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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 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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Mathematics, Statistics, Miscellanea, Science, Questions and answers, Physics, Long Now Manual for Civilization, SCIENCE / Physics, Science, miscellanea, New York Times bestseller, Home economics, back-of-the-envelope calculations, human endurance, extreme circumstances, space travel, Science/Mathematics, ScienzePeople
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the solar system, the universeShowing 5 featured editions. View all 44 editions?
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What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Sep 13, 2022, Riverhead Books
hardcover
in English
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What If? Was wäre wenn?: Wirklich wissenschaftliche Antworten auf absurde hypothetische Fragen
14. November 2016, Penguin Verlag
Taschenbuch
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Cosa accadrebbe se?: risposte scientifiche a domande ipotetiche assurde
2015, Bompiani
in Italian
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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Jul 26, 2015, H&S, imusti
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in English
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What if?: serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions
2014, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
in English
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Book Details
First Sentence
"Dieses Buch ist eine Sammlung von Antworten auf hypothetische Fragen."
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Edition Notes
Exakte, wissenschaftliche Anworten auf weltbewegende Fragen:
Wann (wenn überhaupt) wird Facebook
mehr Profile von Toten als von
Lebenden enthalten?
Was würde passieren, wenn man in ein
Abklingbecken für verbrauchte
Brennelemente springen würde?
Bitte nicht zuhause ausprobieren!
Der Autor dieses Buches ist Physiker, aber
kein Sicherheitsexperte. Er mag es,
wenn etwas Feuer fängt oder
explodiert, und das bedeutet, dass er
nicht gerade das Beste für die
Allgemeinheit im Sinn hat.
Verlag und Autor übernehmen keinerlei Haftung!
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