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What if? : serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions /

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"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 pitc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Munroe, Randall (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2014]
Subjects:
Science > Miscellanea.
SCIENCE / Physics.
Science.
Miscellanea.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.