"If you are going to purchase these cables I highly recommend getting the Black & Decker Cranial Expansion kit as well."

This.

Its like planned obsolecence so the newer model can prosper.

And considering the story is about science I'd like to add this quote "Science advances one funeral at a time" Max Planck. Academia is bad enough now with older professors who are stuck in their ways, can you imagine how bad it'd be if they lived to 500!

In answer to your questions, a lot more native americans alive, the medival warm period becomes the medieval hot period, no good bagels anywhere on earth, and some things are just too ridiculous to even contemplate.

A tradition first brought over in 1066 by William the Conker.

No it wasn't. Japan was allied with Britain in the first world war.

The treaty was actually very beneficial for Japan. As a one ocean navy they had 10 battle ships concentrated in the Pacific, the Americans (two ocean navy) had 15 but split between the Atlantic and Pacific. Britain has responsibilities all over the globe so it was even harder for us to concentrate our battleships (Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans and the Mediterranean sea).

Indeed. No-one is more helplessly enslaved than someone who thinks he is free.

still better than the TSA.

Yes, but they did map the worlds oceans and let everyone else use them. So let's call it even.

"Rest of the world, please butt out.
Sincerely,
The United States of America, The richest, mightiest, most powerful and influential at the moment, until the dollar ceases to be the reserve currency"

There, fixed it for ya!

The truth of 'It's perfectly legal' probably varies quite a lot with jurisdiction.

Porn == Loved ones.

I think we left it a bit late for that...

+1

English lessons completely killed Shakespear for me until my mid twenties. Its especially annoying when the book is read in class at the pace of the slowest reader. I ended up getting into trouble because I finished a book the first evening we got it and did my science work in class instead staring into space.