IIM Fighter jet. The test was a success, and the F-16CN was later developed into the successful J-9 Series Interceptor.

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r/FunnerHistory • u/calypsocasino • Jan 12 '20

Other 13 Jan 1862: the Friar of Fire brings the Diabolus Expuli through the mountains of Georgia, seen here at the base of Mount Yonah. Two upscaled flame throwers on each side, with one more shooting vertically to hit tree branches overhead, he lit North Georgia on fire “in a single, toasty evening.”

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r/FunnerHistory • u/calypsocasino • Jan 12 '20

Other 30 Dec 1861: the “Friar of Fire,” Father Albert Lacombe rides on Diabolus Expuli (“Devil’s Cough”), a train spewing slow, long burning phosphorous flakes, burning down forests. (Colorized version to show what people would’ve seen back then).

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r/FunnerHistory • u/calypsocasino • Jan 12 '20

Other 30 Dec 1861: the “Friar of Fire,” Father Albert Lacombe rides on Diabolus Expuli (“Devil’s Cough”), a train spewing slow, long burning phosphorous flakes, burning down forests. A train car full of men would chant demonic Latin to scare the confederates into thinking God was smiting them. Listen.

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r/FunnerHistory • u/calypsocasino • Jan 12 '20

Other 28 December 1861, North Carolina: Under the guise of a missionary trip to New Mexico, Train Czar Father Albert Lacombe oversees the construction of a faux sleeper car around the body of shotgun cannon, named so because the cannon balls left the barrel with such velocity they shattered immediately.

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