I'm sitting here bored at home, so I figured I'd see what the responses are for some questions I had kicking around in my head.....

How would life be different if the following never happened?

*The Titanic never sank
*JFK or Martin Luther King were never assassinated
*The Stock Market Crash of 1929 never occurred
*The Black Death didn't sweep Europe at all.....just a few cases here and there.

I'm interested to get some takes on these things......I've always wondered how this would play from someone else's POV.

Thanks

*The Titanic never sank
-leonardo di caprio wouldn't have a career.


*JFK or Martin Luther King were never assassinated
-blacks would still know their place.


*The Stock Market Crash of 1929 never occurred
-our economy would've crashed at a later date. that's inevitable.


*The Black Death didn't sweep Europe at all.....just a few cases here and there.
-there would be even more morons in europe.

* That shithouse film would never have been made.
* Hidden agendas would have gotten them ousted anyway. Dunno what they could have been, but politics is all the same in the end.
* The environment would be worse off. More money, more breeding, more damaging machinery. Etc etc.
* More whiny bastards populating the globe.

heh heh. Snap!

stop cheating off my answers, shok.

I think we posted at the same exact time

don't try and justify it, you cheating bastard.

*1*

alot more people would be alive (but probably died by now)

that shitty movie wouldn't have been made

some other boat may have gone down there thinking it was safe and have done the same thing as the titanic at a later date.

*2*

See Red Dwarf Episode "Tikka To Ride" for JFK.

Luther King? hmm... well, i don't know. would it have much? his ideas in life are what took affect surely? oh and possibly no MLK day.

*3*

Less famine, death and suffering at the time

peoples families living in different regions since didnt travel for work.

bit shaky on this one since i'm not really tuned up on what happened then.

*4*

Some advances in medicine may not have come about until later,

alot less people would have died,

areas of towns and cities not shut down completely and left for ruin until alot later,

museums wouldn't have black death exhibits.

What happens if lee harvey oswald didn't fire the fatal shots.

These answers are great! Keep them coming!

(And do you really think that the Crash would've happened later, Ars?)

I am gonna add these questions...

-What do you think the world would be like today if 9/11 never happened?

-What would the world be like if religion didnt exist?

*The Titanic never sank
Hollywood would have capitalized off of a different tragic accident.

*JFK or Martin Luther King were never assassinated
nothing

*The Stock Market Crash of 1929 never occurred
i agree with ars, something terrible would have happened anyway at a later date. probably in 1930

*The Black Death didn't sweep Europe at all.....just a few cases here and there.
super AIDS would sweep.

it would be just like 9/10. do you remember that day? it was a sunday.

yup.

economies make up dynasties and every dynasty has to crash at some point.

True, but like Black Monday in 1987, would said crash be worse than '29, at the same level, or even worse than what HAD happened?

no idea.

i've got two major things working against me on this one; i'm not an economist and i don't have a magic 8 ball.

True dat.

Are things in Cali just as bad as they say on TV economy wise? I mean, four bucks for a gallon of gas, and that kind of thing?

no, we aren't at $4 a gallon. i went to the pump yesterday and we were around $3.10.