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What if?: serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions

By Randall , Munroe

Book information

Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt;John Murray
ISBN
9780544272996, 9780544456860, 9780544272644, 0805059857, 0544272994, 9781848549562, 1848549563
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
14 MB (14575097 bytes)
Pages
xii, 304 pages : illustrations (black and white),
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Popular Science and Mathematics;Science;Trivia and

Description

"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

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