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The Resource What if? : additional serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions, 2, Randall Munroe

What if? : additional serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions, 2, Randall Munroe

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"The #1 New York Times-bestselling author of What If? and How To provides his best answers yet to the weirdest questions you never thought to ask. The millions of people around the world who read and loved What If? still have questions, and those questions are getting stranger. Thank goodness xkcd creator Randall Munroe is here to help. Planning to ride a fire pole from the moon back to Earth? The hardest part is sticking the landing. Hoping to cool the atmosphere by opening everyone's freezer door at the same time? Maybe it's time for a brief introduction to thermodynamics. Want to know what would happen if you rode a helicopter blade, built a billion-story building, made a lava lamp out of lava, or jumped on a geyser as it erupted? Okay, if you insist. Before you go on a cosmic road trip, feed the residents of New York City to a T. rex, or fill every church with bananas, be sure to consult this practical guide for impractical ideas. Unfazed by absurdity, Randall consults the latest research on everything from swing-set physics to airplane-catapult design to clearly and concisely answer his readers' questions. As he consistently demonstrates, you can learn a lot from examining how the world might work in very specific extreme circumstances. Filled with bonkers science, boundless curiosity, and Randall's signature stick-figure comics, What If? 2 is sure to be another instant classic adored by inquisitive readers of all ages"--Provided by publisher
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
354 pages
Note
Source of cataloging data: WCP
Contents
  • Pew, pew, pew
  • Reading every book
  • Banana church
  • Catch!
  • Lose weight the slow and incredibly difficult way
  • Paint the Earth
  • Jupiter comes to town
  • Star sand
  • Swing set
  • Airliner catapult
  • Soupiter
  • Slow dinosaur apocalypse
  • Elemental worlds
  • One-second day
  • Billion-story building
  • $2 undecillion lawsuit
  • Star ownership
  • Tire rubber
  • Plastic dinosaurs
  • Suction aquarium
  • Earth eye
  • Helicopter ride
  • Build Rome in a day
  • Mariana Trench tube
  • Expensive shoebox
  • MRI compass
  • Ancestor fraction
  • Bird car
  • No-rules NASCAR
  • Vacuum tube smartphone
  • Laser umbrella
  • Eat a cloud
  • Dangerously cold
  • Tall sunsets
  • Lava lamp
  • Sisyphean refrigerators
  • Blood alcohol
  • Basketball Earth
  • Spiders vs. the Sun
  • Inhale a person
  • Candy Crush lightning
  • Toasty warm
  • Proton Earth, Electron Moon
  • Ironic vaporization
  • Eyeball
  • Japan runs an errand
  • Fire from moonlight
  • Read all the laws
  • Saliva pool
  • Snowball
  • Niagara straw
  • Walking backward in time
  • Ammonia tube
  • Earth-Moon fire pole
  • Cosmic road trip
  • Global snow
  • Dog overload
  • Into the Sun
  • Sunscreen
  • Walking on the Sun
  • Lemon drops and gumdrops
  • Pigeon chair
  • T. Rex calories
  • Geyser
Isbn
9780525537113
Instance
Label
What if? : additional serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions, 2
Title
What if?
Title remainder
additional serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions
Title number
2
Statement of responsibility
Randall Munroe
Title variation
What if?
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"The #1 New York Times-bestselling author of What If? and How To provides his best answers yet to the weirdest questions you never thought to ask. The millions of people around the world who read and loved What If? still have questions, and those questions are getting stranger. Thank goodness xkcd creator Randall Munroe is here to help. Planning to ride a fire pole from the moon back to Earth? The hardest part is sticking the landing. Hoping to cool the atmosphere by opening everyone's freezer door at the same time? Maybe it's time for a brief introduction to thermodynamics. Want to know what would happen if you rode a helicopter blade, built a billion-story building, made a lava lamp out of lava, or jumped on a geyser as it erupted? Okay, if you insist. Before you go on a cosmic road trip, feed the residents of New York City to a T. rex, or fill every church with bananas, be sure to consult this practical guide for impractical ideas. Unfazed by absurdity, Randall consults the latest research on everything from swing-set physics to airplane-catapult design to clearly and concisely answer his readers' questions. As he consistently demonstrates, you can learn a lot from examining how the world might work in very specific extreme circumstances. Filled with bonkers science, boundless curiosity, and Randall's signature stick-figure comics, What If? 2 is sure to be another instant classic adored by inquisitive readers of all ages"--Provided by publisher
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Munroe, Randall
Dewey number
500
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
Q173
LC item number
.M966 2022
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Science
  • Questions and answers
  • Curiosities and wonders
  • Absurd (Philosophy)
  • Physics
Target audience
adult
Label
What if? : additional serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions, 2, Randall Munroe
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Note
Source of cataloging data: WCP
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-347) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • text
  • still image
Content type code
  • txt
  • sti
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Contents
  • Pew, pew, pew
  • Reading every book
  • Banana church
  • Catch!
  • Lose weight the slow and incredibly difficult way
  • Paint the Earth
  • Jupiter comes to town
  • Star sand
  • Swing set
  • Airliner catapult
  • Soupiter
  • Slow dinosaur apocalypse
  • Elemental worlds
  • One-second day
  • Billion-story building
  • $2 undecillion lawsuit
  • Star ownership
  • Tire rubber
  • Plastic dinosaurs
  • Suction aquarium
  • Earth eye
  • Helicopter ride
  • Build Rome in a day
  • Mariana Trench tube
  • Expensive shoebox
  • MRI compass
  • Ancestor fraction
  • Bird car
  • No-rules NASCAR
  • Vacuum tube smartphone
  • Laser umbrella
  • Eat a cloud
  • Dangerously cold
  • Tall sunsets
  • Lava lamp
  • Sisyphean refrigerators
  • Blood alcohol
  • Basketball Earth
  • Spiders vs. the Sun
  • Inhale a person
  • Candy Crush lightning
  • Toasty warm
  • Proton Earth, Electron Moon
  • Ironic vaporization
  • Eyeball
  • Japan runs an errand
  • Fire from moonlight
  • Read all the laws
  • Saliva pool
  • Snowball
  • Niagara straw
  • Walking backward in time
  • Ammonia tube
  • Earth-Moon fire pole
  • Cosmic road trip
  • Global snow
  • Dog overload
  • Into the Sun
  • Sunscreen
  • Walking on the Sun
  • Lemon drops and gumdrops
  • Pigeon chair
  • T. Rex calories
  • Geyser
Control code
on1337031552
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
354 pages
Isbn
9780525537113
Lccn
2022001225
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)1337031552
Label
What if? : additional serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions, 2, Randall Munroe
Publication
Copyright
Note
Source of cataloging data: WCP
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-347) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • text
  • still image
Content type code
  • txt
  • sti
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Contents
  • Pew, pew, pew
  • Reading every book
  • Banana church
  • Catch!
  • Lose weight the slow and incredibly difficult way
  • Paint the Earth
  • Jupiter comes to town
  • Star sand
  • Swing set
  • Airliner catapult
  • Soupiter
  • Slow dinosaur apocalypse
  • Elemental worlds
  • One-second day
  • Billion-story building
  • $2 undecillion lawsuit
  • Star ownership
  • Tire rubber
  • Plastic dinosaurs
  • Suction aquarium
  • Earth eye
  • Helicopter ride
  • Build Rome in a day
  • Mariana Trench tube
  • Expensive shoebox
  • MRI compass
  • Ancestor fraction
  • Bird car
  • No-rules NASCAR
  • Vacuum tube smartphone
  • Laser umbrella
  • Eat a cloud
  • Dangerously cold
  • Tall sunsets
  • Lava lamp
  • Sisyphean refrigerators
  • Blood alcohol
  • Basketball Earth
  • Spiders vs. the Sun
  • Inhale a person
  • Candy Crush lightning
  • Toasty warm
  • Proton Earth, Electron Moon
  • Ironic vaporization
  • Eyeball
  • Japan runs an errand
  • Fire from moonlight
  • Read all the laws
  • Saliva pool
  • Snowball
  • Niagara straw
  • Walking backward in time
  • Ammonia tube
  • Earth-Moon fire pole
  • Cosmic road trip
  • Global snow
  • Dog overload
  • Into the Sun
  • Sunscreen
  • Walking on the Sun
  • Lemon drops and gumdrops
  • Pigeon chair
  • T. Rex calories
  • Geyser
Control code
on1337031552
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
354 pages
Isbn
9780525537113
Lccn
2022001225
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)1337031552

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