What If?

Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

Paperback, 304 pages

English language

Published July 26, 2015 by H&S, imusti.

ISBN:
978-1-84854-956-2
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Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, sarcasm, math and language' which offers a witty take on the world of science and geeks. It now has 600,000 to a million page hits daily. Every now and then, Munroe would get emails asking him to arbitrate a science debate. 'My friend and I were arguing about what would happen if a bullet got struck by lightning, and we agreed that you should resolve it . . . ' He liked these questions so much that he started up What If.

If your cells suddenly lost the power to divide, how long would you survive?

How dangerous is it, really, to be in a swimming pool in a thunderstorm?

If we hooked turbines to people exercising in gyms, how much power could we produce?

What if everyone only had one …

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I've now read the audio book (Wil Wheaton narrator), the ebook and the website. The website is more complete, the ebook is okay, and Wil Wheaton is really entertaining. +1 star for being Randall Munroe (and especially the last What If) brings this book to a net total of 5 stars.

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