• @[email protected]
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    651 month ago

    Not even the wackiest scenario he’s done.

    Bro legit took this one incredibly seriously and talked about the consequences of having to explain sudden freak accident deaths to pre-schoolers and how conspiracy theories would proliferate about Reagan being responsible because supposedly he had pushed for the launch to stay on schedule even when issues came up because the plan was for him to make s phone call to the crew of the ship from the SotU address that year.

    Basically Reagan would go down in pop culture canon as being the man who murdered big bird, and whatever consequences that sprung from that would be the biggest shift vs present timeline instead of the obvious fact that big bird would be canonically dead since all the normal viewers would have seen him go up in a fireball and die.

    • @Varyk
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      231 month ago

      Nah he’s a bird,he could fly on outta there. A little singed, maybe, if he dawdled

    • @Socsa
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      81 month ago

      So what you are saying is that we would have flying cars and free healthcare if Big Bird had died in the Space Shuttle?