What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

About the book

Randall Munroe answers another collection of outlandish reader questions with calculations, research, and drawings. He investigates scenarios such as sliding from the Moon to Earth, constructing an impossibly tall building, and using household freezers to cool the atmosphere. Treating these unlikely premises seriously, he follows their consequences into physics and engineering, showing how extreme imaginary situations can reveal surprising truths about the ordinary world.

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