What if? : serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions / 2014.
Munroe, Randall, author.
2014
Q173 .M965 2014eb
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Title
What if? : serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions / 2014.
Author
Munroe, Randall, author.
ISBN
9780544272644 (electronic book)
9780544272996
Published
Boston, Massachusetts ; New York, New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (320 pages)
Call Number
Q173 .M965 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
500
Summary
Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations, and consults with nuclear reactor operators. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, complemented by signature xkcd comics. They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion. The book features new and never-before-answered questions, along with updated and expanded versions of the most popular answers from the xkcd website.
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Global windstorm
Relativistic baseball
Spent fuel pool
Weird (and worrying) questions from the What if? inbox, #1
New York-style time machine
Soul mates
Laser pointer
Periodical wall of the elements
Everybody jump
A mole of moles
Hair dryer
Weird (and worrying) questions from the What if? inbox, #2
The last human light
Machine-gun jetpack
Rising steadily
Weird (and worrying) questions from the What if? inbox, #3
Orbital submarine
Short-answer section
Lightning
Weird (and worrying) questions from the What if? inbox, #4
Human computer
Little planet
Steak drop
Hockey puck
Common cold
Glass half empty
Weird (and worrying) questions from the What if? inbox, #5
Alien astronomers
No more DNA
Interplanetary Cessna
Weird (and worrying) questions from the What if? inbox, #6
Yoda
Flyover states
Falling with helium
Everybody out
Weird (and worrying) questions from the What if? inbox, #7
Self-fertilization
High throw
Lethal neutrinos
Weird (and worrying) questions from the What if? inbox, #8
Speed bump
Lost immortals
Orbital speed
FedEx bandwidth
Free fall
Weird (and worrying) questions from the What if? inbox, #9
Sparta
Drain the oceans
Drain the oceans : part II
Twitter
Lego bridge
Longest sunset
Random sneeze call
Weird (and worrying) questions from the What if? inbox, #10
Expanding Earth
Weightless arrow
Sunless Earth
Updating a printed Wikipedia
Facebook of the dead
Sunset on the British Empire
Stirring tea
All the lightning
Loneliest human
Weird (and worrying) questions from the What if? inbox, #11
Raindrop
SAT guessing
Neutron bullet
Weird (and worrying) questions from the What if? inbox, #12
Richter 15.

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