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my favorite "what if" is the fire to the library of alexandria back around 50 BC. if i remember my history right it was set ablaze while the great JC (Julius Ceaser) was attacking Cleopatra and Marc Antony. now, most people would think that burning a building, even a library, would be a rather minor event in the grand scheme of history, but it has be speculated that the destruction of all of the knowledge that it contained set the world back as much as 1500 years. if it hadn't burned, it's possible that some dude around 500 AD would have been walking on the moon instead of Neal Armstrong. what if indeed...
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