# Works from the Multiverse? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 28, 2021, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-from-the-multiverse/940929 "2021-04-28T14:31:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-from-the-multiverse/940929/41 "2021-04-29T08:54:42Z")
Jodorwoski’s Dune has already been mentioned, so I’ll settle for seasons 2 and onward of the original Battlestar Galactica, where they got a bigger budget and didn’t have to reuse the same stock footage for all the Viper scenes. Also, Meat Loaf’s Renegade Angel from the timeline where he recorded it himself instead of Jim Steinman retooling it into a solo album, and the Who’s Lifehouse from when they didn’t give up on the project and chop it up into Who’s Next, and anything from the timeline where Keith Moon joined that new band Jimmy Page was getting together after the Yardbirds fell apart. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-from-the-multiverse/940929/42 "2021-04-29T11:38:56Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > Hitler gets accepted into that fancy art school. Don’t know if you’re aware of it, but the premise of Norman Spinrad’s science fiction novel **The Iron Dream** is that Hitler ends up as a successful pulp artist in the United States and eventually goes on to write his own sword-and-sorcery-style novel, _The Lord of the Swastika_. The bulk of the book is that novel, which is a combination of pulp action tropes with Nazi concepts and imagery. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-from-the-multiverse/940929/43 "2021-04-29T11:42:42Z")
Wait, what is the Multiverse? Is this a typical many worlds hypothesis question or are we referencing a specific work? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-from-the-multiverse/940929/44 "2021-04-29T11:44:08Z")
The Trousers of Time. ---
**Author:** ![xtenkfarpl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c2a13f/32.png) [@xtenkfarpl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xtenkfarpl)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-from-the-multiverse/940929/45 "2021-04-29T11:53:45Z")
Yes, I do realize I was oversimplifying. Cantor’s orders of infinity and all that. But as you say, another thread… ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-from-the-multiverse/940929/46 "2021-04-29T12:15:06Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I was thinking the other day how history might have been different if we didn’t have a moon. There may have been no one to write any history if we didn’t have a moon. There’s a strong theory that life began in tidal pools. No moon, no tides. The moon has also stabilized the wobble of the Earth on its axis, leading to more stable climates over the long term. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-from-the-multiverse/940929/47 "2021-04-29T12:16:45Z")
Anyway, I want a world where Mozart composed into his 70s. That’s all. That’s it. My only ask. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-from-the-multiverse/940929/48 "2021-04-29T16:09:29Z")
I don’t think “may have” plays into it. There definitely wouldn’t be life on Earth. Not human life anyway. ---
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-from-the-multiverse/940929/49 "2021-04-29T17:09:16Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Christopher Walken was considered for Han Solo That would have been awesome and kind of dark. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-from-the-multiverse/940929/50 "2021-04-29T17:22:20Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > I’d like to see the later works of H. Beam Piper from the universe in which his publishers actually paid him on time, so he didn’t commit suicide thinking he was financially destitute. The few incomplete works he left behind show he had more to write. This. Very much this. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-from-the-multiverse/940929/51 "2021-04-29T17:43:15Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Christopher Walken was considered for Han Solo. Can you imagine how much weirder Star Wars would have been with Walken? I’d like to see that. “Sometimes when I’m flying… through space at night… I see two headlights coming toward me…” ---
**Author:** ![Enjoy\_Slurm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enjoy_slurm/32/3937_2.png) [@Enjoy\_Slurm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enjoy_Slurm)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-from-the-multiverse/940929/52 "2021-04-29T23:24:16Z")
What’s the theory on this? There being life, but no human life without a moon? Just single celled organisms or very few celled organisms? ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2021, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-from-the-multiverse/940929/53 "2021-04-30T04:34:35Z")
> [@solost](#): > > No moon, no tides Not true. The Sun also raises tides, 1/3 the size of the Moon’s. Still plenty of tidal pools around if that’s indeed what it takes to get life going. I’ve read theories about how life could have gotten started in moist regolith, no tides required, just regular rain. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2021, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-from-the-multiverse/940929/54 "2021-04-30T04:56:05Z")
Good question. There are many shows that ended too early. The Sarah Connor chronicles for one. Last man on earth, firefly, freaks and geeks etc all should’ve had more seasons. A world where John Von Neumann lived to be 85 instead of dying in his 50s. Kurt Cobain’s music w/o his suicide. Shrek with Chris Farley as the main character. His fatty arbuckle movie would’ve been good to see too. A world where Rod Serling lived to his 80s instead of dying around 51, another 30 years of him writing stories and tv episodes. Another non-fiction one would be a USSR where Trotsky takes over for Lenin instead of Stalin taking over. Mitch Hedberg never died, keeps putting out comedy albums, a new one every couple years. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2021, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-from-the-multiverse/940929/55 "2021-04-30T06:03:20Z")
The universe in which Mama Cass shared her ham sandwich with Karen Carpenter. ---
**Author:** ![Enjoy\_Slurm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enjoy_slurm/32/3937_2.png) [@Enjoy\_Slurm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enjoy_Slurm)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2021, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-from-the-multiverse/940929/56 "2021-04-30T06:09:30Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > Mitch Hedberg never died, keeps putting out comedy albums, a new one every couple years. This I would love to see. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-from-the-multiverse/940929/57 "2021-05-01T08:56:14Z")
Franz Schubert. He was on a trajectory to equal or surpass Beethoven. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-from-the-multiverse/940929/58 "2021-05-01T10:21:24Z")
Oooh, good one, @panache45! ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-from-the-multiverse/940929/59 "2021-05-01T14:32:24Z")
The music John Lennon made during the Bush era. The version of Raiders of the Lost Ark starring Tom Selleck The Star Trek Phase II Series in the 70s. Play the PC Game Star Trek: Secret of Vulcan Fury George Carlin today Fun topic! ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/works-from-the-multiverse/940929/60 "2021-05-01T14:40:37Z")
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