What If? will be required reading for xkcd fans and anyone who loves to ponder the hypothetical. The book features new and never-before-answered questions, along with updated and expanded versions of the most popular answers from the xkcd website. They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion. The survivors spread out across the face of the world and struggle to build a new civilization atop the pristine ruins of the old. Within weeks, Rhode Island is a graveyard of billions. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, complemented by signature xkcd comics. Fresh water is hard to come by and there’s no efficient system for distributing it. 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. 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? His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following.įans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions.
Millions of people visit each week to read Randall Munroe’s iconic webcomic.
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