Clear answers to strange questions

Clear answers to strange questions

What If (Hardcover)

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What would happen if all people of the earth gathered in one place, and ended up at the same hochsprängen? Nothing, except a loud bang. The bulk of the hop is negligible compared to the earth on which they are grounded.

So the question would be actually answered when not Randall Munroe had accepted her, the creator of the webcomic xkcd page, on which "love, sarcasm, math, and language" fertile together and strange blossoms drift. This mainly due to the spin-off "what if?" That the Internet community can bombard you with their questions. The answers Munroe once a week, always assisted by his bullet-headed xkcd male.

No question is too absurd Munroe, that he would not go their scientifically and philosophically sometimes on the ground. Ok, maybe those who suggest doubts about the mental health of the questioner, for example, the sides of the Atlantic apparently not yet eradicated faith in the success of nuclear weapons deployments to solve this or that problem. Speaking of weapons: Have you ever been thinking about the functionality of a Jetpacks from tied Kalashnikovs? Here you will find the answer.

With infectious pleasure and laconic humor Munroe goes to the bottom of things. The hopping question as he developed into an analysis of the logistical problems associated with the return of the assembled hopper, and suggesting to make this experiment better yet unperformed. And if you believe, now everything was clear, he always sets it to the extreme. Food for thought there are innumerable, lateral and vertical.

I know now that half-filled glasses not only give optimists and pessimists food for thought, but also physicists who can come up with reasons to quickly search in case the entry width. In between, it gets a bit philosophical, for example at the question of when probably the majority of Facebook accounts will include dead.

Every now and then go Munroe but also the horse through, and then believed to see the little boy again, that started it all. The thing with the hair dryer in the cardboard box is an example: until he has transformed our planet into a plasma cloud, it's just no rest.

PS: What have Randall Munroe and David Foster Wallace in common? They hide the best times in the footnotes, and for that you need a magnifying glass again.

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