One added bonus is now all the infrastructure that is neglected IOTL when it has been desperately needed to upgrade or repair it now absolutely must be fixed and expanded and that's going to cover the most productive parts of the American economy.
Alt-History Aftermath Scenarios Implied by Media
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Follow up: Armageddon (Also 1998) thousands of meteors strike and wipe out major cities like Paris, Shanghai and New York which kills millions and the entire planet is nearly wiped out by a larger meteor the size of Texas but is saved by oil drillers who trained for 2 weeks. The amount of fear and chaos would be insurmountable for months or even years to come
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Yeah totally agree; if such a virus appears if better to take extreme measures; it was good it happens in an island; it coould be worst in the mainland
The worse thing is unlike say 2012, we have zero clue what happened in Europe and Africa apart from that throw-away line from the President that the wave hit there too.
I tried to model how far inland it would reach across the UK and Ireland, but there are way, way to many variables.
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Bermuda and the Bahamas (and likely the Caribbean islands in the majority), Azores, Canaries, coastal Ireland, Iceland, Cape Verde, Portugal, and the west African coast are going to be either washed away completely or otherwise scoured with a gargantuan tsunami cascade, that's for certain.
For sheer cheesiness, you can't beat Meteor (1979) starring Sean Connery, Henry Fonda which has a meteor destroy Hong Kong; Geneva, Switzerland ; and New York City, with only 6 days warning...
It should be noted that in Don't Look Up, China, India and Russia flop horribly while attempting to blow up a similar-sized asteroid, causing everyone to panic...
According to Neil Degrasse Tyson, Armageddon is no longer the least scientific film out there. Apparently, Moonfall has taken up the mantle:
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There's a new scientifically illogical film that beats 'Armageddon,' claims Neil deGrasse Tyson.
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Well the US blew up all other countries rockets to destroy the asteroid so they could try and strip mine it but that failed so everyone panicked
Yeah, that plot twist pissed me off so much I had to stop watching it.
I love the ending when the Bronteroc bites Meryl Streep on her face and shit gets crazy lol
On the smaller scale, Life is Strange, specifically the "Sacrifice Arcadia Bay" ending. The bizarre phenomena in Arcadia Bay (snowfall on a warm day, unscheduled eclipse, mass beaching of whales, two moons sighted) would probably attract some attention, particularly from conspiracy theorists. Then you'd get the tornado, which would dominate media coverage for days given the casualties. I think it's a safe bet that President Obama would personally visit the town. Coming on the heels of that would be the revelation of Mark Jefferson as a psychopath, which wouldn't be enough to edge out coverage of the tornado itself, but would get a lot of play on programs that often cover lurid crime stories like Dateline. Tornadoes would rapidly climb the list of natural disasters Americans worry about, particularly outside Tornado Alley. All in all, nothing earthshaking, but lots of potential butterflies (fitting). For example, if Governor Kitzhaber's response is positively viewed, the popularity boost might be enough for him to survive the ethics scandal that led to his resignation in 2015, possibly even leading to him being a presidential candidate in 2016. I doubt he'd win, but maybe his endorsement helps swing the Democratic primary, either strengthening Hillary Clinton's position or maybe tilting things just enough for Sanders to win the nomination.
The Tarn's big problem is, it's not particularly bright or knowledgeable about humanity and while it's rapidly learning, it's also raising suspicions. Or in other words, while it could easily conquer the world via machiavellian trickery if it could just keep itself secret, it blew its own cover during the process of learning enough to reliably become a machiavellian trickster.
The thing only became sentient after assimilating humans. Language and mimicry of personalities and maintaining homeostasis so hosts don't visible decompose and playing dead* are all things to learn.What Moves the Dead by Ursula Vernon said:
* The Tarn fungus can retain control of hosts so long as the host bodies are physically capable of it. Or in other words, as long as a host has functional joints and musculature to move them, the Tarn can continue to puppeteer it. And humans tend become suspicious when the rabbit they shot for their dinner starts making coordinated movements to hobble off the grill despite already having its head, skin, paws and entrails removed.
"Yes but what if" is the crux of why this website exists
what if the Tarn had been freed and part of it 'got a clue' about how much it was advantageous to take over the humans? (Let alone learn how to have an ego develop lol)If the political history of Life is Strange is the same as OTL, as far as I remember I didn't see any mention of Obama in that universe, it could be that the politicians are fictional and not real life people perhaps.
They never mentioned any politicians, RL or otherwise, so I'm assuming they're real.
Well, I'd have to assume it blows its own cover to the point where the idea that there's something in the lake that can create undead puppets and it wants to take over the world has became common knowledge. This still leaves it fairly well positioned, assuming it has enough puppets to fortify around the lake against attempts at invasion by unassimilated humans. The puppets have the advantage of being neigh invulnerable against eighteenth-century weaponry, given that they run on necromorph rules* and have enough intelligence to use tactics and weapons, but are heavily limited in number if humanity can surround the Tarn's territory, leaving it with only a finite number of victims to assimilate, then wear said limited forces down with superior numbers and logistics**."Yes but what if" is the crux of why this website exists
* They can't actually be "killed", merely dismembered to stop them moving. Matchlock bullets are completely useless unless they happen to break limbs, blades ought to be more effective.
** The Tarn has a deteriorating gothic mansion and village. Minimal manufacturing capacity for firepower.