What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
A special 10th anniversary edition of WHAT IF?, the classic million-copy best-seller from the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, featuring new material that asks What If? x 10. This "brilliant" (Rolling Stone) book offers hilarious and informative answers to absurd questions you probably never thought to ask.
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I actually wasn't an avid reader of XKCD before I read this book. I found out about this through a coworker, and then I happened to see it at a bookstore, so I flipped through it and decided that it seemed interesting enough for me to read. I really liked all the strange, random, and crazy questions that were answered with SCIENCE. Of course, most of the answers were "then the Earth will be destroyed and everyone will die," but it was still fun t...read more
I’ll admit it now, I’ve never read xkcd and science was my weakest subject in school. Okay, now that that’s out of the way…
I listened to the audiobook read by Wil Wheaton because I thought it would be fun, and it definitely delivered on that front with Wil’s delivery just adding to the enjoyment of this book.
Each chapter poses an absurd (and sometimes terrifying - I’m still thinking about the teeth) hypothetical question, complete with a seriou...read more
I listened to the audiobook read by Wil Wheaton because I thought it would be fun, and it definitely delivered on that front with Wil’s delivery just adding to the enjoyment of this book.
Each chapter poses an absurd (and sometimes terrifying - I’m still thinking about the teeth) hypothetical question, complete with a seriou...read more
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