Works from the Multiverse?

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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.

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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.

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Wait, what is the Multiverse? Is this a typical many worlds hypothesis question or are we referencing a specific work?

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The Trousers of Time.

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Yes, I do realize I was oversimplifying. Cantor’s orders of infinity and all that. But as you say, another thread…

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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.

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Anyway, I want a world where Mozart composed into his 70s. That’s all. That’s it. My only ask.

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I don’t think “may have” plays into it. There definitely wouldn’t be life on Earth. Not human life anyway.

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That would have been awesome and kind of dark.

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This. Very much this.

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“Sometimes when I’m flying… through space at night… I see two headlights coming toward me…”

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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?

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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.

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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.

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The universe in which Mama Cass shared her ham sandwich with Karen Carpenter.

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This I would love to see.

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Franz Schubert. He was on a trajectory to equal or surpass Beethoven.

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Oooh, good one, @panache45!

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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!

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That one can be appreciated on a number of levels.