What If?2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

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Will you, like me, be thrilled and delighted by his approach? Take this easy method of finding out: Read below; decide on that basis. Here is the opening hypothetical question. Nothing is too absurd for him - whether it be the logistics of finding your soulmate to what happens if our moon suddenly disappears - Munroe answers it all. But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.I absolutely loved the tone of voice throughout the book. There’s no material safety data sheet for astatine. If there were, it would just be the word “NO” scrawled over and over in charred blood.His hilarious deadpan just absolutely cinched this book for me. It’s not the fall that kills you, it’s the sudden stop at the end. Who knew that physics could be so fun?

It's clever, but if you know anything about Randall Munroe, that won't come as a surprise to you. And it's funny, and witty (which are two different things, by the way.) But again to readers of XKCD this won't come as any sort of surprise. For all those people still here, and who obviously know Randall's work, let's just bask in the mixture of intelligence, cleverness, hilarity and properly labelled axes. All the nerd girls want to sleep with him and all nerd boys want to sleep with him too...be him. So, I took the book home - slightly shamed that I hadn't realized it was more for coffee tables than actual reading.How tall can a swing set be while still being powered by a human pumping their legs? Is it possible to build a swing set tall enough to launch the rider into space if they jump at the right time? (Assuming the human has enough energy, which my 5-year-old seems to have.)" No. In fact, it's honestly sort of impressive to find a solution that would actively make the problem worse in so many different ways. If you saved a whole life’s worth of kissing and used all that suction power on one single kiss, how much suction force would that single kiss have?

The edge of the crowd spreads outward into southern Massachusetts and Connecticut. Any two people who meet are unlikely to have a language in common, and almost nobody knows the area. The state becomes a chaotic patchwork of coalescing and collapsing social hierarchies. Violence is common. A: “That would be apocalyptic, but there would be a brief period every two weeks when it would be even more apocalyptic. The Earth rotates, [citation needed] which means its midsection is being flung outward by centrifugal force. This centrifugal force isn’t strong enough to overcome gravity and tear the Earth apart, but it’s enough to flatten the Earth slightly and make it so you weigh almost a pound less at the equator than you do at the poles. [*] If the Earth (and everything on it) were suddenly sped up so that a day only lasted one second, the Earth wouldn’t even last a single day. [*] The equator would be moving at over 10 percent of the speed of light. Centrifugal force would become much stronger than gravity, and the material that makes up the Earth would be flung outward. You wouldn’t die instantly—you might survive for a few milliseconds or even seconds. That might not seem like much, but compared to the speed at which you’d die in other What If scenarios involving relativistic speeds, it’s pretty long. The Earth’s crust and mantle would break apart into building-size chunks. By the time a second [*] had passed, the atmosphere would have spread out too thin to breathe—although even at the relatively stationary poles, you probably wouldn’t survive long enough to asphyxiate. In the first few seconds, the expansion would shatter the crust into spinning fragments and kill just about everyone on the planet, but that’s relatively peaceful compared to what would happen next."Yes it is a nice book but I do not recommend that you wolf down this book as I did in 2 days, because it’s like TOO MUCH and it can get annoying. You keep thinking of your own absurd questions – I'll add that one guy in my group really hate hypothetical questions... This is mostly because kids in arguments try to prove points by using them stupidly. You know: "But what if Hitler hadn't killed the Jews? Would you like him then?" or "What if Martin Luther King Jr. had used violence? You have to admit, it's pretty crazy that we've given this guy a holiday, right?" He has a point. Durch die Antworten auf diese Fragen habe ich jetzt neue Funfacts, mit denen ich Leute verstören kann. Was, wie wir alle wissen, eines meiner liebsten Hobbys ist. Wusstet ihr zum Beispiel, dass man Blut nicht trinken kann, da man das Blut nach dem Trinken wieder erbricht? Deswegen ist es auch nicht möglich, betrunken zu werden, indem man das Blut eines Betrunkenen trinkt. Despite my best intentions, I read half the book that night. It cost me precious sleep I couldn't afford to lose. But I don't regret it. Not a bit. After a fair share of assumptions and equations, it’s blatantly obvious that Yoda is a much better power source than Luke Skywalker. But a word of caution before we change our power grid to Yoda-based: “So Yoda sounds like our best bet as an energy source. But with world electricity consumption pushing 2 terawatts, it would take a hundred million Yodas to meet our demands. All things considered, switching to Yoda power probably isn’t worth the trouble—though it would definitely be green.”