#29--What if the Earth rotated at one fourth the speed it does now?

#28--What if cannibalism was a normal part of modern culture?

#27--What if there were no fast food restaurants?

#26--What if the cloning of extinct animals became popular for the interesting meats they produced?

#25--What if " life is only a dream and we are the imaginations of ourselves"?

#24--What if everyone had one "Ctrl+z" per day in the real world; reverse time 10 seconds to undo a mistake?

#23--What if there was a way for people to submit to a hive mind when driving so traffic could flow more efficiently?

#22--What if real/direct communication between humans and pets was possible?

#21--What if the cold fusion experiments in the early 1990's were valid?

#20--What if the US government created a machine that could control the weather?

#19--What if humans had photosynthetic skin?

#18--What if the world was a Vampire?

#17--What if the moon landing really was faked?

#16--What if there was a lottery where the winner got a 24 hour pass to do anything they wanted without fear of legal ramifications?

#15--What if the majority of the earth's surface was too hard to dig or drill into?

#14--What if the extinction event that killed the dinosaurs didn't occur?

#13--What if the Segway human transporter had been wildly successful?

#12--What if everyone was legally required to carry handguns?

#11--What if the civil war resulted in the creation of five new countries out of America?

#10--What if most people are only using 1% of their brain's ability?

#9--What if American Indians were immune to disease but were carriers of a disease European explorers were susceptible to?

#8--What if, in terms of the "afterlife", everyone is right? What you believe is going to happen, happens.

#7--What if humans only had three fingers and a thumb on each hand?

#6--What if Excalibur was discovered and it truly had some unexplainable properties?

#5--What if humans matured to an adult level in 6 years but only lived to be 33 years old?

#4--What if there was life on Mars, but they were technologically behind us by only 100 years?

#3--What if there was a virus that made people immune to the effects of alcohol and drugs?

#2--What if the atomic bombs dropped on Japan were both duds?

The reason for the bombs not working was due to a fundamental misunderstanding of the physics of nuclear fission. The yield of the bombs and other reactions were incorrect and never matched their theoretical amounts. The atomic age, both in weapons and power, would never come to pass.

After several years of war the Allies do eventually win the Pacific Theater, however without the confidence of the demonstrated atomic weapons, the Allies split up the occupation of Japan as was done in Germany and Korea. The US, UK, China, and Russia divide the country resulting in decades of conflict in the area. In 1993 Japan and Korea unify after working together to remove their common capitalist and communist occupiers.

Due to the lack of a possible nuclear annihilation, conventional warfare continues on large scales. Instead of the relative stable borders of nations, countries continue to try and land grab into the 21st century.

#1--What if humans had to hibernate for three months every year?

I'm assuming that this is a biological need like people having to sleep eight hours a night. So, in early human culture, tribes of people would work together to establish a protected cave in which to take refuge during their seasonal hibernation. As cultures advance and larger groups of humans live together you might see an offsetting of hibernation times until eventually we have roughly equal amounts of people hibernating at any given time.

Some families would opt to hibernate together so they could spend their non-hibernating time together. Others would offset their times within the family so you would have a trusted family member looking out for you in your dormancy. Big businesses would be developed around the safety and security of people when they were in hibernation. This leads to vast hibernation districts in cities. These areas have strict noise ordinances and curfews and are mostly filled with buildings containing huge banks of hibernation chambers, kind of like the Japanese capsule hotels.

There is a kind of caste system where the majority of the rich take their hibernation during the winter months, while the poor have to rely on government sponsored hibernation schedules.